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On September 5 D2's creator announced the company is closing and the diagramming language continues as fully open-source under Hack Club fiscal sponsorship (D2). The open-core model funded open-source D2 with a closed-source IDE and a proprietary layout algorithm, and both are being released rather than sold. The founder says his time will be limited and is offering paid maintainer contracts funded by donations. This is the concrete failure mode of open-core in dev tools: the proprietary half never carried the free half.
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Cloudflare added Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 to Workers AI on March 19, making it the first frontier-scale open-source model available on edge compute with a full 256K context window, multi-turn tool calling, vision inputs, and structured outputs (Cloudflare Blog). Cloudflare repo...
Free, open-source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper. Hold Fn to record, get instant context-aware transcription pasted into any text field. Uses Groq's free API for sub-1-second transcription. Reads surrounding content (email recipients, terminal context) for name/term...
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