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 SourceDeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]
github.com · 251 points · 200 comments
Cross-Platform Flutter and React-Native Plugin – FFmpeg-Kit-Extended
2 points · 0 comments
Hubo – two agents that implement and review code until they agree
github.com · 11 points · 1 comments
Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converter
github.com · 17 points · 2 comments
ActionRail, Runtime value/action grounding framework for AI agents
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression
github.com · 34 points · 4 comments
PeerTree an Biological Inspired Network
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Awsmux – Multi-account AWS CLI, up to 5.4x faster, 7.4x fewer tokens
github.com · 10 points · 4 comments
Open-source AI bookmark manager for busy people
github.com · 2 points · 3 comments
Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
github.com · 27 points · 14 comments
I created a way to turn your GitHub contribution graph into a game
ykdojo.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments
Tasku. Manage Tasks from the Terminal
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Pastport – Your iPhone Left an Airbnb
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
github.com · 286 points · 71 comments
I built Kubernetes for Rust. One command deploys your binary to every server
github.com · 7 points · 1 comments
HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)
7 points · 0 comments
ThinkPad Ergonomic Keyboard with Trackpoint
github.com · 12 points · 0 comments
Pyshackle: A hard pre-execution gate for AI agent tool calls (open source)
pypi.org · 4 points · 0 comments
Robotics startups are hiring across several roles
robotclub.substack.com · 2 points · 0 comments
How to get your open-source project gain popularity?
3 points · 11 comments
Is It Time to 'Liquidate' the Study of Sociology?
wsj.com · 6 points · 2 comments
SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window
github.com · 37 points · 16 comments
Codeberg Disallows Cryptocurrency Projects
codeberg.org · 6 points · 3 comments
What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
40 points · 14 comments
Free mentor for learning programming languages, fast and efficient
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Less-pager-mini: What a cross-platform pager would be like
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the 150MB Linux Copilot binary
osnews.com · 7 points · 0 comments
The Open-Source Release of ML Video Codec (MLVC)
techcommunity.microsoft.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits
coindesk.com · 60 points · 54 comments
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
theregister.com · 36 points · 7 comments