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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Mass Loss in Black Hole Merger? How Does That Work?

5 points · 3 comments

FBSimCity – an explorable city that shows how Firebird works

mariuz.github.io · 2 points · 1 comments

Abendrot – The free and open-source macOS app for your circadian rhythm

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Edgemetry – self-hosted web analytics on Cloudflare's free tier

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

A browser extension that flags GitHub repos with suspicious star growth

ayoublidjici-dotcom.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments

How old is Ann?

quuxplusone.github.io · 71 points · 71 comments

Tinbase – OSS Supabase-compatible back end in TypeScript

tinbase.dev · 9 points · 4 comments

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

github.com · 60 points · 16 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

lwn.net · 349 points · 423 comments

"Oopsies " FreeBSD Devs Say There's Still GPL in the Kernel

fossforce.com · 11 points · 2 comments

Claude Skill for ASD-STE100 – Simplified English

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A minimalist proxy for your local LLM cluster (~1100 lines)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Wiki-like edit for Lean 4 project Physlib

jstoobysmith.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

github.com · 97 points · 78 comments

I built myself the simplest worktree management tool

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Ripple – Auto-fixes downstream code when APIs change

aakash2408.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

My AI keeps getting smarter. I don't. So I built Engram

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Focal Harvest – local web research and OSINT pipeline

techno-neighbour.github.io · 3 points · 2 comments

Run Full Kimi K3 with 29 GB of RAM

github.com · 9 points · 2 comments

Emboss – a Python PDF engine that keeps documents as structured data

github.com · 6 points · 3 comments

a Rust coding agent that is compatible with Claude Code plugins/skills

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Numbat – Agent Runtime Detection and Response

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal

github.com · 16 points · 0 comments

GlobeHoppr – find a route between cities using limited-distance jumps

globehoppr.com · 5 points · 0 comments

RunNburn – Run a 295B Moe from a 98GB GGUF on a 64GB RAM Desktop

github.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Damn Center (the page) – extension that helps centering any website

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

OpenMetaHarness - complete long horizon tasks with more autonomy

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

IncomeOS – income from many small sources, in one screen and an MCP

github.com · 2 points · 2 comments

Full stack development from one codebase web, Android, and iOS

github.com · 14 points · 1 comments

There's never been a better time to commit financial fraud

economist.com · 65 points · 9 comments