Hacker News with Generative AI: Open Source

Show HN: Empty Enter Expander – Type less in the terminal with this tool (github.com/waszabi)
Type less in the terminal with this tool
Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot (berkeley-humanoid.org)
Despite significant interest and advancements in humanoid robotics, most existing commercially available hardware remains high-cost, closed-source, and non-transparent within the robotics community.
ATS3 Xanadu Released (github.com/githwxi)
XATSHOME is a place for one to learn ATS3 and also contribute to ATS3.
Parallel ./configure (tavianator.com)
I'm sorry, but in the year 2025, this is ridiculous:
Synadia Response to CNCF (synadia.com)
Nearly 15 years ago, I created NATS as an OSS project. It has been a labor of love, and substantial effort, to guide its growth and witness its widespread adoption.
Bitbucket search that doesn't suck – Sourcebot, OSS alternative to Sourcegraph (sourcebot.dev)
We’ve added support for indexing repos from Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center. Check out our docs for more info!
Show HN: Mermaid Open Editor 2.0 (mermaidchart.com)
DeepWiki – Which repo would you like to understand? (deepwiki.com)
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Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps (github.com/magnitudedev)
Magnitude: The open source, AI-native testing framework for web apps
The first SWHID publicly available specification is out (softwareheritage.org)
Identifying precisely software artifacts and their versions is of paramount importance for a variety of stakeholders, ranging from industry to academia, from cultural heritage to public administration.
You shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library (gnu.org)
The GNU Project has two principal licenses to use for libraries. One is the GNU Lesser GPL; the other is the ordinary GNU GPL. The choice of license makes a big difference: using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs.
Show HN: StackHound - Stop guessing repo's tech stack, analyze it in seconds (vercel.app)
The standard GitHub API provides information about programming languages used in repositories, but it often lacks the granularity to identify specific frameworks and technologies.
Copyleft makes the (Java) world turn around (2016) (wildebeest.org)
Glad to see a little bit more copyleft being adopted by Android now that they are using parts of the OpenJDK class library. Even if the GNU Classpath Exception is probably the weakest form of copyleft there is. It is interesting how the GPL makes frenemies like Oracle and Google work together.
Show HN: BugStalker - a modern Rust debugger (github.com/godzie44)
Radicle 1.1: a sovereign, P2P code forge built on Git (radicle.xyz)
The Radicle team is delighted to announce the release of Radicle 1.1. This release contains 47 commits by 8 contributors.
Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results (codeberg.org)
We, the undersigned, petition the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to release the complete, unaltered results of its 2025 Board of Directors elections. We believe that by removing candidates and votes after voting concluded, OSI has damaged its credibility. We call for transparency as a first step toward repairing OSI's integrity and reputation.
Show HN: Faasta – A self-hosted Serverless platform for WASM-wasi-HTTP in Rust (github.com/fourlexboehm)
Faasta is a cutting-edge Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform designed for exceptional speed and efficiency.
Show HN: Seachan – Censorship Resistant Decentralized Fileboards (seachan.org)
Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks (theregister.com)
Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) no longer works with derivative products such as VS Codium and Cursor – and some developers are crying foul.
OpenAlternative – open-source Alternatives to Popular Software (github.com/piotrkulpinski)
Discover open source alternatives to popular software.
Cookiecrumbler: Automatically detect cookie consent notices (github.com/brave)
Cookiecrumbler automatically detects cookie consent notices on Web pages. It's intended to help with both detection of cookie consent notices that we don't currently block, and to identify webcompat reports as being related to cookie consent notice blocking.
Show HN: I Added Translation to My RSS Reader Project (rahuldshetty.github.io)
Bevy 0.16 (bevyengine.org)
Thanks to 261 contributors, 1244 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.16 release on crates.io!
Everything but the Beholders: D&D updates core rules, sticks with CC license (arstechnica.com)
Wizards of the Coast has released the System Reference Document, the heart of the three core rule books that constitute Dungeons & Dragons' 2024 gameplay, under a Creative Commons license.
Meet Anagram, a Linux-powered bass FX processor (librearts.org)
Darkglass Electronics, a popular maker of bass-centric equipment (pedals, amps, cabinets), announced their first multi-effects box earlier this week.
PgDog is a transaction pooler logical replication manager can shard PostgreSQL (github.com/pgdogdev)
PgDog is a transaction pooler and logical replication manager that can shard PostgreSQL.
Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library (reverseui.com)
Effortlessly integrate trending animated components to your projects, with all the styling and animations handled for you.
Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS (github.com/philocalyst)
Infat is an ultra-powerful, macOS-native CLI tool for declaritively managing both file-type and URL-scheme associations.
Open Sourcing 30 Sandboxes (antonz.org)
I'm a big fan of interactive playgrounds. So today I'm open sourcing 30+ sandboxes — from programming languages to databases to networking and CLI tools. You can use them to experiment locally, or embed interactive examples in your writing like this:
OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours (open-vsx.org)
Some services are down