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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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

phoronix.com · 290 points · 80 comments

Orthodox C++ (2016)

bkaradzic.github.io · 108 points · 228 comments

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

github.com · 279 points · 175 comments

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

web.mit.edu · 793 points · 263 comments

Codex for open source

openai.com · 275 points · 118 comments

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

github.com · 162 points · 62 comments

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

0xkrt26.github.io · 42 points · 17 comments

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

github.com · 62 points · 13 comments

3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

mgunlogson.github.io · 66 points · 58 comments

Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

qunabu.github.io · 217 points · 56 comments

Zig by Example

github.com · 224 points · 106 comments

OpenPayphone – open-source guts for a 1996 coin payphone (Pi and SIP)

github.com · 23 points · 1 comments

Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

github.com · 70 points · 12 comments

Free animated icon library for Vue

respeak-io.github.io · 63 points · 18 comments

Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

uonr.github.io · 188 points · 33 comments

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

nand2mario.github.io · 135 points · 37 comments

Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

github.com · 107 points · 17 comments

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

valhovey.github.io · 1200 points · 244 comments

Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

github.com · 194 points · 97 comments

I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

github.com · 428 points · 108 comments

CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

github.com · 97 points · 49 comments

Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

github.com · 687 points · 252 comments

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

archestra.ai · 501 points · 237 comments

Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

github.com · 730 points · 356 comments

GenCAD

gencad.github.io · 441 points · 127 comments

Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

github.com · 445 points · 151 comments

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

github.com · 449 points · 237 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

arnaud-carre.github.io · 113 points · 46 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

nvlabs.github.io · 405 points · 152 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

twitter.com · 2105 points · 1272 comments