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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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iCloud-md: Bidirectional sync of Apple Notes to Markdown

github.com · 12 points · 1 comments

Horus-runtime – High Performance Computing workflow manager

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

JavaScript/JSON and CSS minifier lib in minimal C89

fossil.wanderinghorse.net · 3 points · 0 comments

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

github.com · 193 points · 24 comments

Agent Console – A Local Dashboard for Codex and Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard)

con-dog.github.io · 24 points · 9 comments

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English for LLMs

github.com · 13 points · 3 comments

Relay – turn Claude Code into a visual Kanban build loop

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

github.com · 39 points · 43 comments

Skill-language-server – A language server for agent skills

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Sabba, a security bug finder that proves every finding by running it

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Interconverting std::function with copyable_function

quuxplusone.github.io · 18 points · 0 comments

Open dataset of i2c addresses and voltages for 50 common boards

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Quintile – keyboard-only window grids for Mac

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

ASL V6 – Open-source AST red-teaming engine for Python AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Bullwhip Effect

en.wikipedia.org · 9 points · 1 comments

Why Lean is faster than Rust

kim-em.github.io · 7 points · 3 comments

Rogg – I built a Rust BGP speaker and run a live AS on DN42

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

A 60-line PreToolUse hook that stops Claude Code from editing your .env

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Aqua UI for the Web

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

RelativeDB – OSS query engine for relational foundation models

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

nikolays.github.io · 914 points · 89 comments

Turn an image into a 3D blockbench model

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70k

tomshardware.com · 23 points · 4 comments

Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost

github.com · 71 points · 30 comments

Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

github.com · 281 points · 155 comments

Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs to Be Launched Across the Country

eff.org · 7 points · 0 comments

Anyclaude-SDK – Claude Code-Style SDK for OpenAI/Anthropic Endpoints

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

LuaJIT with Native SIMD

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments