Dikshant Sharma

Software Engineer | World Traveller | Eternal Learner

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

Someone open-sourced a PDF parser that converts 100 pages per second to Markdown.

100% free. on a CPU. no GPU. no cloud. no API key.

→ 100 pages per second.
→ handles tables, nested layouts, complex docs.
→ built-in OCR for 80+ languages via hybrid mode.
→ official LangChain integration.

It's called OpenDataLoader and it just took the #1 spot in every PDF-to-Markdown benchmark.

The wildest part is that docling scores 0.86 and is 15x slower. marker needs a GPU and is 1,000x slower. Pymupdf4llm is fast but scores 0.40 on tables.

This thing beats every one of them. on a CPU.

Built with the PDF Association and the veraPDF team the people who literally write the PDF standards.

8.6k stars. Apache 2.0. zero proprietary dependencies.

[Jainam Parmar @aiwithjainam]

10 OPEN-SOURCE AI TRADING AND FINANCE REPOS THAT SHOULDN'T BE FREE

Bookmark every one. Hedge funds pay six figures a year for what these give away for $0.

1. https://t.co/fZ4AXhfnY2

A Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000 a year per seat. OpenBB gives you equities, options, crypto, macro, and fundamentals pulled from dozens of data vendors into one workspace, with an AI copilot on top.

2. https://t.co/JV8Te5qWZ9

The other Bloomberg killer, rebuilt as a native C++ desktop app for speed. 37 AI agents covering value investing to geopolitics, full QuantLib integration, and direct trading through 16 brokers including Interactive Brokers.

3. https://t.co/dJjCB0tpbA

A full hedge fund team made of 18 AI agents. Buffett, Munger, Burry, Cathie Wood, and Druckenmiller each analyze the same stock from their own philosophy, then a portfolio manager makes the call. Backtesting built in.

4. https://t.co/cNZ4y7nvIm

An autonomous hedge fund in Python. Four agents run back to back: a Director writes the thesis, a Quant validates it, a Risk Manager sizes the position and can block the trade, and an Execution agent places the order only after everything clears.

5. https://t.co/W3YMOLYbue

A DAG-based multi-agent quant system where specialists debate and hand off while you watch the reasoning stream live. 64 finance skills, 29 swarm presets, cross-market backtesting. Ichimoku, Elliott Wave, Black-Scholes, Black-Litterman, full Greeks.

6. https://t.co/lvpe1hcyV2

Bloomberg spent millions training BloombergGPT and kept it locked inside the terminal. FinGPT is the open answer: financial language models you can fine-tune yourself for sentiment, forecasting, and analysis.

7. https://t.co/5Es2esXFPd

The first open framework for training deep reinforcement learning agents to trade. Funds pay quant teams to build pipelines like this from scratch.

8. https://t.co/8jn9ts4qmI

Microsoft's own AI quant platform. The full research pipeline funds build internally: data handling, alpha modeling, backtesting, and portfolio optimization, with supervised learning and RL baked in.

9. https://t.co/Odwbyp4Ayd

The backtesting engine retail traders pay TradingView and others monthly subscriptions to access. Backtrader runs strategies against years of historical data on your own machine, with live trading support for multiple brokers.

10. https://t.co/nIKh2w60jj

A full portfolio analytics tearsheet, Sharpe, Sortino, drawdown, rolling stats, the same risk report a fund's analytics desk produces. One line of Python turns your returns into an institutional-grade report.

A $24,000 Bloomberg seat. Or a Docker command. Your call.

[Dikshant Sharma @its_dikshant]

@sab8a Amazing, would love to try it out.

[Dikshant Sharma @its_dikshant]

GD47 greater than @JohnnyCash !!!!!!!

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@iuditg SaaS

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@thisachin @SpaceX No, they're 👽

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Legalize comedy

[Dikshant Sharma @its_dikshant]

This is why there are very few whistle blowers

[Dikshant Sharma @its_dikshant]

@upGrad_edu @mayank_kmr @nmims_india
Are UpGrad degrees legally recognized? Does WES , UGC recognise these degrees? (for example NMIMS MBA Business Analytics degree)

[Baptiste Robert @fs0c131y]

Hi @SetuAarogya,

A security issue has been found in your app. The privacy of 90 million Indians is at stake. Can you contact me in private?

Regards,

PS: @RahulGandhi was right

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

Nandkishore Singh, an animation artist, accused India TV of stealing his 3D animation video of the Ram Mandir which the channel showed as 'EXCLUSIVE'.

@Basantrajsonu reports.

https://t.co/R9PJVIjDWO

[KD Pathak's junior @SomaniRachit]

@thepeeinghuman Although it is wrong to say someone terrorist without court accepting the same but this trend is to tell IT cell that Gandhi is an ideology which hasn't died yet.
#TerroristPragyaThakur

[Official PeeingHuman @thepeeinghuman]

The relationship between BJP, Gandhi & Godse explained.
#TerroristPragyaThakur

[Intellectualness_MASS @intellect_mass]

@thepeeinghuman @YouTube @rjraunac