Top Tools from Jun 9–15, 2026

  1. Major BSD-2 release of the package manager — third-party taps now require explicit trust before running their Ruby, Linux builds run sandboxed under Bubblewrap to match macOS, the JSON API is the default for faster updates, and `brew bundle` ships parallel installs with npm, krew and Windows winget support
    Hacker News discussion Developer Tool 1456 pts
  2. Apple-shipped Apache-2.0 tool for running Linux containers on macOS via lightweight Apple-silicon VMs — written in Swift, ships its own VM management for OCI workloads instead of relying on Docker Desktop. 37k stars since Apple opened the repo in mid-2025
    Hacker News discussion Developer Tool 1262 pts
  3. GPL-3 joke filesystem that stores no data at all — every file you write is "found" inside the infinite digits of π, recorded only as an offset. Originally an April Fools 2012 project that resurfaced on HN this week after a fresh April 2026 commit
    Hacker News discussion Filesystem 957 pts
  4. Open-source iOS app for $7 generic smart rings from Temu — BLE protocol reverse-engineered by sniffing the stock app, all health data kept on-device with SwiftData, bring-your-own LLM coach. CC-BY-4.0, written in Swift, 200 stars two weeks after first commit
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Health 617 pts
  5. Identity-aware VPN and tunneled reverse proxy, dual-licensed AGPL-3 / Fossorial Commercial. 1.19 lands SSH, RDP and VNC sessions in the browser, simpler SSH bootstrap and automatic site updates. 21k stars, Fossorial Inc. behind it
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Self-Hosted 482 pts
  6. MIT Go tool that mirrors any website by driving a real headless Chrome, capturing the final DOM, then stripping every script, handler and javascript: URL out — so you get static HTML, CSS, images and fonts with no tracking or network calls. Can pack a whole site plus viewer into a single self-contained binary
    Show HN discussion Archival 510 pts
  7. AGPL-3 self-hostable meta search aggregator with a plugin store for engines, autocompletes, themes and transports — including unconventional fetchers like headless browsers and FlareSolverr. Optional Valkey/Redis caching plus a local indexer that doubles as a long-term offline cache. 1.4k stars
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Search 366 pts
  8. Apache-2.0 OLTP graph-vector database written in Rust, built directly on object storage so compute and storage scale independently. Targets agent and AI workloads that need graph traversal plus vector search in one engine. 5.2k stars
    Show HN discussion Database 157 pts
  9. Closed-source paid AI chief-of-staff app for founders and executives — wires into email, calendar and Slack, ranks open commitments by leverage and handles routine admin. Beta pricing $99/seat/month billed annually, enterprise tier on application. Took the
    Product Hunt discussion Productivity 682 pts
  10. Freemium social-publishing API designed for AI agents — one REST / MCP surface across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon and Telegram, no per-network OAuth wiring. Free tier plus paid from $2.99 per account per month. Took the
    Product Hunt discussion Developer Tool 622 pts
  11. Boo
    MIT Zig terminal multiplexer from Coder, built on libghostty — pulls in Ghostty's renderer and input stack to do GNU screen-style sessions with modern terminal capabilities. 493 stars in the first week
    Show HN discussion Developer Tool 94 pts
  12. MIT ListenBrainz-compatible self-hosted music scrobbler in Go. v0.3.2 ships a refreshed UI, LastFM image support and SQLite as the default backend so you no longer need Postgres to deploy. 887 stars
    Reddit r/selfhosted discussion Self-Hosted 220 pts