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fieldwork-ai/lighter

A fast, open-source Docker runtime for macOS. Custom VMM on Hypervisor.framework, written from scratch in Rust.

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How fast fieldwork-ai/lighter is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 5 – Oct 24, 2026

Stars +68 in 50 days

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Forks +3 in 50 days

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Total+68+359
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  1. Sep 251 post

    • The new high-performance way to run Home Assistant and Frigate on Apple Silicon: Lighter - native AI detection and video transcoding

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      r/homeassistant

  2. Sep 233 posts

    • I built lighter: an open-source, sub-second Docker runtime for macOS written from scratch in Rust

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      r/rust

    • I built lighter: an open-source, sub-second Docker runtime for macOS written from scratch in Rust

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      r/macsysadmin

    • We added hardware video decode/encode (V4L2) to an open-source Mac container engine for Frigate NVR & Home Assistant

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      r/frigate_nvr

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