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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RSS feed for Open Source"Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
arstechnica.com · 20 points · 2 comments
Call Me, your AI agents ring you with no extra carrier costs
github.com · 9 points · 2 comments
C/C++ projects packaged for Zig
github.com · 74 points · 40 comments
Ami – A local, open-source agent that does your busywork across apps
github.com · 9 points · 1 comments
Heddle- ATC for Your Subagents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
github.com · 404 points · 119 comments
Aidress – Coordination layer for autonomous AI agents
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Condui – A single desktop app for SSH, SFTP, tunnels, Docker over SSH
github.com · 13 points · 2 comments
South Korea unveils $950B in semiconductor partnerships
upi.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Fancontrol-rs rust windows fan controls specdrivendesigned open source
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
A record the vendor doesnt hold
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
X Enhancement Suite (Chrome Extension)
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
AMD Advancing AI 2026: Talking CDNA5 with AMD's Alan Smith
chipsandcheese.com · 16 points · 0 comments
Full complex text shaping and rendering on ESP32 with 320KB usable RAM
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download
github.com · 104 points · 43 comments
Choreo – an animation DSL that verifies its own rendered output
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Someone made TempleOS temple-run port
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. It's time to smash another
theregister.com · 10 points · 0 comments
Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted
github.com · 94 points · 31 comments
Pure-PHP server outperforms NginX for static files + 10x PHP throughput
github.com · 4 points · 3 comments
Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
github.com · 387 points · 180 comments
Foglio – macOS Markdown editor: live preview, MIT, 5MB, no vault
github.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
mikemcquaid.com · 14 points · 7 comments
multiaes – hardware-accelerated, constant-time AES, two-file drop-in
github.com · 10 points · 2 comments
How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods
cgjennings.ca · 132 points · 14 comments
MLVC: An open-source real-time neural video codec for consumer NPUs
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Taetype-WASM – Pure Rust, browser-only font engine in WebAssembly
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Ctxdiff – Git diff for your LLM agent's context window
github.com · 3 points · 3 comments
Sekey.sh – Manage SSH Keys in Apple Secure Enclave
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Surprising Portion of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Go to NYC's Wealthiest Renters
wsj.com · 6 points · 0 comments