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 SourceSpider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
connectsci.au · 307 points · 140 comments
Researchers uncover possible cause of muscle pain from cholesterol medication
medicalxpress.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Free and OSS way to extend client-facing functionality of Linear
linear.gratis · 3 points · 0 comments
Atelier - open source, honest 30% savings on Claude code.
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
RepoFleet – manage issues that span multiple Git repositories
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Python SDK for Content Integrity
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
OpenScreenShot: open-source full-page screenshot and annotation tool
openscreenshot.app · 3 points · 0 comments
Decentralized, encrypted (E2EE), censorship-resistant messenger
github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
I ran 70 MCP servers in a sandbox and logged what they do
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)
opensourcebarware.com · 3 points · 0 comments
More Workers Take Mental Health Leave, and Bosses Aren't Happy
bloomberg.com · 10 points · 3 comments
Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
thegrimhistorian.substack.com · 20 points · 17 comments
The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous
combine-lab.github.io · 148 points · 127 comments
Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format
nigeltao.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base
github.com · 25 points · 4 comments
Nully – FOSS AI chat without the bloat
nully.chat · 2 points · 0 comments
Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections
multigres.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase
github.com · 11 points · 2 comments
Skill-extractor turns coding agent transcripts into reusable skills
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Slughorn, Slug font/glyph render lib for OpenGL/OSG/Vulkan/GPU APIs (MIT lic))
alphapixeldev.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Green River Residents Shut Down License Plate Reader Camera Project
cowboystatedaily.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Almost Always Unsigned
graphitemaster.github.io · 18 points · 14 comments
Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out
theregister.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Nodeup – automate Node.js version upgrades and NPM package migration
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Connect DuckDB to any database that has an ADBC driver
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Open-source GUI for editing 3D molecular structures with diffusion
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Foreman, a self-hosted LLM gateway for cost aware model routing
github.com · 5 points · 2 comments
Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
microsoft.github.io · 15 points · 9 comments
Hover over your UI element to get its exact location in code
loerei.github.io · 3 points · 1 comments
Arbor – code graph MCP server so agents stop grep-reading your codebase
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments