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Show HN: Chronicle – Local-first, open-source authoring software for writers
A new open-source tool called Chronicle is challenging the paid subscription model that dominates the novel-writing software market. The application, created by developer Petre Popescu, bundles a WYSIWYG editor, timeline planner,...
Neurogrid the Community Cloud for LLMs
A new platform called Neurogrid is trying to redistribute the economics of AI inference by turning idle consumer GPUs into a distributed compute marketplace. Rather than routing language model workloads through centralized data ce...
A Blender BPY skill that helps smaller LLMs build better 3D models
A new open-source skill file is trying to answer a question that gained urgency after GPT-6 ASTRA's 3D capabilities made headlines: can a small, cheap language model with no specialized 3D training produce usable Blender scenes if...
OpenAI DevDay 2026
OpenAI has announced DevDay 2026, its annual developer conference, scheduled for September 29 in San Francisco. The one-day event brings developers into technical sessions with the teams building OpenAI's tools, with an opening ke...
Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
A new web tool called Sunk Cost attempts to answer a question every developer running local language models eventually asks: how many API calls does it take before the GPU you already bought starts saving you money? The calculator...
Show HN: Chess Cheater Detector
A web tool called ChessCheaterDetector is offering players and tournament organizers a way to quantify how engine-like a chess game looks from a statistical perspective. The site at chesscheaterdetector.com takes a PGN file, runs...
Open-source Python framework for AI agents, workflows, and automations
A new open-source framework called BindAI has launched its first public release, offering a modular Python toolkit for assembling AI applications from reusable building blocks. Version 0.1, released by the BindBrain organization o...
Ask HN: The amount of AI bot traffic is out control?
A web developer managing a site with roughly 50,000 statically generated public pages posted a plea to Hacker News this week, describing a bot traffic problem that has spiraled beyond anything they have dealt with before. The post...
Show HN: An open-source control plane for your company's AI agents
AgenticOS launched as an open-source, self-hosted platform that aims to be a single operating system for enterprise AI agents. Built by VStorm and released under Apache-2.0, it runs on Postgres, Redis, and Docker, and its core cla...
A Letter from a Machine Learning Engineer
An anonymous email claiming to be from a machine learning engineer at a frontier AI lab has been published online, and its contents paint a picture of an industry running on hype rather than fundamentals. The author, writing from...