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StarRocks: High performance Data Warehouse
iQIYI - A Chinese subscription VOD streaming service owned by Baidu (one of the largest online sites in the world) cut query latency by 33x after switching from Spark to this open-source OLAP database. StarRocks is a hi...

You are a founder trying to build a lean MVP: This Free Tier list is your secret weapon
A 120,565-star GitHub repo that's been actively maintained for 11 years catalogs every SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS with a genuine free tier. It's not a trial directory — services must offer at least a year of free access to qu...
Hermes Agent: AI That Learns Your Habits
AI agent that gets smarter the longer you use it. Hermes Agent builds skills from your conversations, remembers what matters across sessions, and runs everywhere — CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, even a $5 VPS. Unlike Cl...
Hackathon Project: Real-time voice+vision AI runs on your laptop
Six months ago, running real-time voice AI locally required an RTX 5090. Today, Parlor does it on an M3 Pro using Google's new 2.6GB Gemma 4 E2B model. It's an open-source app that lets you talk to your computer and sho...
Your own LLM: Train your own LLM in 5 minutes on Google Colab
GuppyLM is an 8.7M parameter language model you can train from scratch in 5 minutes on Google Colab's free T4 GPU. It generates conversations as "Guppy," a fish character that speaks in lowercase about food, water, and ...
Shopify CEO's side project for your local search in CLI
Tobias Lütke built a CLI search engine that hit 19,447 stars in just 4 months — and it runs entirely on your machine with no API calls. QMD indexes your markdown notes, docs, and code files, then searches them using BM2...
TradingAgents: Multi-Agent LLMs That Trade Like a Hedge Fund. People in Financial Sector check this out!!!!
TradingAgents hit 48.2k GitHub stars by simulating a real trading firm with 7 specialized LLM agents — from fundamental analysts to risk managers — that debate before making decisions. Built by UCLA and MIT researchers,...
Microsoft's VibeVoice: 90-min AI podcasts
Microsoft built an open-source voice AI that generates 90-minute multi-speaker podcasts in one pass—then removed the TTS code 11 days later after discovering misuse. The remaining ASR model transcribes 60-minute audio f...
Interesting project auto-generates TikToks from Reddit threads
10,637 stars for a Python tool that turns Reddit threads into short-form videos — but the "one command" promise hides real setup friction. You need Reddit API credentials, TikTok sessionid extraction via browser extensi...

Two minutes Paper on NVIDIA nemotron: 120B open model claims 7.5x Qwen throughput
You get a 120B-parameter open model with 12B active parameters that claims up to 7.5x higher throughput than Qwen3.5-122B and up to 2.2x over GPT-OSS-120B in NVIDIA's 8k-in/64k-out test setup (verified 2026-04-09). Nemo...
Fine-tune Gemma 4 on 8GB VRAM — Unsloth ships same-day fixes
Google dropped Gemma 4 on April 4, and every standard fine-tuning tutorial silently produces garbage output due to a KV-cache bug in HuggingFace transformers. Unsloth — an 8-person YC-backed team — shipped same-day supp...
Feed it video, get 70k brain predictions: Meta's TRIBE v2
Meta released a model that predicts how 70,000 brain regions respond to any video, audio, or text — zero-shot, no retraining needed for new people. It feeds content through LLaMA 3.2, V-JEPA2, and Wav2Vec-BERT, then map...
Browser-use: Browser automation
browser-use sits at 87,127 stars and 10,047 forks, yet it still carries 41 open issues as of April 11, 2026. You get an open-source Python project that lets an LLM drive a browser, plus a hosted cloud path when you want...
Kronos: Finance Foundation Model with a Data Leakage Bug Open
Kronos pre-trains a Transformer on 12 billion K-line records from 45 global exchanges — the first open-source foundation model built specifically for financial candlestick data. It tokenizes OHLCV price data into discre...
Nodepad: AI canvas that thinks beside you, not for you
Nodepad is a spatial canvas where you dump notes and an AI classifies them into 14 types, finds connections, and generates emergent synthesis sentences — all in the background, not in a chat window. It runs entirely in ...
Ladybird: a browser engine from scratch
Ladybird is the only active project building a browser engine from scratch with zero lineage to Blink, WebKit, or Gecko — 62k GitHub stars, 8 paid engineers, BSD-2-Clause licensed. In February 2026 it abandoned Swift af...

One binary operator replaces every calculator button
A single operator eml(x,y) = exp(x) − ln(y), paired with constant 1, generates every elementary function — arithmetic, trig, logarithms, constants like π and i. Think of it as the NAND gate for continuous math: one repe...
Roadmap.sh: The roadmaps goldmine
This GitHub repo hit 352,000 stars (6th most-starred overall) by solving a simple problem: developers don't know what to learn next. Created by Kamran Ahmed in 2017, roadmap.sh provides interactive skill trees for 20+ c...

ElevenLabs' $11B AI music app: change texts into songs with vocal and instruments
An $11B voice AI company just launched ElevenMusic — an iOS app that turns text prompts into complete songs with vocals and instruments. You type a description like 'upbeat electronic song about coding' and get a full t...
Goose: Why to waste money on Claude Code as it costs $200/mo? Use Goose !!
Block (Jack Dorsey's company) built a free, open-source AI coding agent that runs entirely on your laptop. Goose doesn't just suggest code — it builds projects, runs tests, debugs failures, and calls APIs autonomously. ...
Onyx: Open-Source Enterprise Search That Beat ChatGPT
Onyx just beat ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise in head-to-head benchmarks — 64% and 68% win rates respectively — despite being open-source and free to self-host. It's an AI-powered workplace search tool that co...
17.1K stars in 6 months — free Screen Studio alternative
One indie developer refused to pay $29/month for Screen Studio, built his own free alternative, and hit 17.1K GitHub stars in 6 months. OpenScreen records your screen with automatic zoom effects, annotations, and backgr...
Gemma 4 got released today: Tech world is high on this model. Christmas is early for GPU enthusiasts.
Gemma 4 ships with four sizes on April 2, 2026, and the 26B A4B variant activates about 3.8B parameters at inference (per Google and model cards, verified April 3, 2026). You get Google DeepMind open-weight multimodal m...

Google's TimesFM: Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting Without Training Data
TimesFM is a 200M parameter decoder-only foundation model from Google Research that forecasts time series data without any training on your specific dataset. Trained on 100 billion real-world time-points from Google Tre...
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