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- 1Nightwatch Mac app alerts stargazers to clear night skies●Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear
Developer Robert Sutcliffe has released Nightwatch, a free open-source Mac menu-bar application that notifies users when sky conditions will be clear enough for stargazing that evening. The tool sits quietly in the menu bar and checks cloud cover forecasts, appealing to amateur astronomers and astrophotographers who otherwise have to check weather apps manually. The release is drawing attention on Hacker News, where users are discussing its simplicity and usefulness.
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Developer Duarte Santos released openGym, a self-hosted JavaScript app for planning routines and logging workouts, including supersets, warm-ups and cardio. It maps which muscles are trained, fatigued or detrained, imports data from FitNotes, Strong and Hevy, and supports passkey login. The pitch is data ownership: users keep their training history on their own server rather than a commercial fitness platform.
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Stremio, the open-source media streaming application, is seeing renewed activity around its stremio-web project, the web-based client behind its 'Freedom to Stream' pitch. The app lets users organize and watch video content from multiple sources in one interface. Interest appears driven by its growing community and ongoing development of the web client.
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Apple has announced updates to how Full Disk Access works in macOS, publishing details for developers on its news portal. The changes affect apps that need broad access to user files and folders, a permissions area developers have long found restrictive. The developer community is discussing what the update means for existing software and future app design.
- 5ArtCraft Apps launches open-source Rust suite compatible with Adobe●ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
ArtCraft Apps, an open-source creative software suite built in Rust and positioned as a compatible alternative to Adobe's applications, is drawing attention online. The project markets itself as covering design and creative workflows without Adobe's subscription model, and developers are discussing both its licensing and the choice of Rust for performance-critical graphics work.
Repos
- tester-army/e2e Next generation e2e testing framework for web and mobile apps.
- debpalash/VoiceStudio VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictati
- msitarzewski/agency-agents A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to rea
- affaan-m/ECC The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development f
- cloudflare/cloudflare-os Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company’
- egoist/mygo Develop desktop apps with a web frontend or native UI in Go
- devdotfast/whiteboard open-source canvas for thoughtful software design
- freestylefly/WeChatBridge 微信聊天记录一键转发到 AI Agent 与 Obsidian 的原生 macOS 工具
- firebase/firebase-ios-sdk Firebase SDK for Apple App Development
- dream-num/univer The Office Harness for AI Agents — Spreadsheets, Docs, Slides, Canvas, Relational Tables, and PDF in one runtime.
- hmofet/unodos UnoDOS — active development (the forward, contract-driven line; master carries the pc64 x86-64/UEFI world). Frozen legac