Forkcast Hacker News #18: livenerf, jeff, whiteboard, reladraw, Relapse-Exploit, jeeves

Episode Summary#

Episode 18 covers 30 open-source projects trending on Hacker News, including a benchmark tracking AI model capability drift over time, 0.8B parameter decision models trainable on a laptop, an open-source VS Code fork for reviewing AI-generated code, a diagram language with precise text-based placement, a PS5 exploit chain covering firmware 7.00 through 13.60, a reasoning Jev-style classifier that beats the original, an e-paper shopping list for your fridge, a 7-node ESP32 microcontroller cluster running an LLM, a terminal UI for Hacker News, and DSPy ported to the Elixir BEAM.

Repositories Covered#

livenerf#

Benchmark tracking post-launch capability drift in frontier models. Daily paired-difference eval of Opus 5.5 on a locked 78-question panel for 30 days.

jeff#

Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification. 0.8B model trained at home in ~30ms. Jev-compatible API. Up to 254 options.

whiteboard#

Open-source canvas for thoughtful software design. VS Code fork (Code OSS) purpose-built for reviewing AI-generated code. 553 commits, MCP tools, Claude/Copilot/Codex integration. 2.2K stars, MIT license.

reladraw#

Diagram language where you decide placement. Text-to-SVG with relative positioning syntax. 980 stars, TypeScript, zero dependencies. CLI + web component + agent skill.

Relapse-Exploit#

Exploit chain for PS5 firmware 7.00 through 13.60. Webkit JSC info leaks + kernel aio_multi_wait UAF race for kernel read/write.

jeeves#

Reasoning Jev-style classifier with diffusion drafter. 9B Qwen3.5 LoRA model beats Kev-9B and Jev on unseen data. Jev-compatible API.

papermono-shopping-list#

E-paper shopping list for M5Stack PaperMono ESP32-S3 device. FastAPI/SQLite server, phone web UI, auto-sorted by aisle walking order. OTA firmware updates.

ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster#

7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit BitNet ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain. Assembly-optimized MAC ops.

hntui#

Terminal UI for browsing Hacker News. Vim keybindings, mouse support, themes, saved posts. Built with OpenTUI and Effect. Standalone binary, no dependencies.

imp#

Full port of DSPy to the BEAM (Elixir). Declarative self-improving LM programs with signatures, modules, optimizers, agent loops, and retrieval. OTP supervised.

pssa#

Non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust. Alternative architecture exploring beyond attention mechanisms.

chess-postmortem-skills#

Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video

treepeat#

Code similarity detection using treesitter

npunlock#

Write and run custom C kernels for Intel Core Ultra NPUs

Raven#

The Harness of Harnesses • built for RSI: a trusted, persistent, self-evolving multi-agent ecosystem for all-domain collaboration.

agentrun#

The Agentrun Workflow DSL

TurboGPT#

Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only)

agentic-cuda-optimizer#

A langgraph based workflow with a C++ CUDA harness to optimize CUDA kernels

InstinctFlash#

High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models

spivak-lean#

Michael Spivak’s Calculus formalized in Lean 4: every theorem and every problem of all 30 chapters and 9 appendices, in both the 3rd and 4th editions

kcc#

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

graf#

graf is graphify, rebuilt properly in rust: 1000x faster search, 89x faster updates, and one native binary.

proxy-scraper#

Free proxies that actually work: 700+ sources, every hit verified (honeypots, injected scripts, TLS), a live list every hour, a rotating proxy server and an MCP server for AI agents.

omcp#

omcp — an open protocol for connecting AI models to tools and data. A community-driven hard fork of the Model Context Protocol. Build without permission.

paper-docx#

Agent-native fork of python-docx that reduces DOCX operation failures by 78 percent. Built for AI agents that need to generate Word documents reliably. 108 stars.

superCMO-skills#

Open-source skills that empower any AI agent (Claude, Cursor, Hermes, etc.) to generate end-to-end marketing campaigns - UGC videos, ad videos, product photography and more.

gat#

Simple, fast, versioned large-file storage for git 🚀 https://getgat.dev

codediff#

Fast, robust, accurate, syntax-aware code diffing.

Mahout#

On-device workflow automation for Android — n8n meets Tasker. Every device capability is a node. Visual DAG editor, AI chat operator, 14 AI providers, on-device RAG, MCP support.

geneva#

Video edits as JSON, overlays as HTML+CSS, rendered without a browser.

Watch#

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cezJCt7SNI
• Cover: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4cezJCt7SNI/hqdefault.jpg

Notes#

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