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video generation and vision infrastructure

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-04-30 → 2026-10-10), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

horizontal · 147 members · Data as of 2026-10-13

These products provide developer frameworks, specialized inference kernels, and generative models for computer vision and video synthesis. They are built for machine learning researchers, software engineers, and creative technologists working on multimodal and visual AI pipelines. Unlike general LLM tooling, this cluster focuses specifically on the compute, rendering, and architectural challenges of video and image processing.

Metrics

Stage
forming
Recent count
117
Prior count
25
Total count
147
Momentum
300.00
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Attention
0.45
Crowding
0.59
Low crowding
0.41
Concentration
0.83
Low concentration
0.17
Opportunity
0.51

Source split

github
93 (0.79)
hn
21 (0.18)
ph
2 (0.02)
yc
1 (0.01)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.79

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
微多乐 PH 1 2026-09-19
Visual Verifier PH 1 2026-09-15
Vehluna HN 5 2026-01-11
I built a tiny camera that knows where it is HN 5 2026-09-15
Video to JPG HN 5 2026-01-01
A walkable 3D tour of a feedforward neural net HN 5 2026-08-13
I compressed videos by upto 78x while preserving faces,text and details HN 5 2026-08-28
Pion/rtwatch HN 5 2025-11-04
Lossless GIF recompression via exhaustive search HN 5 2026-06-22
Virtual time engine to record HTML to 60fps MP4, no drops HN 5 2026-07-26
A shot tracking app for hockey teams HN 6 2026-03-31
Drift HN 6 2026-06-10
LoRA gradients on Apple's Neural Engine at 2.8W HN 6 2026-03-06
Living Memory Dynamics HN 6 2026-01-05
HyperSAE HN 6 2026-08-19
SAM3-CPU HN 6 2026-04-01
pixel-and-ping GITHUB 6 2026-09-15
Dynamic Map of YouTube Channels HN 6 2026-04-10
Rendly HN 6 2026-09-13
Raw Screen Recordings into Cinematic Apple-Style Product Demos HN 6 2026-09-07
genpark-agent-action-trajectory-video-summarizer-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-26
LLMViz-DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash GITHUB 7 2026-09-10
A crowdsourced map of surveillance camera's based on OSM HN 7 2026-06-03
genpark-meta-muse-episodic-memory-graph-mcp GITHUB 7 2026-09-27
Crow-DLSS5-Video-Image-Converte GITHUB 7 2026-09-11
WaveletLM HN 7 2026-04-26
Neural Inverse Cloud HN 7 2026-07-02
30min video analysis for $0.003 via frame-tiling and Vision API HN 7 2026-01-18
exhibit-review GITHUB 7 2026-09-22
ScreenCI HN 7 2026-07-06
Marlin-2B: a tiny VLM to extract structured information from videos HN 7 2026-05-18
yug GITHUB 8 2026-10-01
genpark-rank-order-temporal-spike-encoder-skill GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
genpark-rank-order-temporal-spike-encoder-skill GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
NeuroFlow 55.8x video inference speedup for Vision Transformers PyTorch HN 8 2026-05-26
Diffuji HN 8 2026-02-16
farview-but-good GITHUB 8 2026-09-16
UGO GITHUB 9 2026-09-26
VideoPhysEdit GITHUB 9 2026-09-26
Leonardo HN 9 2026-03-07
Agnes-free-ai-video-unlimited GITHUB 9 2026-09-22
PerF GITHUB 10 2026-09-26
Got VACE working in real-time HN 10 2026-02-12
TRACE GITHUB 10 2026-10-03
Real-time virtual try-on using hand gestures and live video diffusion HN 10 2026-05-21
At 16K features, flat autoencoders break. Curved space doesn't HN 10 2026-08-13
SoftCorr GITHUB 10 2026-09-13
pro-display-fusion GITHUB 10 2026-10-04
Where-OPD GITHUB 10 2026-09-30
core GITHUB 10 2026-10-07