🔥 AI Hot List
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⭐ Today's 3 must-see
Hand-picked from the hot list: what it solves, who it's for, and whether to try it.
Not sure a GPU or Mac can run the local LLM you want? Llmspeed simulates its tokens/sec and time-to-first-token from benchmark data — try it before you buy hardware.
Details →Want AI help with your budget without uploading bank data? Pulse Local runs on Apple Silicon Macs, imports any bank's CSV and answers questions with on-device models — privacy-minded Mac users, try it.
Details →Lost when colleagues drop jargon on calls? Hintly explains missed terms, names and concepts in real time — worth a look if you live in Google Meet, but it only works there.
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Trending AI tools
| # | Score | Source | Name | Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9.72 | PH | Jockey by TwelveLabs ↗ Video and digital humans Jockey is a video understanding and search tool from TwelveLabs that organises, makes searchable and deeply understands entire video libraries. | 421 votes (29 comments) |
| 2 | 8.91 | PH | NitroStack ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows NitroStack is an all-in-one platform for building, testing and deploying MCP servers. | 282 votes (27 comments) |
| 3 | 8.51 | PH | Harness by Autonomous ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Harness by Autonomous is a unified command centre platform for managing and coordinating multiple AI coding Agents and machines. | 330 votes (27 comments) |
| 4 | 7.95 | HN | Llmspeed ↗ Productivity / other Llmspeed is an online tool that helps users experience the actual runtime speed of local LLMs through simulation before purchasing hardware. | 261 points |
| 5 | 7.65 | GitHub | blender-ai-mcp-addon ↗ +1 similar Game development Blender AI MCP plugin is an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender. It supports visual chat, scene tools and multi-agent workflows, and integrates with models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama and OpenCode to enable 3D modelling assistance, bpy Python scripting and more. | 289 stars/day (640 total) |
| 6 | 7.17 | HN | Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft ↗ Game development Gemini 4 Argon is an AI based on the Gemini model that demonstrates competitive play and benchmarking in the StarCraft game. | 242 points |
| 7 | 6.19 | PH | Navige ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Navige is a tool that helps users reduce AI Agent costs and prevent runaway spending. | 251 votes (56 comments) |
| 8 | 5.97 | PH | Notion: Context for your agents ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Notion’s AI feature that provides contextual memory for AI agents, eliminating the need to repeatedly explain work when switching between different AI agents. | 169 votes (5 comments) |
| 9 | 5.63 | GitHub | NPCTalk ↗ Game development NPCTalk is an open-source project that uses Fish Audio speech synthesis technology to enable voice dialogue for NPCs in any game. It supports self-hosted voice servers and includes an AI coding Agent tool, with a complete GTA V example. | 57 stars/day (123 total) |
| 10 | 5.35 | PH | Pomerado ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Pomerado is a tool that turns any website into an API, using reliable browser automation for data extraction and interaction. | 175 votes (17 comments) |
| 11 | 5.25 | PH | GLM-Legal ↗ Productivity / other GLM-Legal is a legal-specialised AI model released by Z.ai, primarily used for contract review and compliance checking. | 202 votes (5 comments) |
| 12 | 5.24 | PH | Emochi ↗ Productivity / other Emochi is a voice diary app that helps users understand themselves through artistic and scientific methods. | 149 votes (15 comments) |
| 13 | 4.98 | GitHub | scout ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Scout is an open-source browser Agent from Outcrawl that can control the browser through natural language to complete automated tasks. | 198 stars/day (941 total) |
| 14 | 4.87 | PH | OpenMuse ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows OpenMuse is an open-source, self-hostable personal assistant that supports integration into various frameworks and environments. | 185 votes (6 comments) |
| 15 | 4.66 | GitHub | solid-glass ↗ +1 similar Images and design Solid Glass is a design system built specifically for AI applications, emphasising material feel, physicality, tactility and a technological aesthetic. | 309 stars/day (1,781 total) |
| 16 | 4.61 | HN | rStation ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows rStation is a shared research laboratory platform built for AI Agents, supporting multi-agent collaboration, shared knowledge bases and experimental environments. | 58 points |
| 17 | 4.37 | PH | Train with Pasta ↗ Productivity / other Train with Pasta is a personal training app powered by Apple Intelligence that provides intelligent fitness guidance tailored to user needs. | 128 votes (4 comments) |
| 18 | 4.18 | HN | pdftomp3 ↗ Audio / dubbing / music A tool that converts PDFs into AI-narrated audiobooks using an existing OpenAI subscription. | 174 points |
| 19 | 4.16 | GitHub | AI-Cross-Border-Ecommerce-Agent-Toolkit ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows An AI cross-border ecommerce operations agent toolbox that breaks down operational SOPs into 7 reusable AI Agent workflows, including prompts, templates and real-world examples. | 76 stars/day (359 total) |
| 20 | 4.09 | HN | blumify ↗ Search and research Blumify is a tool that tracks statements and shifts in opinion from AI leaders, allowing you to see how their positions on various AI topics have evolved. | 119 points |
| 21 | 4.07 | HN | Pulse Local ↗ Productivity / other Pulse Local is a local budgeting app that runs on Mac, with its AI models running entirely on the user's local machine without any cloud processing. | 121 points |
| 22 | 4.02 | PH | Hintly for Google Meet™ ↗ Productivity / other Hintly for Google Meet is a real-time prompting tool that provides instant hints for every term you miss during Google Meet calls. | 134 votes (13 comments) |
| 23 | 3.59 | PH | Fish Audio Drama 3 ↗ Audio / dubbing / music Fish Audio Drama 3 is an AI voice acting tool that can be directed directly. Users can not only generate voices but also give real-time guidance and adjustments to the AI dubbing like a director. | 123 votes (5 comments) |
| 24 | 3.51 | PH | Dottr ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Dottr is an AI agent that automatically drafts contracts, identifies potential risks and completes electronic signatures. | 121 votes (17 comments) |
| 25 | 3.19 | HN | Graphicle ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Graphicle is a Rust port of Graphify, providing memory capabilities for coding Agents. | 47 points |
| 26 | 3.03 | HN | Atticus ↗ Productivity / other Atticus is a macOS voice assistant activated by holding to speak, powered by the Claude command-line tool (claude -p) to call the Claude model. | 115 points |
| 27 | 2.9 | GitHub | Local_AI_esp32 ↗ Productivity / other A language model trained from scratch that runs completely offline on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, with a touchscreen chat interface. | 13 stars/day (54 total) |
| 28 | 2.82 | GitHub | esp32-thinks ↗ Audio / dubbing / music A multi-model personal AI voice assistant for ESP32, supporting wake-word or knob activation. It allows any OpenAI-compatible STT, chat and TTS models to be freely combined for streaming responses and works out of the box. Built on muse-gadget-sdk. | 20 stars/day (102 total) |
| 29 | 2.62 | GitHub | mcd-coupon-strategist ↗ +4 similar AI Agent / automation workflows Mai Mai Money-Saving Assistant is an ordering cost-optimisation Skill based on McDonald's MCP. It calculates the cheapest ordering options according to current store conditions and proactively alerts users to avoid combo-trap pitfalls. | 60 stars/day (458 total) |
| 30 | 2.59 | GitHub | opencode-rust ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows opencode-rust is an open-source AI coding agent written in Rust. It provides CLI, TUI and HTTP services, and supports running AI coding agents locally without Docker. | 14 stars/day (72 total) |
| 31 | 2.54 | GitHub | hermes-official-plugins ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows An official collection of Hermes Agent plugins maintained by Nous Research. Includes plugins for Home Assistant, Spotify and others. Install first-party plugins with one click from the Hermes plugin directory. | 43 stars/day (316 total) |
| 32 | 2.51 | GitHub | xiryn ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Xiryn is an open-source personal AI Agent project that can run multiple independent Agents on a local computer. Each Agent has its own Linux Docker desktop, supports any model (user must provide keys), encrypts storage, and is controlled via Telegram. | 28 stars/day (186 total) |
| 33 | 2.36 | HN | Deslop ↗ Vibe Coding / AI Programming Deslop is a set of Oxlint rules designed to detect and clean up common issues and low-quality patterns in AI-generated TypeScript code. | 32 points |
| 34 | 2.33 | GitHub | ai-slop-detector ↗ Vibe Coding / AI Programming A detection tool containing 120 common patterns of AI-generated content (AI slop), with Agent skills for Claude Code and Codex to identify and avoid AI-style writing. | 14 stars/day (79 total) |
| 35 | 2.15 | GitHub | aurelio-finance ↗ Productivity / other An open-source personal finance application with a built-in AI financial advisor. It supports tracking net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debt on a local computer. | 349 stars/day (3,951 total) |
| 36 | 2.14 | GitHub | frametell ↗ Video and digital humans Frametell is a local-first AI director agent that automatically turns your ideas and materials into engaging explainer videos, supporting any model. | 28 stars/day (216 total) |
| 37 | 2.1 | GitHub | RuiC-oc-ferry ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows RuiC-oc-ferry is an open-source tool for forwarding OpenCode's free models to WorkBuddy, supporting isolated runtime, concurrency detection, decision caching, one-click import, and providing a local OpenAI-compatible forwarding interface. | 27 stars/day (212 total) |
| 38 | 2.01 | GitHub | jevcrawl ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Jevcrawl is an MCP server and command-line tool designed for AI Agents. It efficiently crawls websites and locates answer pages, claimed to be twice as likely to find answer pages as Crawl4AI while costing only one-tenth of Claude's direct crawling. | 12 stars/day (77 total) |
| 39 | 1.87 | HN | MemorySync ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows MemorySync is a tool that provides persistent memory for AI Agents, helping agents remember context and historical information. | 22 points |
| 40 | 1.83 | GitHub | open-intelligent-ui ↗ Vibe Coding / AI Programming Open-Intelligent-UI is an open-source project that aims to reproduce ChatGPT's Intelligent UI feature, allowing AI responses to be output in real time as interactive UIs, including maps, images, charts, drawings and interactive tools. | 53 stars/day (524 total) |
| 41 | 1.72 | GitHub | simul-subtitle ↗ Video and digital humans A real-time video and live streaming subtitle tool supporting Japanese and English, with floating subtitles. It runs on Android, macOS and Windows, uses local offline speech recognition, and supports user-provided LLMs for translation (BYOK). | 9 stars/day (62 total) |
| 42 | 1.71 | GitHub | project-maya ↗ Productivity / other Project Maya is a locally run tool that supports private deployment of the GLM-5.3-Flash (321B MoE) model on personal GPUs (NVIDIA or AMD, 1 to 16 cards, Linux or Windows). It provides an engine, server, dashboard and APIs compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic, and includes quantisation tools. | 91 stars/day (1,014 total) |
| 43 | 1.7 | GitHub | red-bean-qing-tuan ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows An embeddable TypeScript Agent Runtime that supports model→tool loops, checkpoint persistence, interrupt barriers and other features. Zero production dependencies and can be embedded into any host environment. | 8 stars/day (55 total) |
| 44 | 1.64 | GitHub | wx-bot ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows wx-bot is an open-source project that connects WeChat to personal AI Agents (such as Grok, Muse, Claude, etc.) and enables message exchange between WeChat and AI via the official iLink. | 17 stars/day (150 total) |
Models, demos & research
Also trending, but not ready-to-use tools: model weights, Hugging Face demo Spaces, benchmarks, paper code and guides.
| # | Score | Source | Name | Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.44 | HNBenchmark / research / guide | Parsimony ↗ Search and research Parsimony is an open-source benchmark that measures how much additional code AI coding models introduce when completing tasks, evaluating model conciseness. | 77 points |
| 2 | 3.28 | HF-modelsModel | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 ↗ Search and research DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is an open-source large language model released by DeepSeek, supporting efficient inference and multilingual capabilities. | trending 954 (1,016 likes) |
| 3 | 2.2 | GitHubBenchmark / research / guide | DishwasherBench ↗ Search and research DishwasherBench is a language model benchmark game based on realistic dishwasher physics simulation. It can be played directly in the browser under the name Spotless. | 12 stars/day (70 total) |
| 4 | 2.11 | GitHubBenchmark / research / guide | doc2harness ↗ AI Agent / automation workflows Doc2Harness is a benchmark framework for evaluating large language models on long-horizon coding agent tasks, providing official implementation code. | 16 stars/day (110 total) |
| 5 | 1.79 | HF-modelsModel | flux-3-image-klein-comfy ↗ Images and design FLUX.3 Image Klein Comfy is a ComfyUI-adapted version of the FLUX.3 series image generation models released by Black Forest Labs, supporting efficient text-to-image tasks. | trending 547 (669 likes) |
| 6 | 1.74 | HF-spacesDemo (Space) | shorts ↗ +2 similar Video and digital humans An AI short video generation tool based on Hugging Face Spaces that can quickly create short video content. | trending 84 (166 likes) |
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