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."

https://obsidian.md/clipper

Obsidian released their own web clipper as a browser extension. Easily capture pages and metadata to durable files you can read offline.

If you’re struggling with embedded images, I can recommend using obsidian-local-images or -plus.
They will add that natively in the future, but for now that seems the easiest way to download images locally.

https://macsyzones.com/

MacsyZones is a FancyZones equivalent for macOS. MacsyZones allows you to create layouts and sections in your layouts as you want and fit your windows into sections with ease.
It’s also open source: https://github.com/rohanrhu/MacsyZones

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-chat/

Mistral.ai released their own chat ai interface. Currently it’s free and already has Web, Canvas, Image and document support.

https://www.planckapp.com/

A thoughtfully crafted clipboard manager that protects your data and flows effortlessly between devices with real-time sync (macOS, Linux and windows). iOS and Android apps are coming soon (Q1-2025). They say everything is AES encrypted, looks promising (free but really new).

https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-acquires-grep

Vercel acquires grep.app to accelerate code search.
Grep allows developers to quickly search code across over 500,000 public git repositories. With the acquisition, founder Dan Fox will also be joining Vercel’s AI team to continue building Grep to enhance code search for developers.

https://www.plex.tv/blog/a-new-plex-experience-is-coming-get-a-mobile-preview-now/

A new plex experience is coming to mobile. UI seems new but with limited features. The Preview is available now!

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview

http://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/

Alibaba published a new open source model which outperforms o1 mini and preview on reasoning. In general it seems comparable to top models and in addition you can run it locally.

https://orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks

OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQLwhich uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system - it’s destined as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage. In current benchmarks it seems to be around 5.5x faster than the default storage system.

https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

"Earlier this year, we introduced Sora⁠, our model that can create realistic videos from text, and shared our initial research progress⁠ on world simulation. Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.

We’re releasing it today as a standalone product at Sora.com to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users."