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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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LOL Storage Bug on Microsoft Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space

itsfoss.com · 12 points · 1 comments

CLRK, an open-source agent runtime with gVisor and MitM guardrails

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Bike4Mind – open-core AI workbench; any model, agents, RAG, self-host

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

My Approach to HTML Obfuscation

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

52 points · 36 comments

PL/Ruby: Ruby as a procedural language for PostgreSQL (functions, triggers, SPI)

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive

html-drive.com · 22 points · 12 comments

Humanize – Best static AI text humanizer, based on 50 research papers

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

FlowHook – a file watcher that knows if your build passed or failed

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Baerly-storage, a document DB that runs per request, no DB server

github.com · 16 points · 1 comments

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

theregister.com · 31 points · 2 comments

Make good open-source products, but how to get user?

5 points · 9 comments

ttyd – Share your terminal over the web

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Signal for LLM – The Modulator Architecture (Theory Complete)

divinecanon.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

FastCRW: 6MB binary self-hosted Firecrawl alternative

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Refloow Geo Forensics 1.4 – Local EXIF extraction and timeline mapping

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

DoodleMeme – Animate Hand Drawings Without Generative AI

doodlemate.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Action-locker: pin, verify, and vendor GHAs

github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

SOCBench – an open benchmark for AI on SoC tasks

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Equalizer – a real-time terminal equalizer for raw PCM pipes

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

TraceGen – realistic OpenTelemetry traces, incl. AI-agent, one binary

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Context Warp Drive – Deterministic context folding for AI agents

github.com · 8 points · 2 comments

Telemetry Tracker – An open-source telemetry platform for web apps

telemetry-tracker.com · 2 points · 0 comments

VESlocker – stop offline brute-force of PIN-protected local data

github.com · 2 points · 2 comments

You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing

blog.yossarian.net · 26 points · 0 comments

Sdlc factory built on pi.dev:intent->DDD->architecture->tested code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail

news.mit.edu · 3 points · 0 comments

Turn commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence

github.com · 6 points · 3 comments

PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types

postgres.saneengineer.com · 88 points · 16 comments

Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments