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Products that do what Lumina Universe does

Distributed compute fleet & natural language transpiler

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   Ollama v0.19▲413

   Massive local model speedup on Apple Silicon with MLX

   Apr 2026

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   Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler▲153

   Hi HN, I’m Joe. My friends Matthew, Jake and I are building Luminal (https://luminalai.com/), a GPU compiler for automatically generating fast GPU kernels for AI models. It uses search-based compilation to achieve high performance. We take high level model code, like you'd have in PyTorch, and generate very fast GPU code. We do that without using LLMs or AI - rather, we pose it as a search problem. Our compiler builds a search space, generates millions of possible kernels, and then searches through it to minimize runtime. You can try out a demo in `demos/matmul` on mac to…

   2025 · github.com

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   Apple MLX▲138

   An array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon

   2023

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   Parallax by Gradient▲334

   Host LLMs across devices sharing GPU to make your AI go brrr

   Oct 2025

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   Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon▲309

   We just open-sourced Lume - a tool we built after hitting walls with existing virtualization options on Apple Silicon. No GUI, no complex stacks - just a single binary that lets you spin up macOS or Linux VMs via CLI or API. Why we built Lume: - Run native macOS VMs in 1 command, using Apple Virtualization.Framework: `lume run macos-sequoia-vanilla:latest` - Prebuilt images on https://ghcr.io/trycua (macOS, Ubuntu on ARM) - API server to manage VMs programmatically `POST /lume/vms` - A python SDK on github.com/trycua/pylume Run prebuilt macOS images in just…

   2025 · github.com

6. 6FA
   Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C▲143

   2020 · github.com

7. 7CC
   Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20▲143

   Hi HN, clx is an ahead-of-time compiler for standard Lua that generates C++20 and produces standalone native executables through GCC, Clang or MSVC. The project started as an experiment to see whether modern C++ could be used as a portable compiler backend instead of LLVM or direct machine code generation. The generated code is then compiled and optimized by the host toolchain. The latest release replaces the previous NaN-tagged value representation with a new shadow-types implementation, adds full int64 support, improves native arithmetic code generation and adds ARM64 macOS coroutine…

   Jul 2026 · github.com

8. 8MA
   Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go▲175

   2019 · github.com

9. 9LA
   LuaJIT assembler/assembly language for direct bytecode programming▲141

   2019 · github.com

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    Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup▲154

    Hey HN, Lume is an open-source CLI for running macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. Since launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061), we've been using it to run AI agents in isolated macOS environments. We needed VMs that could set themselves up, so we built that. Here's what's new in 0.2: *Unattended Setup* – Go from IPSW to a fully configured VM without touching the keyboard. We built a VNC + OCR system that clicks through macOS Setup Assistant automatically. No more manual setup before pushing to a registry: lume create my-vm --os macos --ipsw latest…

    Jan 2026 · cua.ai

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    Jazzle – An Innovative, Fast Transpiler for ECMAScript 2015 and later▲61

    2017 · github.com

12. 12AC
    A compiler for a small language into x86-64 assembly▲74

    2020 · github.com

13. 13YA
    YinYang, a usable live programming language▲134

    2013 · research.microsoft.com

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    Making a Compiler to Prove Tmux Is Turing Complete▲88

    2024 · willhbr.net

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    Fork, a toy self-hosting language and compiler that compiles to C▲58

    2018 · github.com

16. 16OD
    Octaspire Dern – Programming language▲47

    2017 · octaspire.com

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    L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic programming language▲83

    2017 · github.com

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    Phorth – A Forth-like language on the Python VM▲62

    2017 · github.com

19. 19BC
    Ballerina – Cloud Native Programming Language▲40

    2018 · ballerina.io

20. 20SB
    Sabre – Bullshit-free (c) programming language▲37

    2021 · github.com

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    KTransformers–236B Model and 1M Context LLM Inference on Local Machines▲20

    Hey Hacker News! We are excited to share our open-source project, KTransformers, a flexible framework designed for cutting-edge LLM inference optimizations! Leveraging state-of-the-art kernels from llamafile and marlin, KTransformers seamlessly enhances the performance of HuggingFace Transformers, making it possible to operate large 236B MoE models or extremely long 1M context locally with promising speed. KTransformers is a Python-centric framework designed with extensibility at its core. By implementing and injecting an optimized module with a single line of code, users gain access to a…

    2024 · github.com

22. 22MA
    Moon, an universal code-interchange format▲11

    2017 · github.com

23. 23NT
    Noodles – Turn any codebase into a diagram with Claude and Tree-sitter▲6

    I built a CLI tool that turns codebases and PRs into diagrams so you can quickly understand how things fit together. Originally made it because I couldn't follow my own AI-generated repos. Just shipped a big update: - Switched from D2 to Mermaid for rendering - Tree-sitter AST parsing + agentic flow instead of raw LLM calls. ~50x faster. - Works on any GitHub repo or PR, not just local - Dropped the web frontend, it's just a CLI now - Published as a pip package Still a ton to improve and I'm building fast. Feedback, issues, PRs all welcome.

    Feb 2026 · github.com

24. 24MA
    Mlatu, a Concatenative Programming Language▲29

    2021 · github.com

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