GitHub 2025-09-04 Weekly Trending Projects

WhisperLiveKit packages state-of-the-art real-time speech research into a local, low-latency transcription and speaker-ID solution for privacy- and latency-sensitive on‑prem/edge use cases.

Packages a full Windows installation inside a Docker container with KVM acceleration and a web UI for development, testing and temporary desktop use on KVM-capable Linux hosts; users remain responsible for licensing and host resource constraints.

Provides a browsable collection of public chatbot system prompts for researchers and prompt engineers to compare and analyze; however, absence of a declared license and potential sensitive source texts require legal, privacy, and maintenance risk assessment before reuse.

theHarvester is a Python-based passive OSINT collection tool that aggregates multiple public sources to discover emails, subdomains, IPs and URLs. Suited for red teams, pentesters and intelligence analysts, but pay attention to third-party API quotas and licensing compliance.

MiniCPM-V is an 8B on-device multimodal LLM focused on real-time video, OCR and speech interactions for mobile/edge deployment and research validation.

Wren AI converts natural-language queries into executable SQL, visual charts and AI-driven insights, enabling data teams and products to quickly deploy GenBI capabilities across multiple databases.

Hyperswitch is a Rust-based composable payments switch offering intelligent routing, cost observability, vault storage and retry strategies; suited for teams seeking high performance and self-managed payment infrastructure deployable on-premises or in the cloud.

Firecracker is a lightweight VMM for serverless and multi-tenant workloads, emphasizing hardware isolation, minimal attack surface, and fast startup—suited for high-density cloud platforms and container runtime integration.

SurfSense is a self-hostable private research agent that integrates search engines, collaboration tools and local LLMs—designed for teams requiring privacy and customization for advanced retrieval, RAG and cited QA.

1brc is a Java-focused high-performance aggregation benchmark and implementation collection that, via a uniform input format and evaluation environment, encourages extreme optimizations—ideal for performance engineers to compare, experiment, and teach.

Koog is the official Kotlin framework for building and running robust, scalable and production-ready AI agents across all platforms – from backend services to Android and iOS, JVM, and even in-browser environments. Koog is based on our AI products expertise and provides proven solutions for complex LLM and AI problems

Qlib provides an end-to-end platform from quant research to production, combining a model zoo, point-in-time database and RD-Agent automation; suited for institutional quant R&D teams with data and ML expertise.

whatsapp-web.js uses Puppeteer to expose near-complete WhatsApp Web APIs to Node.js, enabling rich automation while requiring trade-offs around account-ban and compliance risks.

Coding Interview University offers a structured self‑study CS curriculum covering algorithms, data structures, systems concepts and practice problems, aimed at self-taught engineers preparing for interviews at large tech companies.

Windows Terminal delivers a modern, tabbed, GPU-accelerated terminal while retaining the classic conhost; officially distributed across channels and suited for Windows developers and ops teams needing a customizable, high-performance terminal.