📦 dreamer-toby/stepquant

StepQuant: The Smart Way to Shrink AI Memory

Squeeze massive AI models into tight memory without losing their minds. StepQuant solves a tricky problem for neural networks that remember things over time. Instead of blindly chopping off precision everywhere, it figures out exactly which parts of the model's memory actually matter. It gives extra room to the bits that carry big, long-lasting errors and trims the rest. This lets you run big models on smaller hardware while keeping answers accurate. It is like packing a suitcase where you only fold the clothes you truly need. You get a much smaller footprint without the usual quality hit. Check it out if you care about efficient AI.

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📦 ajncsystem/shadowofthecolossus-pc

Shadow of the Colossus PC Port

Run the PlayStation exclusive Shadow of the Colossus natively on your Windows PC. This is not a standard emulator; it is a specialized loader that runs the game code directly on your processor while translating the graphics to Vulkan. The surprising part is how it handles the audio. Because the game uses specific console sound drivers, the launcher automatically searches your computer for existing emulator data to copy the necessary sound modules, meaning you get full audio without hunting for loose files. It even finds your save files and downloadable content on its own.

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📦 timescale/pg_vectorsearch

pg_vectorsearch: Fast Vector Search for PostgreSQL

Timescale’s new database extension, pg_vectorsearch, processes a hundred million data points using just a quarter of the memory required by existing graph-based methods. It achieves this speed by converting complex numbers into compact codes with strict error limits, allowing the system to instantly rule out irrelevant results before checking the original data. This project solves the heavy memory cost of finding similar items in a standard database, making massive scale searches practical without buying expensive hardware. It is currently an alpha version for testing, but it proves that high-performance similarity search can now live right inside your existing database tables.

📰 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086165

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📦 tornikebolokadze1-cyber/awesome-ai-pulse-georgia

Ask Your AI About This

Stop scrolling through endless GitHub lists to find the right AI tool. With this new feature, you can now ask your AI assistant directly for recommendations from a hand-picked collection of nearly four hundred verified projects. Instead of guessing which framework works for your specific coding task, you simply type a question into your editor, and the system searches a curated database to give you precise, categorized answers in both English and Georgian. It connects your AI assistant to a living library of developer resources, saving you hours of research. Now, your coding partner knows exactly where to look when you need help building with modern AI agents.

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📦 keplsiv/folderforge

FolderForge: The One-Click Mac Folder Styler

FolderForge lets you apply a single custom design to every folder in a specific directory using a smart rule system. Instead of manually changing icons one by one, you set a condition, like matching every folder named Receipts, and the app updates them all at once. It shows you exactly what will change before anything happens, so you can review the results safely. The tool keeps your original icons backed up locally, meaning you can undo the entire batch if you change your mind. Everything runs entirely on your machine with no accounts or data collection.

📰 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230965

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📦 openworkflowdev/openworkflow

OpenWorkflow: Your Code Survives the Crash

OpenWorkflow ensures your multi-step processes finish even if your server crashes or restarts in the middle of the job. It works by saving every single step of your code to a database, acting like a save point in a video game. If your application dies, the framework doesn't start over from scratch. Instead, it reads that database, skips all the work you already finished, and picks up exactly where you left off. This means you can build long-running tasks that take hours to complete, knowing they will survive power outages and deployment updates. The result is a system where your background jobs are permanently reliable without needing complex external infrastructure.

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📦 tintinweb/pi-subagents

Pi Subagents: The AI Fleet View

Pi Subagents is the pi extension that turns your coding assistant into a fleet of parallel workers. Instead of just chatting with one bot, it lets you spawn multiple autonomous agents that run at the same time, each handling a different part of your codebase. It mirrors the familiar tool patterns from Claude Code, so if you know that ecosystem, this feels right at home. The real kicker is the live widget and fleet view, which lets you watch every agent work in real time and steer them mid-run if they go off track. It is a clean, native way to orchestrate complex tasks without losing control.

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📦 myllmbox/qwen38-flash-next-recipe

Qwen38 Flash Next Recipe

A single desktop computer now serves a massive one hundred twenty five billion parameter artificial intelligence model at speeds that would have required a server rack just a year ago. This recipe project turns one Nvidia DGX Spark box into a local powerhouse, running the Qwen38 Flash Next model without needing a data center. The coolest part is the dynamic drafting system, which acts like a smart spell checker that guesses a few words ahead of time and then checks them instantly, making the output stream up to forty percent faster than previous versions.

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📦 feralfirmware/tailtalk

TailTalk: Talk to Your Old Macs

TailTalk is the network toolkit that finally lets modern computers talk to classic Macintosh systems. It rebuilds the entire AppleTalk protocol from scratch, meaning your current laptop can directly share files with a PowerBook from the nineties without any special drivers. The most surprising part is that it turns a simple USB dongle into a bridge, letting you drag and drop files between a modern computer and an old Mac using a standard serial port. It also lets you print to ancient LaserWriters from your current system. If you have old Apple hardware sitting in a drawer, this is the missing piece to bring it back to life.

📰 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49678423

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