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 SourceI wrote a Libc-free AOT systems language in JavaScript with no VM
github.com · 6 points · 8 comments
New open access book on history of computers and politics
mitpress.mit.edu · 6 points · 0 comments
PostHog Open Sourced
github.com · 35 points · 15 comments
ContextNest versioned, governed context for AI agents (open-source CLI)
promptowl.ai · 3 points · 0 comments
Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
techcrunch.com · 5 points · 4 comments
A zero-dependency auditor for decision records in AI-touched systems
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)
github.com · 16 points · 4 comments
Kiyeovo 1.0 release- dual network-mode decentralized E2EE P2P messenger
github.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Virena, a minimal vision-language-action robot model you can read
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Slopera, a browser that hallucinates every page with an LLM
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
OpenTab – a lazygit-style TUI for your AI token spend
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Yogen – 500 AI agents argue about your idea before you bet on it
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Wizard, Self-extending autonomous AI agent in one Rust binary
github.com · 3 points · 1 comments
An open World Cup 2026 prediction ledger with sha256 receipts
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Agent scans 130 careers pages nightly, scores jobs vs. your resume
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Battle LLM Robots – Prompt your LLM, Submit your bot, Watch it battle
battlellmrobots.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Ffvii Realtime – speed up FFVII Tactical Mode slow-mo to realtime
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
A control-theory approach to detecting LLM agent instability
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Replace emails and phone numbers with <ob-fus-ca-ted>
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Agent Sessions – local history and a live quota meter for Codex/Claude
jazzyalex.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
SoulOS–State&persona management for agents without giving up your LLM
mziqudhd92.github.io · 2 points · 2 comments
Self-Hosted AI That Sees, Plays Minecraft, and Reacts
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Agentic FC – a football management SIM played by AI agents over MCP
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
howtogeek.com · 68 points · 40 comments
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
theregister.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Kinetic – an experimental decentralized naming protocol
github.com · 3 points · 2 comments
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
github.com · 25 points · 19 comments
I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show – and now I'm banned
washingtonexaminer.com · 25 points · 13 comments
LisaFPGA: The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments