Beyond the top ten, discussion still clusters on open-weight AI models — Kimi K3's 1,200-comment thread leads the next 50

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“what's the most discussed recently released open source projects (last 4 months)”

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“следующие 50?”

Continuation of the earlier top-ten report: 50 more projects released, majorly updated, or newly open-sourced between 22 June and 22 October 2026, ranked 11–60 by the largest comment count found on a single public thread (1,200 down to 39). The broader follow-up search surfaced several projects with larger measured threads than some entries in the original exploratory top ten, so ranks here are continuation labels, not a stable global ordering. Evidence spans 25 source hosts; some rows rest on a single source.

first release (30)major version release (15)became open source (5)

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8 and GLM-5.3 (1,200 / 731 / 584 comments) would all have placed inside the original top ten had the first exploratory pass found them. news.ycombinator.com

Open-weight models and agent/developer infrastructure dominate the head of this batch: of the eight entries above 300 comments, seven are AI models or agent runtimes, from Pi 1.0 (523) to DeepSeek Harness (309). dev.to

First releases are the most common path at 30 of 50 rows, but the single biggest thread belongs to an existing project opening its weights — Moonshot's Kimi K3. huggingface.co

The tail thins quickly: the last five entries, from Homegames to Petal, sit between 55 and 39 comments — roughly a thirtieth of the batch leader. news.ycombinator.com

All 50 projects

#	Project	Event	Date	Comments	Points	License	Summary	Source

Research snapshot, not a census: 50 projects (ranks 11–60) released, major-versioned, or newly open-sourced 2026-06-22 to 2026-10-22, each ranked by peak comment count on one captured public thread — not a web-wide sum; points are that thread's score and are never combined with comments. Discovery searched thousands of pages; semantic processing covered up to the first 2,000 results per large pass with some extraction failures. 25 source hosts; no URL backs more than 2 rows; single-source rows (source hosts = 1) warrant caution. Stated stars were absent for all rows and omitted; repository links shown in the table where stated.

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