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Edition · Sunday, November 8, 202655 new signals · 3.5k repos watched · 9 sources
tangerineturtle1/NX2navi▲ 797stars in the last day 2.4k total
3 days old

▲ 797 todayNew · 3d old

Ocarina of Time runs natively on Windows via Vulkan

NX2navi recompiles the Nintendo Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time into a native Windows executable. It uses a Vulkan renderer and supports high resolutions, widescreen, and GPU upscaling like DLSS or FSR.

Why it matters. Anyone who wants to play Ocarina of Time with modern graphics on a PC can build and run it themselves.

spotted Nov 8

Today in one paragraph. Today's theme is open-source projects that push the limits of what we can run at home, exemplified by a Switch 2 emulator that boots Zelda’s Ocarina of Time directly on a PC. From AI brand audits to uncensored model packs, the community is delivering tools that were once proprietary.

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The repo market

Open-source projects ranked by stars gained today, top 4 of 43

ProjectTodayTotal
libracoder/kiriNew · 8d oldKiri offers Docker-compatible containers that start in 2.5 msKiri is a tiny Rust-based runtime that runs Docker images on macOS, Windows and Linux. It replaces Docker Desktop with a 15 MB daemon that can spin up a container in about 2.5 ms and sleeps its VM after a minute of idle time. ▲ 1721.4k
opensandbox-group/OpenSandboxOpenSandbox lets AI agents run safely in micro-VM sandboxesOpenSandbox provides isolated Firecracker micro-VMs where AI agents can execute code, manage files, and control browsers without touching your host. You can start locally with Docker or scale to Kubernetes via a single API. ▲ 16816.9k
JosssphZhou/pokiNew · 5d oldAI agents can now control a real iPhone without jailbreakPoki runs a local MCP server that lets language-model agents send taps, swipes and text to a connected iPhone, reading the screen back as needed. It works on macOS (Apple Silicon) with Xcode, Node, Rust and ffmpeg, requiring no extra hardware or jailbreak. ▲ 153766
GyulyVGC/sniffnetComfortably monitor your network traffic 🕵️‍♂️ ▲ 15242.2k

New models

Trending on Hugging Face, top 3 of 5

563B GLM-5.3 model fits on a single B200 GPU

GLM-5.3-SLIM is a 563-billion-parameter language model compressed to 180 GB, allowing it to run entirely on one NVIDIA B200 or a Mac Studio with 192 GB of unified memory. It scores 92.7 % on HumanEval while being 24 % smaller than the full-size version.

1.3k likesNew · 8d old

The conversation

What builders are arguing about on Hacker News, top 4 of 7

  1. Hacker News

    Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

    622 points109 commentsRead the thread

  2. Hacker News

    A shared spec aims to unify agent memory formats

    The blog surveys the many incompatible ways AI agents store their memories and proposes a common data model, similar to OpenTelemetry, to let tools read each other's notes. It sketches how such a specification could look and why it matters.

    189 points101 commentsRead the thread

  3. Hacker News

    Claude learns to 'dream' and clean up its memory

    Claude now runs a sleep-time ‘dreaming’ phase where it replays its interaction logs, extracts useful facts and fixes errors. This offline pass lets the model keep a concise, up-to-date memory without constant human supervision.

    187 points77 commentsRead the thread

  4. Hacker News

    Waymark lets Python jobs survive crashes without extra services

    Waymark is a Python library that builds durable background tasks on top of Postgres, so your jobs keep running across server restarts and worker failures. It compiles workflows into a persistent state instead of replaying steps each time.

    82 points38 commentsRead the thread

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