For Developers AI tools
Technical tools for programmers: AI models, APIs and building blocks. Most of these need coding skills.
ShipRadar tracks 58 for developers tools; the top-ranked right now is dsh-our-free-model. Sources: GitHub (8), Hacker News (Show HN) (19), Hugging Face Spaces (25), Editor's pick (4), Product Hunt (2). Ranked by traction and freshness.
dsh-our-free-model
A plugin for the DeepSeek Harness coding tool that gives free access to models like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3, with no sign-up.
Mini-AGI
An experimental AI model that keeps learning, trained on a normal gaming graphics card.
Jevman
AI decision models playing Pac-Man. Pure fun.
JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
Tests for AI decision models. Researchers only.
TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
Watch AI bots compete against each other in little games.
Pelican-bicycle alternatives
A playful gallery comparing how different AIs draw a pelican riding a bicycle. A popular informal test.
CUA-S1
A quick-reacting AI model built to use a computer like a person would.
How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
A chart showing how up to date 20 popular AI models are, and when each one's knowledge stops.
Training a model to identify AI web content from structure alone
A research project that spots AI-written web pages from their layout alone.
Jev Decision Index
Scores and news about copies of Jev, an AI decision model. Researchers only.
Open LLM Leaderboard
A scoreboard that compares free AI models. Mostly useful to tech people.
MTEB Leaderboard
A scoreboard that compares AI search models. For programmers.
awesome-jev
A list of projects built on Jev, an AI model that makes yes/no-style decisions.
Durable Actors
Server building blocks for developers. Not really an AI tool for most people.
The Ultra-Scale Playbook
A deep technical guide to training huge AI models on big clusters of graphics chips.
Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview
A quick quiz that shows where you land between 'AI will ruin everything' and 'AI will fix everything'.
The Smol Training Playbook
A guide from Hugging Face on how they build AI models. For engineers.
Model Pulse
Charts showing which AI models people download most on Hugging Face. For trend-watchers.
OpenAI API
Lets programmers put ChatGPT's technology into their own apps.
Hugging Face
A huge library of free AI models and demos you can try in your browser. Mostly used by tech people.
Ollama
Runs AI models on your own computer, so nothing leaves your machine. Needs a fairly powerful computer and some setup.
OpenRouter
One account that lets programmers use hundreds of AI models from different companies.
Index-Translate
A family of AI translation models that handle many languages, text and images.
UGI Leaderboard
Ranks AI models by how freely they answer touchy questions. Researchers only.
AnyJev
Makes any AI model give clear-cut decisions with probabilities, like Jev does.
folkbench
Rates the go-between services that resell AI access, measuring uptime, speed and price. For developers shopping around.
jevals
A way for developers to grade AI answers using the Jev decision model.
InferenceSupport
A help forum for a Hugging Face developer feature.
The ultimate guide to multi-harness RL
A long technical guide to training AI models. Researchers only.
Parsimony
Measures how much extra code AI models add when they program. For developers.
OBLITERATUS
Removes the built-in refusals from open AI models, with a chat box to test the result. Use with care. It's aimed at researchers.
Sunk Cost
A calculator for how long a home AI computer takes to pay for itself versus paying for AI subscriptions.
ChessFly
A computer model of a fruit fly's brain playing chess. Weird, fun science.
Browser
A gallery for browsing and comparing community-made image styles and models.
awesome-jev
A huge index (1,207 links) of resources about Jev, an AI decision model. In English and Chinese.
S1MB Leaderboard
Scores comparing small decision-making AI models on 100+ tests. Researchers only.
awesome-decision-models
A reading list about AI models that make quick yes/no-style decisions.
Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress
A short, funny satire about the AI race.
Deslop
Catches sloppy patterns in code written by AI. For programmers.
System One Arcade
Eleven playful demos (camera, drawing and text) of a small AI model you can try in your browser.
Strata
A layer that sits between your business data and AI and blocks questions it can't answer reliably.
openjev
A research model that checks whether a statement matches a text or an image.
ONGRID
A research engine for checking AI decisions. Very technical.
HF Viewer · Model Architecture Explorer
Draws a diagram of how any AI model on Hugging Face is built inside. For engineers.
Box
An AI app suite for Android that works fully offline, so nothing leaves your phone.
RL Environments on Hugging Face
Practice worlds where researchers train AI agents. Technical.
Open SLM Leaderboard
A scoreboard comparing small AI models. Developers only.
NeuDecide
A tiny voice-command AI that runs inside a web page. For developers.
Embedding Draw Challenge
A drawing game: sketch something and see whether Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 AI can guess it.
Kcc, a C compiler built with an LLM on $100/month boot Linux kernel
A programmer used AI on a $100/month budget to build a working compiler, the kind of tool that turns code into programs.
VRAM & GPU Cost Calculator
Tells you how much computer memory an AI model needs and what renting a graphics chip costs. For tinkerers.
Scrape Anything by Context.dev
A service programmers use to pull information from any website automatically.
Microduck Arena
Races small robot-control AIs against the clock. A research curiosity.
Vela 2.0: Open Foundation Routing Models
Free AI models that decide which bigger AI should answer each question. Developer plumbing.
Google EmbeddingGemma 2
A free building block from Google that helps apps search through text, photos, and video. For programmers.
unsafe-eval leaderboard
Tests how well AI safety filters catch harmful content. Researchers only.
I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box
A simple AI helper that runs AI models on your own computer straight out of the box.
I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform
A free, all-in-one AI app you run on your own computer.