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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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

tomverbeure.github.io · 52 points · 19 comments

Gopdfrab – Open-source PDF/A processing for Go

gopdfrab.voidrab.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s

github.com · 81 points · 59 comments

Anthropic admits AI 'not perfectly aligned' with human values

theguardian.com · 9 points · 5 comments

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

gitlab.com · 244 points · 86 comments

Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

pcgamer.com · 143 points · 121 comments

Cascading pipelines with DSPy are kind of good

martnquesada.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Shed – Git Repo Management for Terminal Agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL

keenableai.github.io · 32 points · 6 comments

Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

I measured when impossible-to-book restaurants release their tables

tablefriend.app · 3 points · 6 comments

OSS, K8s-native AI platform for distributed multi-model inference

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

ExactTex. A gradually-typed superset of LaTeX

github.com · 19 points · 1 comments

Invisible Companies

colossus.com · 141 points · 43 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters

wasmi-labs.github.io · 26 points · 0 comments

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

github.com · 212 points · 31 comments

44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents

mvakde.github.io · 98 points · 31 comments

Unitpost/email – open-source Email Components and Layouts

unitpost.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Helius – Personal Finance in One SQLite File, with a Rust CLI and TUI

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

hermit-tech.com · 102 points · 112 comments

Vermell – Minimal, dependency-free C++ web framework using epoll

github.com · 18 points · 7 comments

Why is Arrays.fill 265 times slower on G1GC?

krzysztofslusarski.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

OpenTS is a new open-source reconstruction of Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun

gamingonlinux.com · 9 points · 0 comments

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

github.com · 44 points · 4 comments

Deslop, a skill that turns legalese and AI slop into plain English

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways

wusf.org · 9 points · 0 comments

Chaosword – A Crossword?

chaosword.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Retatrutide – people risk the gray market for the newest weight-loss drug

theguardian.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Linus Torvalds' uEmacs – the editor he has used since the 1980s

github.com · 27 points · 0 comments

Janet Verison 1.42.0 Out

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments