Forkcast Hacker News #19: AnyPS5, SCM, ldraw-nova, Audionaut, pyxel, math, esp32-c3-adblock

Episode Summary#

Thirty GitHub projects shared on Hacker News, including a PS5 executable porting tool, local photo and video search, agent-controlled audio editing, a two-dollar microcontroller DNS blocker, a time-travel graph database, and browser-based PDF export. Also featured are developer tools, self-hosted apps, and experimental AI systems.

Repositories Covered#

AnyPS5#

Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows Tool for automatic executables porting to Linux and Windows.

SCM#

Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS.

ldraw-nova#

Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev Give an AI agent a model idea. Guide it, let it build it, and get an LDraw LEGO© model.**

Audionaut#

Audionaut professional audio editing and audio recording A free, open-source multitrack audio editor that AI agents can drive over MCP.

pyxel#

A retro game engine for Python Pyxel** (/ˈpɪksəl/) is a retro game engine for Python.

math#

This repository contains mathematical manuscripts and supporting proof artifacts produced by an internal OpenAI model. As part of model development, we evaluate our models on open research problems. We expanded these evaluations after performance on our existing mathematical evaluations saturated. Some outputs build upon earlier results produced b

esp32-c3-adblock#

Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash, binary-searched. UDP DNS sinkhole + web dashboard. https://youtube.com/shorts/RaxszOUMi8E?feature=share

nightwatch#

Free macOS menu-bar app for astrophotography: finds tonight’s clear window, ranks your targets, tells you when it’s worth setting up. Free macOS menu-bar app for astrophotography: finds tonight’s clear window, ranks your targets, tells you when it’s worth setting up. See the product page.

photoc#

Command-line tools for photographers. Quick start · Commands · Workflows · File safety · Scripting · Installation · Troubleshooting · Contributing · License

minigraf#

Embedded graph memory for AI agents, mobile apps, and the browser. Embedded graph memory for AI agents, mobile apps, and the browser — the SQLite of bi-temporal graph databases

pi-codex-connectors#

Use every connected Codex (ChatGPT) connector from any pi model @wileai/pi-codex-connector

shaders#

WebGPU components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JS & Framer WebGPU effects as components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and JavaScript

nanoMuse#

nanoMuse: an open-source personal agent for every device you own — one agent with a name and a face that does things, keeps working while the app is closed, remembers you, and asks before anything you cannot undo. On Android, iPhone and iPad, Windows / macOS / Linux and in the browser; your phone’s screen and your computer as its hands.

hn_whos_hiring#

Rank every HN ‘Who is hiring?’ post against your resume, then draft emails and prefill applications from a local dashboard. Runs on Claude Code.

system#

An open-source, self-hosted system for apps built with web technologies. The PhreshOS Desktop: Terminal showing phresh fetch, Files, and the Map with windows beyond the view

enki#

Single-source pure-Rust heterogeneous GPU compute platform Pure-Rust Heterogeneous GPU Compute Platform with Just-In-Time Compilation**

hypercmd#

Write reactive CLI applications in plain HTML. Build terminal apps with HTML and Rust

musql#

SQLite-compatible database with a JIT; 300× C SQLite, 1000× Turso. SQLite-compatible SQL, accelerated by columnar storage and a JIT compiler.**

networkx#

Network Analysis in Python :target: https://github.com/networkx/networkx/actions/workflows/test.yml

jaynshare#

Share your claude subscriptions ! multi-account claude code router You can share your Claude and Codex subscriptions!

yggstore#

Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil: lend each other disk space, send files by sending a sealed stub. Proof of concept: sharded, encrypted file storage between peers on the

sideloop#

📲 Self-hosted service that keeps sideloaded iOS apps signed with a free Apple ID, re-installing them over Wi-Fi before they expire. Keep sideloaded IPAs signed with a free Apple ID, re-installed over Wi-Fi before the 7-day signature expires.

etherpk-client#

The EtherPK client application The source of the EtherPK Client and Headless Client, available under the

ramen#

Self-hosted, multi-zone, highly available MCP server (Model Context Protocol) for Kubernetes on GKE and EKS. A git repo of Python tools becomes canary-deployed Rust + Python workers behind one load balancer, with OAuth 2.1 sign-in, per-group roles, secrets, IP rules, throttling and audit.

tpmlsm#

eBPF-based Linux kernel guard that lets only allowlisted binaries use the TPM. tpmlsm` decides which programs may open the TPM on a Linux machine. You give it

life-forge#

Autonomous flight simulator for AI agents — co-evolutionary adversarial red-teaming with 3D MAP-Elites quality-diversity. Discovers zero-days in LLM agents before production. MCP-native.

rgpu#

Keep Python on your laptop. Run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote GPU, including from a Mac with no CUDA installation. rGPU runs GPU work on a remote NVIDIA machine while the application stays on

zizq#

Powerful single binary, zero-dependency job queue server Zizq (/zɪsk/) is a fast and durable job queue packed into a single native

daepdf#

Real PDFs from the layout your browser already rendered. No server, no headless Chrome, no screenshots. A browser-based HTML-to-PDF engine powered by Rust and WebAssembly. You design your document as HTML and CSS, daepdf captures the exact layout your browser renders, and turns it into a PDF – pixel for pixel.

gutsy#

Local decision model with calibrated probabilities: send a state and yes/no, choice or score questions, get a probability for every option. 0.8B GGUF on CPU, Jev-style API.

Watch#

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VA5oLekvlo
• Cover: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7VA5oLekvlo/hqdefault.jpg

Notes#

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