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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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"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