Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MinION
Portable human DNA sequencer that costs $1,000
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MinION launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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- 2SF
Hey folks! We're Alex and Evan, and we're working on putting together a 512 H100 compute cluster for startups and researchers to train large generative models on. - it runs at the lowest possible margins (<$2.00/hr per H100) - designed for bursty training runs, so you can take say 128 H100s for a week - you don’t need to commit to multiple years of compute or pay for a year upfront Big labs like OpenAI and Deepmind have big clusters that support this kind of bursty allocation for their researchers, but startups so far have had to get very small clusters on very long term contracts, wait…
2023 · sfcompute.org · its alternatives →
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- 4WA
2017 · genewarrior.com · its alternatives →
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The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized). Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/
Jun 2026 · minipcs.zip · its alternatives →
- 6MA
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 7IA
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 8MV
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Google's AI map of every possible human DNA mutation
3d ago · blog.google · its alternatives →
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- 12SA
We’ve built Synergetica, an open-source desktop app for end-to-end genetic circuit design. It supports node-based or code-based editing, interactive simulations, and automated DNA sequence generation. You can find the repo and docs here: - GitHub: https://github.com/khokao/synergetica - Docs: https://khokao.github.io/synergetica/
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, Finding a good data structure for a word processor is a difficult problem. My notebook diaries on the problem go back 25 years when I was frustrated with using Word for my diploma thesis - it was slow and unstable at that time. I ended up getting pretty hooked on the problem. Right now I’m taking a professional break and decided to finally use the time to push these ideas further, and build MiniWord — a WYSIWYG word processor in Python. My goal is to have a native, non-HTML-based editor that stays simple, fast, and is hackable. So far I am focusing on getting the fundamentals right.…
Apr 2026 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
- 14TC
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Affordable H100, H200, GB300, and B200 GPU compute for training, inference, and everything in between.
9d ago · compute.cheap · its alternatives →
- 16TA
2015 · autoprotocol.org · its alternatives →
- 17JM
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18MS
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 19LL
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 21FG
2018 · meports.com · its alternatives →
- 22CL
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23AS
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The lowest priced transcription API (from $0.10/hr)
2024 · salad.com · its alternatives →
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