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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Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs

github.com · 60 points · 23 comments

Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch

tongyi-agent.github.io · 365 points · 153 comments

Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples

dhuan.github.io · 137 points · 19 comments

Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust

github.com · 102 points · 21 comments

A Few Words About Async

yoric.github.io · 89 points · 38 comments

Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

github.com · 436 points · 324 comments

Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture

github.com · 217 points · 47 comments

I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews

0github.com · 265 points · 68 comments

RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

riscv.org · 265 points · 106 comments

Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality

quantamagazine.org · 122 points · 167 comments

The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS

icann.org · 268 points · 51 comments

When O3 is 2x slower than O2

cat-solstice.github.io · 104 points · 98 comments

Tamagotchi P1 for FPGAs

github.com · 71 points · 11 comments

Springs and bounces in native CSS

joshwcomeau.com · 273 points · 41 comments

Pipelex – Declarative language for repeatable AI workflows

github.com · 122 points · 27 comments

Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

byroot.github.io · 78 points · 38 comments

RegEx Crossword

jimbly.github.io · 60 points · 22 comments

Sick: Indexed deduplicated binary storage for JSON-like data structures

github.com · 124 points · 56 comments

The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It

verdagon.dev · 73 points · 25 comments

Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers

github.com · 124 points · 30 comments

Welcome to hell; please drive carefully

2earth.github.io · 106 points · 28 comments

Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

tomverbeure.github.io · 63 points · 13 comments

Lenses in Julia

juliaobjects.github.io · 141 points · 66 comments

Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box

donraab.medium.com · 72 points · 32 comments

Typst's Math Mode Problem

laurmaedje.github.io · 124 points · 54 comments

Rouille – Rust Programming, in French

github.com · 216 points · 157 comments

Notes from Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter

simon.incutio.com · 61 points · 14 comments