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vLLM v0.28.0 release adds major Kimi-K3 and DeepSeek V4 optimizations, speculative decoding upgrades, and broader ROCm support

The vLLM project released v0.28.0 with 584 commits from 270 contributors, including broad performance work for Kimi-K3 and DeepSeek VHighlights include faster decode and prefill ke...

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Tailscale releases Tailcat, a netcat-like tool for encrypted peer-to-peer connections over its data plane

Tailcat is an open-source Tailscale project that works like netcat but uses Tailscale’s data plane without relying on its control plane. One side creates a listener and shares a sh...

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Open-source macOS desktop fruit fly uses real FlyWire neuron data to simulate movement, grooming, sleep, and cursor escape

A GitHub project called DesktopFly creates a 3D fruit fly that lives on a macOS desktop and is driven by a live spiking simulation based on the FlyWire connectome. It visualizes 23...

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GitHub project catalogs worst-case x86 instruction latency, with fxrstor64 stretched to 62 seconds on Ryzen hardware

A public repository called Assembly Hall of Shame explores the opposite of normal performance tuning: finding the slowest possible execution of individual assembly instructions. It...

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Show HN project Shitty introduces a fast, memory-unsafe terminal emulator for developers prioritizing speed

A GitHub project called Shitty is being showcased as a fast terminal emulator with an intentionally blunt pitch: “memory-unsafe and faster than yours.” The public repository has ea...

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YC Software’s QM is an open-source multiplayer agent harness for Slack and web-based startup workflows

The GitHub repository describes QM as a multiplayer agent harness that gives each employee or shared room its own isolated workspace, memory, files, permissions, crons, web apps, a...

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Open-source agent skill makes LLMs write documentation in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English across major coding tools

A public GitHub repository offers an agent skill that pushes LLMs to write documentation in ASD-STE100, the controlled technical English standard used in aerospace. The skill is de...

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Developer releases TurboFieldfare, an open-source Mac inference engine streaming Gemma 4 26B from SSD in about 2GB RAM

TurboFieldfare is a Swift and Metal inference engine that runs 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on Apple Silicon Macs using about 2GB of RAM. It keeps shared model components and KV cache...

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Developer releases a userscript that adds Hacker News discussion panels directly alongside linked articles

A Hacker News user built a userscript to avoid opening separate tabs for an article and its HN comments. The tool opens linked articles with a resizable side panel showing the rela...

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OpenAI releases Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK for scanning and fixing code vulnerabilities

OpenAI’s public codex-security repository describes a CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities in code. The tool supports repository scan...

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HumanLayer tests Claude Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench, finding gains on long-horizon coding but still low pass rates

HumanLayer benchmarked Claude Opus 5, Opus 4.8, and Sonnet 5 on a subset of SlopCodeBench, a long-horizon coding benchmark that reveals requirements gradually across checkpoints. O...

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Experiential Labs launches open-source WMO Serve to route agent tasks to distilled small models at lower cost

Experiential Labs introduced world-model-optimizer’s wmo serve, an open-source tool that uses existing agent traces to improve specialized models through distillation, routing, and...

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GigaToken debuts as a drop-in tokenizer claiming up to 1,000x faster throughput than Hugging Face tokenizers

GigaToken is an open-source language model tokenizer that claims GB/s throughput and up to ~1,000x faster performance than Hugging Face tokenizers. The project offers compatibility...

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GitHub repo offers a free Little Book of Reinforcement Learning with PyTorch algorithm implementations and proofs

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning is a concise introduction to reinforcement learning, covering basics through applied algorithms. Its GitHub repo includes the book PDF, Py...

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xAI open-sources Grok Build, a Rust-based terminal AI coding agent for editing, shell tasks, and CI workflows

xAI has published the source code for Grok Build, its terminal-based AI coding agent, in a public GitHub repository. The Rust-based tool can understand codebases, edit files, run s...

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Moonshine Micro brings speech recognition and neural text-to-speech to low-cost microcontrollers in under 500KB RAM

Moonshine AI’s open source Moonshine Micro toolkit enables real-time voice interfaces on embedded processors, using Raspberry Pi’s RP2350 as a reference platform. The demo combines...

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Claude Code plugin plays Mr. Meeseeks voice clips when Claude needs user input or approval

A new Claude Code plugin called claude-meseeks plays randomized Mr. Meeseeks audio clips when Claude is waiting for a prompt or needs approval. It filters Claude Code notification...

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Developer builds Colibrì to run GLM 5.2’s 744B MoE model on a 32GB RAM computer without a GPU

A developer says they were able to run GLM 5.2 locally on a modest 12-core machine with 32GB of RAM by converting the model to int4 and streaming its routed MoE experts from disk....

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Open-source Riddle project turns reMarkable Paper Pro into an AI-powered Tom Riddle diary

A GitHub project called riddle lets reMarkable Paper Pro users write with a stylus, then watch their ink fade as an AI-generated reply appears stroke by stroke. The tool requires d...

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GitHub issue claims GPT-5.5 Codex shows fixed reasoning-token spikes that may hurt complex task performance

A new Codex GitHub issue reports that GPT-5.5 responses appear to cluster at exact reasoning token counts such as 516, 1034, and The reporter says the pattern is model-specific, ba...

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Open source port brings Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour natively to Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone, and iPad

A public GitHub project ports Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour to macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, running the original 2003 engine natively on ARM64 rather than through emulation. The...

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SearXNG offers an open-source metasearch engine focused on privacy, self-hosting, and community-driven development

SearXNG is a free metasearch engine that aggregates results while avoiding user tracking and profiling. The project is hosted publicly, has over 33,000 stars, and provides installa...

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crustc project publishes a functional Rust compiler translated into 46 million lines of C

A GitHub project called crustc demonstrates rustc 1.98.0-nightly translated into 46 million lines of C that can be built with GCC and make. The resulting compiler can report its ve...

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Anonymous GitHub user publishes a trove of claimed zero-day exploit PoCs affecting major open source and security tools

An anonymous GitHub account has released a repository containing dozens of claimed exploit proofs of concept for projects including 7-Zip, Docker, FFmpeg, Firefox, Ghidra, ImageMag...

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DeepSeek releases DSpark paper describing speculative decoding techniques to speed up large language model inference

DeepSeek has published a DSpark paper on GitHub focused on using speculative decoding to accelerate LLM inference. The available article content provides little detail beyond the p...

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Tessil’s hopscotch-map offers a fast C++ hash map and set using cache-friendly hopscotch hashing

The repository provides a C+hopscotch hashing implementation for fast hash maps and sets, designed to outperform std::unorderedmap in many cases while using less memory than google...

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Optocam Zero is an open-source Raspberry Pi Zero digital camera built from 3D-printed and off-the-shelf parts

Optocam Zero is a compact DIY digital camera based on the Raspberry Pi Zero, designed to be pocketable, playful, and relatively easy to build. It uses common components, a fully 3D...

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Kage open-source tool snapshots dynamic websites into script-free offline copies or single binaries for long-term viewing

Kage is a Go-based project that uses headless Chrome to load a website, capture the settled DOM, and save local HTML, CSS, images, and fonts. It strips all JavaScript, creating off...

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Nex-AGI alleges Rio de Janeiro’s claimed homegrown 397B LLM is a 60/40 merge of Nex and Qwen models

A GitHub issue from Nex-AGI claims Rio de Janeiro’s Rio-3.5-Open-397B, described as an original model trained by IplanRIO, is actually an element-wise merge of Nex-N2_pro and Qwen3...

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πFS GitHub project jokes that files can be “stored” in pi’s digits instead of on disk

πFS is an experimental FUSE filesystem that claims to avoid storing file data by locating byte sequences within the digits of pi, keeping only metadata such as filenames and offset...

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Microsoft open sources pg_durable, a PostgreSQL extension for crash-resilient SQL workflows without external job infrastructure

Microsoft has released pg_durable, an open source PostgreSQL extension for running long-lived, fault-tolerant workflows directly inside the database. It lets teams define workflows...

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Anthropic releases open-source reference harness for Claude-powered vulnerability discovery, triage, reporting, and patch generation

Anthropic published a reference implementation for using Claude to autonomously find and remediate software vulnerabilities. The repository outlines a recon-to-patch workflow with...

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Open-source Linux tool turns Nvidia GPU VRAM into swap space for memory-constrained laptops

A GitHub project called nbd-vram lets Linux users allocate Nvidia GPU memory as a swap device, using CUDA and the kernel’s Network Block Device driver. The tool is aimed at laptops...

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Stanford CS336 publishes guidelines telling AI coding assistants to tutor students without generating assignment solutions

Stanford’s CS336 repository includes a CLAUDE.md file that instructs AI coding tools to act as teaching assistants rather than solution generators. The guidance encourages explanat...

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Developer investigates a seashell-like fossil found in Saudi Arabia’s Alghat desert using geological context and DIY paleontology

The author describes finding a solid rock resembling a seashell at the base of a cliff in Saudi Arabia’s Alghat desert, about 500 km from the nearest coastline. They connect the fi...

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OrcaSlicer fork restores full internet-based BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab 3D printers beyond LAN-only access

A GitHub project from FULU-Foundation offers a version of OrcaSlicer that restores full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers. The build claims users can print and manage dev...

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TanStack says several latest npm package releases were compromised in a broader self-spreading supply-chain attack

TanStack disclosed that several of its latest npm package releases were compromised and opened a GitHub issue to track the incident. The project pointed users to StepSecurity’s ana...

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TypedMemory Java library maps records to off-heap native memory using the Foreign Function and Memory API

TypedMemory is a Java 25library that provides strongly typed views over contiguous off-heap memory. It lets developers map Java records onto native memory while retaining control o...

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Let-go brings a Clojure-like language to Go with a 10MB static binary and roughly 7ms cold starts

Let-go is a Clojure-like language written in pure Go that aims for about 90% compatibility with JVM Clojure while shipping as a small static binary. It offers fast startup, nREPL s...

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DeepClaude routes Claude Code’s agentic coding workflow to DeepSeek V4 Pro for much lower token costs

DeepClaude is an open-source wrapper that keeps the Claude Code CLI experience while sending model calls to DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or other Anthropic-compatible backends. The...

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VS Code changes Git extension default to add Copilot co-author trailers to commits when AI contributions are detected

A VS Code pull request changes the Git extension setting git.addAICoAuthor from "off" to "all" by default. The update would automatically add a Co-authored-by trailer for Copilot w...

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Developer launches open-source Ghost Pepper, a privacy-focused local speech-to-text app for macOS, enabling secure hold-to-talk for coding and emails.

A developer built Ghost Pepper, a local speech-to-text tool for macOS that processes all data on-device to maintain privacy. It's being used for tasks like coding, writing emails,...

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