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Anubis ships a WebAssembly proof-of-work path aimed at raising scraper costs News
Anubis’ new WebAssembly path uses memory-hard argon2id challenges to make GPU-oriented scraping bypasses less attractive while retaining a slower fallback for browsers without WebAssembly.
SolarWM releases an unusually complete open world-model stack News
SolarWM ships code, weights, pipeline, and a 1.43 million-clip dataset for cross-backbone video world modeling, though its upstream media remains subject to separate terms.
Anthropic published a working commerce agent, and left out the parts everyone else adds News
Anthropic released a commerce agent blueprint and runnable repository on September 2, 2026 built on a single Claude model in one agent loop, explicitly rejecting the intent router and specialised sub-agents that most production designs use, with checkout handoff and staged merchant writes enforced in code.
DoltLite hit beta on about 2,000 agent-written pull requests News
DoltHub announced on August 31, 2026 that DoltLite -- a SQLite fork with Git-style version control -- reached beta after five months and roughly 2,000 pull requests written by a team of agents, and now passes 100 percent of the 5.8-million-query sqllogictest suite.
A 104 GB model now runs on a 48 GB Mac by streaming experts off the SSD News
slotstream, a single Swift binary released as a Show HN on September 1, 2026, runs the 104 GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next mixture-of-experts model on Macs with a fraction of that memory by keeping a small trunk resident and reading expert weights off the SSD on demand -- about 12 tokens per second on a 48 GB machine.
Station agents found new math on five of twelve AlphaEvolve problems News
In an open-world environment where AI agents from different labs pick their own research directions without a coordinator, agents produced results novel to the literature on five of twelve construction problems, including a new 604-point kissing configuration in eleven dimensions.
AWS is buying DuckDB's company, not DuckDB News
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the 30-person Amsterdam team behind DuckDB, while the database itself stays MIT-licensed under the nonprofit foundation that holds its intellectual property -- a structure the founders set up years ago for exactly this moment.
OpenAI open-sourced the agent loop, not the model News
OpenAI released the Codex harness under Apache-2.0, opening the execution runtime that powers its app, CLI, and IDE extension, and on August 24 deprecated the older codex mcp-server command in favor of the new app server.
FlowEvo turns finished workflows into callable skills News
A training-free framework accepted at COLM 2026 compiles an agent's successful workflows into reusable executable functions, stores them in a growing bank, and suppresses the ones that hurt later tasks, reaching 85.6 percent on a household-task benchmark with roughly a third of the tokens.
A proxy with 49,000 stars keeps Claude Code and swaps the model News
Free Claude Code, an MIT-licensed local proxy that lets Claude Code talk to roughly 50 other model providers while preserving Anthropic's wire protocol, has passed 49,000 GitHub stars, and its per-tier routing shows exactly which layer users actually value.
MCP is rebuilding its authorization around agents instead of people in browsers News
The Model Context Protocol's new roadmap, published August 22, says its current authorization model assumes a human approving access in a browser while the real callers are increasingly cloud agents and sub-agents, and proposes cryptographic client binding and workload identity to close the gap.
A llama.cpp fork is reviving $200 AMD cards nobody else supports News
A specialist fork of llama.cpp ships hand-written kernels for AMD's decade-old GFX906 architecture, making cheap used MI50 and Radeon VII cards usable for local inference, and upstream maintainers are now discussing porting the work back.
DeepSeek shipped an agent runtime where even the loop is a plugin News
DeepSeek published deepseek-harness, an MIT-licensed agent runtime in which models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, scheduling, the interface, and the agent loop itself are all plugins that can be swapped from configuration.
A runbook, not a model, hit 95 percent on a live agent benchmark for 15 dollars News
StateM reaches 95.3 percent raw accuracy on Terminal-Bench 2.1 across 445 trials without changing any model weights, using a state-machine runtime and a reusable runbook, at about 15 dollars of final-score API spend against 574.68 dollars for the reference run.
llama.cpp tagged v0.1.0 after ten thousand build numbers News
The most widely used local AI inference engine published its first semantic version tag on August 17, 2026, after years of releasing by build number, while a pending contribution adds a speculative-decoding mode that adjusts its own draft depth on the fly.
Someone compiled a working computer into transformer weights by hand News
A team constructed transformer weights analytically rather than training them, producing a model that runs arbitrary C programs through a WebAssembly interpreter encoded entirely in its attention layers at about 30,000 tokens per second.
Picking the right model per request beat always using the biggest one News
A new routing framework that chooses a different model for each request outperformed the strongest single fixed model by 14.6 percent, partly because the largest model gets many cheap questions wrong.
There is a public forum where every citizen is an AI agent News
1F916 is a live discussion board with no human interface, a written constitution, one post per agent per day, and an append-only hash chain any citizen can check - and it tells arriving agents to treat everything on it as untrusted input.
The top repo on GitHub today runs its agent inside a Python shell News
Prime Intellect's open-source Prime Agent reached number one on GitHub Trending with 2,319 stars in a day, built on a design that gives the model a persistent Python session instead of a growing chat log.
MCP dropped the handshake, and the plumbing went with it News
The Model Context Protocol's July 28 release retires session IDs and the initialize exchange, turning every tool call into a single self-contained HTTP request that any server instance can answer.
Two-bit models now run on every major llama.cpp backend News
The official 2-bit weight format merged into llama.cpp now works on mainline CPU, Metal, Vulkan, and CUDA after the CUDA path landed upstream, completing a backend sweep that started as an ARM-only contribution.
An agent's memory records what you said; this compiler records what you did News
A single-author paper argues computer-use agents waste frontier inference re-deriving routines their user already performed, and presents a model-free compiler that turns raw screen capture into a context block 86 times smaller that an agent reads with 98.4 percent accuracy.
A model small enough to run on a laptop reads heard speech from brain scans News
Researchers rebuilt a brain-to-speech decoder around the physical geometry of the scanner helmet, shrinking the decoder about twentyfold while matching prior accuracy, and then used it to identify which properties of speech the brain signal actually carries.
Uber's agent monitor caught 206 credential exposures across 7,200 developer machines News
Uber open-sourced ADR, a runtime detector that watches what coding agents actually do on developer machines, reporting 206 real credential exposures at 97.2 percent precision after more than ten months of deployment across 7,200 hosts handling over 10,000 agent sessions a day.
Cloudflare open-sourced an agent platform where the agent never holds the credential News
Cloudflare released the source for Cloudflare OS on August 5 under Apache-2.0, an agent platform built so that agents receive scoped capability bindings instead of API keys, with permission checks that follow the data an agent has already read.
Four Projects Shipped 'Skills' Today and None of Them Mean the Same Thing News
A SKILL.md file plus scripts has become the common interface for handing an AI agent reusable expertise, but today's four releases occupy four different layers - writing skills, training agents to use them, deploying them, and governing their supply chain.
A llama.cpp Patch Learns Which Experts to Keep in VRAM While You Type News
An open pull request to llama.cpp tracks which mixture-of-experts submodels get used most during inference and promotes them to GPU memory on the fly, roughly doubling decode speed on an 8GB card in the author's own tests - while slowing other models down.
Robot Policies That Predict the Touch Before They Make It News
Two matched robotics releases from NeoteAI and Fudan give manipulation policies a sense of touch that anticipates contact rather than reporting it, winning all nine real-robot tasks in the authors' benchmark against strong vision-only baselines.
A 284-billion-parameter model with a 3-gigabyte working set, and a 96-gigabyte disk bill News
An open-source engine called Mference runs DeepSeek V4 Flash on a 24 GB Mac with an effective memory footprint of about 3 gigabytes by streaming each token's experts off the SSD, but the checkpoint still occupies 90 to 98 gigabytes of disk and the test ran at a 4,000-token context.
A robot control model now runs 32 times a second on a gaming GPU, in under a gigabyte News
TurboVLA reaches real-time robot control at 32 Hz using 0.9GB of memory on a consumer RTX 4090, by removing the large language model from the control loop entirely rather than compressing it.
A 26-billion-parameter model runs in 2GB of RAM by streaming experts off the SSD News
TurboFieldfare, an open-source Swift and Metal runtime, runs Gemma 4's 26-billion-parameter model on an 8GB MacBook Air by keeping only a 1.35GB core in memory and pulling each token's experts from disk as it needs them.
NVIDIA shipped a drop-in kernel that nearly halves video generation time News
NVIDIA released code on July 28 for Sol-Attn, an attention kernel that decides which parts of a long video to compute exactly while approximating the rest inside a single pass, reporting up to 2.1 times faster video generation with no retraining and no weight changes.
A new benchmark grades video models on film craft instead of whether clips look nice News
FilmBench scores text-to-video and reference-to-video models against professional cinematic criteria such as camera language, shot continuity and performance, using prompts reverse-engineered from professionally selected film clips, with the dataset and toolkit released publicly.
JarvisHub makes the canvas the agent's memory News
An open-sourced agent runtime replaces the chat transcript with a typed canvas graph storing artifacts, versions, dependencies and provenance, so an agent can point at a specific rejected draft instead of re-reading its own conversation.
An $8 Microcontroller Now Runs a 28.9-Million-Parameter Language Model News
A developer fit a 28.9-million-parameter model onto an ESP32-S3 with 512KB of fast memory by keeping most of the model in flash storage and reading only about 450 bytes of it per word generated.
A Show HN Promised Frontier Quality for Half the Cost. Its Repo Describes a Router. News
World Model Optimizer turns agent traces into a policy that sends easy requests to cheap models and hard ones to a frontier endpoint, but its headline savings claim shifted between the repository and the post, and no distilled model has been released.
torchwright builds working transformer weights from Python - no training involved News
A project called torchwright constructs concrete weights for a standard transformer architecture directly from a typed computation graph written in Python, producing models that load through ordinary Hugging Face APIs with no gradient training at any point.
Hugging Face ships The Stack v3, and this time the code is actually in the box News
Hugging Face released The Stack v3, a code dataset of roughly 4.9 trillion tokens across 173 million repositories with source text embedded inline, ending the v2 arrangement where researchers had to fetch the actual file contents themselves.
Agent skills quietly became a package format - and GitHub is warning about what that means News
Five agent-skill projects gained a combined 6,634 GitHub stars in a single day on July 24, converging on one portable folder format, while GitHub's own documentation warns that third-party skills may contain prompt injections, hidden instructions, or malicious scripts.
GigaToken Claims a 1,000x Tokenizer Speedup, But the Real Serving Win Is Single-Digit News
A new tokenizer called GigaToken reports roughly 1,000 times the offline throughput of Hugging Face Tokenizers, but its benchmark is not apples-to-apples and its real inference payoff is a single-digit latency improvement.
Microsoft's Resource2Skill Compiles Tutorials and Repos Into Executable Agent Skills News
Microsoft released Resource2Skill, a runtime that turns tutorials, code repositories, and articles into structured, executable agent skills, reporting an average 11.9-point performance lift.
SearchOS Treats Web Research Like an Operating System Scheduling Processes News
A new open-source framework called SearchOS reorganizes AI web research as a multi-agent system with explicit shared state, tracking what is still missing so agents dispatch work toward gaps instead of losing progress in chat history.
Boogu-Image-0.1: a fully open image model that claims to close in on closed systems for about $400K News
Boogu-Image-0.1 is a fully open-source unified image generation and editing model family whose researchers say a base model reaching near-frontier quality cost roughly $400,000 to train, arguing the closed-open gap is closing through data and pipeline quality rather than raw compute scale.
Xi Jinping Pitches Open-Source AI and Launches a Global AI Body in Shanghai News
At the 2026 World AI Conference, Xi Jinping urged the world to 'encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing' and announced a new China-led World AI Cooperation Organization headquartered in Shanghai.
Capital One Open-Sources VulnHunter, an AI Agent That Hunts Security Bugs News
Capital One released VulnHunter, an open-source agentic AI security tool that reasons like an attacker, tries to disprove its own findings before reporting them, and has been run across thousands of the bank's own repositories.
xAI open-sourced its coding agent, then locked the door behind it News
xAI published Grok Build, its agentic coding harness and terminal interface, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license -- but its contributing guide states that external contributions are not accepted, and the repository is a one-way bot-pushed mirror of an internal monorepo.
Torvalds: 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' News
Linus Torvalds told the Linux kernel mailing list that the project will not take an anti-AI stance, rejecting what he called social-warrior attitudes toward developers who use AI tools and telling objectors they can fork the kernel.
The zero-cost fallacy: open source under AI pressure News
ThoughtWorks argues open source is being ground down by AI-generated pull requests, meaningless popularity metrics, and a licensing model one participant called a profound collective mistake.
Developers are shipping their own kill switch for coding agents that run 'rm -rf' News
An open-source tool called Destructive Command Guard intercepts and blocks catastrophic commands like 'git reset --hard' and 'rm -rf' before AI coding agents can execute them, and has drawn more than 3,000 GitHub stars across nearly every major agent.
Mesh LLM lets you run models too big for any single machine by splitting them across peers News
Mesh LLM, the top project on Hacker News this week, runs models larger than any one machine can hold by partitioning them across networked peers -- layers 0-15 on one node, 16-31 on another -- over a serverless peer-to-peer transport, exposing a standard OpenAI-compatible API on localhost.
OpenClaw becomes a nonprofit and positions itself as the 'Switzerland of AI' News
OpenClaw, the fastest-growing repository in GitHub history with 4.5 million new agents spawned weekly, became a MIT-licensed 501(c)(3) nonprofit backed by OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Microsoft as a neutral standards layer for AI agents.
Microsoft's Flint gives AI agents a reliable way to make charts News
Microsoft open-sourced Flint, a compact chart specification language that lets AI agents describe a visualization in structured JSON and compile it reliably to Vega-Lite, ECharts, or Chart.js, instead of hand-writing brittle plotting code.
A repo collecting every major AI's hidden system prompt is topping GitHub News
A GitHub repository gathering the extracted system prompts of nearly every major AI product — from Claude and GPT to Gemini, Grok, and Cursor — surged up the trending charts, part of a week dominated by AI-agent infrastructure tooling.
Flathub bans AI 'slop' apps - and data shows 73% of them were already abandoned News
After Linux app store Flathub moved to ban AI-generated 'slop' applications, a developer tracked 120 flagged repositories and found 88 of them - 73% - had been abandoned or deleted from GitHub within months, turning an anecdote into a measured fact.
A hobbyist turned an e-ink tablet into Tom Riddle's diary News
An open-source Rust app turns the reMarkable Paper Pro into a magical diary: write a question by hand, wait a beat, and a vision AI writes back in animated handwriting as your own ink fades away.
Strix ships an open-source AI agent that hacks your app to find real vulnerabilities News
Strix is an open-source security tool whose autonomous AI agents dynamically find and exploit vulnerabilities in applications, generating working proof-of-concepts and plugging into CI/CD to block insecure code before it ships.
'agency-agents' packages 150+ role-playing AI agents into one open-source 'AI agency' News
The open-source agency-agents project defines more than 150 specialized AI agent personas across 13-plus professional divisions, from engineering to marketing to finance, designed to run full multi-agent workflows natively in Claude Code and other agentic coding tools.
Microsoft's new memory system lets AI agents remember more by storing less News
Memora keeps the rich detail of a conversation but searches it using tiny six-word labels, cutting the cost of remembering by up to 98 percent. The code is public.
The trick that makes AI type faster just hit the top of Hacker News News
A small model guesses ahead and a big model checks the work in parallel - and this week two efforts pushing that idea, DeepSeek's DSpark and JetSpec, lit up the front page while the community argued over whether it's truly 'lossless.'
AI video has a consistency problem. This model targets it. News
DomainShuttle goes after the tug-of-war in subject-driven text-to-video: keeping a specific character or object recognizable across frames while still letting the scene move freely.
The quiet race to turn messy documents into AI-ready text News
Mistral released a new document-reading model the same week an open-source rival surged, both chasing the unglamorous job that quietly decides how well AI can read your files.
An open-source 'AI crew' that turns a coding assistant into a video studio News
A project called OpenMontage shot to the top of GitHub in a day, claiming to be the first open-source system that lets AI agents handle a whole video production from script to final cut.
A language model that writes by erasing, and now keeps up with the classics News
Almost every chatbot writes one word at a time, left to right. A newly released model of real size writes the way image AIs paint, refining a whole passage at once, and finally holds its own.
An open project publishes the recipe for training capable AI agents News
OpenThoughts-Agent releases its full data-curation pipeline, dataset, and experiments -- showing that what an agent learns from matters more than raw size, and letting anyone reproduce it.
A tiny image-editing AI now runs entirely inside your web browser News
Moebius is a small inpainting model claiming far-larger-model quality, and a developer ported it to run on your own machine in a browser tab -- no server, no upload.
The best free AI model just landed — but almost nobody can run it at home News
A powerful open model anyone can legally download has reignited the open-vs-closed debate — but it's so large that 'open' now means 'open if you own a small server.'
Researchers turn the internet's hobbyist art 'filters' into training fuel News
Cleanly separating 'what's in a picture' from 'what style it's in' usually needs scarce data. A new method mines the huge public library of community-made style add-ons instead.
Open vs. closed AI models — what "open weights" really means Lesson
Some AI models you can only rent through a company's interface; others you can download and run yourself. That difference — open weights vs. closed — shapes privacy, research, cost, and who controls the technology.
An openly-released text model that writes by refining, not word-by-word News
Most language models write one word after another, left to right. A new openly-released model of real size generates text the way image AIs make pictures — refining a whole draft at once.
A powerful open model lands and reignites the open-vs-closed debate News
A Chinese lab released a flagship model anyone can download and run, with a huge memory for long documents — and a viral claim that it makes things up less than a top closed model.
veRL Tool
The open RL post-training framework used by most research labs training reasoning models today. Run GRPO, PPO, and related reward-training methods on your own models.
vLLM v0.23.0 Tool
The widely-used open engine for serving language models fast and cheaply. The latest release adds smarter memory handling for long conversations and faster GPU execution.
vLLM Skills Tool
Packaged skills for working with vLLM, published by the vLLM project itself, in the same portable Agent Skills format. Useful if you want an agent that can actually configure and debug a vLLM deployment rather than guessing at flags.
vLLM DeepSeek-V4 support Tool
vLLM shipped serving support for DeepSeek-V4's compressed long-context attention, including hybrid KV-cache management, multiple cache page sizes, kernel fusion and multi-stream partitioning. The engineering post documents the recipe and the hardware it assumes.
vLLM (Kimi K3 support) Tool
The widely used open-source serving engine landed day-zero Kimi K3 support with a documented recipe, an FAQ on minimum hardware, and a K3-specific DSpark draft model for speculative decoding that roughly triples single-user throughput.
vLLM Tool
The popular open engine for serving AI models fast and efficiently when you need to handle real traffic.
transformer-vm Tool
Compiles C programs to WebAssembly and then into analytically constructed transformer weights, with a C++ engine that executes them inside the model at about 30,000 tokens per second.
tool-eval-bench Tool
A public benchmark harness for testing tool calling against OpenAI-compatible local and hosted serving endpoints.
smol-kimi-k3 Tool
A runnable 49-million-parameter from-scratch trainer that deliberately keeps Kimi K3's unusual architectural ingredients rather than collapsing into a vanilla transformer, including the 3-to-1 KDA and gated MLA rhythm, ShortConv-based KDA, attention residuals, stable latent mixture of experts, and no positional encoding. Ships the recipe, a 10k-step checkpoint and verification checks, and is explicit that it is an architecture study rather than a capability claim.
slotstream Tool
A single Swift binary that runs the 104 GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next mixture-of-experts model on Apple Silicon Macs with far less memory, by streaming expert weights off the SSD. Speaks the Ollama and OpenAI chat APIs, so existing tools work unchanged. About 12 tokens per second on a 48 GB Mac; needs roughly 110 GB of free disk.
slime Tool
The open-source large-scale asynchronous training framework from THUDM that Z.ai used to run the post-training scaling behind GLM-5.3.
rune Tool
A terminal editor built for working alongside coding agents -- markdown-first with syntax highlighting, Obsidian-style vaults and wikilinks, tables, task lists, auto-merge and crash recovery. Its author rewrote all 65,000 lines from Go to Rust for about $400 using Claude Fable.
riddle Tool
An open-source Rust app that turns a reMarkable Paper Pro into an interactive AI diary - handwrite a question and a vision LLM writes back in animated e-ink handwriting. Works with any OpenAI-compatible API. MIT-licensed.
reverse-skill Tool
A deployed cybersecurity skill pack for coding agents: instructions, a routing table that picks the method and tools for a given task type, a local tool inventory, scripts and sub-skills. It also keeps a field journal, writing task outcomes and lessons back to disk so later runs consult prior work. Persistent procedural memory by file mutation, with no verifier checking that each write improves future performance.
prime-rl Tool
Open-source RL post-training stack that splits rollout generation and gradient updates across GPUs, used in this week's widely discussed $500 fine-tune that beat five frontier configurations on a catalog-review workflow. Practical for teams that already have an automatically scored task and want to train a specialist rather than pay per call for a frontier model.
neuraloperator Tool
The open-source PyTorch library for Fourier neural operators and related architectures -- the toolkit behind FourCastNet and the plasma and lithography surrogates. If you want to try learning a solution operator for a PDE instead of solving it step by step, this is the reference implementation.
minion Tool
Harrison Kinsley's deliberately lightweight coding harness, used as the control in his local benchmarks. Worth reading as the readable, small end of the harness spectrum before reaching for a heavier scaffold.
mcp-explorer Tool
Stateless command-line tool for probing any MCP server: list its tools, inspect a tool's input and output schemas, and call it with arguments. Runs without installation via uvx, and is the fastest way to see what a Model Context Protocol server actually exposes.
mattpocock/skills Tool
A small, composable set of engineering workflow skills - design review, issue triage, test-driven development, spec generation - deliberately built to plug into your process rather than own it. Installs into any harness that reads the Agent Skills format.
llama.cpp-gfx906 Tool
A llama.cpp fork with hand-written kernels for AMD's GFX906 architecture, making used Instinct MI50, MI60, and Radeon VII cards usable for local inference. Ships custom flash-attention, RoPE, and matrix-multiply paths plus overclocking and power-scaling scripts.
llama.cpp v0.1.0 Tool
The engine behind most local AI setups published its first semantic-looking version tag on August 17, 2026, pinned to commit 7c35571. Useful mainly to packagers and anyone who needs a version string a dependency resolver understands; the project still makes no API-stability promise.
llama.cpp b10228 Tool
The release that adds DeepSeek V4 Flash's embedded DSpark speculative-decoding head, plus a converter that can split the draft tensors into a separate GGUF. Gains are workload-dependent: roughly 2x decode on large multi-GPU setups, and a measured slowdown on a 24 GB card with CPU offload.
llama.cpp b10217 Tool
The 1 August build adds support for DeepSeek V4 Flash emitting tool calls inside its reasoning block, which is what was silently killing local agent runs against the new model. If you are running DS4 locally with tools, this is the build you need.
llama.cpp (MCP tool hosting) Tool
The most widely used local LLM server now launches and manages local Model Context Protocol tool processes itself, discovers their tools and exposes them through its chat API - turning a plain inference server into an agent host. Off by default; needs a tool-capable chat template.
llama.cpp Tool
The lean, fast engine that makes big models run on ordinary laptops; powers much of the local-AI ecosystem.
jlens-gguf Tool
A GGUF-native implementation of Anthropic's Jacobian Lens for local models, with a browser UI to visualize, swap, and ablate a model's internal concepts live as it generates through llama.cpp.
harness-training Tool
A small PyTorch-shaped framework for treating an agent harness as the thing being trained: the harness file is the weights, an improvement agent is the gradient estimator, a deterministic task panel is the loss, and promotion or rejection is the optimizer step. Built around reproducible, deterministic runs.
gget Tool
An open-source command-line and Python tool for querying genomic databases with exact, deterministic lookups. New benchmark work showed wrapping an AI agent around gget's 'virus' module lifted viral-sequence retrieval accuracy from as low as 17% to above 90% -- a concrete template for pairing models with hard tools.
design.md Tool
A simple convention from Google Labs for writing a DESIGN.md file that gives an AI coding assistant the context and intent it needs before it starts writing code, aimed at fewer wrong turns on bigger tasks.
cognee Tool
An open-source persistent-memory layer for AI agents with remember, recall, forget, and improve operations over a graph-plus-vector store, able to run graph relations, embeddings, session cache, and metadata in a single Postgres instead of four services.
codebase-memory-mcp Tool
Indexes an entire codebase into a persistent, queryable knowledge graph so AI agents can understand large projects fast. Supports a huge range of programming languages, answers queries near-instantly, and ships as a single dependency-free binary.
code-review-graph Tool
Parses a repository with Tree-sitter into a local SQLite graph of code entities and relations, then traces callers, dependents, and tests for a changed file to give an agent a narrow, blast-radius review set via MCP, plus a PR-commenting GitHub Action.
cloudflare/computer Tool
MIT-licensed sandboxed filesystem and compute primitive for giving an agent a working machine, which hit number one on GitHub Trending the day it shipped. Its own README labels the APIs unstable and not suitable for production yet, so treat it as a preview.
agent-skills Tool
Addy Osmani's collection of production-grade, reusable skills for AI coding agents, trending near the top of GitHub this week.
agency-agents Tool
An open-source library of 150-plus specialized AI agent personas across 13-plus professional divisions, built to run multi-agent workflows natively in Claude Code with conversion scripts for other agentic coding tools.
VulnHunter Tool
Capital One's open-source agentic AI tool that analyzes source code from an attacker's perspective, tries to disprove its own findings before reporting them, and writes targeted fixes. Built for Claude Opus 4.8 in Claude Code; Apache 2.0.
Voicebox Tool
A local-first voice stack bundling voice cloning, TTS, Whisper transcription and dictation, a refinement model, a REST API, and a built-in MCP server so an agent can speak, transcribe, and manage voice profiles without cloud calls.
Virtual Lab Tool
The open-source multi-agent research framework behind the Nature nanobody paper, where an LLM principal investigator coordinates specialist agents over tools like ESM, AlphaFold-Multimer and Rosetta. Runnable on your own project with your own agent roster.
Unsloth (AMD support) Tool
The fine-tuning and RL toolkit now documents AMD support across training, RL, chat, and deployment on Windows, WSL, and Linux, plus a cross-platform Studio beta.
Unsloth Tool
Toolkit and documentation for running and fine-tuning large open models faster and on smaller hardware, including aggressive dynamic quantization recipes that shrink models like GLM 5.2 by 80-plus percent while keeping most of their accuracy. The practical on-ramp to running near-frontier models privately.
TurboFieldfare Tool
A Swift and Metal runtime that runs Gemma 4's 26B model on an 8GB MacBook Air by keeping a 1.35GB core resident and streaming the rest of the experts off the SSD. Ships as a Mac app, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible local server.
TorchLean Tool
A Lean 4 framework for formalizing, executing and verifying neural networks, with typed tensors, exact and finite-precision semantics, verified reverse-mode differentiation, and CROWN/LiRPA-style bound checking. Early and CPU-bound by its authors' own account, but it is the most concrete attempt yet at machine-checked robustness guarantees.
TimesFM Tool
Google's pre-trained foundation model for time-series forecasting — predicting things that change over time, like demand, traffic, or sensor readings — usable out of the box without training your own model.
The Stack v3 Tool
Hugging Face's code corpus, now with source text embedded inline rather than behind identifiers. A 15.9 TB deduplicated, PII-redacted training split of roughly 4.9 trillion tokens, plus a 113.7 TB unfiltered bucket for teams that want to build their own mix.
The Slop Index Tool
An open leaderboard scoring how much like generic AI prose a model writes, combining blind pairwise crowd votes with mechanical style measures against a pre-2022 human reference corpus. Methodology and generations are public; treat the rankings as a prototype, since the project's own published counts do not reconcile.
TencentDB Agent Memory Tool
MIT-licensed memory layer that compresses conversation history into a semantic hierarchy of atoms, scenarios, and personas, with a gateway exposing capture, search, and recall endpoints. Its own benchmarks report token savings in the 31 to 61 percent range. Note that bearer auth and CORS allow-listing both default to off.
Strix Tool
Open-source autonomous AI pentesting agents that dynamically find and exploit application vulnerabilities, generate working proof-of-concepts, and integrate with GitHub Actions and CI/CD to block insecure code on every pull request.
Station Tool
An open-source open-world environment where AI agents from different model families pursue a shared research goal with no coordinator, choosing directions and writing into a shared literature. Suited to tasks that are scorable and finish in about two hours. Needs model-provider API keys and the OpenAI Codex CLI.
StateM Tool
An open-source state-machine runtime for long-running CLI agents: durable states, checked transitions, hooks, and shareable runbooks that survive across models. Its published runbook took an unmodified frontier model to 95.3 percent on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
Sol-Attn (Sol-Engine) Tool
NVIDIA's drop-in sparse attention kernel for long-video diffusion transformers, released July 28 for HunyuanVideo-13B and Wan2.1-T2V-14B. Screens compressed key/value blocks inside a single online-softmax pass, so exact attention goes where it matters and skipped blocks get an approximate correction. Training-free, no weight changes, reported up to 2.1x for generation and 2.3x for editing. The repo marks end-to-end re-benchmarks for the two integrated pipelines as pending.
Skill Self-Play Tool
Apache-2.0 release of a system that grows and prunes a library of skill packages, each with routing metadata, examples and an executable validator, then trains a solver on the tasks they generate. Includes benchmark material and training launchers; expects eight visible GPUs.
SimpleOPD Tool
An on-policy distillation implementation that works between models with different tokenizers, aligning only the text spans both vocabularies agree on. That lets a teacher in one model family train a student in another without building a vocabulary bridge.
SiLA 2 Tool
A free and open standard for laboratory instrument interoperability built on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, with a multi-part specification and a public repository. The incumbent open standard in the space AI-native hardware interfaces are now entering.
SearchOS Tool
Open-source (MIT) multi-agent web-research framework that treats search like an operating system: progress lives in an explicit evidence graph, coverage map, frontier task queue, and failure memory instead of chat history, with a pipeline-parallel scheduler. Ships a CLI/TUI, web frontend, installer, and replayable sessions.
SLAI T-Rex Tool
The public workflow behind a full-parameter Ascend post-training run on a DeepSeek-V4-family model: FP8-to-BF16-to-Megatron checkpoint conversion, launch templates, and inspectable data-construction pipelines for continued pre-training and supervised fine-tuning. The production engine and custom kernels are withheld.
SGLang v0.5.13 Tool
A high-performance open serving engine for language models. The new version turns on faster 'guess-ahead' decoding by default and trims scheduling overhead for quicker responses.
SGLang (Kimi K3 cookbook) Tool
Alternative open-source serving engine with day-zero K3 support and a step-by-step deployment cookbook. Its writeup documents how prefix caching, paging and prefill/decode disaggregation were rebuilt to handle K3's mix of recurrent and key-value state.
SGLang Tool
The other serving stack DeepSeek's official 0731 model card documents as supporting DSpark directly, alongside the recommended FP8 key-value cache and FP4 indexer cache configuration for V4 Flash.
Resource2Skill Tool
Microsoft runtime that compiles tutorials, repos, and articles into structured, executable agent skills with provenance. MIT-licensed, with skill libraries for Web, PowerPoint, Excel, Blender, and audio.
RAGFlow Tool
An open engine for building AI question-answering over your own files and documents.
Qwen Code Tool
Alibaba's open-source command-line coding agent, whose 30 July update adds persistent background agents, reusable skills and UI-agent tooling. Free to run against local or hosted Qwen models.
Program-as-Weights demo Tool
A public demo and code for compiling natural-language task specs into tiny neural artifacts that run locally on a frozen small model, matching much larger models on narrow fuzzy tasks.
Program-as-Weights Tool
Turns a plain-English task spec into a small weight file that a frozen 0.6B model runs locally -- matching a 32B model's quality at roughly one-fiftieth the memory and about 30 tokens/sec on a MacBook M3. Open repo and site for compiling cheap, offline 'fuzzy' text programs.
Prime Agent Tool
Open-source self-improving coding agent that gives the model a persistent Python session as its main tool - files, shell, sub-agents and context management all happen as code, and working state survives past a single chat window. MIT licensed; number one on GitHub Trending today.
Pointer Bench Tool
A 1,500-task benchmark for GUI grounding across spreadsheets, text documents and professional applications, built by Warmwind because general agent scores do not transfer to office software. Public leaderboard, open dataset on Hugging Face, and code on GitHub -- useful if you are evaluating whether a screen-driving agent can actually hit the right cell.
OpenMontage Tool
An open-source system that turns an AI coding assistant into an automated video-production studio, with a large library of pipelines, tools, and agent skills for editing and assembling video.
OpenCode Tool
An open coding agent shown this week to send a fraction of the fixed token overhead of some rivals, with a stable prompt-cache prefix; works against frontier and local models alike.
OpenClaw Tool
The fastest-growing repo on GitHub, now a MIT-licensed nonprofit, a neutral open framework for building AI agents that plug into any model or lab.
OpenART Tool
Docker-native framework for red-teaming AI agents by evolving the executable environment around them rather than the prompt, shipping a runnable runtime plus bundled high-complexity task examples and the managed tool subset they need. AGPL-3.0.
OpenAI Whisper Tool
OpenAI's open-source speech-recognition model family and the reference baseline Apple's SpeechAnalyzer was measured against - freely runnable locally in sizes from tiny to large for transcription and translation.
Open WebUI Tool
A polished, ChatGPT-style web interface for the open models you run yourself.
OmniRoute Tool
A free open-source AI gateway that unifies 230-plus model providers (including many free tiers) behind one endpoint, with token-compression, smart auto-fallback, and multi-agent protocol support, available as a desktop app and PWA.
Ollama 0.31 Tool
Run open models on your own computer; the new version nearly doubles Gemma's speed on Apple Silicon using multi-token prediction, on by default.
Oh My Pi Tool
Full-featured terminal agent harness that an independent benchmarker measured lifting DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 from 44 to 64 solved tasks on an 89-task terminal benchmark, with no change to the model. It costs several times the tokens per solve.
OfficeCLI Tool
A command-line tool that lets AI agents read and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, one of the week's fastest-rising agent-infrastructure repos on GitHub.
NOOA Tool
NVIDIA's open agent framework, contributed as the flagship technical artifact of the Open Secure AI Alliance. Its README is candid that it is research software and that its generated-code checks are not a containment boundary, so run agents in OS-level isolation.
Munder Difflin Tool
A local-first Electron app that runs a whole office of CLI coding agents on your own machine, wrapping 12 agent providers behind an on-disk message hive with per-agent inboxes and a single git committer to avoid lock collisions. Code and keys stay local by default.
Multi-Head Latent Control Tool
Freezes a model and attaches two small heads that read its hidden states to decide whether to answer, use a tool, ask for information, abstain, or escalate to a stronger model. Open-sourced with matching small checkpoints; needs white-box access.
MiniMax H3 GitHub Tool
Official repository for running H3 locally, including inference code and MiniMax's own prompt-writing skills for getting usable results out of the multimodal context format.
MinerU Tool
Open-source tool that converts complex PDFs and office files into clean markdown and structured data that AI models can read reliably. Run it yourself for free, with nothing leaving your machine.
MindSpeed-LLM Tool
Huawei's official large-model training toolkit for Ascend NPUs, covering distributed layouts, checkpoint conversion and supported model families. Worth reading its support table honestly -- DeepSeekV4-Flash is currently marked Prototype, its label for not-fully-validated features.
Microsoft Memora Tool
Open-source memory system for AI agents that stores rich content but searches it via tiny abstraction labels and cue anchors, cutting token cost on long-horizon tasks. Includes a distillable retriever.
Microsoft Flint Tool
An open-source visualization language that lets agents describe a chart in JSON and compile it reliably to Vega-Lite, ECharts, or Chart.js, with a Model Context Protocol server for direct tool use.
Mference Tool
Runs DeepSeek V4 Flash on Apple silicon by keeping the shared core, attention and cache resident while streaming each token's routed experts off the SSD. Publishes an unusually honest memory budget: about 3 GB working set, 90 to 98 GB on disk, tested at a 4,000-token context on a 24 GB Mac, with no quality parity test yet.
Mesh LLM Tool
Runs models too big for one machine by splitting them across networked peers over serverless peer-to-peer transport; ~18 MB install, 40+ models up to 235B, OpenAI-compatible API on localhost.
LiveKit Agents Tool
Production framework for building realtime voice agents, with interchangeable speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech, and realtime components plus semantic turn detection. This is the plumbing layer around a voice model rather than a duplex model itself, and it trended on GitHub today.
LatentMAS Tool
A training-free framework for multi-agent collaboration that passes last-layer hidden states and cached internal state between agents instead of text messages, reporting 70.8 to 83.7 percent fewer output tokens and roughly four times faster end-to-end inference. Already has an extension ecosystem including science, retrieval and hybrid variants.
Large Discovery Models Tool
Released code for a discovery loop that pairs a generative proposer with a Bayesian surrogate scored on real experimental results rather than model confidence, applied to molecules, antibodies and training configurations.
LLMRouter Tool
A unified framework for building, evaluating and deploying model routers, with a quickstart, single and batch routing calls, and a benchmark that dispatches queries across eighteen candidate models with cost tracking.
KoboldCpp v1.118 Tool
Single-binary local model server that shipped its own fix for multi-turn DeepSeek V4 Flash prompt-processing problems on the same day as the llama.cpp fix. Useful if you want a working DS4 setup without building anything.
Kimi CLI Tool
Moonshot's Apache-2.0 terminal agent for driving Kimi models from the command line for coding and tool use. Open-source software (distinct from the K3 model weights, due July 27).
JarvisHub Tool
Canvas-native agent runtime where a typed graph of artifacts, versions, dependencies and provenance replaces the chat transcript as the agent's memory and action surface. Ships web, API, runtime, schema and trace-viewer components with local persistence.
Jacobian Lens (J-lens) Tool
Anthropic's open-source tool that reads a model's silent 'working memory' - for any word, it finds the internal pattern that makes the model more likely to say it later. Apache-2.0, with a live interactive demo on open models.
Hugging Face speech-to-speech Tool
Local voice-activity detection to speech recognition to language model to text-to-speech pipeline, threaded through queues and exposed as an OpenAI Realtime-compatible server so existing clients can point at it unchanged.
Headroom Tool
A drop-in proxy that sits between your coding assistant and the AI model and automatically compresses bulky tool outputs, logs, and retrieved text before they reach the model — cutting token usage sharply without changing your code.
Hallmark Tool
A design skill you install into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex that forces AI-generated interfaces to look designed rather than generated. It picks a different page structure per brief, applies one of 20 named themes, and runs 57 anti-slop gates plus a self-critique pass before emitting anything -- banning fabricated statistics, inline color values, fake browser chrome, and italic headers. MIT licensed, 6.2k stars.
HEIR Tool
Google's compiler for fully homomorphic encryption: write a high-level program with annotations marking which values are secret, and it compiles down to backends including OpenFHE, Lattigo, tfhe-rs and Jaxite. Explicitly not an officially supported Google product.
Grok Build Tool
xAI's agentic coding harness and terminal interface, published under Apache 2.0. Genuinely useful if you want to read how a frontier lab wires a production coding agent, and the license lets you fork and ship it. Note the governance: the contributing guide says external contributions are not accepted, and the repo is a one-way bot-pushed mirror of an internal monorepo.
GigaToken Tool
An open-source native BPE tokenizer optimized with SIMD byte scanning and instruction-level parallelism, best used for fast offline corpus preparation and bulk token counting rather than end-to-end serving speedups.
Gemma-4 12B Coder (GGUF) Tool
A fine-tuned, locally-runnable version of Google's Gemma-4 model specialized for programming tasks, packaged in a format that runs efficiently on everyday consumer hardware.
Gambit Tool
An inference algorithm that prunes unpromising reasoning trajectories and immediately branches new ones from strong prefixes, keeping the hardware busy. Its authors report up to 68.5 percent fewer total tokens than standard parallel sampling with higher accuracy; code is public.
GPTurk Tool
EPFL's released code for detecting language-model-assisted submissions in crowd work, combining keystroke logging with a synthetic-versus-real text classifier. Practical for anyone buying human-labeled data who needs to check whether the labels were actually written by people rather than pasted from a chatbot.
GLM-5.2 Tool
A flagship openly-available language model with a very large context window for long documents and code. Free to download and run yourself, with compressed versions for more modest hardware.
Free Claude Code Tool
MIT-licensed local proxy that lets Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other coding agents run against roughly 50 different providers, preserving Anthropic's wire protocol so the client never notices. Routes each internal model tier to a different upstream.
FpSan (Floating-Point Sanitizer) Tool
Open-source correctness checker for Triton GPU kernels, and the tool OpenAI says it used to validate the production kernels GPT-5.6 Sol rewrote. It compares symbolic computation under its own payload algebra rather than simulating IEEE floating point, so results should be compared only against other FpSan runs. Useful for anyone writing or generating custom kernels who needs to catch numerical breakage before it reaches production.
Fortress Tool
Open-core stealth Chromium with C++-level fingerprint patches that lets browser agents and scrapers pass bot detection (Cloudflare, DataDome, Turnstile); ships 29 pre-built MCP tools for the agentic web.
Formal Conjectures Tool
Google DeepMind's open Lean library of formally stated open mathematical conjectures, now the venue where the claimed Jacobian conjecture counterexample is being reviewed in public. A usable resource if you want machine-checkable statements of open problems rather than prose.
FlowEvo Tool
Training-free framework that compiles an agent's successful workflows into callable executable skills, stores them in a persistent bank, and suppresses entries that hurt later tasks. Reported 85.6 percent on ALFWorld at roughly a third the tokens. COLM 2026.
FilmOps + FilmBench Tool
Public benchmark assets for judging generated video on professional film craft instead of generic prettiness. FilmOps ships six specialized operators covering shot scale, composition, camera angle, color and tone, character layout and camera movement; the companion FilmBench dataset supplies prompts reverse-engineered from professionally selected clips, most of which require multi-shot continuity. Authors report weaker agreement with human raters on audio and editing than on visual categories.
FastMCP Tool
A Python toolkit that turns ordinary functions into Model Context Protocol tools, resources, and prompts with generated schemas, validation, and docs, and a client that handles transport negotiation, auth, and protocol lifecycle.
Evo Tool
Arc Institute's family of genome language models, released openly with code and checkpoints. Used by Arc and Stanford to generate complete synthetic bacteriophage genomes that were then built and tested in the lab against non-pathogenic bacterial hosts.
ECC Tool
Cross-host configuration for coding agents: shared skills, rules, commands and hooks plus security scans and gates that work across Claude Code, Codex and others, so one policy set follows you between harnesses.
DuckDB Tool
The in-process analytics database that a large share of data-science and AI-evaluation tooling runs on -- no server, just a library. Worth a mention today because AWS is acquiring DuckLabs while the project itself stays MIT-licensed under the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation, with more than a million downloads a day.
DoltLite Tool
A SQLite fork with Git-style version control over your tables -- branches, diffs, commits and merges on data. Reached beta on August 31, 2026; passes 100 percent of sqllogictest (5.8 million queries) and 99.46 percent of SQLite's acceptance tests.
Destructive Command Guard Tool
A drop-in hook that blocks catastrophic shell commands (git reset --hard, rm -rf, DROP TABLE) before AI coding agents run them, with sub-millisecond latency and support for nearly every major agent.
Depth-Anything-3 Tool
ByteDance's depth estimation model and code, used as a geometry backbone by other systems including AlayaWorld. Weights are published on Hugging Face and the repository is the standard integration path for recovering per-pixel depth from ordinary images and video.
DeerFlow Tool
ByteDance's open-source agent harness that breaks a long task into specialist sub-agents running in parallel, executes code safely in sandboxes, keeps memory across sessions, and produces reports, slides, and pages; built on LangChain and works with multiple model providers.
DeepSeek Harness Tool
Protocol-aware adapter for DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash that handles the wire-level quirks a plain OpenAI client drops, including preserving reasoning_content across tool-calling turns and aggregating interleaved parallel tool-call chunks by index. Ships as a Python library, CLI, MCP server, and skill.
DeepSeek DSpark Tool
Open-source speculative-decoding implementation using parallel tree drafting to speed up text generation with no change to the model's output - the project that topped Hacker News this week. Drop-in inference speedups for self-hosted models.
DataFlow-WebUI Tool
An open-source platform where an LLM agent builds persistent, editable data-processing pipelines as validated graphs through a conversational interface and visual editor, instead of emitting throwaway scripts.
Cordis Tool
The plugin framework underneath DeepSeek Harness, describing itself as a meta-framework for spatiotemporal composability. It supplies runtime mount and unmount of components with revertible effects and reactive dependencies, so parts of a running system can be swapped while the pieces depending on them react correctly instead of silently breaking.
ComfyUI-SolAttn-H3 Tool
A ComfyUI custom node that wires NVIDIA's training-free Sol-Attn sparse attention into the native MiniMax-H3 video path using public ModelPatcher APIs, so it drops in without modifying any ComfyUI core files. Keeps a prefix sink exact and sparsifies the remaining attention via a tunable threshold, with the gain growing as sequence length grows.
ComfyUI Tool
A visual, node-based studio for generating images and video with open models. Powerful and endlessly extensible.
Codex app-server Tool
OpenAI's now-open-source agent harness, exposed as a bidirectional JSON-RPC server you can embed in your own application: persistent threads, streamed events, mid-turn interruption, client-owned tools, and human approval handoffs. Apache-2.0.
Cloudflare OS Tool
Open-source platform where agents never hold credentials: a Gatekeeper does the OAuth and hands the agent a typed capability scoped to one resource, and every user-built app runs sandboxed with its own SQLite state. Runs locally on workerd for evaluation, or deploys into your own Cloudflare account.
Claw-Eval Tool
Open benchmark for scoring multi-turn conversation quality in local models, separating answer quality from clarifying-question behavior. Used in TielCoder's published comparisons.
Claude Video Tool
A /watch skill that downloads a video, extracts adaptive keyframes, pulls existing captions or falls back to Whisper transcription, and hands the material to the host coding agent. An input adapter rather than a planner.
Caveman Tool
A skill that compresses AI agent responses into terse output, cutting roughly 65% of output tokens while preserving technical accuracy across 30-plus coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini.
CachyLLama Tool
MIT-licensed llama.cpp fork that saves conversation and system-prompt caches to SSD and restores them after a restart, so local agents stop reprocessing the same prompt prefix every turn. Its own benchmark reports long repeated agent prefixes going from minutes cold to about a second warm.
Boogu-Image 0.1 Tool
An open-source unified image understanding and generation model family (Base, Turbo, Edit, Edit-Turbo) with instruction-based editing and bilingual Chinese-English text rendering, trained for roughly $400K. Apache 2.0.
Berd Tool
Block's open-source Tauri desktop application for working with AI agents, wrapping the Goose backend over a WebSocket connection and adding projects, skills, extensions, automations, providers and session history in one window. Apache 2.0.
AutoSaddler Tool
Microsoft's released framework for automatically improving an agent harness from its own failure traces. It diagnoses failed runs, generates structured patches to prompts, tool configurations and control logic, and keeps only patches that survive held-out validation. Reported gains of 9 to 10 points on GAIA2, SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0 without touching model weights.
Anubis WebAssembly challenges Tool
An open-source anti-scraping proof-of-work system adding a faster WebAssembly, memory-hard argon2id challenge path with a no-WASM fallback.
Anthropic Fermat's Last Theorem Lean repository Tool
A public Lean codebase for Anthropic's formalization of a classical proof route for Fermat's Last Theorem.
Anthropic Commerce Agents Tool
A runnable shopping agent and merchant agent from Anthropic, built on a single model in one agent loop with no intent router and no sub-agents. Ships four vertical examples (retail, travel, telecom, entertainment) and runs through the Messages API, the Agent SDK or Managed Agents. Checkout handoff and staged merchant writes are enforced in code rather than in the prompt.
AREX-Skill Tool
A public library of over 5,000 verified agent skills distilled from 1,000 GitHub repositories, organised into 20 areas and 178 capability families. A router narrows a request to an area, family, repository and workflow so only the needed branch loads. Uses the open Agent Skills format for portability.
AIRI Tool
Self-hosted embodied assistant with a Live2D or VRM character, voice, persistent memory, local inference support, and game and chat integrations. A vertical application rather than a general agent framework.
1F916 Tool
Public discussion forum whose citizens are AI agents, reachable only by JSON API or MCP. Registration issues a secret key, posting is capped at one per day, and the whole ledger is a checkable hash chain. Useful as a working reference design for agent-to-agent coordination.
10S-Comfy-nodes (LTX Tiled Sampler) Tool
A drop-in replacement for ComfyUI's SamplerCustomAdvanced that fixes LTX 2.5's broad colour smearing by sampling in spatial tiles, keeping each tile inside the model's training token count instead of running a 2x-upscaled latent, then stitching with cosine-Hann overlap blending. Actively maintained with external contributions.