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 SourceA 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
WhipDesk – Control your full dev machine from your phone
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Starship's Thirteenth Test Flight
spacex.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Maps of >100 theories for how society works inc. Graham / Thiel / Smith
society.clearerthinking.org · 3 points · 1 comments
Jolta – Automatic per-project JDK switching (like Volta, for Java)
oneappplatform.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments
A Kakeya Conjecture Game
quantisan.github.io · 3 points · 1 comments
Evidence Graph – type checking for the specs your AI agent implements
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Untangler, Rectangle-style window management for GNOME
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Rmatch: Fast Java native regex matcher for lots of expressions and data
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
arstechnica.com · 15 points · 0 comments
Max Studio Tools – C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live
github.com · 23 points · 0 comments
A gate for AI agents that ships a board of its own worst flaws
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
GPL Infection of LLMs?
4 points · 0 comments
Twigg – open-source big-tech-like version control and software forge
github.com · 17 points · 9 comments
Build Systems Discussion
civboot.github.io · 8 points · 3 comments
PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems
github.com · 4 points · 4 comments
Pizauth: An OAuth2 token requester daemon
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud
hackaday.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Corv v1.1 is out! Solving SSH execution for AI agents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
The Dracula programming environment for ACL2
dracula-lang.github.io · 4 points · 0 comments
Jacobian Conjecture Refutation Reveals a Structural Limit of AI Interpretability
ctolunchnyc.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Poddie – A local-first, text-based video and podcast editor
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
An AI agent skill repo built around evals, not demos
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Orbit – a local-first interface to Slurm
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Drive your real logged-in Chrome from Claude Code and Codex (MCP)
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
LanView CLI – Fixing the localhost problem when testing on your phone
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Jixp, a Lisp DSL for describing Jax neural nets
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Crisp – Open-source display manager for macOS (DDC, HiDPI, presets)
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments