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Platform
Qbix/Platform
Free, open-source community platform, decentralized alternative to Big Tech. For apps that empower people and unite communities.
“I seriously encounter this hand-wringing on HN. You are pointing out a real problem in the world. A problem that, if not solved, will keep most of the people in the world helpless and at the mercy of governments, billionaires and the platforms they control. But I don’t like to ju…”
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- 8
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- 23
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
immich
immich-app/immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
“I self-host Immich, and run the iPhone app to back up my photos. I used this guide for the initial import.”
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- 7
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- 118k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
photocraft
storytold/photocraft
PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust
“No, we explicitly do not use reverse engineering. We do not decompile binaries, we do everything 100% clean room: (inspired by Photoshop) (inspired by Word) (one o…”
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- 5
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- 76k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
hosts
StevenBlack/hosts
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
“for good measure, here are 83k additional domains:”
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- 5
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- 31k
- Licence
- MIT
invidious
iv-org/invidious
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
“Get I've been watching youtube without ads on all Apple hardware for years. I use invidious as backend. Absolutely fabulous.”
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- 5
- Stars
- 26k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
copyparty
9001/copyparty
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file
“The site has a lot of open source projects though, in fact i found about copyparty from it because it was listed as an alternative to file hosting services (though it was removed since then, probably because it isn't a service:-P but still there are various FLOSS projects). […”
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- 4
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- 47k
- Licence
- MIT
Strata
Niko1221/Strata
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input.
“Any chance you could try qwen3.8 flash next? That is currently the best local model for actual coding tasks in my + many coworkers experience. It will run reasonably fast if you have 64+ gb ram and use strata or a strata fork (vram not super important with this method).…”
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- 4
- Stars
- 38k
- Licence
- MIT
asciinema
asciinema/asciinema
Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹
“Formatting: Written in Rust - fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' - ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern - exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust https:/…”
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- 4
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- 18k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
peerflix
mafintosh/peerflix
Streaming torrent client for node.js
“If you like youtube-dl you should have a look at!! (:”
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- 4
- Stars
- 6.3k
- Licence
- MIT
scrcpy
Genymobile/scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
“Scrcpy v4.0 (373 points)”
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- 3
- Stars
- 154k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
youtube-dl
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
“High quality code and one of the best APIs i ever used: Best source code layout, architecture, maintainability:”
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- 3
- Stars
- 141k
- Licence
- Unlicense
SmartTube
yuliskov/SmartTube
Browse media content with your own rules on Android TV
“Try SmartTube or PipePipe. They do a pretty good job of blocking Google's nonsense and just showing you the videos.”
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- 3
- Stars
- 36k
- Licence
- MIT
librephotos
LibrePhotos/librephotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service.
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- 3
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- 8.1k
- Licence
- MIT
GoModel
ENTERPILOT/GoModel
AI gateway / AI control plane / AI proxy written in Go. Unified OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, Ollama, vLLM and more. A LiteLLM alternative with observability, guardrails, streaming, cost tracking, intelligent routing, sticky sessions, failover, real-time logs and usage tracking. Prod ready.
“I wish all the best to LiteLLM team with handling it again. I can imagine how challenging are situations like this one. However, if anyone is looking for 20x faster and less "targeted" LiteLLM alternative - I'm work on one in Go. That's why GoModel it's called.…”
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- 3
- Stars
- 1.3k
- Licence
- MIT
soundfingerprinting
AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting
Open source audio fingerprinting in .NET. An efficient algorithm for acoustic fingerprinting written purely in C#.
“Is the library. It was the first thing I found and it seemed to do the job. I’m not a.NET guy so it’s implemented as a CLI tool that takes a wave file as input and spits out a list of timestamps. Sharing the code would mean getti…”
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- 3
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- 1.0k
- Licence
- MIT
pirateflix
orinocoz/pirateflix
:movie_camera: Stream piratebay movies directly from CLI
“Forked:”
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- 3
- Stars
- 359
- Licence
- MIT
manim
3b1b/manim
Animation engine for explanatory math videos
“I've been doing exactly this for ten years, keeping the bookmarks file in Git. I added 70 bookmarks today, which is more than average. But rather than just a "title" I have whatever seems like I might want to search for later, including if the link rots. So it's more of a summmar…”
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- 2
- Stars
- 96k
- Licence
- MIT
unsloth
unslothai/unsloth
Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4.1, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.
“Unsloth: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% accuracy loss Llama finetuning (132 points)”
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- 2
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- 79k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
obs-studio
obsproject/obs-studio
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
“OBS Studio 33 (474 points)”
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- 2
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- 79k
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
LocalAI
mudler/LocalAI
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
“The answer to this question changes every week. For compatibility with the OpenAI API one project to consider is None of the open models are close to GPT-4 yet, but some of the LLaMA derivatives feel similar to GPT3.5. Licenses are a big quest…”
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- 2
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- 50k
- Licence
- MIT
NewPipe
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
“Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working (124 points)”
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- 2
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- 40k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
bark
suno-ai/bark
🔊 Text-Prompted Generative Audio Model
“Bark: A transformer based text to audio system (172 points)”
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- 2
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- 39k
- Licence
- MIT
khoj
khoj-ai/khoj
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
“Check out Khoj.”
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- 2
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- 38k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
flameshot
flameshot-org/flameshot
Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
“Flameshot Super easy to use. I mapped it to my PrtSc.”
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- 2
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- 31k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
koreader
koreader/koreader
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
“I installed KOReader following these instructions: Wallabag plugin is built into KOReader. Launch KOReader by clicking the icon it puts in your Kobo library, then in the menus you will find Wallabag config. I added a…”
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- 2
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- 31k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
karakeep
karakeep-app/karakeep
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
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- 2
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- 30k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
jitsi-meet
jitsi/jitsi-meet
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
“There are.deb packages for Ubuntu and Debian available. I installed it on a freshly provisioned VM running Debian 10 in about 15 minutes. They even provide a shell script to obtain an let's encrypt SSL certificate.”
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- 2
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- 30k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
ente
ente/ente
💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.
“I currently use Ente.io as a secondary photo syncing service in addition to Google Photos. While I really like it — snappy and encrypted — I was surprised by how much the missing Ultra HDR implementation affects me. Photos are currently uploaded with brightness information but no…”
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- 2
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- 30k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
ArchiveBox
ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
“Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways): And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to…”
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- 2
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- 29k
- Licence
- MIT
icloud_photos_downloader
icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
“I've been using icloud-photos-downloader for a while now, running as a Scheduled Task on my Synology. It supports 2FA as well, I just have to re-auth every 3-4 months.:”
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- 2
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- 12k
- Licence
- MIT
popcorntime
popcorntime/popcorntime
Popcorn Time™ puts everything in one place. Your favorite platforms, your shows, your movies-ready when you are.
“Streaming doesn't break bittorrent that easily. It's not optimal for the health of a torrent cloud, but practice has shown that it's not a major issue. Plenty of torrent streaming apps, most notably Popcorn Time ( and source code at…”
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- 2
- Stars
- 11k
- Licence
- MIT
gyroflow
gyroflow/gyroflow
Video stabilization using gyroscope data
“I just founded a company where we're building a cross-platform native desktop app. Perhaps given we're on HN we can scope this to ask why aren't any _startups_ building native desktop apps? It's something I wonder about as well. We're building real-time performance critical softw…”
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- 2
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- 9.7k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
kbd-audio
ggerganov/kbd-audio
🎤⌨️ Acoustic keyboard eavesdropping
“is probably the best-known one. The amusing aspect is that this is so easy that multiple good ways someone could hobby program this long before AI was a thing. The sound of a bunch of keypresses may just blur together to our human ears, but…”
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- 2
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- 9.0k
- Licence
- MIT
backgroundremover
nadermx/backgroundremover
Background Remover lets you Remove Background from images and video using AI with a simple command line interface that is free and open source.
“I think with anything, it's a love hate. I open sourced, and it's been cool in terms of vanity, but depending on my mood it either feels cool or like a chore to do work on it.”
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- 2
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- 8.1k
- Licence
- MIT
imaginary
h2non/imaginary
Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing
“Shortlist: - Apache Tika + Tesseract for OCR of mails - i hate physical paper - SOLR to index the output of the above mentioned data - Imaginary for image pre-processing of the scanned mails / documents. Its much more lightweight than imagem…”
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- 2
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- 6.1k
- Licence
- MIT
USearch
unum-cloud/USearch
Fast Open-Source Search & Clustering engine × for Vectors & Arbitrary Objects × in C++, C, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Java, Objective-C, Swift, C#, GoLang, and Wolfram 🔍
“I use usearch for the engine. It's fast. The vectors are stored in DB and added to usearch at startup for retreival. There is also FAISS.”
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- 2
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- 4.4k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
docker-jitsi-meet
jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
Jitsi Meet on Docker
“Do you know the oss They also have docker containers:”
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- 2
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- 3.6k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
ownphotos
hooram/ownphotos
Self hosted alternative to Google Photos
“One more option... Have not had that weekend to try these options myself.”
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- 2
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- 2.8k
- Licence
- MIT
core
secluso/core
A privacy-preserving Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses advanced end-to-end encryption.
“Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)!: Hey everyone, We've built an open-source, privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (called Secluso). It uses end-to-end encryption to send videos from the camera to a mobile…”
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- 2
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- 1.7k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
camera.ui
cameraui/camera.ui
The modern, local-first platform for professional video surveillance.
“For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc…”
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- 2
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- 1.1k
- Licence
- MIT
SCM
allenv0/SCM
Multimodal visual memory search on macOS
“Congrats on the launch, Ilias! It's great to see more people working on local-first media search. Amazing design <3 Full disclosure: I've been building something similar. SCM is a free, open-source macOS app for searching photos and video scenes locally:…”
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- 2
- Stars
- 523
- Licence
- MIT
satcat5
the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5
SatCat5 is a mixed-media Ethernet switch that lets a variety of devices communicate on the same network.
“Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch (190 points)”
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- 2
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- 513
- Licence
- CERN-OHL-W-2.0
OpenDecision
deepanwadhwa/OpenDecision
Free open source alternative for Jev that supports text, documents and images and runs at ~2GB of ram on a CPU.
“If you want a local alternative; I added image support to OpenDecision three days ago - Videos will be next.”
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- 2
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- 115
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
postiz-app
gitroomhq/postiz-app
📨 The ultimate agentic social media scheduling tool 🤖
“How does Buffer operate then? Even an open-source alternative to Buffer, Postiz, offers Instagram. 0. 1.”
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- 1
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- 41k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
kafka
apache/kafka
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
“I’ve open-sourced Timestone, a small Java library that lets you abstract time sources for testable, deterministic time-based logic. It provides an interfaces `Time` with two implementations `SystemTime` for real system clock, and `MutableTime` that can be advanced programmaticall…”
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- 1
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- 34k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
readest
readest/readest
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.
“KOReader is good, as others have mentioned. If you want a cross platform option that's pretty good across Android/iOS/Mac/Windows/Linux, Readest Is another great option. It supports syncing a library of ebooks and is licensed under the AGPL.: h…”
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- 1
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- 26k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
filmcraft
storytold/filmcraft
FilmCraft: An open-source, nonlinear video editor written by scratch in pure Rust
“I nearly did this, but then I swapped to writing native desktop apps and egui - Rust is still worth it. I've stopped using Tauri and gone with 100% egui. It's cross platform and excellent, and if you give it design constraints it will look beautiful. Check out my 100% adobe clean…”
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- 1
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- 17k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
beets
beetbox/beets
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
“I wanted to love beets as I prefer the CLI, but it just seemed very finicky for me. 1. Tagging doesn't work if you don't import every song in an album at once (see and dev comments on…”
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- 1
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- 16k
- Licence
- MIT
dalle-mini
borisdayma/dalle-mini
DALL·E Mini - Generate images from a text prompt
“Nice pictures. Really wish I'd started my GenAI benchmark back when DALL-E 2 were still around, just to have them as a fun little baseline for how much things have changed. The only DALL-E 2 images I could dig up in my archives that matched any of the bench prompts was the Al…”
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- 1
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- 15k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
ACE-Step-1.5
ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms almost all commercial alternatives, supporting Mac, AMD, Intel, and CUDA devices.
“Hi HN! We released ACE-Step 1.5, an open-sourced AI music model. Key traits of ACE-Step 1.5: Quality: beats Suno on common eval scores Speed: full song under 2s on A100 Local: ~4GB VRAM, under 10s on RTX 3090 LoRA: train your own style with a few songs License: MIT, free for comm…”
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- 1
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- 14k
- Licence
- MIT
centrifugo
centrifugal/centrifugo
Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably, socket.io, Phoenix.PubSub, SignalR. Set up once and forever.
“Hi everyone! I'd like to share that we've just released Centrifugo v6 - a major update of scalable WebSocket server. The release addresses some usability pain points and adds nice features and more observability. Centrifugo is an open-source standalone server written in Go – http…”
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- 1
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- 11k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
podcastfy
souzatharsis/podcastfy
An Open Source Python alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature: Transforming Multimodal Content into Captivating Multilingual Audio Conversations with GenAI
“Could we replicate the NotebookLM's podcast feature as a customizable API? Live demo: Open Source Python package: Apache-2.0 license Key Features: - Generates conversational conten…”
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- 1
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- 6.8k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
bento
nyblnet/bento
Bento, the office suite that fits in a file
“>This looks great. >"Unbundling BI" is absolutely where things are headed now that more people have agents, coding agents, agent computers to help with work. Agreed. Coupled with bento for slide decks, I think this type of project is a very welcome development, helping us move…”
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- 1
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- 5.6k
- Licence
- MIT
finamp
finamp-app/finamp
An open source music player made for Jellyfin
“I understand use cases for Jellyfin and selfhost it myself for music (in combination with incredible Finamp), but for movies/shows plain MiniDLNA works like a charm and is accessible from any device.”
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- 1
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- 4.5k
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
Gallery
FossifyOrg/Gallery
Browse your memories without any interruptions with this photo and video gallery
“I've solved this long ago by disabling the app. Sadly, that means I can't view videos in the gallery, but I believe it's a fair compromise. I'd recommend taking a look at open source alternatives like Lavender Photos or Fossify Gallery…”
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- 1
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- 3.9k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
harnessrouter
HarnessRouter/harnessrouter
HarnessRouter Community Edition: the self-hosted, Apache-2.0 edition of the unified interface for agent harnesses. Run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, PI, DSH, and more through one API, with sessions, streaming, files, cancellation, and failure handling. Implements the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP), an open standard. Your keys, your infrastructure.
“Open-source repo to check out the integration:”
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- 3.9k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
yattee
yattee/yattee
Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
“Get I've been watching youtube without ads on all Apple hardware for years. I use invidious as backend. Absolutely fabulous.”
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- 1
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- 3.8k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
markstream-vue
Simon-He95/markstream-vue
Multi-framework streaming Markdown renderers for AI apps: Vue/Nuxt, React/Next.js, Octane, SolidJS, Svelte, Angular, and Vue 2. Mermaid, KaTeX, streaming code blocks, SSR, and virtualized histories.
“Hey HN, We built `vue-renderer-markdown`, a high-performance streaming Markdown renderer for Vue 3. It was extracted from the core of DeepChat, our open-source AI chatbot, after being battle-tested in production. This wasn't just an exercise. We needed to render complex, streamin…”
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- 1
- Stars
- 3.0k
- Licence
- MIT
chatto
chattocorp/chatto
A fully-featured team and group chat application that you can easily selfhost.
“Have you tried Chatto? Seems to be an open-source Slack and Discord alternative with a nice UI. 0.”
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- 1
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- 2.9k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
thingino-firmware
themactep/thingino-firmware
Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
“I know that there exists projects such as and. These allow you to replace the firmware running on some of the Chinese IP cameras with an open-source alternative. Our project specifically is only meant for…”
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- 1
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- 2.3k
- Licence
- MIT
hucre
productdevbook/hucre
Zero-dependency spreadsheet engine. Read & write XLSX, CSV, ODS. Pure TypeScript, works everywhere.
“On the other hand we'll probably see a lot more fully vibecoded projects gaining traction, because of the rate at which they can move once human design and review gets taken out of the equation. For example, I recently came across Hucre,,…”
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- 1
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- 2.3k
- Licence
- MIT
chronoframe
HoshinoSuzumi/chronoframe
Self-hosted personal gallery application with online photo management and albums, supporting Live/Motion Photos, EXIF parsing, geolocation recognition, and an explore map.
“I built ChronoFrame as a modern alternative to clunky photo galleries. It’s a self-hosted app designed for smooth performance, metadata awareness, and clean architecture. Why? Most open-source galleries are either slow with large images, don’t support EXIF/geo properly, or feel o…”
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- 1
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- 2.0k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
twilio-video-app-react
twilio/twilio-video-app-react
A collaboration application built with the twilio-video.js SDK and React.js
“Sure! Check out and. It's a single commit to add support for <iframe> embed.”
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- 1
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- 1.8k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
nestri
nestrilabs/nestri
One GPU. Many sessions. All streamed remotely to anywhere.
“The benefit is that you do not have a limit to how many VMs you can run at the same time. However, virtio-nvgpu has no Windows support as of yet, please check back in a while:) You should check out Nestri, another project we are working on, that helps you do exactly that. It…”
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- 1
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- 1.8k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
centrifuge
centrifugal/centrifuge
Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.
“Hi everyone! I'd like to share that we've just released Centrifugo v6 - a major update of scalable WebSocket server. The release addresses some usability pain points and adds nice features and more observability. Centrifugo is an open-source standalone server written in Go – http…”
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- 1
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- 1.5k
- Licence
- MIT
saw
TylerBrock/saw
Fast, multi-purpose tool for AWS CloudWatch Logs
“I wrote a tool to tail CloudWatch logs called saw: I was so fed up trying to debug lambdas and the other AWS offerings that a tool like this to see program output in near realtime is indispensable. I use it all the time. Is it bug free? No Did i w…”
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- 1
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- 1.4k
- Licence
- MIT
Materialious
Materialious/Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is available on Web, Desktop, Android, and Android TV.
“After trying all the alternatives in the end I settled on self hosting All the YouTube alternative frontends are so privacy focused that they do not even offer video history in your account. Having video history is a must for me as I m…”
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- 1
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- 1.2k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
pdf_oxide
yfedoseev/pdf_oxide
The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.
“Why do people try to vibecode PDF engines that already exist in Rust? which this project builds on completely misses which was already developed with tons of fixes over years (both with and without AI). MI…”
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- 1
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- 1.2k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
NegPy
marcinz606/NegPy
Tool for processing film negatives.
“What an odd thing to have a LLM make. There are already plenty of options for existing software for film scanning. I use negPy to scan photos with a digital camera setup, but it interfaces with quite a few film scanners (anything supported…”
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- 1
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- 1.1k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
zlibrary.koplugin
ZlibraryKO/zlibrary.koplugin
Home of the KOReader Zlibrary plugin
“You can use the regular Kindle viewer once you jailbroke your kindle, but KOReader has native epub and pdf support so you don't have to use a converter when uploading your books. I did find it hard to get the bezels to be even and it still doesn't always format well depending on…”
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- AGPL-3.0
Video-Hub-App
whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Official repository for Video Hub App
“I have a 4+ year commercial application Video Hub App built with Electron and Angular (it's also charityware - $3.50 of each purchase goes to a cost-effective charity). - MIT open source:)”
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- 734
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- MIT
LavenderPhotos
kaii-lb/LavenderPhotos
A sweet looking photo app for android!
“I've solved this long ago by disabling the app. Sadly, that means I can't view videos in the gallery, but I believe it's a fair compromise. I'd recommend taking a look at open source alternatives like Lavender Photos or Fossify Gallery…”
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- 694
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- GPL-3.0
Unwatched
fer0n/Unwatched
RSS feed based YouTube video player for iOS, macOS, tvOS
“Although not a direct equivalent, but check out Unwatched.”
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- 559
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- GPL-3.0
hush
hushhq/hush
End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, and video. Entry point that orchestrates every public component.
“Hi HN, I'm the dev behind Hush. The story of this project goes back more than a couple of years, but I'll cut it short. Me and my friends built this because we wanted a self-hosted, private alternative to Discord and Slack. Current platforms like Matrix didn’t cut it for us. Matr…”
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- 495
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
yapsnap
kouhxp/yapsnap
Transcribe any video URL or audio file into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command.
“this is such a poor model, I've tried it before. Try yapsnap it has better word error rate and runs super fast on CPU.”
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- 394
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- Apache-2.0
onkey
dsmurrell/onkey
Learn to sing the songs you love. A free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that listens to the music you play.
“I'm asking people to test some Window and Linux previews that I have here: I'd be interested to see how it does on instruments. I've not had the bandwidth to try myself.”
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- 390
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- MIT
PhotosExport
rcarmo/PhotosExport
Export ALL your data from Apple Photos
“I did not try it, and I am nervous the day I need to - but I think there are some solutions to export photos from the Apple technology stack using open source software [1,2,3]. I remember seeing a longer blogpost re the topic of retroengineering the Apple phot sync story, but I c…”
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- 306
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- MIT
pdf-narrator
mateogon/pdf-narrator
Convert your PDFs and EPUBs into audiobooks effortlessly. Features intelligent text extraction, customizable text-to-speech settings, and efficient processing for low-resource systems.
“You might find this interesting, it seems to be exactly what you need to make an audio drama: Also the Qwen3-TTS demo is cool, you can describe the voice you want: I came across both…”
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- MIT
clips-studio
ColinGPT9/clips-studio
Clips Kitty: Free open-source AI video clipper. Local Opus Clip alternative (also Klap & Vizard) that turns Twitch, Kick & YouTube streams into auto-captioned Shorts, Reels, and TikToks, and can auto-post them 24/7 from a mini PC. Local AI (Ollama, Whisper): no usage or subscription fees. Or OpenRouter: a 2-hour VOD cost 11 cents in my testing.
“I’ve been building Clips Kitty, an open-source AI video clipping and editing application that runs AI processing locally. GitHub: It can automatically analyze videos, find potential clips, track speakers/faces for vertical video, generate…”
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- 195
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- AGPL-3.0
rauversion
rauversion/rauversion
Open source Music Multiverses
“Hey everyone! We're excited to announce the latest version of Rauversion after nearly 2 years of development. So much has happened since our last update! What is Rauversion? Rauversion is an open-source platform for music streaming that lets artists and communities create their o…”
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- 124
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- AGPL-3.0
agent-wow
agent-wow/agent-wow
AzerothCore WoW client designed for autonomous AI agent players.
“This is a great talk. I've been working on a very similar concept for World of Warcraft at. A lot of the techniques and pitfalls he talks about also aligns with my experience on WoW agents too. It's also interesting to see how agents coordi…”
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rawl
vpavlenko/rawl
Harmony as Flags 🇱🇺🇱🇹🇬🇦🇦🇲🇲🇺 Western scores in 12 colors. MIDI files in, piano rolls out. Abolition of standard notation's gatekeeping. Prosthesis for sheet-music-blind people. Syntax highlighting for pitches. Pinyin for black polkadot characters. Also a text-based tracker (a notation editor), sorta diatonic CSound/Strudel with insert/copy
“that's a great point. i'm making my alternative which does exactly that: a relative color-coding, starting from the tonic aside from that, I make a library of structures used in Western music (in the header). I've started saving structures a week ago, so there…”
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- GPL-3.0
podman-machine-os
podman-container-tools/podman-machine-os
machine image files
“(Years ago I had puppet and cobbler provisioning VMs over PXE and then iPXE. FWIU foreman is more actively maintained than cobbler, which is built on Django web framework.) Vagrant manages VMs and virtual networks, in Ruby. ansible-molecule creates, converges, and destroys VM(s)…”
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- 52
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- Apache-2.0
presse
SimonBure/presse
PDF processing CLI tool. Compress and merge PDF directly in your terminal. Convert images to pdf. Better compression and 7x faster than ghostscript.
“been using for all my pdf needs for a while - works great thus far (not affiliated); simple cli is in most case all you will ever need”
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- 44
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- GPL-3.0
bandcamp-player
eremef/bandcamp-player
The Unofficial multi-platform Bandcamp desktop player with mobile remote control/companion & standalone app
“Hey! Just wanted to showcase my AI-generated app. I made this unofficial player for Bandcamp mainly because I couldn't find any alternative with a mobile remote control. The idea was to make it as multi-platform as possible. It's fully open source. I used Google Antigravity - all…”
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- 34
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- MIT
aside
A-SIDE-Social/aside
A/SIDE private social app
“Regardless of the AI-tells on the homepage, if you check out the git repository, their most recent commits all happened within minutes of each other: - 8:14am - 8:15am - 8:36am - 8:37am Not a red flag in and of itself, but cons…”
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- 30
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- AGPL-3.0
vibeconf-app
wanderingstan/vibeconf-app
AI agents as active participants in your video calls. They can join Google Meet, Zoom, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp calls. They hear, speak, show an avatar, and share screens, and more. An open-source desktop client (Electron + MCP) with full API to calling platforms..
“I begin each day with a video call with my agents as we talk through their overnight work and discuss open issues. This feels like the future. I’ve been dogfooding my own app, which gives a voice, body, and etiquette instructions to any model. (Mostly claude) Would love any feedb…”
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- 20
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- MIT
