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New major release of the multimedia framework that sits under most video tooling on the planet, codenamed Lei and landing about four months after 8.1. It adds an animated WebP decoder and demuxer, an ONNX Runtime backend for the DNN filters with GPU execution providers, LCEVC track muxing in MP4, a bitstream filter that splits multi-layer Dolby Vision HEVC, and a Playdate video encoder, while dropping CELT decoding and the pre-11.1 NVENC paths. Free and open source under LGPL-2.1-or-later, with some optional components under GPL. 63.2k stars
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Free live-coding music environment from Sam Aaron and the Sonic Pi core team where you write code to compose and perform, reaching 5.0.0 with a new audio engine, SuperSonic, replacing SuperCollider's scsynth so you can change audio device, buffer size and sample rate live from the GUI without restarting. The release also adds Ableton Link audio streaming, external MIDI clock sync, game-controller input, a rebuilt docs pane with runnable examples, and screen-reader and high-contrast support. Main source is MIT, free on Windows, macOS and Linux, funded through Patreon, GitHub Sponsors and corporate sponsorship. 12k stars
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Apache-2.0 daemon from the Deno team that runs Cloudflare-style Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines through an embedded V8 instead of a hosted platform. Each object is its own SQLite database, addressed by name and replicated to an S3-compatible bucket you own, and nodes coordinate through that bucket alone with no control plane and no consensus layer. Free and self-hosted, with prebuilt Linux x86-64 and ARM64 container images. 3k stars
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Free web reader for the classical canon from Worth Media, which describes it in the footer as a philanthropic effort, covering 1,060 works by roughly 140 authors, 767 in Greek and 293 in Latin, organised by genre from epic and tragedy through history and philosophy. Click any word in any text and you get its lemma, morphology and full dictionary entry, drawing on Lewis and Short for Latin and Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. No account, no paywall and no ads.
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MIT-licensed colour space and picker from Toney Alexander for representing human skin tones, built by hand-labelling skin colours, running principal component analysis over them and fitting a sphere in a custom TUV space to the resulting cloud. The author's claim is that shrinking the sphere's radius decreases variation uniformly across deep and fair tones rather than collapsing towards the middle, so one parameter drives plausible procedural generation for character art, alongside RGB conversions both ways. Free and open source. 32 stars
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Apache-2.0 Swift and Metal runtime from leonickson1 that runs large Qwen mixture-of-experts models on Apple hardware by streaming expert weights off storage instead of holding the whole model in memory, so Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B at 4-bit peaks around 4.3GB of RAM on a Mac and the 35B variant runs on an iPhone 17 at around 2.6GB. Disk is the trade, 18 to 42GB depending on model and quantisation. Free and open source, with the iPhone build shipping through the Priv AI app on the App Store. 480 stars
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AGPL-3.0 microblogging service from stagas built around 280-character text notes, hashtags and conversations, with no images, video, likes or follower counts, and pages that ship zero script tags so the whole thing works with JavaScript off. Accounts can download or delete their data from settings, and there is a read API for pulling your own feed elsewhere. Free to join and funded by donations, with the source on GitHub. 60 stars
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Closed-source iOS and Android app from Omer Bialer, trading as SoloUno LTD, for body-focused repetitive behaviours like hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting, built on habit reversal training, CBT and acceptance and commitment therapy rather than willpower. It logs urges, surfaces your top triggers, runs a one-minute urge-acceptance exercise and tracks habit-free streaks with an evening check-in. Free to download, though the listing does not say what the free tier includes; the standard subscription is 7.99 US dollars a month or 59.99 a year, with an early-access tier at 5.99 a month or 39.99 a year and a Founders tier at 3.99 a month or 29.99 a year.
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Free Chrome and Chromium screen recorder from Nitinbhai Viras whose privacy claim is structural rather than a promise. The Manifest V3 extension ships with host_permissions empty, which is what stops Chrome allowing it any network request at all, and you can check that at chrome://extensions before installing. It records tabs, screens or camera to MP4, WebM or GIF with editable vector annotations, blur and redaction, auto-zoom that follows your clicks, and full-page screenshot stitching. No account, no watermark and no paid tier, no source code published, and recordings live locally so uninstalling deletes them.
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Self-hosted monitoring dashboard for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby from Connor Gallopo that tracks live streams and playback history across several servers at once and flags shared accounts, launched here at v2.0.0. The release adds a media library poster wall with library, resolution, HDR and watch-status filters, merges the same title across servers into a single identity for stats and leaderboards, and ships a v2 public API with bearer tokens, rate limits and OpenAPI docs. Free, with the server, web and shared packages under AGPL-3.0 while the mobile app source is published for transparency under a proprietary licence that forbids redistribution. 2.5k stars
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Apache-2.0 headless browser written in Rust for scraping and agent work, drop-in compatible with Puppeteer and Playwright over the Chrome DevTools Protocol and running real JavaScript through V8, now shipping its own rendering engine so CSS layout, paint and screenshots no longer need Chromium. Free and self-hosted; the maintainers are building a paid Obscura Cloud with residential proxies on top and say the open-source engine stays fully featured with no feature gating. 21.2k stars
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OSL-3.0 single-executable Firebase alternative from trailbaseio, built on Rust, SQLite and WebAssembly, giving you type-safe REST and realtime APIs plus auth on Linux, macOS, Windows or Docker with no hosted backend. Version 0.32 adds a WASM component browser to the admin UI for installing and removing components, experimental component-provided dashboards, a shared-preferences interface for per-component settings, and roughly a fourfold throughput gain for Rust components. Free and self-hosted. 5.5k stars