# What developers are building · 2026-09-16

## Qingye Design Collection

A collection of design references, creative resources, and AI capabilities.

https://design.yanqing.li/

## iPhone Agent — The first agent for your iPhone

Plenty of agents can write your code. This one can use your phone. iPhone Agent sees your iPhone through macOS iPhone Mirroring, chooses actions, taps and types, checks what happened, and keeps a record you can inspect.

https://github.com/wangzan101/iphone-agent

## Bento — Have fun with your agents

Bento is an agent client combining any model and harness, managing subscriptions/CLI logins, and connecting agents via Bento MCP for collaboration. It supports draggable multi-session layouts and built-in browser, file manager, canvas apps.

https://github.com/billc8128/bento

## Textira: AI Research Workbench for Literature, Experiments and Papers

Textira is an AI research workbench where literature, data, code, results, charts and papers live in one Research. The AI searches papers, writes and runs Python, calls scientific tools, analyzes results and drafts full LaTeX papers.

https://textira.com/

## Taskuary: Local Task Workbench for Agent Execution with Human Review

Taskuary is an MIT-licensed local task workbench. Emails, tickets or reports become tasks passed to coding CLIs or general agents; users track progress, review results, share notes via Hub, and keep habits in an editable LEARNED.md.

https://github.com/ldbumble/taskuary

## Math AI: Step-by-Step Math Solver with Photo and Text Input

Browser-based math learning and solving tool for students, teachers and self-learners. Type a problem or upload a photo to get clear step-by-step solutions, not just final answers.

https://mathai.chat/

## RAADS-R Test: Free Online Autism Trait Self-Screening for Adults

Free browser-based self-screening tool for adults exploring autism-related traits, covering social interaction, communication, sensory experience and long-term behavior. Results are informational only, not a diagnosis.

https://raads-rtest.online/

## YYLO: CLI for orchestrating parallel coding agents with git worktrees

MIT-licensed CLI orchestrating multiple AI coding agents, each task in its own git worktree. Tasks follow a kanban lifecycle into review and merge queues with auditable receipts; supports pi, Gemini CLI and Codex.

https://github.com/yylo-dev/yylo

## GPT-Load 2.0: Self-Hosted AI Gateway for API Key and Subscription Management

Self-hosted Go AI gateway unifying multiple API keys and subscription accounts behind one endpoint. Supports Codex, Claude, Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini; weighted routing, failover, session affinity, quota/cost logs, permissions, Docker.

https://github.com/tbphp/gpt-load

## FileMarkd: AI Document-to-Markdown Tool & Deployable SaaS Template

FileMarkd is an open-source AI document-to-Markdown platform and deployable SaaS template. It parses 40+ formats via Mistral OCR, restores tables/formulas with confidence scores, and bundles Stripe billing, credits, i18n, affiliate growth,…

https://github.com/ItusiAI/Open-FileMarkd

## AI Study Platform: Turn PDFs and YouTube into Summaries, Quizzes and Flashcards

Open-source AI study platform turning PDFs, YouTube/Bilibili videos, articles and podcasts into summaries, notes, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and glossaries, plus an AI tutor, spaced repetition and shareable results.

https://github.com/ttang1024/AI_Study_Platform

## Spoor: AI as a Thinking Partner, Not Just a Content Generator

Spoor is a local-first infinite canvas for notes, screenshots, books, web material, and AI chats. Collect and discuss with AI, then keep, edit, and connect ideas into articles or works; AI aids writing while the author decides.

https://spoor.ink/

## Yuliang: Transparent evidence for activity advice when watch data and felt state disagree

Yuliang: local-first tool showing evidence for activity advice when wearable data conflicts with felt state or is missing. Chinese demo, daily JSON, experimental read-only garmin-grafana adapter. No login/sync; AI off; not medical advice.

https://github.com/zhuyep/yuliang

## Wan 3.0 Video Generator

Web workspace for Wan 3.0 shot-based video generation with Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video, 480P–1080P, 2–15s, 16:9/9:16/1:1, product/character/vertical-social/storyboard presets, a gallery, and API.

https://wan-3.pro/

## Reverse Video Search: Trace Video Origins by Visual, Audio and Watermark Signals

Trace video origins: upload a clip or search by public URL. Visual fingerprinting matches keyframes despite compression, crops or mirroring; audio, Whisper transcripts and OCR/watermark detection help find original accounts.

https://reversevideosearch.co/

## Face Shape Snap: Find Your Face Shape from a Photo

Browser tool analyzes a front photo to classify one of 7 face shapes (Oval, Round, Square, Heart, Diamond, Oblong, Triangle) from forehead, cheekbone, jaw & length ratios, then suggests hairstyles, glasses & makeup. No signup, no uploads.

https://faceshapesnap.com/

## Flashgate: Hardware-in-the-Loop Gate for AI Coding Agents' Firmware

MIT HIL gate for AI coding agents: compile, flash via OpenOCD/ST-Link, verify board identity, assert registers, get structured exit codes. A Claude Code Stop hook blocks unverified firmware and feeds board evidence back.

https://github.com/Lion-1209/flashgate

## Naive Icons: Stop Using Emojis to Give Vibe-Coded UIs a Human Touch

Naive Icons, a new open-source icon project by the creator of animal-island-ui, replaces emoji placeholders in vibe-coded interfaces to give them a more human, polished feel.

https://github.com/guokaigdg/animal-island-ui

## Header Generator: Quickly Generate MLA-Format Paper Headers

Web tool for students to format MLA paper headers: auto-generates the four-line MLA heading and surname + page-number running head from basic info, with live preview, format checks, Google Docs copy and editable DOCX export.

https://headergenerator.io/

## AnonPeek: No-Login Instagram Public Profile Viewer

No-login web tool AnonPeek checks Instagram public profiles. Enter a username or URL to see bio, avatar, follower/post counts, public posts and media links.

https://anonpeek.io/

## DataHub Tools: Browser-Based JSON, CSV and Markdown Table Converter Toolbox

Free browser toolbox for converting JSON arrays to CSV, CSV to Markdown tables and more. Flattens nested objects, quotes comma fields and fills missing columns; no signup. Also offers dev/debug, subtitle and image tools.

https://datahub.ac.cn/zh/tools/

## jellyfin-rust: Rust Rewrite of Jellyfin with Jellyfin and Emby API Compatibility

jellyfin-rust is a GPL-2.0 Rust rewrite of Jellyfin. One PostgreSQL-backed service exposes Jellyfin and Emby APIs for official clients. It covers auth, library scanning, search, playlists, images and subtitles; transcoding/HLS roadmap.

https://github.com/dydydd/jellyfin-rust

## Copero: Browser Football Career Simulation Game

Browser-based football career sim: build a 16-year-old player, choose nationality, position, foot and style, handle contracts, transfers, loans, injuries and national call-ups through retirement. No sign-up; save your career card.

https://copero.io/

## GPT Image 2.5: Text-to-Image and Reference Image Editing

GPT Image 2.5 is an independent AI image workspace for text-to-image generation and reference-image editing, with GPT Image 2.5/2 models, 1K–4K output, multiple aspect ratios, PNG downloads, and one-page prompt/reference/model controls.

https://github.com/ruanyf/weekly/issues/11746

## NeatCompress — Browser-Local Video, Image and PDF Compression

Browser-local compressor for video, image and PDF files that never uploads. Video trimming, merging, GIF, audio extraction; image target-KB and AVIF/WebP export; PDF smart and scan modes. Free, no signup.

https://yasuo.app/zh-CN/

## Native macOS Menu Bar App for DeepSeek/Kimi API Balances

Native macOS menu bar app showing remaining balances for multiple AI APIs. Displays logo + balance, built with Swift/SwiftUI, stores API keys in Keychain. Supports DeepSeek, Moonshot/KIMI, Zhipu/GLM, OpenRouter, SiliconFlow, OpenAI.

https://github.com/FuyuMikanLab/ai-credit-bar

## cssgraph: CSS Knowledge Graph MCP Server for AI Coding Assistants

Parses CSS, SCSS, Less, Sass, PostCSS, CSS-in-JS, CSS Modules and Tailwind into a local SQLite knowledge graph, exposing 13 MCP tools to resolve className styles, overrides, specificity and impact in one O(1) call. Fully local.

https://github.com/mack-peng/cssgraph

## hippoxOS: A Native LLM Operating System Using LLM as the OS Interpretation Layer

hippoxOS is a native LLM operating system that uses an LLM as the OS interpretation layer.

https://github.com/HippoxHQ/hippoxOS

## H3 Max: AI Video Generation from Text or Reference Images

H3 Max is an AI video workspace turning text or reference images into short clips: text-to-video, image-to-video, first/last-frame control, 5-15s, 480p/768p, 16:9/9:16/1:1, prompt examples, MP4 download.

https://h3-max.pro/

## Mermaid Online: Mermaid Diagram Export Tool with Advanced Themes and AI Generation

Mermaid Online is an online tool for exporting Mermaid diagrams, featuring advanced themes and AI-assisted generation.

https://mermaidonline.org/

## VideoToPrompt: Free Video & Image to Prompt Generator

Free tool that turns a video or image into a reusable English prompt. A vision-language model reads subject, motion, camera, lighting and style, then writes a five-part prompt tailored to Kling, Veo 3 or Sora. No signup, no limits.

https://tryvideotoprompt.com/

## Grove: Native macOS Git Worktree Manager for Parallel AI Development

Grove is an open-source, native macOS app for visualizing and managing Git worktrees, making parallel AI development workflows clearer.

https://github.com/codeacme17/grove

## get_jobs: Multi-Platform Automated Job Application Tool

Browser-automation job hunter: set role, city and salary, then it applies on Boss Zhipin, skips inactive HR/recruiter posts and pushes results to WeCom. LLM scores resume-JD fit, sends an image resume, blacklists rejecting firms.

https://github.com/loks666/get_jobs

## Mi Fitness Data Bridge: Export Mi Fitness Health Records to Local CSV/JSON

Python tool that syncs authorized Mi Fitness records into local SQLite and exports JSON/CSV for spreadsheets, via CLI, Python, or stdio MCP. Synthetic browser demos; unofficial, experimental, requires existing credentials.

https://github.com/shkyyy18/mi_fitness_data_bridge

## BiliNest: A Local Bilibili Learning Player That Shows Only Your Favorites

BiliNest is a locally run Bilibili learning player that shows only your chosen favorites folders and manually added videos, with no home feed, ads or comments. Quality switching, danmaku, subtitles and speed control stay in-page;

https://github.com/JLWLIMOU/BiliNest

## ChatDrop: Query WeChat exports from AI tools

Project URL Category Python Project Title ChatDrop: Query WeChat exports from AI tools Project A Mac share extension and Python CLI that organize selected WeChat exports in SQLite.

https://github.com/Daily-AC/chatdrop

## cloudflare / security-audit-skill

A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings

https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill

## abue-ammar / tinycast

Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.

https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast

## jamiepine / voicebox

The open-source AI voice studio. Clone, dictate, create.

https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox

## Lakr233 / vphone-cli

No project description yet.

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli

## anthropics / knowledge-work-plugins

Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork

https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

## ankitects / anki

Anki is a smart spaced repetition flashcard program

https://github.com/ankitects/anki

## anthropics / claude-code

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

## roboflow / supervision

We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜

https://github.com/roboflow/supervision

## supabase / supabase

The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.

https://github.com/supabase/supabase

## Tencent / WeKnora

Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, and a self-maintaining Wiki.

https://github.com/Tencent/WeKnora

## SnailSploit / Claude-Red

claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills designed for the Claude skills system. Each skill is a structured SKILL.

https://github.com/SnailSploit/Claude-Red

## multimodal-art-projection / YuE

YuE2: frontier music generation with symbolic planning, zero-shot covers, and agentic music editing.

https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE

## cline / cline

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

https://github.com/cline/cline

## affaan-m / ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC

## langbot-app / LangBot

Production-grade platform for multi-platform agentic IM bots with agent/knowledge-base orchestration and plugins. Supports Discord, Slack, Telegram, WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, QQ, Matrix; integrates ChatGPT, DeepSeek, OpenClaw, DeerFlow.

https://github.com/langbot-app/LangBot

## AstrBotDevs / AstrBot

AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot

## lizhipay / acg-faka

A PHP source code for a personal card-issuing system with an anime/ACG theme, for building an individual card-issuing or anime-style card-selling site.

https://github.com/lizhipay/acg-faka

## vastsa / FileCodeBox

FileCodeBox is an anonymous passcode-based file and text sharing tool, letting users retrieve files like picking up a parcel.

https://github.com/vastsa/FileCodeBox

## 521xueweihan / HelloGitHub

HelloGitHub curates interesting, beginner-friendly open-source projects on GitHub, helping developers discover and learn from them.

https://github.com/521xueweihan/HelloGitHub

## Anduin2017 / HowToCook

Programmer's guide about how to cook at home.

https://github.com/Anduin2017/HowToCook

## whyour / qinglong

A timed task management platform supporting Python3, JavaScript, Shell, and TypeScript for scheduling and managing scripts.

https://github.com/whyour/qinglong

## halo-dev / halo

Halo is an open-source website building tool for personal blogs, knowledge bases, corporate sites, and online stores, offering one-stop site creation.

https://github.com/halo-dev/halo

## firerpa / lamda

Android Full-Stack Device Control Platform: WebRTC/H.264 remote desktop, UI/OCR/image-matching automation, one-click MITM, built-in Frida, proxy/VPN/frp/P2P networking, MCP/Agent, 160+ APIs, designed for multi-device clusters and engineere…

https://github.com/firerpa/lamda

## xushengfeng / eSearch

Cross-platform screenshot tool offering offline OCR, search and translation, reverse image search, pinning images on screen, screen recording, omnidirectional scrolling and screen translation on Windows, Linux and macOS.

https://github.com/xushengfeng/eSearch

## timqian / chinese-independent-blogs

A curated list of Chinese independent blogs for readers to discover and browse.

https://github.com/timqian/chinese-independent-blogs

## Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/QUVN4LJMOQATRS?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Appwrite 2.0

Appwrite 2.0 is the second major generation of the platform. It replaces the engine underneath, rebuilds the Console on top, and expands what a project can hold: relational, schemaless, and vector data, native PostgreSQL and MySQL engines,…

https://www.producthunt.com/r/U3Y43T755ENOFY?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Weave Router 2.0

Use Claude models in Codex and GPT models in Claude Code on your existing plans, routed to whichever has quota left. Weave Router 2.0 routes each coding agent request to the cheapest model that can get it right. On Terminal-Bench 4.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/NDICOBJFOF2ARK?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Thread

Thread is an AI journal and second brain for capturing thoughts, ideas, notes, and voice recordings. It automatically connects related memories, finds patterns in your thinking, and turns scattered ideas into meaningful threads.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/EMJZDUWGMD74NH?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Twigg

Twigg is a stateful API for calling LLMs. Instead of rebuilding and resending your whole conversation on every request, you create a chat once and send only the next event.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/KMBSB2FNPLUN3Y?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## ZeroClick

ZeroClick helps businesses sell to AI agents. Turn your API or product into a storefront AI agents can discover and buy from, with payments, pricing controls, and transaction tracking in one place. Free to start, with help getting set up.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/IGCCV7RYIWJV4K?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## CAT ME app

The Cat Me app turns a photo of a person into their very own cat lookalike! It’s simple and purr-fect: 1. Snap a picture of yourself or a friend. 2. Create a unique cat that matches their look and personality. 3.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/KYGBY2VUYVYO5Q?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## flat.social

A playful virtual space for team socials, events and classes. Spatial audio, mini games and no downloads. Free for up to 5 people, right in the browser.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/5VUNFK54OVUDFM?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Convo

Convo helps you win more deals by giving the right support while the conversation is happening. Handle objections, catch buying signals, ask the right questions and get instant answers from your company knowledge.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/BMMSNQXWGSU73Y?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Toki Coordination

Stop wasting 3 days scheduling a 30 minute group meeting or starting over every time someone cancels.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/FLVRL7CWDZR4KW?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Project Feed

Project Feed is a workspace for game developers, design teams and agencies. Share updates, plan tasks, edit docs and work on canvases together. Review images, video, audio, PDFs, 3D models, Rive files and sprite sheets.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/E4DL75FXAJP5YI?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## CreatorHat

Find videos outperforming their channels, research YouTube keywords, and track your search rankings without leaving Safari.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/SAXG6M4X4J4UJA?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## PhraseVault 3.0

20% off PhraseVault 3.0 on phrasevault.app this hunt—auto-applied, no code. Lock one sensitive phrase at a time with a PIN, while everyday snippets expand across Windows and macOS. Source-available: inspect and verify the code.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/IIQ4EDBYOCOQZO?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Expand Board for macOS

Expand is a spatial board for macOS. Place text, images, files, and shapes on an open canvas, then nest boards you can actually go into. Double-click the board to add something. Right-click to choose text, images, files, or shapes.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/2KYLNZYXH5X3OP?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## Jottoo

Jottoo turns meetings and notes into organised, deadline-tracked tasks — automatically. Record, upload, or type — no bot joins your call, nothing to install. Ask Jottoo anything about a past meeting and get the answer instantly.

https://www.producthunt.com/r/76QCSX3DKL7KCG?utm_campaign=producthunt-api&utm_medium=api-v2&utm_source=Application%3A+community-pulse+%28ID%3A+298616%29

## How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models

Training cutoff and release date for 20 AI models, from GPT-6 Astra to Claude Fable 5.1. Two live clocks: how old the model is, how old its knowledge is.

https://stale.jock.pl/

## Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, -58.3% thinking, x1.95 speed, accuracy of xhigh

Hi everybody, we post-trained Qwen 3.8 27B to be more efficient by figuring out which tokens were linked to overthinking and penalizing them without "attacking" the reasoning length directly then fixed the accuracy with a bit of secret sau…

https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-Qwen3.8-27b

## Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

Hi, I built Chat-Man because I wanted a cheap way to give my agents access to WhatsApp without integrating a WhatsApp library separately in every project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728159

## farseer.space – fly anywhere in the universe in your browser

I&#x27;ve been hacking on a universe simulator, modeled on the path that the amazing SpaceEngine worked out over a decade ago, but without its Windows platform restriction.

https://farseer.space/

## TabPFN-3.5, a Tabular Foundation Model for messy real-world tables

No project description yet.

https://priorlabs.ai/technical-reports/tabpfn-3-5

## Legion – AI agents that write sandboxed Lua inside your Elixir app

Legion is an Elixir runtime for AI agents that live inside your application and get things done by writing code. Open source, by Software Mansion.

https://legion.swmansion.com/

## Airmash – HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Missile Warfare

This is the official reboot of the 2017 hit game. Back then it was #1 post on HN for 3 consecutive days: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?

https://airma.sh/

## Amika – Multiplayer cloud workstations for coding agents and humans

Hi Hacker News! My cofounder (Jakub) and I (Dylan) are building amika.dev ( https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amika.dev&#x2F; ), which provisions multiplayer cloud workstations for coding agents and humans to share.

https://www.amika.dev/

## DaiDocs, AI memory as a plain-text file format, not a service

Open plain-text file format for AI memory. Your assistant's long-term memory as .dai files on your disk: readable by Claude, GPT, Gemini, Cursor, local models and grep (all LLM models work).

https://github.com/Kerneta/daidocs

## Glu – installing Homebrew packages 2x faster on macOS

I wanted to see how fast Homebrew installs could get if end-to-end install time was the primary design constraint. It turned into a package manager for macOS that uses Homebrew&#x27;

https://glu.run/

## Picxel – Turn reference images into pixel-art game assets

Picxel helps indie game developers redraw references as recognizable game assets. GPT interprets the subject and directs the redraw; local algorithms turn the result into a precise pixel grid.

https://github.com/See-Sol-Lab/Picxel

## Kival – A self-hosted knowledge system for organizations

Hi HN, I’ve been building Kival, an open-source, self-hosted knowledge system for organizations. The idea is a collaborative knowledge space for teams and agents, where each contribution to the shared knowledge can meaningfully improve the…

https://github.com/selemis-com/kival

## I solved a 12yr math problem using AI (formalized; awaiting review) [pdf]

No project description yet.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kbr-/math-research/3979e0cc0a75dde9b845df7ec8869d033dfcd8d4/publications/bit-php-resolution-over-parities/whitepaper.pdf

## Zhenzhu – Look up Chinese while reading on macOS

Select, snip, hover, paste, or type Chinese on your Mac. See pinyin, definitions, sentence translation, HSK context, and save local flashcards.

https://zhenzhu.app/

## TurboBench, the Compression Lie Detector, 100 Codecs, Daily Update

TurboBench: The Ultimate Data Compression Benchmark 100+ Codecs. The Powerhouse in a Single Executable — The Compression Lie Detector Tired of misleading benchmarks with I&#x2F;O overhead, cache effects, and CPU throttling?

https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/blob/master/benchmark.md

## What's So Good About GPT6's Aesthetics? Why Is Everyone Praising It?

A user asked GPT6 to generate a DeepSeek girl statue, but the result was disappointing even with a reference image. They plan to try Gemini when quota returns, as its proposed approach seems more reliable.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242553

## Tars: A TARS-Style iPhone Dashboard for Mac Agents

Tars turns an iPhone into a Mac agents dashboard with a TARS-style eye animation showing status: idle, working, waiting for approval, or done. Low-latency, AMOLED variable refresh, power optimizations, themes. Open source.

https://github.com/reycn/tars

## Triple-Play Vertical Videos on Apple TV

Downloads videos from Douyin and other platforms to iCloud Photos, then plays 3 portrait videos side by side on Apple TV (2-3 on iPad) to avoid black bars. Audio defaults to center, switchable by remote; albums shared via iCloud.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242546

## Animated Cat Break Reminder for Mac

A Mac break-reminder app that brings animated cats onto the screen, popping up after a stretch of continuous work to tell users to stop and rest, combining cute company with healthy reminders.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242543

## Knot: macOS Menu Bar and Productivity Toolkit

Knot is an MIT open-source macOS 14+ utility bundling app/file search with calculator, menu bar collapsing, window tiling, clipboard history, screenshot with annotation and local OCR, and keyword Quicklinks.

https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

## Panda Dock: A Better Browser Sidebar Toolbox

Panda Dock is an open-source browser sidebar/drawer extension for developers. It parses selected webpage text, handles JSON serialization and Base64, and manages localStorage, sessionStorage, and cookies.

https://github.com/forestRhapsody/panda-dock

## Freelance Rate Calculator

A small Freelance Rate Calculator tool for estimating freelance rates, built to see if it can earn back its domain cost.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242523

## AI Browser Extension Generates Markdown Notes from Web Content

Browser extension that extracts webpage text or selections, uses selectable AI models for analysis/Q&A, and generates Markdown notes. Supports local history, search, favorites, groups, Markdown export, and sync to Yuque, Notion, FlowUs.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242522

## Beng Laotou Simulator v1.1 Released

Beng Laotou Simulator v1.1 adds a new warm-hearted branch storyline focused on emotional experience and value, without affecting the main story. v1.0 explored law; v1.1 explores emotion. It is an AI-generated front-end narrative game.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242521

## Indie Developer Builds Calligraphy Playback App with Metal

A Metal-based iOS/iPad app that recreates ancient brushstroke motion for calligraphy playback. The indie developer is recruiting the first TestFlight beta testers; email sign-up grants a 1-year VIP code.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/1242514
