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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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Review Markdown files like a document

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

B200 Attention Kernel from Scratch to Near-SOTA in 60 Diagrams

iaroslavelistratov.github.io · 10 points · 0 comments

Windrunner – AI-powered project collaboration workspace

shzlw.github.io · 5 points · 1 comments

PulsarForge – run a 744B MoE model on 32GB RAM with zero GPU (pure C)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

ToolJet – Claude Code and Codex build internal tools, no codegen

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12M Given to DHH

brennan.day · 15 points · 4 comments

VibeGuard – security linter for AI-generated code

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Campsend – open-source Alternative to WeTransfer

campsend.app · 3 points · 0 comments

ITA Controlled English (CE)

github.com · 16 points · 1 comments

Gawkbot – open-source Grok bot with local vms for each bot

gawk.bot · 2 points · 0 comments

Markdown Gatekeeper – one current source per topic for AI agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A Switch-Level Simulation Model for Integrated Logic Circuits (1981) [pdf]

cs.cmu.edu · 3 points · 0 comments

Were Claude's Weekly Limits Cut in Half? (and obscured by another 50% "deal"?)

2 points · 1 comments

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

krebsonsecurity.com · 99 points · 31 comments

AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers

github.com · 11 points · 4 comments

Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri

arstechnica.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

masteranza.github.io · 33 points · 11 comments

Mcptunnels – ngrok for MCP with basic OAuth

terragohan.github.io · 12 points · 0 comments

The Harness, the Horse, or the Hay

queener.substack.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

tomverbeure.github.io · 52 points · 19 comments

Gopdfrab – Open-source PDF/A processing for Go

gopdfrab.voidrab.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s

github.com · 81 points · 59 comments

Anthropic admits AI 'not perfectly aligned' with human values

theguardian.com · 9 points · 5 comments

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

gitlab.com · 244 points · 86 comments

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

pcgamer.com · 143 points · 121 comments

Cascading pipelines with DSPy are kind of good

martnquesada.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Shed – Git Repo Management for Terminal Agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL

keenableai.github.io · 32 points · 6 comments

Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

I measured when impossible-to-book restaurants release their tables

tablefriend.app · 3 points · 6 comments