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- 1Consultant praises work supporting open source public-interest groups●RE: https:// social.coop/@cwebber/116319429 565466073 It is always a pleasure for @ regento to help organizations fight
Regento, a consultancy linked to the free and open source software community, says it is helping organizations fight for the public good, with a focus on the FOSS movement and building digital public infrastructure. The message, shared by developer Christine Webber, frames this support work as a pleasure and highlights ongoing collaboration with mission-driven organizations.
- 2BetterWispr launches as free open-source Mac dictation tool●Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
A developer has released BetterWispr, a free and open-source dictation application for Mac, sharing it with the Hacker News community. The tool lets users convert speech to text locally on macOS, positioning itself as an alternative to paid voice-input apps. Commenters are weighing in on its features, privacy implications and how it compares with existing dictation software.
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Ghidra, the open-source software reverse engineering framework developed by the US National Security Agency, is seeing renewed interest among developers. The Java-based tool lets security researchers analyze compiled software and malware without needing the source code, and is trending in developer communities this week.
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HKUDS has released CLI-Anything, an open-source Python project described as an effort to make all software agent-native, so that AI agents can operate command-line tools directly. The project comes with a companion site, CLI-Hub, and is drawing attention among developers following the rapid growth of agentic AI tooling.
- 5BraiNOTES lets students write handwritten notes on lecture PDFs in the browser▼Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab
A developer has released BraiNOTES, a browser-based tool for annotating lecture PDFs with handwritten notes, sharing the open-source project on Hacker News. The tool works entirely in a browser tab, letting students mark up course material without extra software. Early commenters are discussing its usefulness for study workflows and how it compares with existing PDF annotation apps.
Repos
- NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
- FeSens/openTPU An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler in one repo. Runs Qwen3, LFM2
- othermod/PSPi-Version-6