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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VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines

github.com · 88 points · 48 comments

Sukurini – A screenshot shelf for the macOS menu bar

ssut.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Cloudrift – CLI open-source that finds wated AWS spend

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Capo – be the capo of your AWS services

kap-sh.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs

github.com · 48 points · 6 comments

PBTune – Evolutionary auto-tuning for PostgreSQL (no ML required)

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code

github.com · 115 points · 49 comments

Google and Reddit do not own the Internet, web scraper says after court win

arstechnica.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Dn – plan collaboratively, let agents execute

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Preloop: Open-source control plane for AI agents. See, govern, cut cost

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Banksia – Build and run adaptable, accountable AI teams

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Self-hosted analytics that sends signups and sales to your Telegram

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Hotcell – local sandboxes for AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 3 comments

The mentor setup I've run for months, now as a Claude Code plugin

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Fulltext search on PDFs and scanned images

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Open-source Cloudflare deployed agent native task management and wiki

tajd.github.io · 17 points · 0 comments

Usenet Archive Toolkit – process Usenet messages into a searchable archive

github.com · 37 points · 5 comments

faster-enhancer.c – C library for stable real-time on-device denoising

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

BrowserAct: Browser Layer for Your AI Agent

github.com · 12 points · 2 comments

Swift-topomap – A silicon-aware TUI and eBPF metrics engine in Rust

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

OpsCat – A single-binary software catalog with MCP for AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Kimi K3 Is Now Live on Canopy Wave

canopywave.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Drever – AI-first MDX presentations with expressive motion

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

My First OSS as a Teen

openotp.app · 4 points · 2 comments

I taught Claude Code to file Indian income-tax returns (ITR)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A macOS Port of Ventoy2disk

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Walk on Decomposed Subdomains

clementjambon.github.io · 49 points · 3 comments

SeaTicket – AI agent that resolve GitHub and Discord issues

7 points · 2 comments

Edge Drop – The clipboard manager Windows 11 should have shipped with

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

RL bandits pick coding agent's context,Grok 4.5 out-fixes Fable 5

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments