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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Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

github.com · 65 points · 68 comments

Burnless – 1,590 tokens of context for a 1.44M-token workday

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

ReadFlora – Strava for Reading

readflora.com · 2 points · 0 comments

PipeCrab – a Rust voice agent that runs multiple tasks at once

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Wallfacer: A terminal session manager for Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Gpuinstances.net, historical tracking for GPU prices across providers

gpuinstances.net · 3 points · 0 comments

Font Lab – live font swapping and text editing on your dev server

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

github.blog · 89 points · 48 comments

Parsers don't have to be complicated

bkaradzic.github.io · 58 points · 77 comments

Easy MQTT Handler 2: multi platform desktop tray to Home Assistant glue

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

I used D3/React to transform raw GitHub data into an interactive map

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Roamr – a CLI that picks the best saved WiFi, and tells you why

github.com · 3 points · 10 comments

Miget – Free cloud hosting for open source projects (no star minimums)

miget.com · 8 points · 2 comments

Skewrun – fix Kerberos clock skew per-process, no root (open source)

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Mcploitable – Vulnerable MCP Servers for the OWASP Agentic Top

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Wikipedia Importance Map. Every article sized by its pagerank on a map

tomthe.github.io · 3 points · 1 comments

Recipeviz, make compact cards for your recipes

hherman1.github.io · 3 points · 1 comments

Code Security Skills Codex-Inspired Workflows Packaged for Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Wisp. A peer-to-peer encrypted messenger with no trusted server

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Trees

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Doom Using Regular Expressions

4rh1t3ct0r7.github.io · 16 points · 2 comments

Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design

transformer-transformer.github.io · 73 points · 8 comments

I run 30B 22tok/s, 109tok/s not novel,6GB/16GB RAM overcoming llama.cpp

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Lean4 Datalog DSL Based on Google Zanzibar for AI Projects

github.com · 18 points · 2 comments

SeaTicket – Duplicate Bug Finder for GitHub

4 points · 2 comments

Local meeting notes transcriber, but linuxy

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

hubble.md · 150 points · 78 comments

Cloudflarebase – open-source Firebase alternative on Cloudflare

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Magpie, a CLI to Turn Your AI Agent into a Bookkeeper

github.com · 8 points · 0 comments

Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn

scripps.ucsd.edu · 102 points · 54 comments