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Ever looked at something and wondered, what is this thing? Whether you're exploring a new city, or tackling a DIY project, What Is This Thing gives you instant answers. Just snap a photo and get a clear, simple explanation - right when you need it.

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  Visual Dictionary2015 · ▲100

  Don't know what something is? Snap a pic and find out.

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  PictureThis2018 · picturethisai.com · ▲180

  Instantly identify your plants

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  WTF is that?2016 · wtfitbot.com · ▲226

  Send any picture and it will tell you what it is!

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  Scan Thing2021 · ▲121

  Quickest way to capture and save anything around you

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  Is it cake?2020 · isitcake.xyz · ▲112

  A cake detector to help you know for sure - is it cake?

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  Google Lens2019 · lens.google · ▲163

  Discover information about something by taking a photo

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  Spira Maxima▲578

  Video model that turns script into viral social media videos

  AI · 17d ago · spira.ai

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  Rill Browser▲540

  The browser where Claude Code and Codex work beside you

  AI · 17d ago · rill.love

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  Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri▲424

  Kolibri is Aleph Alpha

  AI · 19d ago · tej.as

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  Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas▲392

  Paintings by AI models: programs run through a simulation of oil paint.

  AI · 20d ago · stillwet.art

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  PixVerse R2▲381

  A real-time world model you can explore and change

  AI · 29d ago · world.pixverse.video

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  Hemory▲381

  Keep listening. Searchable memory for your AI agents.

  AI · 30d ago · hemory.com

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  Trace▲1,555

  Workflow Automations for the Human 👾 AI Workforce

  AI · 2025 · trace.so

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  I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display▲1,145

  I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it. It draws a single pixel at a time and takes 30-60 minutes to complete a single image. Anyone can participate in the project by voting for the next image to be drawn, and submitting images. https://kilopx.com/

  Work · 2025 · benholmen.com

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  Indy AI by Contra▲1,070

  Job boards are dead. Your network is alive

  AI · 2025 · contra.com

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  Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model▲1,003

  Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters. This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! We're releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices…

  AI · 2025 · github.com

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  I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization▲865

  I was wondering how I can arrange objects along a spherical helix path, and read some articles on it. I ended up learning about parametric equations again, and make this visualization to document what I learned: https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/ feel free to visit and let me know what you think!

  Life & fun · 2025 · visualrambling.space

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  The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient▲788

  For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript. Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon [1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html

  Dev tools · 2025 · sky.dlazaro.ca