01Day 3
Repository · seen by GitHub, HackerNews
A terminal emulator built for low latency and fast startup, keeping terminal state on the CPU and rendering cells through Vulkan on Linux and Metal on macOS. The README publishes head to head throughput against ghostty, alacritty and kitty with every terminal equalised first, which is unusual enough to be worth noting. The same code ships under two names for people who would rather not type the first one.
Flagged 5 August 2026 · 217 → 320 stars · +47.5%
Signal
160 HackerNews comments against 172 points is a 93% comment to point ratio, roughly triple what a well received post produces, and that shape means argument. Stars 193 to 217 and forks 11 to 13 the same day says some readers stopped arguing and cloned it.
02Day 5
Repository · seen by GitHub, HackerNews
Runs Google's Gemma 4 26B model on any Apple Silicon Mac in about 2 GB of memory, including the 8 GB machines, instead of loading all 14.3 GB. It keeps the shared core and the cache resident and streams only the experts each token actually needs off the SSD. The runtime, installer, command line tool and Mac app are all written in Swift and Metal, built for this one model rather than wrapping MLX or llama.cpp.
Flagged 31 July 2026 · 2,196 → 6,994 stars · +218.5%
Signal
Stars 4,671 to 4,945 and forks 231 to 251, with open issues up 12.8%. Five days on this list and the ratios have not softened.
03Day 3
Repository · seen by GitHub, Homebrew, npm / PyPI
A desktop database client that speaks to more than 70 systems, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB and SQL Server among them, in a 20 MB download. The same build ships as a desktop app, a Docker image and a command line tool, with an AI assistant and an MCP server included. Most clients of this scope are hundreds of megabytes, so the size is the claim being made.
Flagged 5 August 2026 · 13,242 → 27,594 stars · +108.4%
Signal
1,344 forks and 1,117 open issues against 13,242 stars is one fork per ten stars, where most repos manage one in fifty. The signal today is Homebrew: it is installable through a package manager, which is where a tool stops being starred and starts being run.
04New
Repository · seen by GitHub, HackerNews
A web scraper written in Rust that returns clean Markdown and metadata from any URL, built as a drop in replacement for Firecrawl and Browserbase. It uses a browser faithful TLS fingerprint to reach pages that block ordinary clients, so a standard page is one fetch and a parse in roughly 300 milliseconds with no headless browser involved. Pages that only render through JavaScript are handled separately.
Flagged 5 August 2026 · 67 → 99 stars · +47.8%
Signal
Stars 59 to 67 and forks 3 to 4, with open issues up 33.3%. A self hosted replacement for a paid crawling service, and the few people who found it are using it hard enough to break it.
05New
Repository · seen by GitHub, HackerNews
A translation layer that runs macOS ARM64 binaries on Linux, the reverse of the usual direction. It loads Mach-O executables, maps a standalone libSystem and translates BSD system calls at the boundary, with no JIT and no instruction emulator, because both sides are already the same architecture. Real macOS command line tools then run natively on Linux aarch64.
Flagged 5 August 2026 · 341 → 428 stars · +25.5%
Signal
252 HackerNews points against 64 comments is an unusually low argument ratio, which for infrastructure means people are impressed rather than sceptical. A userspace layer running macOS binaries on Linux ARM64 is the hardest class of project on this list.
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