2025-09-13 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. An Open-Source Maintainer’s Guide to Saying No Total comment counts : 0 Summary Maintaining OSS requires saying no to good ideas to preserve vision and coherence. Establish a mental model of the project, document why it exists, and let process align contributions with philosophy. LLM-generated code worsens signal-to-noise as unsolicited PRs bypass discussion. A good PR can come, but maintainers should push back unless it matches the project’s philosophy. Contrib modules can isolate non-core functionality, reducing long-term maintenance risk....