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Today's GitHub Trending: iroh, a Rust stack that connects devices by cryptographic key instead of IP (it hit 1.0 this week); Plane, a self-hosted Jira and Linear alternative; LibreTranslate, a translation API that never touches Google; Unciv, an ad-free remake of Civ V.

Not one AI model among them. What unites the list is subtraction: each repo removes a vendor from the picture, and the loudest praise, aimed at Unciv, is simply that it doesn't call home, push ads, or spy on you.

Today's GitHub Trending: iroh (Rust peer-to-peer networking that dials public keys, not IP addresses), Meshery (one control plane for Kubernetes and ten service meshes), NautilusTrader (a self-hosted trading engine — Rust core, Python cockpit), and Unciv (an ad-free open-source remake of Civ V).

The catalyst is at the top: iroh shipped its first stable 1.0 on June 15, after four years and 65 pre-releases, and a maintainer dropped into the Hacker News thread to field questions. Two of the five are Rust — and not one AI agent framework in sight.

In today's GitHub Trending: iroh (a Rust library that dials devices by public key, not IP), Meshery (a Kubernetes-stack manager), and three reference repos — freeCodeCamp's curriculum, build-your-own-x, and a self-hosting guide.

The lists pull the stars; the threads pull the doubt. The top Hacker News comment on the Self-Hosting-Guide calls it «a giant list of tools», not the how-to its title promises, and it hasn't been updated in a year. iroh is the outlier: a maintainer ran an open AMA the day it hit the front page.

In today's GitHub Trending: OpenBB, a self-hosted research terminal aimed at the $2,000-a-month Bloomberg seat; mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide, an index of run-it-yourself software; Meshery, a manager for the Kubernetes you already operate; and freeCodeCamp's 448k-star learn-to-code curriculum.

The pitch is self-reliance. The replies read as an audit: a Tell HN thread documents OpenBB emailing people it scraped from its own stargazers, and the loudest voices under the self-hosting guide call it a list of tools, not the howto it promises.

In today's GitHub Trending: PowerToys (Windows power-user utilities), freeCodeCamp (the 447k-star learn-to-code curriculum), Stable Diffusion WebUI (the original image-gen UI), plus HackTricks (a pentester's knowledge base) and Meshery (a Kubernetes manager).

What's notable is the absence: no new AI agent framework, no overnight viral repo. The youngest project here launched in 2022 and hasn't shipped a commit since March. Today's board is a roll call of incumbents, not a discovery feed.