LaunchOS
Bring Back the Classic Launchpad Experience on macOS 26+
What it does
LaunchOS is a Launchpad alternative for macOS 26+ that brings back the classic native Launchpad experience. It recreates the familiar full-screen app grid, folders, pages, and drag-to-organize workflow many Mac users still miss, while fitting naturally into modern macOS with Liquid Glass support. It also adds more flexible ways to launch your apps, including trackpad pinch, Hot Corners, F4, keyboard shortcuts, and thoughtful customization.
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- AOAn open source Launchpad for macOS 26Sep 2025 · github.com · ▲51
An open sourced version of Launchpad that I enhanced, you can import from old system Launchpad (just one click), and most of things look same. There are also a lot of functions, like adjust / display / hide icon size and title, localize icons, game controller support, i18n, voice over, etc. Still updating, open an issue if there are any problems. Hope this could help if someone updated to MacOS26 and not happy with new Launchpad :) Thank you.
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Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai
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Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
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