GITHUB HOT REPOS · AUGUST 21, 2026

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Design · Claude Code skill · Diagrams

Your AI finally draws diagrams a designer would ship.

ELI5

Ask an AI for a diagram and you get generic rounded boxes. This is a Claude Code skill that draws 39 kinds of editorial-quality diagram as plain HTML and SVG — no Figma, no build step.

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Stars
24.3k
Language
HTML
Forks
1.5k
GitHub repo card for cathrynlavery/diagram-design — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • 39 diagram types, three variants each

    Architecture, flowchart, sequence, state machine, Sankey, Wardley map, fishbone and more — each in minimal light, minimal dark and full-editorial.

  • It reads your website to match your brand

    Point it at your site and it pulls the palette and type, so the diagram looks like the rest of your pages in about 60 seconds.

  • Self-contained HTML + SVG, no Mermaid

    Every output opens straight in a browser. No JavaScript, no build step and no external image files.

Star growth over time for cathrynlavery/diagram-design
Cathryn Lavery on why she built it — the origin story, from the creator herself.
Github Awesome walks through the skill — 29,885 views.
AI agents · Context · Open source

Give your agent a filesystem for its memory, not a vector store.

ELI5

A database that stores an AI agent’s memories, files and skills as folders under a viking:// path, so the agent browses its own context with ls and find instead of querying a black box.

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Stars
31.0k
Language
Python
Forks
2.4k
GitHub repo card for volcengine/OpenViking — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • One filesystem for all context

    Memories, resources and skills each get a viking:// URI, so an agent locates context the way a developer works with files.

  • Three tiers cut the token bill

    Every entry is written as L0 abstract, L1 overview and L2 details, then loaded only as deep as the task actually needs.

  • You can watch a retrieval happen

    Each query keeps its directory-browsing trajectory, so when a result looks wrong you can see exactly which path produced it.

Star growth over time for volcengine/OpenViking
“This could be the best memory manager” — 160,116 views, 1,927 bookmarks.
A full walkthrough of OpenViking as a context database.
Linux · Arch + Hyprland · DHH

DHH’s opinionated Linux distro just hit version 4.

ELI5

A ready-made Arch Linux setup from David Heinemeier Hansson. One command turns a bare install into a fully themed, tiling, keyboard-driven desktop with every app and config already chosen for you.

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Stars
27.1k
Language
Shell
Forks
2.8k
GitHub repo card for basecamp/omarchy — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Opinionated on purpose

    Window manager, terminal, editor, theme and hotkeys are all decided for you — the way Rails picks defaults so you do not have to.

  • A 52-chapter manual lives in the repo

    The manual/ folder is its authoritative source and mirrors to learn.omacom.io, covering everything from Mac migration to dual boot.

  • v4.0.0 shipped 14 August 2026

    DHH says 4.1 will bundle Theo’s T3 Code: “beefs are dumb, and we should all just be excited about the tech.”

Star growth over time for basecamp/omarchy
DHH on Omarchy 4.1 bundling Theo’s T3 Code — 578,470 views.
Fireship on the distro DHH built — 818,187 views.
Small models · On-device · Tool calling

A whole tool-calling model in 14 megabytes.

ELI5

A 45-million-parameter model that only does tool calling, device control and structured extraction. The entire thing is one 14MB binary that runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM.

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Stars
8.1k
Language
Python
Forks
522
GitHub repo card for cactus-compute/needle — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • 14MB binary, roughly 28MB of RAM

    Weights are baked into a single engine — no separate model files to manage, and inference makes no network calls at all.

  • Every answer carries a confidence score

    A learned head returns a calibrated score, so you set a threshold, act above it and escalate below it.

  • Memory stays flat as the chat grows

    A 256-token sliding window pins your tools as KV sinks, so total memory stays near 28MB however long the conversation runs.

Star growth over time for cactus-compute/needle
Needle 2 explained — how 45M parameters fit in 14MB.
Knowledge graphs · Provenance · Self-hosted

The open-source Palantir for AI agents.

ELI5

Software that turns messy company data into a knowledge graph an AI agent can reason over — and records where every conclusion came from, so an auditor can trace a decision back to its source.

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Stars
9.8k
Language
Python
Forks
1.0k
GitHub repo card for semantica-agi/semantica — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Its own pitch names Palantir

    The README calls it “The Open Source Palantir for AI Agents” — self-hostable, MIT-licensed and aimed at regulated industries.

  • Every decision keeps its paper trail

    Provenance is built in rather than bolted on, so you can show which records and which rules produced a given answer.

  • Graphs, not just embeddings

    Supports both RDF and property-graph storage on W3C standards, with graph analytics and causal reasoning over the result.

Star growth over time for semantica-agi/semantica
“Palantir sells this to governments for millions” — 42,402 views.
A 14-minute tour of Semantica’s graph and provenance model.
Infrastructure · LLM routing · Rust

Point Claude Code at any model you want.

ELI5

A proxy that sits between your coding agent and the models. The agent keeps speaking its usual API while Switchyard translates the request and serves it from vLLM, Ollama, NIM or anything OpenAI-compatible.

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Stars
1.9k
Language
Rust
Forks
178
GitHub repo card for NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Translates between three API formats

    Converts among OpenAI Chat, Anthropic Messages and OpenAI Responses, so the agent never knows the backend changed.

  • Four ways to route, or write your own

    LLM-as-classifier, signal-driven stage routing, escalation (cheap model first) and random splits for A/B tests.

  • NVIDIA labels it pre-alpha itself

    The README carries its own warning — “Experimental software. Not for production use.” — and expects breaking changes before v1.0.

Star growth over time for NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard
NVIDIA’s own announcement of NeMo Switchyard — 164,465 views.
NVIDIA Developer explains routing across models — official.
Languages · Mojo · Qualcomm

Mojo’s compiler went fully open source three days ago.

ELI5

Mojo is a language that reads like Python but compiles to the speed of C++ and targets any vendor’s GPU. On 18 August 2026 its last closed piece — the compiler itself — went open source under Apache 2.0.

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Stars
28.0k
Language
Mojo
Forks
3.0k
GitHub repo card for modular/modular — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • The compiler, not just the stdlib

    The standard library was opened earlier; on 18 August 2026 the entire language, compiler included, landed under Apache 2.0.

  • Mojo 1.0 shipped a week before that

    Version 1.0.0 arrived in the MAX 26.5 release on 11 August 2026, four years and 36 releases after the project began.

  • Qualcomm now owns the whole thing

    Qualcomm completed its all-stock acquisition on 29 July 2026; founder Chris Lattner is now its EVP of Advanced AI Software.

Star growth over time for modular/modular
Chris Lattner on Qualcomm completing the acquisition of Modular.
Mojo, Vulkan and the CUDA moat — 34,413 views.
Video · Automation · Self-hosted

Type a topic, get a finished short video.

ELI5

Give it a subject or a keyword and it writes the script, finds matching stock footage, generates the voice, subtitles and background music, and renders a finished vertical video in one pass.

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Stars
113.0k
Language
Python
Forks
17.1k
GitHub repo card for harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • One topic in, a full video out

    It writes the copy, pulls the footage, generates voice and subtitles, adds music and composites the final HD short.

  • 17,122 forks — more than most repos’ stars

    At 112,986 stars it is among the most-forked AI projects on GitHub, which is the clearest signal of how many people run their own copy.

  • WebUI or API, on your own machine

    Ships a web interface and an HTTP API, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux with Python 3.11+.

Star growth over time for harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo
“A developer from China built a FREE tool” — 154,654 views.
Installing MoneyPrinterTurbo locally, start to finish.
Reference · APIs · Community

The 467,000-star list of free APIs.

ELI5

One hand-curated list of free public APIs — weather, finance, sports, government data, animals — grouped by category, with notes on whether each needs a key, allows CORS and supports HTTPS.

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Stars
467.2k
Language
Python
Forks
51.5k
GitHub repo card for public-apis/public-apis — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • 467,249 stars and 51,533 forks

    Curated by hand since March 2016, making it one of the most-starred repositories on all of GitHub.

  • Every entry says what it will cost you

    Each row lists the auth type — API key, OAuth or none — plus HTTPS support and CORS policy, before you write any code.

  • The top slot is sold

    The README opens with an APILayer promotion above the list itself. The directory is free; its most valuable placement is not.

Star growth over time for public-apis/public-apis
“1,000+ free public APIs for almost anything” — 65,986 views.
The repo in 28 seconds — 1,596,105 views.
Security · OSINT · Email

Find out where your email address is already registered.

ELI5

A command-line tool that checks one email address against more than 120 sites — Twitter, Instagram, Imgur and the rest — and reports which ones have an account attached to it.

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Stars
13.8k
Language
Python
Forks
1.8k
GitHub repo card for megadose/holehe — click to open the repo
Highlights
  • Checks 120+ sites from one command

    Returns a per-site result saying whether an account exists, plus any partly-masked recovery email or phone number the site reveals.

  • It reads the forgot-password flow

    Each check uses the site’s own password-reset page, which is why the README notes the address is not notified.

  • Last commit was September 2024

    Almost two years without an update, so expect some of the 120 site modules to have drifted out of date.

Star growth over time for megadose/holehe
“Check where an email is registered across 120+ websites” — 20,514 views.
FROM THE AUDIENCE

Local markdown notes with an agent working the same files.

WHAT IT IS

A file-based notes app — backlinks, graph view, daily notes — where a Claude Code-style agent edits the same plain markdown, synced through your own GitHub repo.

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Stars
123
Language
TypeScript
Started
May 2026
Sent in by Jesus

I think Shockwave is the most interesting thing I’ve used lately: local markdown with backlinks, graph view and daily notes, plus an agent working on the same files and your own GitHub repo for free sync and full commit history. Its companion server runs cron jobs and connects to Telegram, so you can reply to a scheduled message and resume the conversation with full context from your phone.

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Star growth over time for stephengpope/shockwave
FROM THE AUDIENCE

A local-first desktop agent with multi-tier memory.

WHAT IT IS

A full-featured agentic harness built local-first with security in mind — native multi-tier memory, switchable personas and per-persona tool lists.

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Stars
111
Language
Python
Started
Jun 2026
Sent in by Bino

I’ve been following your videos and wanted to share Lumina, a feature-rich desktop agent I’m building local-first with security in mind. It has a native multi-tier memory architecture, switchable personas and tool lists, and a lot more.

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Star growth over time for Bino5150/lumina
FROM THE AUDIENCE

Generate twenty images in about a minute, from the terminal.

WHAT IT IS

One CLI that runs image prompts in parallel — pass -n 10 or a YAML batch of prompts and providers — talking straight to Gemini and OpenAI with your own key.

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Stars
2
Language
Go
Started
Apr 2026
Sent in by Ahmed

I built imagine because generating lots of images through web UIs meant clicking and waiting one at a time. It lets me run -n 10 or send a YAML batch of prompts and providers in parallel, turning twenty variations from half an hour into about a minute. It talks directly to Gemini and OpenAI with your own key, so there’s no aggregator markup, and I’m building video generation next.

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Star growth over time for AhmedAburady/imagine-cli
FROM THE AUDIENCE

A nightly podcast built from the TLDR newsletter — and no LLM touches the text.

WHAT IT IS

Turns the daily TLDR newsletters into a chaptered podcast. Parsing and scripting are deterministic; a local 82M-parameter text-to-speech model reads exactly what TLDR published.

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Stars
1
Language
Python
Started
Aug 2026
Sent in by Mat

I built TLDR Radio to turn the daily TLDR newsletters into a chaptered podcast, then wouldn’t let an LLM touch the text — parsing and scripts are deterministic, and a local 82M-param TTS just reads what TLDR published. Claude Code wrote most of it; it’s been building episodes unattended every night since July on a ten-year-old box in my basement.

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Star growth over time for mat-nolen/tldr-radio
FROM THE AUDIENCE

A coding agent built as a framework, not a product.

WHAT IT IS

One engine with many doors for providers, transports and tools — two switchable loops, a relevance gate, and a small-model-first path that escalates only when verification fails.

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Stars
2
Language
TypeScript
Started
Jul 2026
Sent in by Dušan

I built aura-code as a framework for people to build on, not just use as-is — one engine with many doors for providers, transports and tools. It has two switchable loops (coding vs a cheap personal-assistant mode), a relevance gate that cuts tool-token use by about half, and a small-model-first path that only escalates when verification fails.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

An agent skill that restructures writing — and asks before it does.

WHAT IT IS

Rewrites business writing into Barbara Minto’s Pyramid Principle, with a consent gate and eight tests — three of which expect the skill to do nothing at all.

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Stars
1
Language
Markdown
Started
Aug 2026
Sent in by Daniel

I run Millwright Labs, and this is the first of the Agent Skills I’d been keeping private. It came from fact-checking an Instagram post whose “always give exactly three reasons” rule turned out not to be Minto’s. After its first version restructured a draft I’d only asked it to inspect, I added a consent gate and eight tests — three expect it to do nothing. GPT-5 and Gemini hold the line; Haiku doesn’t.

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Star growth over time for millwright-labs/minto-pyramid-skill
FROM THE AUDIENCE

Run your next decision past five expert personas first.

WHAT IT IS

A reusable skill for stress-testing a strategy, tool, offer or product idea against five expert perspectives before you commit to it.

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Stars
0
Language
Markdown
Started
Jul 2026
Sent in by Bert

I built the 5 Persona Advisory Board as a free, reusable decision-making framework for founders, creators and builders. Before they commit to a strategy, tool, offer or product idea, they can run it through five expert perspectives to catch execution risks, positioning problems, objections and capability gaps, and identify the strongest next move.

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FROM THE AUDIENCE

Hit a token cap? Hand the whole chat to another AI.

WHAT IT IS

When ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok caps you mid-task, Pivvi passes the entire conversation to the next free model with headroom — no login, no API key.

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Sent in by Mauricio

I watched the token-problems episode and built Pivvi for the other side of that problem: when ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok caps you mid-task, it hands the whole conversation to the next free AI with headroom — no login, no API key. There’s also Pivvi World, a globe of free AI tools so you can route around limits.

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