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  1. Strata

    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Stra…

    4 people this month

  2. photocraft

    PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

    4 people this month

  3. wordcraft

    An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

    4 people this month

  4. math

    4 people this month

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  • ripgrep

    BurntSushi/ripgrep

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

    “This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too! Honourable mention also to FZF which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory…”

    Recommended by
    18
    Stars
    70k
    Licence
    Unlicense

  • llama.cpp

    ggml-org/llama.cpp

    LLM inference in C/C++

    “The docs are a great start.”

    Recommended by
    16
    Stars
    133k
    Licence
    MIT

  • codex

    openai/codex

    Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

    “I love the fact that they're advertising the latest Codex Cli while most Windows users had to rollback/downgrade to an older version because of the annoying excessive terminal screen flashing issue (I see a newer version was posted…”

    Recommended by
    14
    Stars
    133k
    Licence
    Apache-2.0

  • ds4

    antirez/ds4

    DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm

    “Then check out those: <- this, focuses on Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B. <- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. I use this (tuned) and I cannot understate how satisfied I am. <- DeepSeek 4 family + more.…”

    Recommended by
    12
    Stars
    24k
    Licence
    MIT

  • bat

    sharkdp/bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    “for fuzzy shell history (ctrl+r) (nice coloured cat replacement) (so I don't need docker desktop) (performant database that lets you directly query…”

    Recommended by
    11
    Stars
    61k
    Licence
    Apache-2.0

  • fzf

    junegunn/fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    “1. for fuzzy search. Great for easily searching and selecting git branches + tags + commits, commands from shell history, files, shell jobs, processes, etc. 2. for more structured scripting.”

    Recommended by
    9
    Stars
    84k
    Licence
    MIT

  • brew

    Homebrew/brew

    🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere

    “- Homebrew: - Free Software Foundation (FSF): - LibreOffice:”

    Recommended by
    9
    Stars
    50k
    Licence
    BSD-2-Clause

  • headscale

    juanfont/headscale

    An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

    “There is a well documented opensource alternative to Tailscale - Headscale. The tailscale client is already opensource, Headscale is opensource drop in replacement for the control server which isn't, and fully compatible with Tailscale clients:…”

    Recommended by
    9
    Stars
    45k
    Licence
    BSD-3-Clause

  • yt-dlp

    yt-dlp/yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

    “The yt-dlp project uses Deno as its default and preferred JavaScript runtime when downloading YouTube videos (this replaced their own handwritten JS interpreter). Fortunately yt-dlp also has support for Node and QuickJS as well as deprecated support for Bun, but I don’t think any…”

    Recommended by
    8
    Stars
    205k
    Licence
    Unlicense

  • ollama

    ollama/ollama

    Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.

    “On the subject of installing Ollama, I found it to be a frustrating and user-hostile experience. I instead recommend the much more user-friendly LLM by Simon Willison. Among the problems with Ollama include: * Ollama silently adds a login item with no way to opt out: < https:/…”

    Recommended by
    8
    Stars
    186k
    Licence
    MIT

  • go

    golang/go

    The Go programming language

    “It's not at "an accident" and Go didn't "somehow" fail to replace C++ at its systems programming domain. The reason why go failed to replace C and C++ is not a mystery to anyone: Mandatory GC and a rather heavyweight runtime. When the performance overhead of having a GC is less s…”

    Recommended by
    8
    Stars
    140k
    Licence
    BSD-3-Clause

  • puppeteer

    puppeteer/puppeteer

    JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox

    “In the world of SPA (single page applications), headless browser API is super helpful, playwright and puppeteer are very good choices.”

    Recommended by
    8
    Stars
    96k
    Licence
    Apache-2.0

  • uBlock

    gorhill/uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

    “uMatrix is archived and I think uBlockOrigin is now advised to use(which incorporate uMatrix by enabling advanced settings) For those who want to try blocking more stuff you can enable hard mode and bind relax blocking mode keyboard shortcut I'd recommend also enabling filter lis…”

    Recommended by
    8
    Stars
    69k
    Licence
    GPL-3.0

  • 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…”

    Recommended by
    8
    Stars
    23
    Licence
    AGPL-3.0

  • vscode

    microsoft/vscode

    Visual Studio Code

    “I would just like the see the suckier parts of VSCode be fixed (to my liking... meaning I get that different people have different preferences) 1. Give me keyboard macros (emacs) 2. Select modes. #1 generally is better with a start…”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    194k
    Licence
    MIT

  • 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.”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    118k
    Licence
    AGPL-3.0

  • vaultwarden

    dani-garcia/vaultwarden

    Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

    “Bitwarden, while not quite as polished, works well. If you have your own server at home you can even self-host, which I do. It's an open source server side app called Vaultwarden [ ] which connects to the Bitwarden app. I think the iClou…”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    70k
    Licence
    AGPL-3.0

  • tmux

    tmux/tmux

    tmux source code

    “Make a fork and Claude can probably one-shot it. Mitchell will not accept a vibe coded PR though, but that is fine if it is for personal use. I added Tmux control mode (a pretty extensive feature) to Ghostty:…”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    50k
    Licence
    ISC

  • jj

    jj-vcs/jj

    A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

    “: < >”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    32k
    Licence
    Apache-2.0

  • the_silver_searcher

    ggreer/the_silver_searcher

    A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

    “I'll add two really simple, but also very effective tools. Search: in the form of things like "the silver searcher" or "fd". And, Replace: with tools like sed…”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    27k
    Licence
    Apache-2.0

  • tig

    jonas/tig

    Text-mode interface for git

    “You might be interested in: - fuzzy shell history (feels lighter than atuin to me, in rust) - rerun on file change, knows about.gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust) - instead of lazyg…”

    Recommended by
    7
    Stars
    13k
    Licence
    GPL-2.0

  • opencode

    anomalyco/opencode

    The open source coding agent.

    “Thanks for the great recommendation. In the meantime, if anyone wants to contribute to GUI plugin support for OpenCode, here is a PR under review:”

    Recommended by
    6
    Stars
    224k
    Licence
    MIT

  • rust

    rust-lang/rust

    Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

    “Even in software, there are many things that haven't changed. e.g. Why do Rust and CPython still have over 5,000 open issues each? At some point, will the superintelligence fix all the bugs autonomously? When is that going to happen? https…”

    Recommended by
    6
    Stars
    121k
    Licence
    Apache-2.0

  • huginn

    huginn/huginn

    Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

    “PiHole with PiVPN on one and Huginn on another”

    Recommended by
    6
    Stars
    50k
    Licence
    MIT