Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovered Recently?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
getstream.io
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  1. VoiceInk

    Voice-to-text app for macOS to transcribe what you say to text almost instantly

    I quite like VoiceInk, an open-source voice input app for Mac https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. hotspot

    The Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.

  4. nushell

    A new type of shell

    Best thing I've found recently is nushell[0], paired with jc [1] it's pretty much the best shell I've ever used.

    [0] https://www.nushell.sh/

  5. open-webui

    User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

    Open WebUI[1] for a ChatGPT type experience locally hosted. Very impressive set of features and development velocity - so much so Qwen team using it now rather than building their own [2]

    1. https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

    2. https://chat.qwen.ai/

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