Open Source
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Litestream: Streaming Backups for SQLite Databases
Litestream streams SQLite changes to S3 for near-real-time, restorable backups — replacing cron-job backup scripts. Apache 2.0, production-ready.
Read story →Caddy: The Web Server That Sets Up HTTPS For You
Caddy is an Apache 2.0 web server that provisions and renews HTTPS certs automatically — replacing nginx + Certbot + a renewal cron job.
Read story →vLLM — Serve LLMs With an OpenAI-Compatible API
vLLM turns any Hugging Face model into a fast, OpenAI-compatible API server in one command. Apache 2.0, production-ready — here's how to run it.
Read story →Meta's Muse Glimmer Brings Open-Source AI to Your Laptop
Meta's Muse Glimmer runs on consumer hardware via quantization and speculative decoding. A 30B open-source model that outperforms competitors on benchmarks.
Read story →Ollama: run open LLMs on your own machine, no cloud bill
Ollama runs open LLMs like Gemma and Llama locally with one command — MIT licensed, production-ready, and it replaces per-test API calls entirely.
Read story →Open Source Tools for Developers
One open-source tool a week for developers: what it does, what it replaces, and something you can build with it — in under three minutes.
Read story →Open-Weight AI Just Hit Frontier Speed — Here's Why That Changes Everything
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines shipped Inkling, a 975B open-weight model, at frontier speed. Here's why the closed-model moat just got narrower.
Read story →GLM-5.2 Is Now the Best Open-Source LLM—And It's Cheaper Than You Think
GLM-5.2 tops the open-source leaderboard with 91.2% GPQA and 62.1% SWE-bench scores, matching frontier models at $1.40/M tokens. Here's why open-source just won.
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