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In today’s GitHub Trending: Authentik (self-hosted identity), HRMS (HR and payroll), Plane (project management), changedetection.io (website-change alerts), and Khoj (an AI assistant over your own data).

The common thread is operational ownership. Each project replaces a SaaS surface, but the active issue queues show that self-hosting exchanges subscription simplicity for work that must be maintained.

In last week's GitHub Trending: SimpleX (a messenger that assigns no user identifiers at all, for the privacy-maximalist crowd), CasaOS (a home-server OS that turns a spare box into a personal cloud), Plane (a self-hosted Jira and Linear alternative), and free-for-dev (a directory of free SaaS tiers).

The list sells digital independence. But its second-biggest gainer, CasaOS, hasn't merged a commit in nearly a year, and its own issue tracker is openly asking whether the project is dead.

In today's GitHub Trending: Plane (a self-hosted Jira and Linear alternative for teams allergic to per-seat pricing), Directus (turns any SQL database into an instant REST and GraphQL API), Svelte (the compiler-first web framework), and MONAI (a PyTorch toolkit for medical imaging).

The loudest entry isn't code: SimplifyJobs' internship board, a job listing that lives entirely inside a Git repo and gets edited by opening an issue. And two near-identical "replace your SaaS" tools draw opposite verdicts from the people who run them.

Last week's climbers: iroh, a Rust stack that dials devices by cryptographic key instead of IP address (and just shipped 1.0); Plane, a self-hostable, air-gap-capable alternative to Jira and Linear; Presidio, Microsoft's PII scrubber that teams now wire in front of every LLM call; Meshery, a manager for your own cloud-native infrastructure.

The odd one out is freeCodeCamp, at 450k stars and trending yet again with nothing new to say. iroh reached 1.0 the hard way: it tore out its QUIC engine and shipped one it wrote itself.

Today's trending list is a catalogue of escape routes from SaaS bills: n8n (visual workflow automation against Zapier), Plane (project tracking against Jira), Apache Superset (BI dashboards against Tableau), and TinaCMS (Git-backed visual CMS).

But "open source" is doing uneven work here. n8n runs on a fair-code license the OSI won't recognize, Plane gates SSO behind a paid contract, and the one genuinely community-run tool, yt-dlp, just told users they must install a separate JavaScript runtime to keep downloading from YouTube.

Today's GitHub Trending: iroh, a Rust networking stack that dials a peer's key instead of an IP address; Plane, a self-hosted Jira alternative; LibreTranslate, a translation API you run offline; Unciv, an open-source Civ V remake.

Four of the five exist to delete a dependency: a relay server, a Jira license, the Google Translate API, an ad-funded app store. Their threads praise not features but the missing middleman — “I use dumbpipe daily”, “they don't call home”. The fifth, Microsoft's qlib, reached 44k stars with an empty comment section.

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.