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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Tangleflow: Converts GitHub Actions workflows to tangled workflows and back

github.com · 27 points · 14 comments

Faceblind – In-browser only video face blurring

kmcheung12.github.io · 7 points · 1 comments

Datalevin – a simple, fast, and versatile Datalog database

github.com · 8 points · 0 comments

Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs

github.com · 43 points · 14 comments

A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy

github.com · 110 points · 30 comments

Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another

github.com · 7 points · 3 comments

In Meeting – A native macOS Mic/Cam observer for home automation

github.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Imagin Raw – A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac

github.com · 74 points · 25 comments

CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations

github.com · 60 points · 21 comments

Uhubctl – Control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs

github.com · 69 points · 16 comments

PMG, open source package firewall

github.com · 4 points · 2 comments

OSS Cross-Harness self hosted registry and analytics for AI Agents

github.com · 22 points · 1 comments

An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools

github.com · 22 points · 9 comments

Lucen a Python compiler that parallelizes for-loops via comment pragmas

github.com · 10 points · 15 comments

Inflexa – open-source Intelligence for Biology

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

Instancez – Open-Source Declarative Single-Binary Supabase Alternative

github.com · 8 points · 1 comments

A concrete explanation of how a cache works

parksb.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Incremental – A library for incremental computations

github.com · 347 points · 69 comments

Quickly rewrite Git repository history

github.com · 62 points · 13 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

essenceia.github.io · 251 points · 59 comments

ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS)

github.com · 62 points · 10 comments

Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema

lrb.co.uk · 6 points · 1 comments

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

blaizzy.github.io · 377 points · 131 comments

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks

unslop.run · 244 points · 171 comments