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This week's head-to-heads

The two fastest-rising repos in each category over the last 7 days, compared on stars gained, total stars, forks, language, age and releases.

AI agents

rea vs dsh-our-free-model

rea gained 32,063 stars in the last 7 days against 12,100 for dsh-our-free-model, about 2.6 times as many.

In total, rea has 417k stars and 104k forks; dsh-our-free-model has 55k stars and 1,511 forks.

rea is written mainly in TypeScript and was created 7 months ago; dsh-our-free-model is mainly JavaScript, created 37 days ago.

rea's latest release is rea-agents-6.8.0 (7 days ago); dsh-our-free-model's latest release is v2.8.0-macos-unofficial (today).

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LLM tooling

ponytail vs Claude-Mem

ponytail gained 5,810 stars in the last 7 days against 5,179 for Claude-Mem (partly estimated), a close race.

In total, ponytail has 182k stars and 10k forks; Claude-Mem has 108k stars and 9,502 forks.

ponytail is written mainly in JavaScript and was created 5 months ago; Claude-Mem is mainly TypeScript, created 14 months ago.

ponytail's latest release is v5.3.3 (3 days ago); Claude-Mem's latest release is v15.8.0 (today).

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MCP

hyperframes vs xerj

hyperframes gained 4,597 stars in the last 7 days against 2,940 for xerj, about 1.6 times as many.

In total, hyperframes has 76.7k stars and 7,025 forks; xerj has 18.5k stars and 1,403 forks.

hyperframes is written mainly in TypeScript and was created 8 months ago; xerj is mainly Rust, created 4 months ago.

hyperframes' latest release is v0.8.226 (today); xerj's latest release is v1.0.0-rc.100 (4 days ago).

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Coding agents

Orca vs magpie

Orca gained 6,194 stars in the last 7 days against 5,819 for magpie, a close race.

In total, Orca has 112k stars and 7,082 forks; magpie has 27.3k stars and 2,297 forks.

Orca is written mainly in TypeScript and was created 8 months ago; magpie is mainly Go, created 38 days ago.

Orca's latest release is v1.4.245 (2 days ago); magpie's latest release is v0.1.2579 (today).

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RAG / vector

DeepTutor vs WeKnora

DeepTutor gained 10,520 stars in the last 7 days against 761 for WeKnora, about 13.8 times as many.

In total, DeepTutor has 53.2k stars and 6,509 forks; WeKnora has 36.1k stars and 4,918 forks.

DeepTutor is written mainly in Python and was created 10 months ago; WeKnora is mainly Go, created 16 months ago.

DeepTutor's latest release is v1.7.1 (today); WeKnora's latest release is v0.9.0 (3 days ago).

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Local LLMs

Ollama vs DigUp

Ollama gained 767 stars in the last 7 days against 298 for DigUp, about 2.6 times as many.

In total, Ollama has 186k stars and 18.8k forks; DigUp has 6,073 stars and 476 forks.

Ollama is written mainly in Go and was created 3 years ago; DigUp is mainly Swift, created 23 days ago.

Ollama's latest release is v0.40.13 (3 days ago); DigUp's latest release is v0.6.2 (10 days ago).

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How to compare open-source repos

Stars: GitHub's bookmark button. A high total means many developers noticed the project at some point; it says little about whether it is still maintained.
Stars gained (24 hours, 7 days): Momentum. OSS Radar ranks repos by these gains, so a young project gaining fast can outrank an older one with far more total stars.
Forks: Copies people made to change the code. Many forks relative to stars usually means people are building on it, not just bookmarking it.
Last code push and latest release: Maintenance signals. A recent push shows someone is still working on it; tagged releases show versions you can pin to.
Hacker News: How many HN stories linked the repo and how many points they drew: a rough measure of discussion outside GitHub.

Stars, forks, pushes and releases come from the public GitHub API and are refreshed hourly; Hacker News figures come from HN's public search API. Sponsors never affect rankings or comparisons.