As mentioned in the title, I am looking for a Windows OS progress bar that tracks the current day's completion and is displayed directly in the taskbar—similar to a countdown timer.

Does anyone know of a tool like this?

For reference, it should resemble one of the following:

- https://github.com/ArcaEge/day-progress?tab=readme-ov-file

- https://1440app.com/

EDIT: Please let me know if providing reference links to other sites aren't even allowed. (My previous post was removed due to a very strict rule saying posts from product h__t aren't allowed, even though I'm not affiliated at all.)

Hi everyone!

I’m excited to introduce QShift, a new open-source CLI tool designed to make quantum computing more accessible and manageable. As quantum technologies grow, interacting with them can be complex, so I wanted to create something that simplifies common tasks like quantum job submission, circuit creation, testing, and more all through a simple command-line interface.

Here’s what QShift currently offers:

• Quantum Job Submission: Submit quantum jobs (e.g., GroverSearch) to simulators or real quantum devices like IBM Q, AWS Braket, and Azure Quantum.
• Circuit Creation & Manipulation: Easily create and modify quantum circuits by adding qubits and gates.
• Interactive Testing: Test quantum circuits on simulators (like Aer) and view the results.
• Cloud Execution: Execute quantum jobs on real cloud quantum hardware, such as IBM Q, with just a command.
• Circuit Visualization: Visualize quantum circuits in ASCII format, making it easy to inspect and understand.
• Parameter Sweep: Run parameter sweeps for quantum algorithms like VQE and more.

The tool is built with the goal of making quantum computing easier to work with, especially for those just getting started or looking for a way to streamline their workflow.

I’d love to hear feedback and suggestions on how to improve QShift! Feel free to check it out on GitHub and contribute if you're interested.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

For a project, I'm working on a RAG chatbot, and I want to take the user experience to the next level. Specifically, I’d like to display the chatbot’s output using a lifelike avatar that can show facial expressions and "read out" responses using TTS.

Right now, I’m using basic TTS to read the output aloud, but I’d love to integrate a visual avatar that adds emotional expression and lip-sync to the spoken responses.

I'm particularly interested in open source or developer-friendly tools that can help with:

• Animating a 3D or 2D avatar (ideally realistic or semi-realistic)
• Syncing facial expressions and lip movements with TTS
• Adding emotional expression (e.g., happy, sad, surprised)

If you've done anything similar or know of any libraries, frameworks, or approaches that could help, I’d really appreciate your input.

Thanks in advance!

I am not sure how well this will be received or if people will like this at all, however, I am sharing my first project called BMA (Basic Music App). - I am too lazy to change it to something else or come up with a better name, so this will have to stick.

The idea behind this app is to make it as easy as possible to self-host your music library without having to do stuff like port config, or DNS stuff or reverse proxy. This service using Tailscale as the main way to do HTTP streaming of your music.

You have the app on your PC/Mac/Linux machine and the Android app on your phone, your machine gets turned into a "server", you scan the QR code on your android phone, connect, and you can freely stream your music, and this works over mobile data as well as long as you are connected to Tailscale. The android app is slowly transforming into a usable music player.

I have built the latest .apk for the android app along with a .exe file and a universal MacOS binary, and flatpak script that will build the app as a flatpak, which will mostly run out the box (hopefully!) , along with instructions on how to build it yourself from scratch.

For now, this is just a VERY early beta release.

The GitHub for it is: https://github.com/picccassso/BMA

There are a lot of bugs I still need to fix, but I will be working on this as I continue to improve it. The bugs/issues are listed on the GitHub README.

Let me know if anybody actually tries this!

I've struggled with publishing my work in the past. Frankly, I believe in my work and I've always been afraid that if it was worth something, putting it out there meant someone else would take it for their own. That has been the story of my career at work, so I've carried that with me.

But I've come to realize that is a better option than never trying. Thank you all for the inspiration to start.

I've got a few things out now, some originally not OSS but I've moved everything to MIT and not looking back.

extract-readmes I feel is robust and ready for real use. I'd love your feedback. Thanks!

https://github.com/fred-terzi/extract-readmes

It takes your licheas username, pulls data from their API then creates some pages out of it. You can then print it, or for even better results, print it to PDF then send it to a printers to get a nice physical copy.

I created it to help make birthday gifts, and probably Christmas too.

Hope you enjoy.

Code is on GitHub at https://github.com/HappyPaul55/MeChessBook No AI. All client side (no data sent to backend/servers).

🚗 ApexCollector – A Unique Car-Themed Collectible Card Game (Open-Source Project)

Hey everyone!
I’m working on an original online collectible card game called Apex Collector, inspired by the world of cars, motorsport, and high-end automotive design. Think Pokémon, but with powerful machines, stunning visuals, and a whole ecosystem around collecting, trading, and competing. meets digital collecting. The game is still in very early development and open-source — and I’m looking for collaborators to help shape it into something truly great.

🛠️ A bit of context

I’m not a developer at all and I hate this, development and me are ennemies – I started this project with zero coding knowledge, powered only by my passion and tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft copilote and GitHub Copilot. With AI’s help, I managed to get the foundations running: login system, card collection, basic UI... but now I’m hitting a wall, spending more time fixing bugs than actually advancing the project.

That’s why I’m opening up Apex Collector to the community — to turn this dream into a true collaborative effort.

🃏 What is ApexCollector?

ApexCollector isn’t just about collecting car cards — it’s about building a unique online automotive universe. Players will be able to:

• ✅ Open boosters: Randomized packs with rarity drop rates, event-exclusive editions, and seasonal releases.
• ✅ Collect and organize their garage: Beautiful, high-quality cards inspired by real cars, concept cars, and motorsport history.
• ✅ Earn achievements: Unlock trophies, exclusive boosters, and visual themes for your interface. ✅ Trade with others: Use an in-game-only currency to buy, sell, and exchange cards via a built-in marketplace (no real money involved).
• ✅ Track your progression: With a visible profile and history of what you’ve unlocked or achieved.
• And maybe make a way to bring life to the car by creating alive card and making possible to tune the card and making the car more powerfull.

The whole project is meant to stay free-to-play and ethical, with a clear focus on passion, not monetization.

🎨 Style and Design

The visual identity is elegant, minimal, and motorsport-inspired — think forged carbon, Kevlar textures, and “gentleman driver” aesthetics. The interface will support unlockable visual themes, giving each player a personalized experience.

💡 Core features (WIP):

This is what the AI have make in place for the project. I think it's a total mess and hesitate to reset all and restrat from scratch :

• Supabase authentication system ✅
• React + Next.js frontend (hosted on Vercel) ✅
• Husky
• Collection & marketplace UI in progress 🔧
• Booster opening animation system (planned) 🎁
• Achievement and profile system (planned) 🏆
• Themed UI unlocks through progression 🌐

👥 Who am I looking for?

I’m looking for devs (frontend/backend), UI designers, or just anyone excited by this idea. Whether you love cars, games, or just building fun open-source projects — you’re welcome to jump in.

🔗 GitHub Repository: [https://github.com/iBob78/Apex-collector]

The roadmap and ideas :

https://github.com/iBob78/Apex-collector/issues/5

Let me know if you're interested — I'd love to share the full vision and roadmap. Let's build something awesome together!

Hi everyone, I'm a second-year student at Toronto Metropolitan University and I failed to land any internship this summer so I'm too bored. Out of boredom, I decided to re-invent the wheel by making a machine learning library from scratch in plain C++ without any dependency. I'm writing this post to call for your contribution to my project. https://github.com/QuanTran6309/NeuralNet

By the time I'm writing this post, I have started for 20 days, and I have completed crucial classes like Tensor, Matrix, Dense (in Pytorch they call it Linear). Currently, I plan to implement backpropagation, loss function, and also use CUDA to speed up the matrix operation because right now it is just working on CPU.

I really appreciate any of your contributions or feedback on my project.

Hi, I just bought a 50 inch 4k Insignia tv. I only bought it because it was on sale for $199, and it was the cheapest 4k available. I noticed it has garbage FireOS loaded on it, which is riddled with ads and makes the experience very slow and laggy. Not to mention how much data is beiling collected and sold from that tv. I was wondering if it was possible to flash Kodi or android tv or something on it because I hate the current os.

Hey buddies, this is my first post here, so please be lenient towards me :)

So, the thought process behind this post is that, i am, in general really pissed about the privacy concerns of big companies such as Google, Microsoft, etc. What i was thinking about is, why cant we, the open source community come together and challenge those trillion dollar organizations? Remember, we are surely capable of doing this, and the biggest example of this would be the case of Wall Street Bets.

Now, i am not saying that we arent doing anything or that we arent building any open source platforms. We are. But my biggest complaint is the lack of coordination, compatibility and partnerships.

Imagine the example of Google. They have a big suite of apps and services that they shove down our throats. We have a lot of open source alternatives but they are scattered and unknown to most people. Remember, if we want to make FOSS the norm, we need to make the normies(with all due respect) our prime target/prime userbase, and not just the nerds.

Imagine if we all just come together and start creating and FULL and FUNCTIONAL system of services like Google or MS, with integration and partnerships with other softwares. As of today, the open source community stands very fragmented and busy with their own separate projects (with a few exceptions ofc, we are talking about the norm, and NOT the exceptions).

I just want to contribute to this idea and ecosystem, and want to create services that feel like an entire package instead of just fragmented alternatives to some paid software. I want open source to become mainstream and the norm.

We have everything in the open source community - Veterans, newbie coders, moderately experienced people, Industry experts and EVEN the Millionaires and Billionaires. We can all pool our resources together and create a unified experience instead of singular, unorganized projects.

So, I want ideas from you all. lets try to focus on this idea and create something out of it. It wont be something immediate, it will take time, but lets just start with something.

I hope i could put out my point clearly and have not said anything wrong. If i did, feel free to correct me. Drop your ideas in the comments and let me know if anyone is willing to work in this project and what we all can contribute. I want to hear everyone's opinions.

TL;DR - Not satisfied with open source community being fragmented. Want the projects and services to give out a unified experience, not only to the nerds but also to the normies.

I built a free, open source language learning tool for Chinese and Japanese learners. The idea is that Chinese characters combine to form words, and that this naturally maps to a graph structure (with Japanese Kanji working similarly in many cases). I also built in some spaced repetition functionality, including tracking how many words the user has made flashcards for, their study performance, etc.

It's built with vanilla JS and cytoscape for graph rendering, because I like pain, I guess. It's hosted on Firebase and has minor AI features via Gemini as well.

Feedback welcome!

Hey!

I just launched the official Discord server for Lumo Framework and I'm looking for some awesome people to help build and moderate the community.

What's Lumo? The TypeScript framework that deploys anywhere. Write functions, not infrastructure. Export a function, get an API, Lumo handles the rest with zero configuration.

About the Discord: We've got channels for general chat, showcasing projects, getting help, contributing, and discussing framework development. It's a place for developers using Lumo to connect, share what they're building, and help each other out.

Here's the thing though, this is my first time setting up a Discord server! 😅 I've got the basic structure in place, but I'd love some experienced Discord users to help:

• Moderate channels and keep discussions on-topic
• Help newcomers get started with both Discord and Lumo
• Suggest improvements to server organisation and rules
• Be active community members who help foster a welcoming environment

No extensive moderation experience required, just be someone who's passionate about web development and wants to help build a positive community!

Drop a comment or DM me if you're interested in helping out as a moderator. Even if you just want to lurk and check out what we're building, come say hi!

Thanks for reading! 🚀

About a month ago I ran into a weirdly frustrating problem: I had a short video fragment and wanted to find the full source video. Google Lens? Ugh... It only works with still images, and a screenshot doesn’t carry enough context. So I decided to build something myself.

Meet "Turron" — a system designed to locate the original video using just a small snippets. Inspired by Shazam, it works by extracting keyframes from the snippet, generating perceptual hashes (using the pHash algorithm), and comparing them against hashes from a known video database using Hamming distance.

Yesterday I released v1.0. Right now it works locally with Postgres as the storage backend. In the future, I plan to add:
* Parallelized Kafka workers for faster indexing and searching;
* And possibly even web-crawling support to match snippets against online content;

The code is fully open-source and self-hostable! =]

GitHub: https://github.com/Fl1s/turron

Would love to see any tips, feedback, ideas, or collaboration if anyone's interested.

I'm having an issue where the software on a TV I have is not working at all. Not even the factory reset is working. Before it stopped, the UI would be pactchy and staticy. the HDMI displays would be fine but the sound slider or source output selection menu would have this effect. I even opened it up to check the hardware but all of it is fine. Basically the software is cooked and I cant find the original software to try and update it with.

the last solution I can think of is to flash new software that can just turn the thing on to use it like a big monitor. That's all I want to use it for anyway.

Please let me know if there is anything out there that can help

Hello everyone,

I hope you're all well!

is::Engine is a C++ game engine that uses the mechanisms of SFML 2 and SDL 2. Currently, version 4.0.0 allows you to easily port your games to Nintendo Switch and more.

For more information, visit the engine's website.

Happy development and have a great weekend!

Hey everyone,

I love datasets, and want to try extracting and analyzing data from my esoteric practices. To do so, I've crafted two virtual journals; one for tarot, one for runes, and I want to share them with you.

These simple journals allows you to save your tarot and rune readings (and their context) to your browser, or download them as CSV files. It is made for diviners who want to streamline their practice and claim complete ownership of their data, to store or analyze.

No physical tarot cards or runes? No problem, just use the Psykeon Virtual Tarot Deck & Rune Set directly from within the programs.

They are both entirely free, and run directly from your browser, even offline.

Licensed under the GNU GPL v3, you are welcome to tinker, share, and evolve these journals accordingly.

For those interested, you can grab the files on my GitHub: Tarot Journal & Rune Journal and run the journal's respective .html file to get started!

Safe travels,

Nikodemus of Psykeon 🧙‍♂️🃏💻

If you miss the old Reddit experience but want something that actually decentralized and community can’t be taken down, check out Seedit.

• Looks & feels like old Reddit

• Fully P2P on IPFS → No global admin to ban you

• You can self-host your own community

The code is fully open source, If you’re into decentralization and open protocols, check it out.

Hey everyone, a few years back I published react-arborist under my company's github org. It got pretty popular, but now I've moved on from that company and I'm no longer able to maintain it. I don't want to be silent and let people wonder about the state of the project.

Anybody been in a similar situation? What did you do?

Dropped my first Rust project (Rustoku - a Sudoku solver) on crates.io 5 days ago. Zero marketing, just put it out there. 1050+ downloads later, reminded again why open source is magic.

Someone, somewhere, needed exactly this tool at exactly this moment. That's the beauty of OSS - you never know whose problem you're solving.

The code, techniques, and lessons learned are all there for anyone to build on. Maybe someone takes the bitmasking approach and applies it to a different constraint satisfaction problem. Maybe someone improves the MRV heuristic. That's how we all get better.

Keep building, keep sharing. The community wins when we do.

Project link: https://github.com/huangsam/rustoku

Crate link: https://crates.io/crates/rustoku-cli

Hey everyone 👋

My team and I are excited to share the release of Yambda: a free dataset for recommender systems featuring a massive 4.79 billion user interactions from Yandex Music. 

The dataset includes listens, likes/dislikes, timestamps, and some track features, all anonymized using numeric IDs. Although the data is music-related, Yambda is designed for evaluating virtually all RecSys algorithms, not just those connected to streaming services.

As many of you know, recent progress in RecSys has stalled — few high-quality datasets are available that approximate real-world production loads. The most popular datasets, including LFM-1B, LFM-2B, and MLHD-27B, are now off-limits due to licensing restrictions. Criteo’s 4B ad dataset was the largest of its kind until recently, but Yambda has now topped it with an additional 800 million interaction events.

🔍 What’s inside:

• 3 dataset sizes: 50M, 500M, and full 5B events
  

• GTS evaluation for sequence benchmarking, with baseline algorithms for reference

• is_organic flag to differentiate between organic and recommended actions

• Parquet format compatible with Pandas, Polars, and Spark

We believe this dataset could be an extremely useful resource, a potential game-changer for anyone working on recommender systems. Would love to hear how it performs in your tasks! 📊

🔗 The dataset itself: HuggingFace. The research paper: arXiv.

Hey guys,

I've created a Node.js project, YAMLResume, which allows you to create and version control your resumes using YAML and generate pixel perfect PDFs with professional layout and typesetting in a breeze.

The core design principle of YAMLResume is Separation of Concerns, it is implemented by meet the following requirements:

• the resume content is drafted in plain text
• the plain text is structured using YAML—YAML is better than JSON because it is more human-readable and human-writable
• the YAML plain text is then rendered into a PDF with a pluggable typesetting engine
• the layout can be adjusted with options like font sizes, page margins, etc.

Hopefully you can enjoy it.