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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5dive – Run a Company of Claude Code/Codex Agents (Written in Bash)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig

yamafaktory.github.io · 50 points · 38 comments

macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards

github.com · 45 points · 17 comments

Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone

github.com · 101 points · 35 comments

Personal Jarvis, an open source voice assistant that runs your PC

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Note taking and book Library, all-in-one AI KnowledgeBase

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Matlab syntax in Jupyter, client-side

concept-collection.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

Hanky – ETL style framework for loading flash cards into Anki

github.com · 10 points · 0 comments

USB AI Agent – portable uncensored AI with 13 tools, runs from USB

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

I created a catalog with embeds for your projects

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Sambaudit, a secrets scanner for SMB shares with a web UI

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

github.blog · 53 points · 34 comments

AgentNest, self-hosted sandboxes for AI agents

github.com · 12 points · 2 comments

Grimoire – Best Practices for Everyone Installed for Your AI Agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

blog.codeberg.org · 201 points · 145 comments

A local, extensible session viewer for Pi and Codex

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

KageOps – An open-source, local-first alternative to Devin

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken

klarasystems.com · 33 points · 21 comments

Vivace – A single-process Qt media player with interactive DVD menus

github.com · 9 points · 0 comments

1,280 open USDZ furniture assets for VR/AR

lx2026.github.io · 4 points · 1 comments

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

nytimes.com · 110 points · 29 comments

Stream Android Emulators to a Browser Window

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

I brute-forced a wooden Antikythera-style puzzle in Rust

github.com · 2 points · 2 comments

Autograd-Free LLM Guiding with 0MB VRAM (Alternative Pathways)

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

citizendot.github.io · 482 points · 126 comments

ClawLite – Local-first personal AI assistant on Telegram

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Netmon – self-hosted LAN monitor with sarcastic AI reports to Telegram

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Why care about programming languages

ebellani.github.io · 48 points · 67 comments

The computer that helped win World War II

spectrum.ieee.org · 204 points · 78 comments

The Harbinger- mTLS proxy that gives AI agents identity, not API keys

github.com · 4 points · 1 comments