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permissionlesstech/bitchat (Swift, 32,314 stars) gained 2,346 stars today — a bluetooth mesh chat client with "IRC vibes" and zero LLM anywhere. It outgained every AI project on the board by more than 2x, with alibaba/open-code-review (+979) and pbakaus/impeccable (+847) the closest AI entries. After a month where trending was effectively all agents, offline peer-to-peer messaging taking the top slot is a useful reminder that developer attention hasn't fully collapsed into one category.
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CCP announced the migration covering code that has run on Stackless 2.7 since 2010. The approach is to run futurize across the codebase and then manually review roughly 20,000 places where Python 2 and 3 behavior diverges, including integer division (Simon Willison). No comple...
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Fourteen times more commits. Not 14% more. 14x. GitHub COO Kyle Daigle dropped this number in a conversation covered by Simon Willison: the platform is currently running at 275 million commits per week, which annualizes to roughly 14 billion for 2026. In all of 2025, GitHub sa...
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