Daily Digest – 2026-04-25

roninoss/create-expo-stack

Expo/React Native boilerplate done right; pick your stack and build faster. (TypeScript, 2.5k★)

★ 2,540

zce/caz

Need to start a project from a template? This is your quick scaffold buddy. (TypeScript, 2.5k★)

★ 2,482

arifszn/gitprofile

Build a developer portfolio instantly from your GitHub; no coding needed, just show off. (TypeScript, 2.2k★)

★ 2,240

feige996/unibest

Uni-app template for Vue3 builders; ships with all the good stuff for cross-platform apps. (TypeScript, 2k★)

★ 2,049

PaulRBerg/hardhat-template

Jumpstart your Solidity smart contract development with this Hardhat template. (TypeScript, 2k★)

★ 1,970

SAP-samples/btp-cap-genai-rag

SAP BTP builders: GenAI and RAG examples using LangChain and AI Core. Handy. (TypeScript, 128★)

★ 130

Somafet/onboardjs

Craft custom onboarding flows with this headless engine and React tools. Good DX. (TypeScript, 53★)

★ 53

adolfousier/socialcrabs

Automate social media tasks with Playwright; interacts like a human, for better or worse. (TypeScript, 53★)

★ 53

zai-org/CogVideo

Text and image to video generation. Because static content is so last year. (Python, 12.7k★)

★ 12,690

Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo

Another big video generation framework; good for deep dives into AI video tech. (Python, 12k★)

★ 12,041

saturndec/waoowaoo

AI agents for film production: generate shorts and videos with Hollywood workflows. Wild. (TypeScript, 11.7k★)

★ 11,903

FoundationVision/VAR

Autoregressive image generation, simpler than diffusion? Worth a look for AI builders. (Jupyter Notebook, 8.7k★)

★ 8,678

brycedrennan/imaginAIry

Generate images and videos with Python; AI content creation, simple as `import`. (Python, 8.1k★)

★ 8,147

cli/cli

GitHub's official CLI tool. Manage repos, issues, and PRs right from your terminal. (Go, 44k★)

★ 44,041

huggingface/pytorch-image-models

The go-to for PyTorch image models; if you do CV, you need this one. (Python, 36.7k★)

★ 36,705

calesthio/OpenMontage

Agentic AI video production system: turn code assistants into a full video studio. (Python, 3.1k★ ⚡71★/day)

★ 3,309

goauthentik/authentik

Open-source identity provider: handle authentication, SSO, and MFA for your apps. (Python, 21.2k★)

★ 21,172

chidiwilliams/buzz

Offline audio transcription and translation with Whisper; privacy-focused and efficient. (Python, 18.9k★)

★ 18,885

bytedance/seedance-2.0

ByteDance's video generation model; multimodal with native audio, finally! (96K runs)

bitflow/video-super-resolution-rife-pro

Upscale video quality and add smooth frames. Make old footage look new. (185 runs)

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

Moonshot's Kimi: 1T params, huge context for coding and agent swarms. Go big. (175 runs)

stablelm2

StableLM2: a multilingual LLM that's open-source and runs locally. Pretty good. (931.7K pulls)

megadolphin

MegaDolphin: an even bigger, uncensored 120B model for local LLM runs. (527K pulls)

medllama2

MedLlama2: a specialized Llama 2 for medical questions. Healthcare AI, anyone? (526K pulls)

everythinglm

EverythingLM: Uncensored Llama2 with 16K context. For when you need full freedom. (524.3K pulls)

solar-pro

Solar Pro: 22B parameters, fits on one GPU. Performance without the massive hardware. (517.5K pulls)

cypress

Cypress: the frontend testing tool everyone keeps talking about. For E2E sanity. (7.3M/wk)

global-agent

Global HTTP proxy via env vars; handy for dev environments or tricky networks. (6.4M/wk)

semantic-release

Automate package publishing with semantic versioning. Stop guessing release numbers. (2.5M/wk)

selenium-webdriver

Selenium WebDriver for JavaScript; reliable browser automation for testing or scraping. (1.9M/wk)

litellm

LiteLLM: one API to rule all LLM providers. Stop switching clients. (90.4M recent downloads)

tokenizers

Fast tokenizers for NLP. If you're building LLMs, you absolutely need this. (35.9M recent downloads)

groq

Official Python library for Groq's super-fast LLMs. Get your inferences quick. (3.8M recent downloads)

lmarena-ai/arena-leaderboard

LLM leaderboard: check which models are actually performing well. (static, 4860 likes)

microsoft/TRELLIS

A Microsoft project on Gradio. Might be worth a quick look if you're curious. (gradio, 4776 likes)

KingNish/OpenGPT-4o

An open version of GPT-4o. Test it out before committing to the real deal. (gradio, 4311 likes)

nanotron/ultrascale-playbook

Ultrascale playbook: probably for those trying to scale LLM infra beyond limits. (static, 3806 likes)

KlingTeam/LivePortrait

Image and video animation with motion control; bring your portraits to life, sort of. (gradio, 3741 likes)

BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5

Top-tier English embedding model for RAG and semantic search. Just use it. (feature-extraction, 12.4M downloads)

Qwen/Qwen3-8B

Qwen3-8B: a capable text generation model if 70B is overkill for your GPU. (text-generation, 8.8M downloads)

Qwen/Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B: Need something lighter? This LLM fits on less VRAM. (text-generation, 6.6M downloads)

Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B

Qwen3-1.7B: A surprisingly capable LLM in a super-small package. Try it. (text-generation, 6.5M downloads)

Marqo/nsfw-image-detection-384

NSFW image detection: crucial for content moderation, saves you from bad surprises. (image-classification, 5.9M downloads)

mlfoundations/MINT-1T-PDF-CC-2024-18

Massive 1T PDF dataset for multimodal models. For serious, data-hungry LLM training. (1.0M downloads)

NTU-NLP-sg/xCodeEval

Code dataset for various NLP tasks. Train your coding LLM with this. (678K downloads)

nvidia/PhysicalAI-Autonomous-Vehicles

NVIDIA's dataset for autonomous vehicles. For those building self-driving tech. (408K downloads)

I've built a nice home server OS

A new home server OS. Self-hosting your services just got easier. (158 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

LLM agents maintaining a wiki via Git and Markdown. Decentralized knowledge, cool. (135 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task

LLMs controlling your browser to complete any task. Browser automation, on steroids. (116 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

Terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI feel. Read docs without leaving your shell. (43 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments

HNswered: tracks replies to your Hacker News posts. Never miss a comment again. (20 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

#1 On This Day

An 'On This Day' app. Look back at your digital memories. (17 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Nimbus – Browser with Claude Code UX

Browser with Claude Code UX integrated. AI coding assistant, right where you browse. (15 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]

Obscura – V8-powered headless browser for scraping and AI agents

Obscura: V8 headless browser for scraping and AI agents. Get that web data. (13 upvotes) [hackernews_showhn]