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'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
1•cratermoon•27s ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•30s ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•33s ago•0 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
1•hhs•3m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•6m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
1•hhs•9m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•9m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

1•Philpax•9m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•16m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•17m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
2•EA-3167•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
6•fliellerjulian•20m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•22m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•24m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•24m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
11•jbegley•25m ago•1 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•26m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•26m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•26m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•29m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•30m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
2•XxCotHGxX•34m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
3•timpera•35m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•37m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
3•jandrewrogers•38m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Did anyone figure out how to make money from open source?

4•asim•9mo ago
Hey. I'm the author of Go Micro. An open source framework for Go development. Over the past 10 years I never managed to find a sustainable way to keep working on this. I bootstrapped with my own savings. Meaning I quit my job and burned what was in a bank account for 9-10 months (most people don't have this luxury). I then managed to find a corporate sponsor (again a friend doing me a favour which most people don't have the luxury of). And after about 4 years of doing that I raised VC funding to try build a product around the framework and turn it into a real company. That went very poorly. So I think open source sustainability is hard and from first hand experience I never managed to make it work. I'm curious to know if anyone figured it out? We know elastic, hashicorp, redis, etc. But did anyone make it work in a smaller capacity? I even remember the story of Mike Perham with Sidekiq and doing like $1m in sales solo. But again I never managed to make any of it work myself.

Comments

JohnFen•9mo ago
Wordpress and Nextcloud come to mind. Arguably Red Hat as well. A web search turns up more companies that worked out how to do this, although I've not heard of most of them, so I don't know.

In my own ventures, I don't try. My commercial software is sold under a proprietary license, not open source, although I do provide the source code with the license. My open source offerings are not intended to make money.