hermes desktop just dropped and it’s a HUGEE DEAL
- native app for mac, windows, and linux no more terminal required
- one memory, one agent identity across telegram, discord, slack, whatsapp, signal and more
- visual skill timeline see exactly what your agent learned and when
- built-in cron scheduler with natural language no cron syntax needed
- isolated subagents for complex multi-task pipelines
- MCP browser to install and toggle integrations visually
- everything stays local… your keys, your memory, your data
crossed 140k github stars in under 3 months and now the most used agent on openrouter and they just made it accessible to everyone
this is the moment hermes goes mainstream @NousResearch
SOME GUY BUILT A 24/7 ONLINE RAVE IN YOUR BROWSER AND IT IS COMPLETELY FREE TO ATTEND
it's called Hallucinate.
you click one link, your browser loads a 3D field at night, and suddenly you are standing in a crowd of hundreds of low-poly strangers dancing under a moon to a youtube video playing on a giant screen.
there is no login. there is no wallet. there is no signup. you are just at the rave.
the rave has its own keyboard.
> 7 and 8 cycle your hair color
> 9 and 0 cycle your skin tone
> U and I cycle your hair style
> L and ; cycle your dance moves
> V is the wave emote
> B is the bounce emote
> SPACE bar is literally labeled "speak"
every other person in the room is a real human pressing the same keys, in real time. nobody ever stops dancing because the creator wrote on hacker news: "everybody dancing forever is crucial for the feeling. you don't stop dancing in a rave."
the dev who made it goes by the handle stagas. he says the entire thing was "vibe coded in its entirety" by an LLM. the commit messages on the repo are three words long: "cool." "jump jump." "perf." he has about 500 other repos on his github account.
the post went up on Show HN two days ago. it is currently sitting at 435 points and 193 comments and the top discussion in the thread is people arguing whether magic numbers in shaders.ts disqualify you from getting a job.
we built the global internet so that two strangers across the planet could fall in love or trade stocks or topple regimes. and the very best thing happening on it right now is a thousand cubes dancing forever under a fake moon.
the internet is healing.
6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.
marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha
full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here:
1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.
2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone.
3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for."
4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction.
5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain.
6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.
7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have.
8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI.
9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head.
10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything.
11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want.
12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years.
13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.
14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.
15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free.
16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out.
17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.
"I'm out of free API credits" is officially over 🤯
FreeLLMAPI is an open-source proxy. Each provider's free tier is a toy on its own. Stacked together they add up to ~800M tokens a month.
→ Google, Groq, Cerebras, NVIDIA, Mistral + 9 more
→ Drop-in OpenAI endpoint, just swap base_url
→ Auto failover when a provider hits its rate limit
100% Open Source.
there's no catch; SAM3 is open source and really good
one of the things it does really well is object tracking, even in crazy complex scenes like basketball
probably my favorite computer vision model ever
Someone built a tool that lets Claude Code autonomously test your entire IOS app
It navigate your entire app, opens every screen, tests every flow, reads the debug logs, and hands you a structured bug report.
one prompt and that's it
this TTS model generates speech 167x faster than you can hear it.
Supertonic is an on-device TTS engine that runs via ONNX for cross-platform inference.
- no GPU
- 31 languages
- captures every emotion
- beats ElevenLabs on speed
- runs even on a Raspberry Pi
100% open-source.
THIS GUY BUILT A SCREEN RECORDER THAT MAKES YOUR DEMOS LOOK LIKE AN APPLE COMMERCIAL
every founder right now has the same problem. you build something cool but your demo video looks HORRIBLE (like a janky screen recording from 2014)
this tool records your screen and automatically makes it look cinematic
here's what it does:
> records both screen and screenshots in one app (most tools only do one)
> multi-window support where each window is a separate layer you can rearrange after recording
> 3D scenes, virtual backgrounds, and a simulated camera lens for cinematic shots
> smooth or instant zooms, transitions, custom cursors, and auto-replaced desktop backgrounds
> add and mix audio and music directly in the editor
> standard 2D polish too if you don't need the 3D stuff
it even gives you the option to render your recording inside a 3D macbook mockup so the final output looks like an actual apple keynote presentation
if you've ever tried to make a product demo look professional, you probably know the pain. you either spend hours in premiere or after effects doing it manually, or you pay someone to do it, or you just ship an ugly screen recording and hope nobody judges your product by the video
now you can just record your screen normally and it handles the polish automatically
for anyone shipping a landing page, a product hunt launch, an app store listing, or a pitch deck, the demo video is usually the first thing people see
and most of the time it's the weakest part of the whole launch
this fixes that without needing any video editing experience
You've been asking for this one...
Now in preview: Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app.
Start new work, review outputs, steer execution, and approve next steps, all from the ChatGPT mobile app. Codex will keep running on your laptop, Mac mini, or devbox.
Someone open-sourced an Android emulator that runs in Docker.
It's called docker-android. One docker command spins up a complete Android device with ADB port-forwarding, KVM, and GPU acceleration.. fully headless and CI-ready.
100% Open Source.
Suno just lost its moat 🤯
Someone built ACE-Step UI, a Spotify-style interface for ACE-Step 1.5 that generates full songs with vocals up to 4+ minutes, completely locally on your own GPU.
100% Free. Open-Source and Local
The hottest job for the next five years is going to be the agent operator.
They don't need to be an engineer. They can walk into marketing, legal, or life sciences research and actually make agents work for that function.
Required skills:
> MCPs
> CLIs
> Writing skills (the file kind)
> agents.md fluency
> Business acumen
None of this is in any CS curriculum today.
Soon, enterprises will be pressured to redesign their workflows for agents, not for people. And when that happens, agent operators will be in massive demand.