Unciv

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.

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.