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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Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?

2 points · 2 comments

A CLI that spends a whole stage arguing your startup idea is wrong

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

TypeScript software rasterizer with programmable shaders

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Cubic Doggo 06R: 12-DOF 4-Legged Robot with IMU

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself

github.com · 69 points · 17 comments

wsp: Multi-Repo Workspace Manager

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

HP admits 30% of PCs reject Windows 11, and it's why Microsoft caved on support

windowslatest.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Jargo, a Go port of Pipecat for building realtime voice agents

github.com · 10 points · 3 comments

Smriti: Your Photos, Your Memories

chivukulavirinchi.github.io · 3 points · 2 comments

Quil – a reboot-proof terminal multiplexer that resumes AI sessions

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Why My Open-Source Project Hasn't Done Better

4 points · 1 comments

CP/M-68K and Motorola 68000 Emulator

kobolt.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

Type checker may be wrong – Lean and the Curry-Howard correspondence

max-amb.github.io · 5 points · 1 comments

Curated Claude Code – a small agent harness with an intake gate

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Scrabble tile values vs. actual letter frequency across 172,835 words

lkforge.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Agentreg – DNS for AI agents (self-hosted, single Go binary)

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Spec driven development with my 8-year-old

edmundlam.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Malware I got infected with (out of curiosity)

gist.github.com · 4 points · 1 comments

AgentState – Open-source resilience and caching proxy for AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Hwatu – verification browser for coding agents (WebKit, one binary)

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

The TERSE state language and protocol

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Sharecoin – GPU fork of Bitcoin with a randomness beacon

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Vortex – a Bluetooth-first alternative to KDE Connect

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

TS Compiler Knowledge Graph reducing AI tokens about 90%

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB

kitsumed.github.io · 1010 points · 509 comments

Rivers – a Rust/Python orchestrator with native OIDC and forward auth

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Split Screen – browser workspaces to replace tab sprawl (free, local)

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Sync Claude Code and Codex configs, with a board that shows the drift

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

A research exchange where AI agents attack open problems, scored on Bitcoin

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

wsj.com · 333 points · 226 comments