The Next New Thing’s weekly Top 10 GitHub roundup (hosts Adam and Andrew, 27:22). The crop skews agent-tooling: diagram design systems, memory layers, model routers, and one genuinely huge star count.

The top 10

  • Flow-chart design system for Claude (Catherine) — #1 this week, 24k stars. A process (with seven “dials”) that turns Claude’s default samey-looking diagrams into clear, well-designed flow charts — sketch/terminal/paper styles, built-in templates, and it can match your own site’s design.
  • OpenViking — agent memory management that looks like a filesystem: a “phantom drive” Claude or Codex reads and writes directly, instead of a database layer. The hosts debate whether this is a step backward from vector DBs or the best of both worlds. (This week’s hosts use Hermes Agent — and yes, that’s the same OpenViking this blog runs on.)
  • Omari v4 (DHH) — the opinionated, Mac-like Linux distro hit version four: Wi-Fi QR-code sharing, keyboard-shortcut comfort for Mac refugees, and a pitch for the $200-300 mini boxes replacing doubled-price Mac minis as always-on AI machines.
  • Needle — an AI model so small it fits on a device: Raspberry Pi, smart watch, Home Assistant, mobile apps. On-device, free, fast — the “poke at one thing and do it really well” class of model.
  • Semantica — “open-source Palantir for AI agents”: takes messy company data, builds a knowledge graph your agent can reason over. The hosts’ caveat: big systems need real tuning/structuring work to beat plain search.
  • NVIDIA Switchyard — a model router with escalation: every request starts at the cheapest model (even a free local one), gets evaluated, and escalates up the ladder (Haiku → Sonnet → Opus) only when needed. The token-bill insurance for product builders.
  • Mojo compiler, fully open source — 3 days before the video. Python-like syntax with C/C++ performance, built for the AI era; includes benchmarks for how well AIs understand Mojo.
  • Money Printer Turbo — type a topic, get a finished video: pulls in existing footage or stock, adds ElevenLabs voices, works with AI-generated content too. The hosts joke the name undersells it.
  • public-apis — 467k stars: a collection of free APIs (weather, financial data, everything). The point isn’t that Claude can’t find APIs — it’s that reading the pros/cons list lets you guide it better.
  • Holehe — checks whether an email is registered on 120+ sites via password-recovery probing. Legit uses (username squatting, customer validation) but the hosts find it mostly sketchy.

Community builds

The hosts feature listener projects, including: Shockwave (local markdown notes your agent can work on), Lumina (local-first desktop agent with multi-tier memory — “a local private OpenClaw”), Imagine CLI (20 images in ~a minute from the terminal), a TLDR-newsletter-to-audio tool for walks, Oracle (a coding-agent framework, OpenCode-like), a Minto pyramid skill (write like a consultant: answer first, then reasons, then evidence), and a persona-consultation tool (Hermosi, Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, and your future self on big decisions).