by indydevdan
Pi agent is the open-source, unopinionated counterweight to Claude Code — minimal defaults, full harness control, and extensibility that lets engineers build what Anthropic won't ship.
by lex-fridman
Fun beats funding — OpenClaw's 180K GitHub stars prove that personality, self-modifying software, and a lobster mascot can outcompete every well-funded AI agent startup that takes itself too seriously.
by andreas-klinger
SaaS is being squeezed from both sides — AI tools let anyone one-shot the core functionality, while enterprise buyers still pay for compounded domain knowledge and trust. The code is worthless; the decisions are the product.
by adam-wiggins
Movements like local-first succeed when idealists define the vision and pragmatists build the infrastructure—neither alone crosses the finish line.
by andrew-milich
Open-source browser games prove you can build complex simulations with vanilla Canvas APIs—no game engine required.
by armin-ronacher
The best coding agents aren't the ones with the most tools—they're the ones that can extend themselves.
by aicodeking
Kimi K2.5 challenges proprietary models at a fraction of the cost: trillion-parameter MoE with vision, agent swarm parallelism, and 5th place on AICodeKing's benchmark—beating Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek V3.2.
by nick-randolph, geoffrey-huntley
Companies consume open source freely while holding unpaid maintainers to impossible SLAs—the solution is treating open source as critical infrastructure that requires active contribution, not just consumption.
by peter-steinberger
A self-hosted Claude-powered assistant that runs across messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Slack—turning natural language into automated workflows for email, calendars, and home automation.
by anil-dash
The most successful technology standards emerge not from corporate control but from individual creators solving genuine problems and freely sharing solutions—as Markdown's journey from blogging tool to AI infrastructure demonstrates.
by drew-breunig
Specification-only libraries work for simple utilities but foundational software still requires actual code, community oversight, and sustained maintenance.
by carl-assmann
A personal CRM app that helps you remember details about friends and nudges you to follow up on meaningful conversations.
by evan-you
JavaScript's fragmented tooling problem—separate bundlers, linters, formatters, and test runners with incompatible plugin systems—demands a unified Rust-powered stack, and VoidZero is building it from the parser up.
by geoffrey-huntley
Open-source sustainability is the real crisis, not AI code generation—companies benefit from free software but rarely compensate maintainers, and reframing sponsorship as marketing could fund the infrastructure everything depends on.