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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Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

role-confusion.github.io · 235 points · 116 comments

Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor

reuters.com · 53 points · 116 comments

Optimizing [sqlx:test] rebuild time

kobzol.github.io · 14 points · 1 comments

The Doom Justifies the Valuation

geohot.github.io · 144 points · 149 comments

Rent collections are down in New York

politico.com · 126 points · 554 comments

My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

mitchivin.com · 71 points · 35 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

neuviemeporte.github.io · 284 points · 75 comments

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

politico.com · 158 points · 60 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

arrowtsx.dev · 585 points · 294 comments

The room the economy can't see

wilsoniumite.com · 254 points · 290 comments

I built an 11-LLM consensus engine to detect AI hallucination

github.com · 6 points · 5 comments

Amazon employees say they're facing termination for backing data center limits

theverge.com · 38 points · 17 comments

Migrate from OpenClaw

hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · 122 points · 105 comments

Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

github.com · 16 points · 16 comments

Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography

nature.com · 112 points · 25 comments

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

bbc.com · 142 points · 170 comments

Clojure Hosted on Go

github.com · 200 points · 26 comments

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

github.com · 95 points · 40 comments

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

github.com · 257 points · 87 comments

High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

cells2pixels.github.io · 208 points · 54 comments

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap

stephantul.github.io · 86 points · 56 comments

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · 67 points · 28 comments

cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

github.com · 106 points · 18 comments

But yak shaving is fun (2019)

parksb.github.io · 307 points · 95 comments

The Productivity J-Curve [pdf] (2018)

ide.mit.edu · 56 points · 17 comments

Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible

gmalandrakis.com · 290 points · 582 comments

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

kobzol.github.io · 141 points · 252 comments

X – A programming language with switchable memory modes

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

github.com · 98 points · 17 comments

Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

johnowhitaker.github.io · 250 points · 29 comments