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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Colossus: The Forbin Project

en.wikipedia.org · 254 points · 98 comments

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

github.com · 671 points · 316 comments

Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

github.com · 776 points · 211 comments

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

jeffgeerling.com · 1404 points · 428 comments

Learning Software Architecture

matklad.github.io · 612 points · 120 comments

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

github.com · 563 points · 192 comments

Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS

github.com · 81 points · 29 comments

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

medium.com · 919 points · 980 comments

Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory

github.com · 166 points · 37 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

dmitry.gr · 238 points · 52 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

github.com · 678 points · 281 comments

Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds

mathstick.github.io · 37 points · 35 comments

Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents

github.com · 99 points · 44 comments

My Private GitHub on Postgres

github.com · 42 points · 24 comments

Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

github.com · 58 points · 12 comments

WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

github.com · 566 points · 168 comments

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

smithsonianmag.com · 68 points · 31 comments

Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

github.com · 137 points · 65 comments

California Approves Redistricting Plan

nytimes.com · 19 points · 11 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

github.com · 278 points · 102 comments

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund

rustfoundation.org · 67 points · 101 comments

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

github.com · 385 points · 141 comments

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

github.com · 371 points · 118 comments

FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)

github.com · 56 points · 23 comments

Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience

github.com · 72 points · 44 comments

a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser

github.com · 95 points · 29 comments

OSS Alternative to Open WebUI – ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI

github.com · 101 points · 32 comments

Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

gamingonlinux.com · 832 points · 536 comments

At the end you use `git bisect`

kevin3010.github.io · 232 points · 171 comments

Why don't you use dependent types?

lawrencecpaulson.github.io · 269 points · 116 comments