Open Source

Open Core Is a Lie. Here’s What’s Actually Happening to Your Free Labor.

The open core model sounds like a fair compromise: keep the core free, charge for premium features. But in practice, it often becomes subtle rent-seeking on unpaid community labor. The companies that survive are the ones that build genuinely new value on top of the open core, not the ones that paywall what was already free.

Stop Copy-Pasting Makefiles. Make Already Has a Package Manager.

Every developer who uses GNU Make has a dirty secret: they copy-paste Makefile targets between projects like it’s 2009. MKPM, a new GNU Make Package Manager, wants to end that ritual by letting you install and reuse Make targets like npm packages. It’s either the smartest extension of Make in decades or proof that the tool’s legendary simplicity has finally hit its ceiling.

The Safety Scam: How AI Companies Are Using Fear to Lock Out Competition

Over 1,100 frontier AI employees are demanding to be the gatekeepers of AI, using ‘safety’ as a smokescreen for regulatory capture. This isn’t about protecting humanity β€” it’s about consolidating power and locking out competition. The existential risk narrative is the most effective anti-competitive tool ever invented, and it’s working.

The GitHub Repo With No README, No Docs, and 1,000 Stars: Welcome to the New Open Source

A GitHub repo with zero documentation, just a link to an npm package and a Twitter thread, is trending. This isn’t lazinessβ€”it’s a strategic shift. In the attention-scarce ecosystem, hype and distribution now outweigh code quality. The repository is the trailer; the social media thread is the movie. Learn to read the new rules of open source.

Open AI Isn’t a Gift. It’s a Weapon.

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of ‘open AI’ isn’t a gift to humanityβ€”it’s a strategic weapon to protect Meta’s ad monopoly and crush competitors. This article reveals the real motives behind the ‘open’ AI push, using the Mimeng principle of emotion-first, golden quotes, and a contrarian angle to cut through corporate PR.

Your GitHub Followers Are Lying to You About Remote Work

A developer built a tool to map GitHub followers’ locationsβ€”and discovered that open source is far more geographically concentrated than we think. The data reveals that remote work hasn’t killed geography; it’s just made it invisible. This has huge implications for community building, diversity, and how we think about global collaboration.

Your AI App Builder Is Lying to You. Here’s the Truth.

Closed-source AI app builders sell you convenience today for control tomorrow. Anybody.dev is an open-source alternative that hands you the code, the infrastructure, and the models. The real threat to incumbents isn’t a better proprietary modelβ€”it’s the commoditization of the app-building workflow itself. Stop renting your future. Build what you own.

Your RTX 4090 Is Being Held Back on Purpose

When you run LLMs on consumer RTX GPUs, vLLM and SGLang silently fall back to FlashAttention-2 β€” a kernel from 2022. Not because your hardware can’t handle FA-3/4, but because nobody bothered to port them. A first-principles rebuild of attention kernels proves the core techniques are architecture-agnostic, meaning you’re leaving real performance on the table every single inference call.