IBM and NASA just dropped Surya — an open‑source AI to forecast solar storms before they hit

Solar storms don’t just make pretty auroras—they can scramble GPS, disrupt flights, degrade satellite comms, and stress power grids. To get ahead of that, IBM and NASA have open‑sourced Surya on Hugging Face: a foundation model trained on years of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) data to make space‑weather forecasting more accurate and accessible.

What Surya is

A mid‑size foundation model for heliophysics that learns general “features of the Sun” from large SDO image archives.

Built to support zero/few‑shot tasks like flare probability, CME risk, and geomagnetic indices (e.g., Kp/Dst) with fine‑tuning.

Released with open weights and recipes so labs, universities, and startups can adapt it without massive compute.

Why this matters

Early, reliable alerts help airlines reroute, satellite operators safe‑mode hardware, and grid operators harden the network before a hit.

Open sourcing lowers the barrier for regional forecasters and fosters reproducible science (shared baselines, comparable benchmarks).

We’re in an active solar cycle—better lead times now can prevent expensive outages and service disruptions.

How to try it (technical)

Pull the model from Hugging Face and fine‑tune on your target label: flare class prediction, Kp nowcasting, or satellite anomaly detection.

Start with SDO preprocessing pipelines; add lightweight adapters/LoRA for event‑specific fine‑tuning to keep compute modest.

Evaluate on public benchmarks (Kp/Dst) and report lead time vs. skill scores; stress test on extreme events.

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FOSS Awards for the open source projects

Please check out all the projects on the website. Vote for your favorite project.

https://www.20i.com/foss-awards/

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OSS with best contributing process?

I was having a discussion recently about how to improve the whole experience of developers wanting to contribute to a project.

I’d love to get some recommendations on OSS projects you contribute to which have awesome developer/contributor experiences, and hopefully they’ve serve as a bit of inspiration :)

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How do open source projects handle incidents?

Just a curiosity question, I come from a background of fintech / highly regulated spaces where incident management is critical, and well documented. A while ago, my company was in the talks of open sourcing a portion of our product, but I just had the thought of how incidents are managed in that case? We had more incidents than you would think, and they were a critical source for us to learn and grow our product.

Anyone who manages an open source product have any experience? Is it behind-closed-doors of the maintainers?

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I built an Open Source Offline Expense Temptation tracker | SkipWise
https://app.skipwise.org

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GrapeQL - A GraphQL Vulnerability Scanner

Hey r/opensource 👋

I'm Aleksa, a cyber-security researcher and software developer, and I've been working on GrapeQL \- a powerful vulnerability scanner for GraphQL APIs. I think the community would find it valuable. Currently I am looking for contributors. My repository is linked here.

🎯 Why I'm reaching out

As a solo developer juggling this with my security research, I'd love some help taking this project to the next level. Whether you're a seasoned developer or looking for your first open source contribution, there's something for everyone!

🤝 How you can contribute

Beginners: Documentation improvements, examples, testing

Intermediate: Feature enhancements, bug fixes, performance optimizations

Advanced: Architecture improvements, new authentication methods, caching

📊 Project Stats

\- Written in Python 3.8+ with aiohttp

\- Comprehensive test suite with CI/CD

\- MIT licensed (contributor-friendly)

\- Active development and responsive maintainer

🔗 Links

\- GitHub: https://github.com/AleksaZatezalo/GrapeQL

\- Issues: https://github.com/AleksaZatezalo/GrapeQL/issues

💡 Perfect for

\- Building your open source portfolio

\- Learning about GraphQL, async Python, or HTTP clients

\- Working on a project that's actually used in production

Any questions or interested in contributing? Drop a comment or check out the repo! Even starring ⭐ the project helps with visibility.

Thanks for reading! 🙏

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Molly - a Signal fork with extra privacy features, completely FOSS
https://molly.im/

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I built an open-source AI agent that explores your website like a real user, finds bugs, and gives feedback. Early Prototype

Hi, I’m building an open-source AI agent that explores your website like a real user, finds bugs, and gives feedback. The code is on GitHub if you want to give it a try: https://github.com/BitsOfAdventures/ai-e2e-tester

It's my first project centered around an LLM, so I'm learning a lot in the process.

The core loop of the app is pretty simple: I give an URL to the agent, it sends screenshot + HTML to the LLM and asks it what to do next. The LLM decides of the action, based on what it sees, then the agent executes that action in the browser. Then it repeats in a loop.

I'm really impressed by how well GPT-4o can understand a webpage based on a screenshot and HTML. It natively knows to fill text fields, click on search buttons, etc... It really understands the logic of using a website.

This project is still work in progress, but the agent has already identified several issues with my websites (bad attributes, accessibility issues, errors in console, etc...), so it's already quite useful.

Let me know if you have any ideas on how to improve it or what features to add next.

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Self Hosted Opensource Ship Wreck Tracker

Hello mates, I created a Shipwreck Tracker. My project lets users keep track of ship wrecks on a map. I'm a huge fan of shipwreck hunting and the wonders of navel vessels as well. Aside from that, I love opensource stuff so I made it opensource! (I use Linux)

At the moment, I've added the ships that are the most nostalgic to me as I've seen a few in person but I'm still working to try to document more ships and their locations as well as adding more info as to why they sunk and who owns said ship.

So far, we have an interactive map, 7 map styles, an account system and a submission system too. My project is 100% community ran so adding ships and features might take some time. Note this is a very new project so much is subject to change.

If your interested, check it out! https://github.com/Alfredredbird/Open-Wrecks

Much love mates!

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Is it possible to vibe code with open source models?



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Find newsletter providers for free

Hey, I'm looking for a free newsletter provider. Does such a thing even exist?

All the prices from all providers are getting on my nerves.

I have 2000 subscribers and everywhere I pay from 25 euros and up.

Who has advice for me?

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stagDB - Open Source database manager with instant branching for Dev Teams
https://github.com/arbit-tech/stagdb-ce

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AI design agent - should I open source?

Hey all, founder of Aspects AI (https://aspects.studio) here. Aspects is an agentic designer that I started building because I wanted an agent that would be able to design anything - slides, flyers, wireframes, etc. - via a mix of codegen and image gen.

Recently a user mentioned the prospect of open sourcing the project. I'm open to it but am curious whether anyone would be interested in this type of project given it's not strictly a dev tool. Any thoughts on how to think about that decision would be appreciated!


Addt'l technical details:

\- Runs on a homebuilt agentic framework that mirrors some of the more popular ones right now

\- Much of the complexity mirrors a more standard code editing agent e.g. Cline

\- Operates as a network of coordinator + sub-agents, and so fairly extensible with new functionality via new agents

\- One of the more interesting technical innovations is running several React sandpack instances simultaneously in the frontend to display content on, plus a separate backend render flow for export optionality etc.

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I replaced MS365 with my own cloud — Nextcloud + TrueNAS + Cloudflare

I got tired of paying for Microsoft 365, so I built my own cloud that I fully control.

Here’s what I did:

TrueNAS: Base operating system

Nextcloud: For files, sharing, and collaboration

Cloudflare Tunnel: To securely host it on my subdomain

The video shows the setup, hosting, and tips to avoid common mistakes, all done step by step.

Note: The video is in Hindi, but the process is easy to follow even if you don’t speak the language — nothing is skipped.

Check it out here: MS 365 Alternative Tutorial

Anyone else running their own cloud? What’s your setup like?

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We built something kinda crazy: open-source Al eval toolkit for LLMs feedback wanted!
https://github.com/future-agi/ai-evaluation

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I'm creating a UI framework in Python that exports HTML CSS and JavaScript

Hi, I'm ZtaDev...

I want to share with you Dars Framework, a personal project that I have been developing. It is a UI framework for Python that allows you to create complete web interfaces using only Python code. The idea is that you can design your UI in Python and then export it to HTML, CSS and JavaScript to deploy it easily. It is important to note that it is in a fairly early stage of development and that it requires a lot of work, but I think it would be very useful for complete and easy static websites to create only using Python and in case of events and so on, a little JS and therefore:

- An important point: although Dars handles UI creation with Python, for interactivity and event handling (like button clicks, animations, etc.), you need to use JavaScript (preferably vanilla JS). Dars takes care of the structure and styling, but the dynamic logic is integrated with JS.

You can install and test it with a simple:

pip install dars-framework

I hope you are interested and try it. Your feedback is very valuable to me.

You can find it here: https://github.com/ZtaMDev/Dars-Framework

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Built a free + open-source tool to put text behind your images (no paywall, no ads)

Hey hi,

I forked an open-source project a few days back for personal use. Most tools like this are stuck behind paywalls, so I decided to keep it free + open.

Added a few things along the way:

- Better UI
- Layer sorting
- Blend modes
- 3D text
- Scaling + more

If you’ve ever wanted to make those “text behind subject” images without the wait (or paying), this might help.

Links in the comments.👇

Would love any feedback / suggestions on what to add next 🙌

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Open source mailing list validation tool

The problem: You have an old mailing list with possibly bad data.

The solution: https://emaillistcleaner.org/

This is a free and open source, privacy-first email address list validation tool where the processing happens inside your own browser and no one, including myself, get access to your email addresses.

Some of its other key features:

Supports detecting and removing disposable and one-time-use email addresses.
Supports detecting and removing role-based email addresses, such as info@example.com
Supports detecting and removing unlikely valid email addresses, such as [nospam@example.com](mailto:nospam@example.com)
Supports detecting and removing duplicate email addresses, with advanced support for special email domains. For example, with gmail, email addresses john.smith@gmail.com and johnsmith@gmail.com are the exact same email inbox. This tool knows this and other similar edge cases and supports duplicate checking supporting these as well.
Supports dark mode and displays pretty charts and statistics after your analysis is completed. Everything looks better in a chart.
The logo features a cat.

I made this, because I needed one. I hope you will find it useful, too. If there are any features that are missing, please let me know. Thanks!

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How effective is ERPNext for Supply Chain Management?

Has anyone here tried using the open-source ERPNext for Supply Chain Management? I’ve been testing features like inventory tracking and purchase orders, and they seem pretty useful. I’m curious to know how others here are using it.

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A tool that converts sqlite to/from git-friendly format
https://github.com/baehyunsol/stfg

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How can an Open Source project earn money?

I've always been curious about open source projects, but I still don't understand many things. I understand that making it open source could have greater visibility and generate trust in people, but isn't it free work? Honestly, I'm not sure.

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