Links tagged “open-source”
151 links, newest first.
github.com
a major release of the thing quietly holding up every video pipeline you have ever used.
aikido.dev
Shai-Hulud is back on npm, through packages a very large share of the ecosystem depends on.
blog.rust-lang.org
polished PRs no longer indicate effort, and their authors no longer necessarily understand the code.
github.com
you can finally change audio device or sample rate without restarting the music.
fermisense.com
A reinforcement-learning fine-tune of a 9B open model beats every frontier configuration tested on a catalog-review workflow, at 40x less cost than the cheapest.
github.com
run Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB of RAM on any M-series Mac.
github.com
GigaToken: ~1000x faster language model tokenization - a thousandfold speedup on the least glamorous step in the pipeline, with benchmarks in the repo.
images.nvidia.com
An open letter arguing that leadership will be decided by how widely AI diffuses rather than by one frontier model, and that open weights are how that happens.
anthropic.com
States that Anthropic does not advocate banning open-weight models, and argues instead for chip export controls, distillation limits and mandatory safety testing.
politico.com
Almost 200 companies, among them Y Combinator and Proton, write to the administration against cutting off access to Chinese open-weight models.
werd.io
Argues that open-weight Chinese models are closing on the proprietary American ones while gaining the wider adoption that follows from being open.
tangled.org
Gleam is now on Tangled - an established language moves its git hosting to ATProto. Watch the decentralisation of OSS infrastructure.
queue.acm.org
After twenty years, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote his last Bikeshed column. The bikeshed is dead, long live the bikeshed.
blaizzy.github.io
Nativ: run frontier open models locally on your Mac - open models on Apple Silicon, MIT licensed, built on MLX. No account, no cloud.
stephen.bochinski.dev
Rates Kimi K3 against Claude on quality and cost, and argues American policy has pushed the talent that builds such models elsewhere.
workshop.cjpais.com
Transcribe.cpp - local speech-to-text in C++, open source, with a proper technical writeup.
godotengine.org
Godot will no longer accept AI-written code - the opposite call, made by another large open source project. Read side by side, they are the story.
hmans.dev
Chatto is now open source - self-hostable team chat, one binary that serves its own frontend, data encrypted at rest, AGPL-3.0.
martinalderson.com
Reads GLM 5.2 as an open-weight model good enough to put the inference margins of the frontier labs under real pressure.
