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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Linux on ESP32

github.com · 123 points · 46 comments

Distilling proprietary model reasoning into open-source search agents

arxiv.org · 5 points · 0 comments

American Red Cross: 2nd-Ever Blood Supply Crisis, Urges Immediate Donations

redcross.org · 5 points · 1 comments

Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code

github.com · 12 points · 0 comments

Encryption for YouTube Videos++

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Cynative – Read-only CLI in Go that explains your live infrastructure

github.com · 16 points · 4 comments

Airbus A350 jet flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France

reuters.com · 11 points · 4 comments

Income of the poorest decile, the median, and the richest decile in the US

ourworldindata.org · 5 points · 1 comments

DocSlicer – Structure-aware PDF/DOCX/PPTX parser, 31 pages/sec on CPU

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library

github.com · 132 points · 46 comments

'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum ': Michigan residents sue AI DC

tomshardware.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Open-source, Long-horizon cite-able memory for multi-agent systems

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

So, you want to make a game engine (2023)

lisyarus.github.io · 76 points · 45 comments

News headline inside coding agent

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

A terminal editor that can discuss with OpenCode and Pi

sollawen.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

PidgeIoT – open-source IoT/Embedded device management for all (free*)

pidgeiot.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Injex – tiny typed DI for Python validates the graph before startup

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Higgs, a local AI CLI for Proton Mail (no cloud, no telemetry)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Npx redential scan – evidence of your NDA work, nothing uploaded

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

JusTTY – a minimal native macOS terminal powered by libghostty

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Git log for your infrastructure (including your AI agent's config)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

I analyzed all 14,865 listings in Coinbase's x402 agent-payment registry

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Cetus – A macOS App for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and More

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Perspective 5.0

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)

phidgets.com · 81 points · 59 comments

Jarvis, a voice assistant that never leaves your network

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

github.com · 98 points · 13 comments

WebCMD, a reusable CLI command layer for browser agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Asobi – run a multiplayer game back end locally, no account needed

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Base-GPUI: A GPUI port of Base UI headless components

github.com · 10 points · 10 comments