About this video

• Video Title: GitHub Trending Repos Weekly #2: Dayflow, React Old Icons, OpenTrack,tunn,VLA-Adapter, Blogr, GeoSVR
• Channel: Github Awesome
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• Duration: 00:11:19

Overview

This video highlights 15 trending GitHub repositories for September 26th, 2025. It provides a brief overview and key features of each project, covering a range of topics including AI-powered productivity tools, retro design assets, robotics frameworks, AI models for vision and language, protein folding, SSH tunneling, static site generators, LLM agents, and object detection.

Key takeaways

• DayFlow: A native Mac OS app that uses AI to automatically build a timeline of your day by watching screen activity, offering a private and customizable solution for time tracking.
• React Old Icons: A comprehensive React component library featuring over 2,300 classic icons from vintage operating systems and software, suitable for retro-themed projects.
• OpenTrack: An open-source framework for humanoid motion tracking built on Mujoko, designed to handle dynamic and contact-rich human motions with multi-GPU support.
• VLA Adapter: A new paradigm for efficient vision-language-action models that achieves state-of-the-art performance with a smaller model and significantly reduced training time and cost.
• SimpleFold: An open-source project that simplifies protein folding using general-purpose transformer layers, achieving competitive accuracy and being the largest folding model developed to date.
• Ton: A lightweight SSH tunnel manager that simplifies managing multiple tunnels using a single YAML configuration file and leverages native OpenSSH.
• Visual Mimic: A framework for visual humanoid locomotion and manipulation, enabling robots to perceive, move, and interact with the environment using egocentric vision and a hierarchical controller.
• Song Prep: A pre-processing framework and model for parsing full song structures and transcribing lyrics in both Chinese and English, reducing manual effort and improving data for music generation models.
• MCP Obsidian: A universal AI bridge for Obsidian vaults that connects notes to AI assistants like Claude and GPT while protecting data privacy and ensuring compatibility with future AI tools.
• GeoSVR: An open-source project for high-quality surface reconstruction of complex scenes using explicit sparse voxels and innovative depth constraints for geometric accuracy.
• Blogr: A fast, lightweight static site generator built in Rust, offering a smooth blogging workflow with features like Markdown support, fast builds, and effortless deployment to GitHub Pages.
• Tree-GRPO: A tree search-based reinforcement learning method for LLM agents that improves efficiency and provides step-wise supervision signals, reducing rollout budgets significantly.
• Lucydit: A video editing model that allows text-instruction-guided edits, enabling modifications to characters, scenes, and objects without manual frame manipulation.
• Max Headbox: An open-source, voice-activated LLM agent designed to run entirely offline on a Raspberry Pi, offering privacy-focused, hands-free AI experiences.
• DIMv2: A real-time object detection framework that combines the DIM training pipeline with Dinov3 features, offering a versatile range of model sizes for different deployment scenarios and achieving state-of-the-art performance and efficiency.

DayFlow's primary function is to automatically build a timeline of your day using AI by watching your screen activity. It differs from traditional calendar apps because instead of relying on scheduled events, it tracks your screen usage at one frame per second and summarizes your activity every 15 minutes, providing a snapshot of how you actually spend your time. Its unique features include being lightweight, private by design, allowing user control over the AI (Gemini or local models), and offering features like distraction highlights and automatic cleanup of old recordings.