Open Source stories

Open source powers most of modern software. This page tracks license changes, maintainer burnout, funding models, and the projects Hacker News considers worth contributing to or depending on.

From GitHub stars to foundation governance debates, these stories shape how the developer community thinks about shared infrastructure.

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New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year

transportenvironment.org · 71 points · 96 comments

A tool for finding the causes of unstable Python tests

github.com · 19 points · 1 comments

I asked Claude to reimplement Apple's LZRAVEN codec in C, conformance-tested

github.com · 12 points · 2 comments

Metal-graph: Metal-native graph analytics for Apple Silicon

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

github.blog · 774 points · 294 comments

I was able to run tiberian sun on cncnet on an M4 MacBook Pro

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Citadel buys Situational Awareness after steep AI losses

ft.com · 15 points · 3 comments

Citadel Buys Situational Awareness's Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI

wsj.com · 54 points · 17 comments

OpenMetaHarness – long-horizon execution over multiple context sessions

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Tilery-VM – run Nvidia cuTile GPU kernels on a CPU, no GPU required

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Schmitt Trigger: Robust Comparator Design with Hysteresis

wevolver.com · 18 points · 11 comments

Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

github.com · 54 points · 30 comments

stock-tui – an open-source terminal app inspired by StockTouch

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

github.com · 65 points · 21 comments

Leopold Aschenbrenner unwinds all public stock positions after steep losses

cnbc.com · 12 points · 1 comments

Markdown.gg – OSS to collaborate on md files

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Wrapper – Best Ever Agent Manager

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · 214 points · 275 comments

Skill-up – Regression testing for Agent Skills

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Figranium – Open-source visual Playwright control plane (Docker, API)

figranium.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

I Forked MinIO Object Storage and Made It Run Faster

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Hacker Fables – A satirical cyberpunk novel you can read as a man page

sebastiancarlos.github.io · 7 points · 0 comments

HimitsuObfuscator – a lightweight LLVM-17 obfuscator for any Linux

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

ABSL – 100% Integer-Only Neural Network Training in Rust

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Local text, image, video, music and 3D from one CLI, no Python

github.com · 16 points · 7 comments

A self-hostable, distributed, S3-compatible object store on the BEAM

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

github.com · 28 points · 3 comments

Duckle was benchmarked against 4 open source ELT/ETL tools

medium.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Homebutler – Homelab CLI that gives agents commands, not a shell

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

DispatchSEO – open-source SEO manager tool for Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments