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Products that do what Basaran – OpenAI-compatible streaming API for your own models does

Basaran is an open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API. It provides a compatible streaming API for your Hugging Face Transformers-based text generation models. The open source community will eventually witness the Stable Diffusion moment for large language models (LLMs), and Basaran is committed to becoming the Stable Diffusion web UI for LLMs. Basaran allows you to replace OpenAI's service with the latest open-source model to power your application without modifying a single line of code.

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    Hey HN! I built Lumina – an open-source observability platform for AI/LLM applications. Self-host it in 5 minutes with Docker Compose, all features included. The Problem: I've been building LLM apps for the past year, and I kept running into the same issues: - LLM responses would randomly change after prompt tweaks, breaking things - Costs would spike unexpectedly (turns out a bug was hitting GPT-4 instead of 3.5) - No easy way to compare "before vs after" when testing prompt changes - Existing tools were either too expensive or missing features in free tiers What I Built: Lumina is…

    Jan 2026 · github.com

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    Hello! I built this to solve a personal problem of where I didn't want to wade down large chains of HackerNews comment threads in order to get the key takeaways from the discussions. I built this Chrome extension, which supports both OpenAI and Ollama(local LLMs) to summarize comments and display the summary within Chrome's sidepanel. It's open source as you can see from the link, feedback appreciated!

    2024 · github.com

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    Hi hacker news, My name is Dillion and I'm the creator of llm.report. A few months ago, I was frustrated by the lack of observability into the OpenAI API. All of us are left in the dark about API performance, latency, cost calculation, cost breakdown, and more. I just wanted to know more about how my AI app is performing in production and make data-driven decisions to improve the product. So I ended up just building it myself. There are three parts to the platform: 1. OpenAI API Dashboard (no-code) - Enter your OpenAI key and get access to detailed insights straight from the OpenAI API…

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    Thesys just open-sourced their generative UI rendering engine. Interesting timing given where Google a2ui and Vercel's json-render are headed. The difference worth noting: a2ui and json-render both treat JSONL as the contract between the LLM and the renderer. Thesys is betting that's the wrong primitive. Their engine uses a code-like syntax (OpenUI Lang) instead — LLM writes it, renderer executes it. The argument is that LLMs are fundamentally better at generating code than generating structured data, so you get cleaner output and ~67% fewer tokens. The broader vision seems to be a…

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    Hey HN! After spending way too many nights debugging flaky AI tests, I built SteadyText. It's a simple python library for deterministic llm generations and embeddings. We use it in production for: - Testing our AI features (zero flakes in 3 months) - CLI tools that need consistent outputs - Reproducible documentation examples It's not for creative tasks - this is specifically for when you need AI to be boring and predictable. Think of it as the opposite of ChatGPT. The coolest part? It includes a Postgres extension. You can now do: SELECT steadytext_generate('explain this query: ...'); And…

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    LLM observability is an absolute must-have for anyone running something in prod (or prod-like). While all the observability startups are great, you're essentially sending all your OpenAI usage history - prompts, generations, chats - to a random third party. So this script deploys a basic proxy in your Azure account, catches all incoming OpenAI requests, stores logs in your own resource group, and comes with visualizations premade (charts, timelines, chat history, cost estimation, etc). Thanks for any thoughts and feedback!

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    Free LLM API. Ads in your terminal pay for it.

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    Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of Nanobrowser, an open-source Chrome extension that lets you automate web tasks using AI agents. We were inspired by the potential of tools like OpenAI's Operator, but we wanted something that was: -Open-Source:You can see the code, modify it, and contribute to the project. -Browser-Based:No complex setups or server deployments. It runs directly in your browser. -Customizable:You can tailor the agent's behavior to your specific needs. -BYO LLM:Bring your own large language model API key (OpenAI, Anthropic,or even local models), No vendor lock-in. -Privacy…

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    Oct 2025 · github.com

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