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Does the AIRI anime companion really play Minecraft?

AIRI is a self hosted AI companion with a 3D anime body that talks, listens, and even plays Minecraft, running in a browser or as a desktop app.

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Palmier Pro lets your AI agent cut video on your Mac

Palmier Pro is an open source video editor for Mac that opens an MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can cut and arrange your timeline for you.

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DeepTutor is the AI tutor that remembers every lesson

DeepTutor is an open source AI tutor with inspectable memory, versioned knowledge bases, and a command line another agent can drive with JSON output.

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Voicebox clones your voice and gives it to Claude Code

Voicebox is an open source voice cloning app that runs on your own machine, adds system-wide dictation, and gives coding agents a voice over MCP.

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Pumpkin runs Minecraft on 100MB but pistons don't work

Pumpkin is a Minecraft server in Rust that starts in milliseconds on roughly 100MB of RAM, but pistons are broken and version 1.0 has no release date.

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Android SSH clients compared, Termius beats the rest

Android SSH client picks for 2026: Termius, ConnectBot, and Termux compared on price, Mosh, SFTP, and keys, after Google Play dropped JuiceSSH.

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