Title: OpenAI Acquires Neptune—Shutting Out Rivals Like Samsung, Boosts Model Training Secrecy
Description:
OpenAI just bought Neptune, the leading visualization/logging tool for AI model training—and plans to cut off access to all other customers within months. The move, echoing Anthropic’s recent buy of Bun, signals a race among top labs to vertically integrate the best dev tools, boosting speed and secrecy. Major players like Samsung and HP will soon have to seek alternatives.
Source: [Bloomberg article](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/openai-agrees-to-acquire-neptune-to-improve-ai-model-training)
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Title: ByteDance Seedream 4.5 Drops 14‑Image Reference, Outscores Midjourney in Consistency Benchmarks
Description:
Seedream 4.5, the latest from TikTok parent ByteDance, shakes up the image generation race with a “Multi‑Reference” system—blend up to 14 images for unmatched style or character consistency. It merges text/image-to-image in one model, excels at typographic precision, and powers pro-level edits without retraining. API launch pricing undercuts competitors.
Try Seedream 4.5: [Official site](https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream4_5)
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Title: Amazon Unleashes “Frontier Agents” and New Chips—Aims for Days-Long Autonomous Coding
Description:
AWS just launched “frontier agents” for coding, DevOps, and security tasks that can run autonomously for days, making manual “babysitting” a thing of the past. The new Bedrock AgentCore brings guardrails and real-time adaptability, while Kiro agents promise multi-repo bug squashing without human input. Investors are pouring hundreds of millions into agent startups—Amazon says this is the biggest tech leap since the dawn of cloud.
Read news roundup: [More details](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1crwbbg/ai_agent_daily_news_20251203/)
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Title: DreamGym: New RL Framework Lets Agents “Dream” Their Way to Real-World Performance
Description:
DreamGym is a breakthrough RL research framework that lets agents generate synthetic “dream” experiences, drastically reducing the need for expensive real-world training. By leveraging reasoning-based experience models, it outperforms baselines—even in tricky web automation and sim-to-real transfer. Early experiments show 30% gains on non-standard tasks.
Read the paper: [DreamGym (arXiv)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11070)
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Title: Lightweight, Open Source Self-Hosted CMS for Firebase/Firestore—Meet Firelighter CMS
Description:
Tired of heavy, SaaS-locked admin panels? Firelighter CMS is a minimal, open-source, client-only CMS for Firebase/Firestore. No backends, no vendor lock-in—perfect for blogs, docs, and indie apps. Built on Svelte 4, MIT-licensed, and easy to self-host.
Try the demo & get the code: [Demo](https://fl-cms.web.app) | [GitHub](https://github.com/ortwic/web-apps/tree/main/apps/fl-cms) | [Video walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMjv29k0ttE)
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Title: Self-Hosting Your Journal? Journiv Brings Day One/Apple Journal Features—No Cloud Needed
Description:
Journiv is a polished, privacy-first journaling app you run yourself. Track moods, prompts, and memories—no vendor lock, no data mining. Open format; Docker-ready; web and mobile. An ideal alternative for privacy buffs who want true data ownership.
Check it out: [Journiv on GitHub](https://github.com/journiv/journiv)
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Title: Obsessed with LangChain Agents? New OSS Tool Adds Replay, Observability, and Agent Scoring
Description:
Kurralv3 is a new open-source toolkit for devs building LangChain-based agents. It records and replays full agent executions, quantifies behavioral drift with the Agent Regression Score, and blocks side effects in test runs. Works with AgentExecutor and ReAct today—framework-agnostic soon.
Get the repo: [Kurralv3 on GitHub](https://github.com/arvindtf/Kurralv3)
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Title: SHAKEUP in Open Source: GSoC 2026 Focuses on AI, Security & ML—Org Applications Open Soon
Description:
Google Summer of Code has announced its 2026 program, with an even bigger focus on AI, security, and machine learning projects. If your org wants new contributors (or you’re looking to break into OSS), take note of the new dates and expanded project scope.
Learn more: [GSoC Announcement](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/)
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Title: Open Source Test Management Gets an Upgrade—TestPlanIt Launches for Dev Teams
Description:
TestPlanIt is a newly launched open source platform for scalable, modern test management. Self-host, try the online demo, and dodge SaaS lock-in costs. Designed for growing dev teams and projects who outgrow spreadsheets or pricey competitors.
Check it out: [GitHub](https://github.com/testplanit/testplanit)
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Title: Building Traction with AI Directories: $0 Ad Spend, 30% of Traffic & 650 Users in 9 Weeks
Description:
One startup shares how submitting to 200+ active AI directories brought them compounding SEO, steady signups, and a traffic surge. TL;DR: Focus on high-intent directories, use pain-focused headlines, and track results with UTMs. Includes full directory list for founders/indies.
Full write-up & list inside: [Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/indiebiz/comments/1crwm4t/spent_2_weeks_applying_to_200_ai_directories/)
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Title: Seedling Tools: MCP to Vertical Video—Try This AI for TikToks, Shorts, and Reels
Description:
Built for HuggingFace’s hackathon, this tool transforms quotes or ideas into draft vertical video “recipes”—automatically generating scripts, break-downs, and even B-roll suggestions. Designed for creators and AI-powered content workflows.
Demo and repo: [HuggingFace Space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/MCP-1st-Birthday/AIQuoteClipGenerator)
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Title: Finally: A Beautiful Self-Hosted, Opt-In Email Service That Blocks 90%+ Spam—Meet OptMsg
Description:
OptMsg lets you ditch noisy inboxes with an invite-only, passwordless, privacy-first approach—no spam, no data mining, and you pick exactly who can email you. Web and mobile apps available. Clean, simple, and designed for productivity junkies who value control.
Try it: [optmsg.com](https://optmsg.com)
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Title: Tired of Overkill Dev Tools? Timerfy—A Free, Stupid Simple Solo Project Time Tracker
Description:
If you’re an indie hacker or freelancer, Timerfy strips back time tracking to basics. It’s just you, your project, and your timer—no team features, no bloat. 100% free, simple, and built out of side project frustration.
Get started: [timerfy.app](https://www.timerfy.app/)
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Title: Fresh Open Source Droplets: Top Projects & Communities to Watch in 2024
Description:
From generative time trackers to innovative, niche utilities, Redditors share their top OSS picks for this year: Dream.flow, Owlghost, Otterform, Firelighter CMS, plus core dev tools like CMake and Vcpkg. Communities like r/opensource and r/buildinpublic are top recommendations for anyone looking to join impactful projects.
See the full roundup: [Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1crvimn/top_open_source_projects_to_watch_in_2024/)
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**Title:** MinIO Goes Into Maintenance Mode — Open Source Storage Community Seeks Alternatives
**Description:** Leading S3-compatible storage project MinIO abruptly announced it’s halting all open source development and ceasing issue reviews. Users are scrambling for alternatives with Garage, Ceph, SeaweedFS and others being discussed as replacements. This shift marks a bigger question for open-source self-hosters: where to trust your storage stack next?
[MinIO GitHub](https://github.com/minio/minio) | [Garage](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/)
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**Title:** ByteDance Launches Seedream 4.5 — Image Gen Model Impresses With Text and Multi-Image Editing
**Description:** ByteDance dropped Seedream 4.5, bringing a big leap to AI image generation: major text improvements, slick multi-image editing, and better prompt adherence. Early demos show rival-level detail and flexibility. Open for testing—see how it compares to Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
[Try Seedream 4.5](https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream4_5)
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**Title:** RTX 5090 Local AI Image Gen Benchmarks: FLUX 2, SD3, & SDXL Go Head-to-Head
**Description:** Real-world testing shows FLUX 2 delivering jaw-dropping quality (if a bit slower), while Stable Diffusion 3 Medium and RealVisXL lead in prompt speed and photorealism. With consumer GPU support for massive models and a public sandbox to test yourself, local image AI just leveled up.
[Check the live sandbox / try your own prompts](https://promptpics.ai/nerd-sandbox)
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**Title:** Tabular Data Gets an LLM Upgrade: Meet Orion-Bix for Few-Shot Learning
**Description:** Orion-Bix is a new open-source foundation model for tabular data, introducing bi-axial attention and meta-learned in-context learning. Outperforms classic gradient boosting and rivals the latest tabular AI on real-life datasets—fully scikit-learn compatible so you can try it out now.
[Read the paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00181)
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**Title:** Modular Reasoning Scaffold: New Python Package Stabilizes Local LLM Step-by-Step Thinking
**Description:** Struggling with multi-step reasoning in local open-source LLMs? This lightweight Python meta-layer introduces persistent reasoning “state slots” and constraint-based outputs, making your models less likely to derail on complex reasoning chains. Apache-2.0, works with any local LLM.
[GitHub Repo](https://github.com/rjsabouhi/Modular-Reasoning-Scaffold) | [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/mrs-scaffold)
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**Title:** ETLR.io: YAML-Powered Backend Automation Beats Zapier & No-Code Spaghetti
**Description:** Hate messy nocode tools but dread maintaining fragile Python scripts? etlr.io lets you define automations as clean, git-friendly YAML (think workflows-as-code) with managed execution, full logs, and built-in retries. Perfect blend of transparency and convenience for self-hosters, SaaS devs, and data ops.
[Try it free](https://etlr.io)
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**Title:** Dockhand: Open-Source Docker Stack Manager Seeks Early Testers
**Description:** Tired of juggling Docker Compose files and bash scripts? Dockhand wants to be the all-in-one open source platform for managing multi-container stacks—built for self-hosters who want full control and simplicity. Volunteer testers get a free commercial license.
[Sign up to test Dockhand](http://dockhand.pro)
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**Title:** Watermarking for AI-Generated Images & Videos: Should It Be Mandatory?
**Description:** With AI-generated media blurring lines between real and fake, some propose requiring robust watermarks for all AI-created images and videos. Could mandatory, hard-to-remove watermarks mitigate misinformation—or will they just spark a new remove-the-watermark arms race?
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**Title:** From Monoliths to Modules: New AI World Modelling Approach Promises Efficiency & Explainability
**Description:** Researchers propose a framework to “decompose” huge world models into modular, parallelizable components (transducers). The goal: make AI’s inner workings more transparent, safer, and easier to scale—picking up where interpretable POMDPs left off.
[Read the paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02193)
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**Title:** Perplexity AI Pro 1-Year Plan Heavily Discounted—Avoid Third Party Resellers
**Description:** Major price drops on Perplexity AI’s 1-Year Pro Plan are trending, but beware: unofficial, reseller offers may violate ToS and risk your account. Always buy direct!
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**Title:** ByteDance’s Seedream 4.5 and Local GenAI: Which Next-Gen Image Tool Will Dominate?
**Description:** With ByteDance’s Seedream 4.5 and advances in local models like FLUX 2 and SD3, AI image generation just got intensely competitive. Test both—see which handles your prompts, text, and multi-image edits best.
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If you’d like me to further merge or trim, let me know!
Title: Kling 2.6 Launches: First Text-to-Video AI With Built-In Audio, 1080p Output, and Filmmaker API
Description: Kling AI’s new v2.6 is a big leap for generative video: now, you get synchronized native audio and visuals in one go, up to 1080p. With a Pro API for filmmakers and better character consistency, it’s designed for actual creative use cases. Is this the real start of AI-assisted filmmaking?
[Learn more & try Kling AI 2.6](https://kling.video/)
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Title: Google Gemini 3.1 vs ChatGPT—Is It Time to Switch?
Description: More users are reporting superior accuracy, web search grounding, and prompt adherence from Gemini 3.1 compared to ChatGPT. Gemini’s tight Google Workspace integration, native Veo 3.1 video, and better code generation are making the switch compelling for power users. Are you moving your workflow to Gemini Ultra too?
[Try Gemini 3.1](https://gemini.google.com/)
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Title: Tested: AI Brand Agents Now Seamlessly Coordinate Across Models, Keeping Design Consistent
Description: In real design work, a single AI agent managed branding assets—logos, menus, signage—while switching models behind the scenes, yet kept colors and styles perfectly matched without manual input. This end-to-end coordination hints at a new level of stateful, multi-modal AI workflows for creators.
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Title: Chat With Tiler—AI Scheduler That Builds Your Day Around You, Not Just Tasks
Description: Tiler is an AI scheduler that doesn’t just move calendar blocks: chat (voice or text) about your priorities, deadlines, and locations, then get a full, adaptive timeline tailored to your habits—be it deadline sprints or slow mornings. Tiler even tweaks plans live as your day evolves.
[Try Tiler now](https://tiler.app/)
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Title: Vokai: Instantly Turn Text Prompts Into Working Voice AI Agents in Your Browser
Description: Inspired by the “Lovable” app builder, Vokai lets you create sophisticated, talkable voice agents from a single prompt—no drag-and-drop required. Go from idea (“Build a 911 dispatcher trainer”) to functional web agent in seconds. Is voice AI about to get as easy as text-to-app?
[Try the MVP at](https://vokai.dev)
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Title: OSINT Devs, Try IssueFinder: Instant Feed of Beginner-Friendly Open Source Issues
Description: Contributing to open source just got easier—IssueFinder.fun curates fresh “good first issues” across GitHub, letting you browse and filter by skill or language. Built for first-timers or anyone hunting meaningful, approachable code tasks.
[Live: issuefinder.fun](https://issuefinder.fun)
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Title: MySubScout: Gmail-Powered Subscription Tracker Wants Early Testers (Auto-Detect Your Costs)
Description: Never forget a subscription again—MySubScout automatically scans your Gmail for active subscriptions, renewal dates, costs, and trial traps. The web beta is prepping for App Store launch; early users can test and surface hidden drains on your budget.
[Try it & give feedback](https://mysubscout.app)
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Title: AI x Photo Workflows: Use ChatGPT for Creative Direction, Looktara for One-Click Studio Shots
Description: Smart hack for pro headshots: use ChatGPT to brainstorm nuanced photo concepts, then feed its output into Looktara’s AI photo studio. This LLM x diffusion model workflow generates dozens of realistic, identity-locked photos—perfect for founders or content creators.
[Check out Looktara](https://www.rockethub.com/deal/looktara)
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Title: Devs: Build Markdown Docs Sites in Seconds With Open-Source Eziwiki
Description: Love Notion’s simplicity or hate setting up Docusaurus? Eziwiki lets you turn raw Markdown files into instant, beautiful doc sites with hash-based routing, all powered by Next.js. Great for projects, blogs, or hand-rolled docs—code is open and ready to use!
[GitHub Repo](https://github.com/i3months/eziwiki) · [Demo](https://eziwiki.vercel.app)
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Title: Flowctl: Modern Open-Source Workflow Automation with SSO and Approvals
Description: Looking for a smarter alternative to Rundeck? Flowctl is a self-hosted, YAML-powered workflow automation platform featuring real-time logs, OIDC SSO, RBAC, and pause-able human approvals. Supports both local and remote execution, easy version control, and is ideal for teams.
[GitHub](https://github.com/cvhariharan/flowctl) · [Live Demo](https://demo.flowctl.net)
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Title: Pinpoint Your Next OSS Fix: IssueFinder.fun Surfaces Easy GitHub Issues for New Contributors
Description: Want to start with open source but don’t know where? IssueFinder.fun scouts out “good first issues” from across GitHub, offering a friendly browser interface to get you shipping code fast. Handy for mentors or devs looking to give back.
[Give it a try](https://issuefinder.fun)
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Title: Kling 2.6: Native Audio, Pro Video—Has AI Text-to-Video Hit Its Tipping Point?
Description: Kling AI’s 2.6 update smashes the “silent video” barrier: now generate 1080p videos with audio out-of-the-box, plus better Pro API and character consistency. The creative industry is watching: could this be the future of filmmaking with AI?
[See Kling AI](https://kling.video/)
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Title: Tried an AI Brand Agent That Handled Entire Restaurant Design—Asset Consistency Is Now Magic
Description: Demoed an AI agent that managed logos, menus, and restaurant signage—automatically carrying over branding choices without repeating prompts. Seamless style transfer between different models saved hours of work. Multi-modal state tracking? The next step in pro creative automation is here.
Title: TrueFoundry Launches AI Gateway—A Control Plane for LLMs at Fortune 500 Scale
Description:
TrueFoundry’s new AI Gateway is a robust control plane that sits between your apps, LLMs, and multi-cloud providers—making model routing, security, audit, and compliance a breeze. Already powering production AI workflows at major enterprises, it lets dev teams swap models and tools without rewriting glue code and centralizes tracking/observability. Free 3-month trial available via Product Hunt.
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/truefoundry-ai-gateway
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Title: SidePanel Buddy: Persistent AI Side Panel for Chrome Is a Workflow Game Changer
Description:
Tired of losing AI chats (Claude, ChatGPT, etc) every time you close a tab? SidePanel Buddy is a free Chrome extension that lets you keep any AI tool running in a collapsible side panel—while preserving your session, even after closing. Drag links, keep research handy, and stop tab overload for good.
Chrome Web Store: [search “SidePanel Buddy”]
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Title: Gift-Budget AI Prompt Helps You Outsmart Holiday Overspending
Description:
Holiday gift anxiety is real, but this free LLM prompt acts like a “gift budget strategist”—mapping realistic budgets, brainstorming cost-effective ideas, and managing expectations. Reframe the holidays so generosity doesn’t equal financial regret. Try the strategy, watch a breakdown, or grab the prompt for your own LLM-powered budgeting.
Prompt + Demo: https://flux-form.com/promptfuel/
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Title: AI Job Takeover or Economic Boom? Redditors Debate the Future of Work
Description:
From customer service to design to middle management, many jobs are in AI’s crosshairs—but will mass layoffs or historic job creation win out? Aggregated Reddit insights outline expected disruptions, which roles are safe, plus counterarguments and survival advice. Not just doom-posting: see what jobs will actually matter in an LLM-shaped economy.
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Title: People Are Talking About Your Brand—AI Alerts You Instantly Across Socials
Description:
Google Alerts missing your mentions? “Alertly” scans Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and more to tell you when anyone discusses your business/product (or even your competitors). AI sifts the noise and sends clear, actionable notifications. Smart for founders, marketers, and anyone wanting to stay in-the-know.
Try: https://usealertly.com
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Title: Minimal Contract Generator Cuts Freelance Paperwork to 1 Minute, No Subscriptions Needed
Description:
Cut out legal bloat: this new contract tool lets freelancers generate properly formatted, e-sign-ready agreements in under a minute. No forced sign-up, just enter the basics and download your contract as PDF or text. Built for speed, not SaaS lock-in—feedback welcome before public launch.
[Link in Reddit comments—watch for updates]
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Title: k9sight: Terminal UI for Hassle-Free K8s Debugging and Monitoring
Description:
Self-hosting Kubernetes? k9sight offers a clean TUI interface for cluster overview, log viewing with search, exec, port-forwarding, and events—all in one terminal window. Supports k3s, microk8s, bare metal, and more. Brew install available for quick setup.
GitHub: https://github.com/doganarif/k9sight
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Title: Public SaaS Marketplace With Zero Commissions Takes On Acquire.com Fees
Description:
Tired of SaaS buy/sell marketplaces taking a big commission cut? AcquireDesk lets founders and buyers transact apps/micro-SaaS with ZERO fees. Newly launched, feedback wanted from indie devs and founders.
Check it out: https://acquiredesk.com
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Title: Stopping AI Tab Chaos: Founders Want Workflows That Make LLMs Unskippable
Description:
The pain of losing AI chat context or being forced into tab overload is real. Chrome’s new side panel extensions—like SidePanel Buddy—let users pin AI tools persistently, combining research, code, and chat in one view. Tell us: What’s your favorite setup for maximizing AI productivity?
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Title: One-of-a-Kind: Watch an Entire 30-Minute AI-Generated Video Series—No Studio Needed
Description:
“Friends of Papi,” a full 30-min show, was made solo using ElevenLabs, HailuAI, Sora 2, and more. It demos what creators can do with today’s AI video/image tools—even without formal animation skills. Full episode, tech/process breakdown, and an offer for collaborators inside.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-1ytiI_M0s&t=850s
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Title: Privacy-First Financial Calculators (FIRE, Rent vs. Buy) With Zero Data Collection
Description:
Most online calculators are just bank lead magnets. “gfor.xyz” brings FIRE/retirement, rent vs. buy, debt, and ROI tools that run 100% in your browser—no sign-up, no data shared, pure number crunching. Fast, simple, and actually respects your privacy.
Try it: https://gfor.xyz
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Title: OpenAI ‘Code Red’: What Features Should They Ship Next? Your Wishlist Wanted
Description:
With mounting competition and user frustration, what should OpenAI urgently prioritize? Redditors want true personalization, better cross-platform parity, smarter ‘Thinking’ models, improved UI speed, API credits, voice enhancements, and more. What’s at the top of your list for OpenAI to fix or ship ASAP?
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(Posts merged/deduped: AI job impact, SidePanel Buddy, AI gift-budget prompt.)
(Excluded: repetitive solo-founder grind posts, student productivity apps with little novelty, technical devlogs without broad impact, and repeated “my MVP”/weekly update posts unless they showcase unique breakthroughs or open-source value.)
Title: Local AI Powerhouse: MCP Hub + Advanced Memory Engine for Ollama Hits Open Beta
Description:
A new open-source MCP Hub lets you run multiple AI tools and LLMs (like Ollama) seamlessly on your own machine—no cloud required. It features a powerful SQL-based memory engine (with vector and graph storage), long/short term memory, and advanced tool orchestration. Built for self-hosters and devs, it’s fully dockerized and extensible.
Try it or contribute: https://github.com/danny094/ai-proxybridge
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Title: The 15 Best AI Agent Builders of 2025 — Which Should You Actually Use?
Description:
Looking to build autonomous AI agents or automate complex workflows? This mega-list covers 2025’s top tools—like LangGraph, OpenAgents, AgentGPT, CrewAI, SuperAgent, and more. Each platform is compared by use case (no-code to full-stack, multi-agent features, RAG, workflow automation), so you can find the right one for your next LLM-powered project.
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Title: T-800 Goes Real: XRoboHub Unveils Advanced Humanoid Robot for Workplaces
Description:
The T-800 (yes, named after THAT one) is now a real robot, not just CGI! Sporting 43 degrees of freedom, a tough alloy shell, LiDAR vision, and martial-arts agility, it’s designed for real-world roles from logistics to hospitality. For anyone following robotics, this is the closest thing yet to a sci-fi movie bot in practical deployment.
Learn more: https://x.com/XRoboHub
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Title: PuppetStudio: Open-Source 2D Skeletal Animation App Written in C
Description:
Love animation or gamedev? PuppetStudio is a web app (and C codebase!) for building bone-based 2D puppets and frame animations—completely open-source. Try it in your browser or browse the code; contributors welcome, especially for better demo assets!
Demo: https://puppetstudio.app
Code: https://github.com/SuckDuck/PuppetStudio
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Title: Built an AI Design Tool That ‘Gets’ Your Product—Not Just Pretty Prototypes
Description:
Figr.design is the new AI tool for design teams tired of shallow mockups. It learns from your live screens, analytics, real user flows, and design system—giving you context-aware designs ready for production, not just generative fluff. Now in early access.
Check it out: https://figr.design
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Title: GraphGit: Visualize Your Project’s Codebase as a Graph—Instantly
Description:
Ever been lost in a GitHub repo’s file jungle? GraphGit scans your repo (using your GitHub OAuth), then visualizes it as an interactive graph—showing how files connect, which are most vital, and offering stats that GitHub doesn’t. Free to try, with more features in development.
Demo: https://graphgit.vercel.app/
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Title: Norish: Self-Hosted, Real-Time Collaborative Recipe App for Families
Description:
Tired of clunky food apps? Norish is a self-hosted recipe keeper with real-time sync, collaborative meal planning, and clean UI. Groceries and recipes update instantly—perfect for families or roommates. Migrates from Mealie and Tandoor, supports SSO, and is built for privacy.
Demo & code: https://github.com/YOUR-REPO-HERE (replace with actual repo if available)
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Title: Magic Self: Turn Your PDF Resume Into a Slick Personal Website—Open Source!
Description:
Upload your PDF resume and get a clean, shareable personal website in seconds—no coding, no custom domain needed. Edit and publish with one click. Plus, you can self-host or contribute to the code.
Try it: [Link missing in source, encourage user to search “Magic Self GitHub”]
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Title: TabClock: Chrome Extension That Quietly Tracks Tab Time to Fight Procrastination
Description:
If timers and blockers never clicked for you, try TabClock—a lightweight Chrome extension that tracks how long you spend on each browser tab, displaying the timer right in the tab’s title. Private, no ads or accounts.
Install: https://tabclock.site/
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Title: AI Forge: Discover & Use 200+ AI Tools in One Hub (Open Beta)
Description:
Stop juggling dozens of AI sites—AI Forge brings together 200+ content, business, and automation AI tools into a single hub. Perfect for marketers, creators, and founders looking to streamline their stack. Feedback from real users wanted!
Try it: https://aiforgepro.lovable.app
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Title: Incremental AI: Personalized Goal Breakdown & Productivity Coach—Over 200 Users
Description:
Incremental AI helps you break any goal into personalized, achievable milestones—adapting as you go. After 2 months, it’s helped over 200 users organize their life goals, and it’s free to try on iOS.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/incremental-ai-goal-planner/id6747603877
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Title: Tasko: Visual Project Planner that Turns Tasks Into Flowcharts
Description:
Tired of endless todo lists? Tasko offers a drag-and-drop visual nodes interface for planning projects and dependencies, with quick switch to boards/lists when needed. Great for visual thinkers!
Live demo: https://www.usetasko.com
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Title: Paywall Design That Actually Works: 4 A/B Test Case Studies Across 40+ Apps
Description:
Cut through the paywall “hacks” noise! This detailed post summarizes four app case studies, showing real A/B test changes that drove 17–72% more revenue. Covers onboarding flows, price anchoring, and copy tweaks that move the needle.
Read full breakdown: [Link not provided, likely on RevenueCat’s blog—search for “RevenueCat Paywall Tests 2024”]
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Title: Startup API Shock: $340 AWS Bill Thanks to “Unlimited” Plan User
Description:
A startup founder shares how one $199/mo customer ran 50k API calls per day, triggering a $340 AWS bill—exposing the dangers of not rate-limiting “unlimited” API plans. Learn why, even in indie SaaS, usage caps matter.
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Title: Ollama + LLM Power Stack: Local AI with Full Memory & Tool Orchestration (Open Beta)
Description:
A newly open-sourced MCP-Hub bundles Ollama with SQL/Graph memory servers, vector storage, plugin routing, and multi-LLM workflows—fully dockerized and privacy-first. Ideal for advanced self-hosters and AI tinkerers.
Test it: https://github.com/danny094/ai-proxybridge
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Title: Career Indie Hack: How I Built Up $3K+ MRR With Freelance, SaaS, and Automation
Description:
After years of setbacks, a dev breaks down how they built their best financial month ever—mixing freelance, SaaS tools for Indian small businesses, and relentless self-marketing across channels like Linkedin and Pinterest. Real numbers, real lessons on hustle.
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These handpicked posts highlight the freshest AI tools, open-source releases, and practical case studies from the last week. If you want more just let me know!
Title: Google’s “Project Suncatcher” to Run AI Compute in Space—Earth’s Power Grid Isn’t Enough
Description: Google confirms it will move AI processing to orbit by 2027 with space-based TPUs, citing energy limits on Earth. As AI data center demands outpace grid capacity, big tech is turning to nuclear, gas, and now space for endless solar power and cooling. This marks a new era in compute infrastructure—raising questions about sustainability and the true cost of AI’s rapid growth.
Source: Times of India
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Title: OpenAI Declares “Code Red” as Google’s Gemini and Anthropic Leap Ahead
Description: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly paused all new product features to focus on rescuing ChatGPT’s market lead, as Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 outperform GPT-5. The once-dominant AI now faces stalled growth, fierce competition, and existential scale challenges, with all hands shifting to model improvement, speed, and reliability. Is the era of runaway LLM supremacy over?
(Source with details: https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/sam-altman-declares-code-red-google-gemini-ceo-sundar-pichai/)
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Title: 200+ Autonomous Sanitation Robots Compete for Shenzhen City Cleanup Contracts
Description: Shenzhen just hosted the world’s biggest AI sanitation robot competition: over 200 autonomous street-cleaning units from 40+ companies showcased real-world navigation on open sidewalks and service roads. This isn’t a pilot—it’s the start of mass city deployment for fleet-scale, street-level AI automation.
Source: X (@Robo_Tuo)
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Title: Why Modern LLM Gateways Need Real-Time Adaptive Load Balancing
Description: Even with a single LLM provider, routing requests isn’t “set and forget.” New adaptive gateways (like Bifrost) now monitor latency and errors, auto-reroute traffic the moment providers degrade, and revert back once stable—all without manual tweaks. This approach delivers far smoother, more reliable LLM-powered apps for users and devs alike.
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Title: Toolbox Drop: Top Open-Source Projects to Watch (and Contribute to) in 2024
Description: Looking for inspiring open-source projects? Highlights include DuckDB, Meshtastic, Samarium ERP, Garlic-Hub, Tailscale, FFmpeg, PostgreSQL, and beginner-friendly picks like PowerToys and Posthog. Redditors recommend starting where you already contribute—and hitting up “good first issues” to get rolling.
Full list/discussion: r/opensource, r/software, r/cscareerquestions
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Title: Open-Source Python Frontend Framework Evolve—Runs in Browser via WASM
Description: Eager for Python-native web apps? Evolve lets you build reactive frontends in pure Python, powered by Pyodide and WebAssembly—no JavaScript required. Still early, but the repo is now public and welcomes feedback from Python/web devs.
GitHub: https://github.com/ParagGhatage/Evolve
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Title: “Figr”: AI Design Tool That Understands Your Real Product, Not Just Mockups
Description: Tired of generic AI design assistants? Figr reads your live UI, analytics, design system, and user flows—generating designs that work for actual products, not abstract prototypes. Early access for PMs and design teams tackling complex, context-rich projects.
Try it: figr.design
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Title: New Security Risks for Local AI Agents: “Emoji Smuggling” & Hidden Prompt Attacks Demoed
Description: Security researchers are warning about prompt injection using hidden tokens (like emojis) that trigger unwanted actions in local AI agents. A new demo shows how even trusted local LLMs can be compromised via subtle input. Takeaway: Sanitizing agent inputs is now as crucial as optimizing for speed.
Demo: https://youtu.be/Kck8JxHmDOs?si=icxpXu6t2OrI0hFk
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Title: Build AI Agents Fast—Major News, Tools, and Funding in Autonomous Agent Ecosystem
Description: The agentic AI arms race is heating up: new startups like OpenAGI and Lux outperform established leaders on benchmarks, while investors pour millions into tools for agent reliability, analytics, and compliance. Plus, Amazon is rolling out more human-like AI agents for contact centers and blockchain bots are finding real smart contract bugs. It’s both a hype cycle and a practical step-change week for agent builders.
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Title: AI-Powered OCR App Extracts Text, Summarizes, and Converts Images to PDF in Seconds
Description: Constantly screenshotting and typing out notes? Try this new iOS app: snap a photo, instantly get text via OCR, receive a concise AI-powered summary, output to PDF, and even hear the text aloud. Clean interface, fast, and built out of personal frustration with cluttered, expensive alternatives.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/id6755657392
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Title: “Resync” – Open Source Terminal Goal Tracker and Offline PWA for Focused Productivity
Description: Ditch clunky task managers: Resync brings a clean, terminal-driven goal tracker (with PWA support) for devs who want fast, distraction-free progress tracking on projects, interview prep, and daily habits.
GitHub: https://github.com/TejasS1233/Resync
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Title: Deploy Syncthing Across Docker Swarm Nodes in One Command with syncthing4swarm
Description: Sick of manual setup for file sync across your Swarm cluster? syncthing4swarm automates Syncthing deployment, device discovery, and secure file sync—no tedious config required whenever nodes are added or removed.
GitHub: https://github.com/sammonsempes/syncthing4swarm
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Title: Generate an Interactive Visual Wiki of Your Codebase with Davia (Open Source)
Description: Davia is an open-source package that enables AI coding agents to build a visual, editable wiki for any codebase. Great for onboarding, documenting architecture, and keeping big-picture docs in sync—all staying on your machine.
npm: davia | Docs: https://github.com/verblike/davia
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Title: The Hidden Power of Comparing Multiple LLM Answers—Learning by Contrast
Description: Ever tried putting the same prompt through multiple AI models? Reading their outputs side-by-side uncovers differences, encourages critical thinking, and offers a deeper dive into nuanced topics—sometimes more than talking to just one chatbot. Multi-model comparison is quickly becoming a favorite learning hack.
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Title: Artists Are Using AI to Brainstorm, Remix, and Accelerate Digital Art Creation
Description: From idea generation and reference building to advanced touch-ups, color theory, and animation interpolation—AI tools are transforming digital art workflows. Personalized model training, style blending, and automation are opening new creative possibilities beyond simple text-to-image.
For more insights: r/DigitalArt, r/aiArt, r/aiwars
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(Posts on sleep tracking apps, productivity, or non-AI/LLM core topics are omitted for broad AI/LLM/open tool relevance.)
