cactus-compute/needle
- Total stars
- 13,245
- Today
- +28since 00:08 UTC
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Automation foundation model for tiny devices: 2-bit, 8-29 MB, tool calls, structured extraction and embeddings on phones, wearables, smart homes, robots, cars and microcontrollers.
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About the project
A 2-bit, 8-29 MB foundation model for phones, wearables, robots and microcontrollers that handles tool calls, structured extraction and text embeddings on-device.
Useful for
- Route a voice command to the right app function on a phone
- Extract typed fields from invoices or bookings into a JSON record
- Fine-tune an 8-layer subnetwork on a product's own tools
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 5, 2026, 11:14 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-05 (UTC), 00:08–11:02: 13217 → 13245 stars (+28). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +67 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash” — 236 points, 17 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @vaimalaviya1233 (576 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
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Daily measurements · UTC
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 84 · October 4, 2026. Days with data: 2.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 5, 2026, 11:12 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 13,245
- Today
- +28 stars measured 2026-10-05, 00:08–11:02 UTC, ≈ 67 by evening
- Forks
- 894
- Issues and pull requests
- 165
- Watchers
- 73
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Created
- February 24, 2026
- Last push
- October 4, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB962 points, October 8, 2026
- Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash236 points, September 18, 2026
- Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB6 points, October 3, 2026
Spotted in
- September 25, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #18, +141 stars
- September 24, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #18, +161 stars
- September 21, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #10, +381 stars
- September 20, 2026GitHub Trending today: #14, +234 stars; GitHub Trending Python today: #3, +404 stars
- September 19, 2026GitHub Trending today: #14, +207 stars; GitHub Trending Python today: #3, +207 stars
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