Forkcast Hacker News #14: slotstream, fnscribe, bolnee-chat, remove-your-data, slideops

Episode Summary#

Episode 14 covers 30 open-source projects trending on Hacker News, including a tool for running 104GB language models on 48GB Macs, an offline dictation engine in Rust, a self-hosted chatbot integration, an automated data broker opt-out tool, and a presentation generator from code repositories. Also featured are open-source indexing infrastructure, a minimal C/C++ package manager, a neuro-symbolic memory engine, a game engine with its own scripting language, and a sandbox-as-a-service from Stanford.

Repositories Covered#

slotstream#

Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 104 GB at 4-bit) on Macs with a fraction of that RAM by streaming experts from SSD. MLX + Swift, Ollama-compatible API.

fnscribe#

Open-source offline dictation engine for macOS written in Rust. Processes speech entirely on your machine with zero network calls for fast, private transcription.

bolnee-chat#

Chatbot Integration in your Business website. Self hosted, free forever!

remove-your-data#

Agent-first skill: remove your data from brokers without paying. Paste this URL into a coding agent.

slideops#

Turn a repository into a slide deck that tells you when it stops matching the code

IndexFlow-core#

Open-source search engine indexing infrastructure with inline SEO quality gates, fair multi-site scheduling, and rolling quota circuit breaker.

flint#

Simple light-weight package manager and build system written in C for c/c++ projects

Hillock#

Local, gradient-free neuro-symbolic memory engine combining Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC/VSA), Hebbian plasticity, and graph triples for offline AI.

ArcadeMaker#

A cross-platform 2D game engine with its own programming language and IDE.

blast#

Open-source VMs-as-a-service

astral#

Volt-powered static site generator for Elixir applications.

phpEZ#

Tiny PHP framework for LAMP stacks

qwiksi#

A CLI tool for stamping a signature image onto a PDF

pi-black#

Claude subscription wire compatibility for Pi.

OpenLayer#

Photoshop UXP plugin that connects to ComfyUI, generates AI images, previews results, and imports them as editable Photoshop layers.

kcc#

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

shepherdr#

A phone-friendly web interface for Herdr: monitor agents, receive notifications, open real terminals, and send files.

boop#

A tiny, self-hosted notification inbox for developers. Something happened in one of your apps; Boop tells you on your phone.

shaide#

Distributed, multi-model LLM inference on Kubernetes you own

cli#

The License Detector engine & CLI — resolve lockfiles across 20+ ecosystems and reconcile each package’s declared license against the text it actually ships.

sktstreamer#

Smooth game streaming with latency on slow mobile networks. FFmpeg-based, WebSocket transport, AV1 codec recommended.

preseason#

Open-source benchmark that measures which developer tools LLMs recommend when asked to build real web apps.

oh-my-subagents#

Accountable, adaptable AI teams.

DeepSeekGUI#

A Windows desktop client for DeepSeek Harness. V1 wraps the official Web UI; v2 (independent workbench) in development.

markdown-gatekeeper#

Local-first authority layer for organizing Agent-facing Markdown. Keeps ordinary Markdown and local Git. A document does not become current authority merely because an agent calls it authoritative.

shed#

Shed: git repo management for terminal coding agents

tubeviz#

AI-directed, beat-synchronized music video generation from YouTube footage, with semantic analysis, interactive editing, and GPU-accelerated rendering.

claude-code-arcade#

Vibe code with an 80s arcade vibe — games in your Claude Code status line

XYZZY#

Self-hosted multiplayer AI workspace: a team makes hard technical decisions with AI and keeps the receipts. Governed agents, tamper-evident audit, one Python process.

hedgemony#

Catch AI code hallucinations—fabricated packages, invented APIs, and contradicted behavior—deterministically, without trusting another model.

Watch#

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVpey2li1U
• Cover: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3ZVpey2li1U/hqdefault.jpg

Notes#

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