Daily Digest – 2026-04-16

kvnxiao/tauri-nextjs-template

Tauri + Next.js starter with TailwindCSS and GitHub Actions already wired up. (TypeScript, 679★)

★ 681

zhangyao1990/elegant-admin

Vue 3 admin dashboard template, grab it if you need something shipped yesterday. (TypeScript, 671★)

★ 671

radishzzz/astro-theme-retypeset

Minimalist Astro blog theme for people who actually care about typography. (TypeScript, 646★)

★ 651

KevinNovak/Discord-Bot-TypeScript-Template

Discord bot boilerplate in TypeScript, boring but saves you 30 minutes. (TypeScript, 624★)

★ 628

NextJSTemplates/play-nextjs

Next.js SaaS starter with auth and PostgreSQL baked in. (TypeScript, 595★)

★ 596

DLR-RM/BlenderProc

Generate photorealistic training data via Blender pipeline automation. (Python, 3.5k★)

★ 3,519

Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan3D-1

Text and image to 3D generation, useful if you're shipping 3D assets. (Python, 3.5k★)

★ 3,475

thu-ml/TurboDiffusion

Video diffusion inference 100-200x faster, actually matters for cost. (Python, 3.5k★)

★ 3,481

Robbyant/lingbot-world

Image-to-video with world models, bleeding edge generative video stuff. (Python, 3.4k★)

★ 3,647

hao-ai-lab/FastVideo

Unified video generation inference framework, speeds up your render times. (Python, 3.4k★)

★ 3,447

hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Open-source Postman alternative, self-hostable, actually works offline. (TypeScript, 78.9k★)

★ 78,944

coollabsio/coolify

Self-hostable Vercel/Heroku replacement with 280+ one-click services. (PHP, 53.5k★)

★ 58,450

calcom/cal.diy

Open scheduling infrastructure you can self-host and customize. (TypeScript, 41.3k★)

★ 46,435

GyulyVGC/sniffnet

Network traffic monitor written in Rust, lightweight and actually useful. (Rust, 33.8k★)

★ 33,811

VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

Time series database that doesn't bankrupt you on storage costs. (Go, 16.8k★)

★ 16,768

google/imagen-4-ultra

Imagen 4 ultra quality mode, use when speed budget isn't a concern. (1.6M runs)

inworld/tts-1.5-max

High-quality TTS with <200ms latency and emotion control. (47K runs)

inworld/tts-1.5-mini

Fast TTS at ~120ms latency, cost-efficient for volume use. (14K runs)

prunaai/gemma-4-26b-a4b-fast

Gemma 4 MoE quantized and optimized by Pruna, cheaper inference. (10K runs)

google/gemini-3.1-flash-tts

Google's TTS with 30 voices and 70+ languages. (1K runs)

medgemma1.5

Medical-focused LLM, 4B, fine-tuned for domain-specific queries. (885 pulls)

starling-lm

7B chat model trained on RLHF feedback, good quality-per-size. (868K pulls)

solar

Compact 10.7B single-turn conversation model, efficient baseline. (864.6K pulls)

phind-codellama

Code-tuned Llama variant, 34B, solid for code generation locally. (863.3K pulls)

aya-expanse

Cohere's 23-language model, 8B and 32B versions, multilingual cheap. (863.3K pulls)

genkitx-openai

Firebase Genkit plugin for OpenAI, plug into your Genkit workflows. (22K/wk)

@m2d/core

Markdown to DOCX converter with plugin support for footnotes and tables. (18K/wk)

@genkit-ai/compat-oai

Genkit plugin for OpenAI compatibility layer. (17K/wk)

@m2d/html

Parse HTML in Markdown, converts to structured MDAST for docs. (15K/wk)

mdast2docx

MDAST to Word converter, useful for content automation pipelines. (14K/wk)

replicate

Python SDK for Replicate API, run ML models without infrastructure. (337K recent downloads)

autogen

Alias for ag2, Microsoft's multi-agent automation framework. (33K recent downloads)

marvin

Lightweight AI task runner, simpler than full agent frameworks. (15K recent downloads)

guidance

Language for steering LLM outputs, token-level control. (7K recent downloads)

Swarm

Space sim game in Python, completely unrelated but apparently trending. (619 recent downloads)

multimodalart/qwen-image-multiple-angles-3d-camera

Generate 3D from images at multiple angles, quick playground to test. (gradio, 2250 likes)

AI4Editing/MagicQuill

Image editing space, worth a quick test if you're building with images. (gradio, 2237 likes)

jbilcke-hf/FacePoke_CLONE-THIS-REPO-TO-USE-IT

Face manipulation model, one-click to run your own instance. (docker, 2209 likes)

linoyts/Qwen-Image-Edit-Angles

Image editing with angle control, runnable demo if you're prototyping. (gradio, 2172 likes)

tencent/Hunyuan3D-2.1

3D generation from images or text, Tencent's latest version. (gradio, 2136 likes)

mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1

SOTA embeddings model, use this if similarity search matters. (feature-extraction, 4.2M downloads)

MahmoudAshraf/mms-300m-1130-forced-aligner

Multilingual speech alignment model, solid for audio pipelines. (automatic-speech-recognition, 3.9M downloads)

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek's reasoning model, open weights and MIT licensed. (text-generation, 3.8M downloads)

Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct

Qwen's 32B instruction-tuned model, good bang for compute cost. (text-generation, 3.7M downloads)

jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-chinese-zh-cn

Chinese speech recognition model, fine-tuned and ready. (automatic-speech-recognition, 3.1M downloads)

Kthera/pesoz

Dataset, context unclear but trending for a reason. (579K downloads)

mlfoundations/MINT-1T-PDF-CC-2023-14

1T+ multimodal dataset for image-to-text training, massive scale. (572K downloads)

mlfoundations/MINT-1T-PDF-CC-2023-06

Another MINT multimodal dataset, 100B+ scale, CC-BY licensed. (538K downloads)

Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

AI browser automation library claiming deterministic execution. (117 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge

2000s browser game rebuilt on Cloudflare Workers, architectural fun. (35 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Fakecloud – Free, open-source AWS emulator

Free open-source AWS emulator, useful for local testing. (30 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Hiraeth – AWS Emulator

Another AWS emulator, different approach than Fakecloud. (29 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think

Claude gambles with constrained tokens, silly premise, probably insightful. (29 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

SmallDocs - Markdown without the frustrations

Markdown editor stripping out the friction, minimal and opinionated. (25 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Avec – iOS email app that lets you handle your Gmail inbox in seconds

iOS Gmail client promising fast inbox triage, worth testing. (20 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh

Transformer neural net running on 1989 Macintosh HyperCard, pure chaos. (17 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]