Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Xlibe – A serverless Xlib (X11) compatibility layer for Haiku

Hello HN, While there are some projects that implement partial versions of Xlib APIs on non-X11 platforms for compatibility (most notably, Tk), I don't know of any others sophisticated enough to run Cairo and GTK applications (albeit with a few hacks). So I figured this might be technically interesting. As of now it just implements the base Xlib APIs, it doesn't implement XRender, GLX, XInput2, etc. (though it's more than possible, I just didn't see a need yet.) Cross-program interaction is also very limited, and there are plenty of X11 features that likely can't be implemented; but this…

Xlibe is a serverless Xlib compatibility layer that brings X11 application support to Haiku OS. It implements core Xlib APIs without advanced features like XRender or GLX, enabling sophisticated applications such as… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Xlibe – A serverless Xlib (X11) compatibility layer for Haiku launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook▲673
Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM . Contribute to antimatter15/alpaca.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
2
Finetune LLaMA-7B on commodity GPUs using your own text▲449
I've been playing around with https://github.com/zphang/minimal-llama/ and https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/blob/main/finetune.py, and wanted to create a simple UI where you can just paste text, tweak the parameters, and finetune the model quickly using a modern GPU. To prepare the data, simply separate your text with two blank lines. There's an inference tab, so you can test how the tuned model behaves. This is my first foray into the world of LLM finetuning, Python, Torch, Transformers, LoRA, PEFT, and Gradio. Enjoy!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub▲204
Hi HN! Last year, we shared marimo [1], an open-source reactive notebook for Python with support for execution through WebAssembly [2]. We wanted to share something new: you can now run marimo and Jupyter notebooks directly from GitHub in a Wasm-powered, codespace-like environment. What makes this powerful is that we mount the GitHub repository's contents as a filesystem in the notebook, making it really easy to share notebooks with data. All you need to do is prepend 'marimo.app' to any Python notebook on GitHub. Some examples: - Jupyter Notebook:…
2025 · docs.marimo.io · its alternatives →
4
I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer▲340
The stack: two agents on separate boxes. The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server. Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site. The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google's A2A protocol. Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed). Hard cap at $2/day. A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway's own inference pipeline, so there's one API key and one billing relationship…
Mar 2026 · georgelarson.me · its alternatives →
5VL
Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland▲148
Create a layer of shortcuts with xkb for Xorg and Wayland
2020 · cedaei.com · its alternatives →
6
Gradio 5.0▲224
connect nodes to build AI pipelines, powered by Hugging Face
2024 · gradio.app · its alternatives →
7
Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang▲148
Hey HN, this is a small project myself and closer friends have been building on our free time (https://github.com/Dr-Nekoma/lyceum), it finally reached 0.1.0, we are open to feedback! The original idea was to experiment with Zig + Raylib, eventually we wrote a small server in Erlang as well. We started by first interacting with Erlang via its C bindings, but this eventually led to some of us to prototyping our own tooling to better integrate Zig types with Erlang, we called such tool "zerl" as its avaliable here…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
8
ShioriCode▲119
Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code
May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →
9
Marimo VS Code extension – Python notebooks built on LSP and uv▲65
Hi HN! We're excited to release our VS Code/Cursor extension for marimo [1], an open-source, reactive Python notebook. This extension provides a native experience for working with marimo notebooks, a long-requested feature that we’ve worked hard to get right. An LSP-first architecture The core of our extension is a marimo notebook language server (marimo-lsp [2]). As far as we know, it’s the first notebook runtime to take this approach. The Language Server Protocol (LSP) [3] offers a small but important set of notebook-related capabilities that we use for document and kernel syncing;…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
10
Molab, a cloud-hosted Marimo notebook workspace▲123
We launched marimo [1], an open-source reactive Python notebook, last year on HackerNews. Today, the most popular recent feature request in Google Colab’s issue tracker asks for marimo support in Colab [2]. Rather than try to convince Google to replace their notebook with marimo, we decided to just build our own cloud-hosted notebook service instead. We're calling this molab (mo for marimo), and we're launching it today. You can try it at https://molab.marimo.io Some features: - Persistent storage - Link sharing (notebooks are public but undiscoverable, like secret GitHub Gists) -…
2025 · molab.marimo.io · its alternatives →
11
Run Qwen3-Next-80B on 8GB GPU at 1tok/2s throughput▲123
Contribute to Mega4alik/ollm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
12MG
macOS GUI for running LLMs locally▲58
Hello HN, I've been working on this project for a while, and it has been in an "open" beta for some time. I finally believe it's ready for its first release. I hope you like it. Here are some potential questions that may arise: 1. How does it compare to LM Studio? It's likely that if you're already using LM Studio, you'll continue to do so. This project is designed to be more user-friendly. 2. Is it open-source? No, it is not. 3. Does it use any open-source libraries? Yes, it uses llama.cpp and a few others, as indicated in the license information included with the application. 4. Why is not…
2023 · avapls.com · its alternatives →
13
Lambdock – Wayland-native GTK4 dock with a live Lisp REPL▲44
lambdock - Modern, hyper-hackable, Wayland-native desktop dock application (C and Guile Scheme + GTK4) w/ REPL
Aug 2026 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
14
Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents▲140
Hi HN! We're excited to share marimo pair [1] [2], a toolkit that drops AI agents into a running marimo notebook [3] session. This lets agents use marimo as working memory and a reactive Python runtime, while also making it easy for humans and agents to collaborate on computational research and data work. GitHub repo: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-pair Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaqtchDnoc marimo pair is implemented as an agent skill. Connect your agent of choice to a running notebook with: /marimo-pair pair with me on…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Marimo – open-source reactive Python notebook – running in WASM▲102
Hi HN! Last month, we shared marimo [1][2], an open-source reactive notebook for Python. For those who missed it, marimo notebooks are reproducible, stored as Python files, executable as Python scripts, and deployable as web apps. It’s now possible to run marimo notebooks entirely in the browser via WebAssembly (WASM). - A marimo tutorial as a WASM notebook: https://marimo.app/l/c7h6pz - Training a neural network with Karpathy’s micrograd: https://marimo.app/l/xpd4te - Visualizing attractors, as a read-only app:…
2024 · marimo.app · its alternatives →
16
flock▲79
Run a flock of Claude Code (or other agents) in one window.
Apr 2026 · baahaus.github.io · its alternatives →
17
A Modern C/C++ build tools (Simple, Fast, Cross-platform)▲89
A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
2019 · xmake.io · its alternatives →
18
I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI▲39
A fast, native app for local coding agents. Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok, and Pi — one timeline, entirely on your machine.
Aug 2026 · waku.sh · its alternatives →
19
Shimmy – 5MB privacy-first, local alternative to Ollama (680MB)▲14
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary. - Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmy
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
20XA
Xrepo – A modern cross-platform C/C++ package manager▲55
Naga77 menjadi pilihan gaming modern karena sistem andal hadirkan visual menarik sehingga aktivitas bermain terasa lebih bernilai konsisten sepanjang waktu Naga77.
2020 · tboox.org · its alternatives →
21
Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig▲50
A single compiled binary that renders one curated status line for fish, bash and zsh, and binds the up arrow to its own history picker. The slowest module runs as a task via std.Io while the rest run alongside it, so a render costs about what its slowest probe costs.
Jul 2026 · yamafaktory.github.io · its alternatives →
22
XCapture v3: Linux Performance Analysis with Modern eBPF and DuckDB▲6
Hello, I just released the (eventually) final version of my xcapture eBPF performance tool that now uses modern eBPF (libbpf, BTF, CO-RE, passive sampling using task iterators, task-local storage, etc). The previous BCC-based v2 version got a good discussion here last year [1], but due to BCC being less flexible and now deprecated, I decided to pull the plug and start from scratch with the latest eBPF features available. I'm targeting Linux kernels 5.14 and up. So Ubuntu 20 with HWE kernel (5.15) already works, RHEL9 works, Oracle's RHEL8 clone OEL8 with Oracle's UEK7 kernel (5.15) also…
2025 · tanelpoder.com · its alternatives →
23
Shikigami, run AI coding agents in parallel, each in a Git worktree▲7
Hello all, I'm a software developer. Over the last few months more and more of my work has turned into using coding agents instead of typing the whole code myself. Usually a few claude sessions at once, sometimes codex, one per feature or per revealed bug. I ran them in a split terminal for a few weeks, and quickly spotted two main problems. The first is that I couldn't easily tell which agent was stuck waiting on me and which was still working, so I'd cycle through sessions and checking on them. The second one: agents sharing a single branch step on each other. Two of them could be editing…
Jul 2026 · shikigami.dev · its alternatives →
24IM
I made a free (open-source) extension, to use any LLM on Google sheet▲14
Hello everyone, This past Saturday, I decided to make purchase on Cursor after hearing how good it is with Composer function that allow to generate code on fly, especially on Claude Sonnet (not an affiliate of the products, just curious!). To make the purchase worthwhile, I challenged myself to build a Google Sheets extension in just 24 hours that allows users to connect with any Language Model (LLM)—whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Groq, or Gemini. The Idea The idea was simple: a formula like =Claude(prompt, model) that lets users integrate AI anywhere in their sheets. The most impressive…
2024 · aisheeter.com · its alternatives →

Also compare

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →