https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/05/14/vmware-desktop-hypervisor-pro-apps-now-available-for-personal-use/

VMware Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro are both now available free for personal use.

https://higherorderco.com

Probably not really interesting for most of the people, but a small team figured out how to bring (fast) gpu programming to higher level languages. This is a big step as CUDA is cool, but often a bit too hard for specific tasks. A good slogan here would be "Feels like Python, scales like CUDA".
"When compiling non-sequential programs from a high-level programming language to C and CUDA, we achieved a near-ideal parallel
speedup as a function of cores available..."

The paper is also quite interesting: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM/main/paper/PAPER.pdf

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/

Microsoft announced a new product line called Copilot+ PCs. They are arm based and focus on running AI models locally.

Besides that, Microsoft says that they "outperform Apple’s MacBook Air 15” by up to 58% in sustained multithreaded performance[3], all while delivering all-day battery life. With incredible efficiency, Copilot+ PCs can deliver up to 22 hours of local video playback or 15 hours of web browsing on a single charge.[4] That is up to 20% more battery in local video playback than the MacBook Air 15”.[5]".
We don’t know which task they tried here but it’s still a statement.

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

This very simple tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.

https://pikimov.com/

Free alternative to editors such as Adobe After Effects
• Web-based: nothing to install
• For Windows, macOS and Linux
• Import images, videos, audios and 3D models
• Video effects
• Layer based compositions
• Keyframes animation system
• Your files stay on your computer, they are not uploaded to a server

https://github.com/ZacharyL2/KeyEcho

KeyEcho, an application that listens to your keyboard typing and plays pleasing sounds (like mechanical keyboard sounds). Built with Tauri, it's cross-platform and highly performant.

https://github.com/evanrolfe/trayce_gui

TrayceGUI is a cross-platform desktop application which lets you interface with the TrayceAgent to monitor network requests in Docker containers.

https://timelinize.com/

https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize


Timelinize organizes your photos & videos, chats & messages, location history, social media content, contacts, and more into a single place where you can view them in ways you never thought possible. All your data is stored on your own computer.

https://github.com/eythaann/Seelen-UI

The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11 with a windows tiling manager included. Seamlessly integrated into your system, Seelen UI unlocks a world of possibilities, offering an extensive array of customization features to sculpt your desktop into a personalized masterpiece of efficiency and style.

Not sure how useful it is at the end, but it looks like an interesting project.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223811/apple-podcasts-web-app

Apple Podcasts now has a web app (written in svelte (y))

https://polar.sh/

https://github.com/polarsource/polar


An open source Lemon Squeezy alternative with 20%+ lower fees released version 1.0 today.

https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/releases/tag/2.0.0

Clipboard manager for macOS released version 2.0

https://github.com/hcengineering/platform

All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)

https://github.com/Danil0v3s/CleanMeter

Sleek overlay for MSI Afterburner

https://hnup.date/

Hourly news broadcast with data from the front page of hacker news. Fully AI generated.

https://github.com/faroedev/faroe

Faroe is an open source, self-hosted, and modular backend for email and password authentication created by the creator of lucia auth.

https://faroe.dev/

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-developer-choice-to-copilot/

You can now choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview as model in GitHub Copilot.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/

Thunderbird is now available on Android. If you previously used K9 you can migrate quite easily!

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/07/introducing-hyperlight-virtual-machine-based-security-for-functions-at-scale/

"We built Hyperlight as a library to execute functions as fast as possible while isolating those functions within a VM. Hyperlight is able to create new VMs in one to two milliseconds.

To give you a sense of how fast Hyperlight is, a one to two millisecond cold start for each VM is fast enough that it becomes practical to spin up VMs as needed in response to events."