Open Source news on X
The hottest open source news on X right now: project releases, open models, developer tools and community. Each story appears once, ranked by momentum.
Updated 12:22, 1m ago
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Ten trending GitHub repos
Thread highlights 10 trending free GitHub repos this month, including VoiceStudio and ppt-master, with star counts.
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AirLLM runs big models on low VRAM
AirLLM uses layer-wise inference to run 70B models on 4GB GPUs and 405B on 8GB, supporting Llama, Qwen and Mistral, now open source.
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Nous launches coding agent model
Nous Research launched MISSINGNO., a token-efficient coding and agentic reasoning model, free for a limited time on Nous Portal.
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Omarchy restores Caps Lock
Omarchy's next version keeps Caps Lock default, moving compose to Shift+Caps Lock.
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Integer multiplication bound improved
Rohan Arun says PR #346 ported Design T to the p=10 bit word, raising the integer multiplication bound by ~2%.
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Open-source maintenance complaints
Matt Pocock says maintaining a popular open source project feels like this about half the time.
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Uncensored Qwen Image release
CuiMao shares an uncensored Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo GGUF model on Hugging Face.
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metal2vk translates Metal to Vulkan
Joshua Warren released metal2vk, an open-source tool translating Metal GPU code to Vulkan, passing 598 of 610 real programs so Mac engines run on Linux.
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Software and hardware now open
Commenting on a 45-minute reverse engineering of the Gen 1 Apple TV remote, argues all software and hardware is now open source.
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Chollet's KerasHub experiments
François Chollet says he's running LLM post-training experiments with KerasHub, JAX and TPUs, and may open-source some.
This week's top stories
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Advises shadcn/BaseUI on Base
Jesse Pollak recommends installing shadcn/BaseUI for Base vibe-coded apps so products look non-vibecoded.
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scriptc/threads Released
Chris Tate launches scriptc/threads, adding zero-copy object sharing for scriptc-compiled TypeScript with Node-compatible Workers and reference-shared immutable graphs.
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HuggingFace downloads decline
Nathan Lambert reports tracked top open LLMs saw a ~30% drop in HuggingFace downloads.
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Bun AoT Type Checking Speedup
Jarred Sumner says Bun AoT is getting good: TypeScript 6 built with it typechecks Effect slightly faster than TypeScript 7 when single-threaded.
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Reverse-engineered gen 1 Apple TV remote
A developer reverse-engineered the gen 1 Apple TV remote in ~45 minutes, enabling open-source Bluetooth control on Linux.
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Linux Support on Apple Silicon
A developer says Touch ID support for Linux on Apple Silicon is shipping soon, with the Secure Enclave driver working plus new Thunderbolt and hot-pluggable display support.
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shadcn/ui Skill Design Enhancements
shadcn says its shadcn/ui skills now excel at DESIGN.md, picking a preset and generating colors, tokens, type scale, elevation and component styles.
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Deno Team Joins Cloudflare
Deno officially announces it is joining Cloudflare, linking to its blog post.
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Python 3.15 features revealed
Charlie Marsh outlines Python 3.15 features: lazy imports, the Tachyon sampling profiler, sentinel types and more.
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Seven open-source Adobe alternatives in Rust
A developer released seven free MIT/Apache open-source Rust apps as clean-room alternatives to Photoshop, Premiere and other Adobe tools.
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OpenClaw gets .claw domain
Peter Steinberger celebrates the OpenClaw Foundation securing the .claw top-level domain.
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Netflix Engineer Releases 20 Motion Repos
A tweet says Netflix engineers posted 20 GitHub repos bringing motion-graphics capabilities to Opus 5.5, including claude-motion and motion-graphics-skills.
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Dev builds Three.js wedding seating tool
Developer Wawa Sensei built a Three.js wedding seating chart tool after struggling with his own wedding planning a year ago.
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Bun v1.5 and New Tools
Jarred Sumner says Bun now covers runtime, package manager, test runner and bundler, with three more tools coming next week.
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Bun v1.4.3 release and performance
Bun releases v1.4.3, fixing 166 issues, adding builtin TypeScript checker bun check and Bun.FetchSession, and cutting idle server CPU 67%.
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GTA V Browser Source Shared
User shares a GitHub repo link to the source code of a browser-based GTA V after requests.
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DHH rewrites Campfire with AI
DHH quotes elementary OS's AI ban, calling it Luddism and urging embracing the AI intelligence bloom to improve computers.
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Omarchy project PR merged
Ryan R. Hughes announces merging an Omarchy PR that took 15 people across five continents nearly a year, thanking contributors.
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Paper Mono Open Source Monospace Font Released
Vlad Moroz released Paper Mono, a free open-source monospace font with variable weights, coding ligatures and duospacing.
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DHH Fires Back at Fascist Label
DHH responded to the Omarchy 'fascist' claim, saying calling all cool things 'fash' just makes 'fash' seem cool.
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Codex Cloud Integrates Tailscale
Tailscale announced Codex Cloud can now securely connect to resources on users' tailnets.
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Xbox 360 softmod released
Grimdoomer released the first Xbox 360 persistent softmod, Peer Pressure, with details to follow.
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T3 Code MCP Supports Any Connector
T3 Code MCP now works with any connector, letting users drive threads from ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and more.
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Open-source robot Jumper released
Open-source robot Jumper released with 22 degrees of freedom, able to carry and jump, code available.
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Open-sourcing RL env framework Karotte
Jennifer Zhou announces open-sourcing Karotte, an RL environment framework used for MLE RL environments, hardened through 1M+ eval runs.
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Open-source MCP for reverse engineering
midudev recommends REA, an open-source MCP for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor that helps reverse engineer programs and games.
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GTA SA Building Destruction Mod Released
chris-efpunkt released a new destruction mod on GitHub that lets buildings be destroyed in GTA San Andreas.
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DHH uses lazygit plus AI agent
Developer DHH says using lazygit directly plus an AI agent now covers 95% of his work.
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Open-source Phone Number Lookup Tool
Gk recommends an open-source tool that reveals accounts registered with a phone number and their years, leaving no query records.
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iOS Development on Linux Without Mac
A developer built, submitted and USB-installed an iOS app with breakpoint debugging on Omarchy Linux, no Mac involved.