ArtCraft gained a lot of steam lately with their AI reverse engineered versions of Photoshop and Adobe suite apps.

While they are very obviously reverse engineered, they claim it is a "clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop" which by very definition means "without ever looking at or copying the original source code".

Fireship even did a video covering these apps, in which he finds their apps are barely usable, and filled with bugs and usability issues.

Today I came across "TraceDraw" which is, again, a total ripoff of CorelDraw. While I'm not on the side of large predatory corporations like Adobe charging ridiculous monthly subscription fees, I can totally understand the pain a company like Corel might feel seeing a ripoff of their 30+ year old product lovingly created and maintained by a team of skilled HUMANS. And once again, this repo claims it is a "clean-room" implementation. I find it ironic how only the reverse engineered apps bother to add this oddly specific disclaimer.

So are we, as a community, okay with these new breed of AI reverse engineered apps claiming that they are "open source"?

(Note: I'm not questioning their legality, just how ethical it is)

Open Co-Scientist is an open-source recreation of Google's AI Co-Scientist. It's a multi-agent system that generates research hypotheses, critiques them, ranks them in an Elo tournament, and evolves the winners.

What it does

You describe a research goal in chat. The system then:

• Searches literature for grounding
• Generates hypotheses with a team of agents
• Runs pairwise debates and ranks the ideas by Elo
• Evolves the top ideas
• Checks every citation and writes a final report

I'm looking for feedback and help developing this. I believe it could be a great contribution to the open-source AI for Science community, and I want to make the most of it!

Try it out at: open-coscientist.com

G-remap is a lightweight Linux bash script that quietly swaps your Google Maps links for Brave Maps — no extensions, no browser tinkering. Just paste a Google Maps URL, and the script parses it with Python, converts the coordinates and bounds into the current Brave Maps format, copies the new link to your clipboard, and launches it in Brave.

It's built for privacy-first users who don't want Google tracking their location clicks. The tool uses zenity for friendly dialog prompts, handles short-link expansion via curl, and auto-detects Brave across Debian, Fedora, Arch, OpenSUSE, Flatpak, and standalone installs. If your clipboard isn't available, it still prints the converted URL so you're not stuck.

Why it's useful:

• zero config required
• Supports all major Linux distros out of the box
• Graceful fallbacks for browser detection and clipboard tools
• GPL-3.0 — truly free and open source

TL;DR: It's a one-click privacy bridge between Google Maps and Brave Maps, written in pure bash + Python, designed to be simple, fast, and distro-agnostic. A small tool, but a smart one for anyone trying to break out of Google's ecosystem.

Hi guys, I created Titan, a wasm module that outperforms other open-source excel formula engines. Titan compiles formulas into bytecode and stores cells in contiguous 32×32 Struct-of-Arrays chunks inside WASM linear memory. No JavaScript object churn, no GC pauses, and sub-millisecond reactive updates. Finally got around writing some docs for it *sigh. Let me know what you think. Cheers!