Every day I collect AI signals from public sources for Signals 4 — a free daily digest of 4 items, one per core source. This is what the week looked like in the data.
2413 items collected across 7 days and 7 sources.
The standing numbers (from our own endpoints)
These are rankings we compute from our own daily snapshots — the same numbers as the site and the JSON endpoints, free to quote with attribution.
Models (ranked 350 of 2377 tracked, as of 2026-11-08)
- sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2: ranked #1 of 350 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -2.7% since 2026-11-01 (as of 2026-11-08). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/sentence-transformers-all-minilm-l6-v2.html
- cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2: ranked #2 of 350 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; downloads -5.7% since 2026-11-01 (as of 2026-11-08). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/cross-encoder-ms-marco-minilm-l6-v2.html
- argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml: ranked #3 of 350 by Hugging Face downloads among the entries we track; climbed from #9 to #3; downloads +103.1% since 2026-11-01 (as of 2026-11-08). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/models/argmaxinc-whisperkit-coreml.html
Repos (ranked 81 of 81 tracked, as of 2026-11-08)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: ranked #1 of 81 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.5% since 2026-11-01 (as of 2026-11-08). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/codecrafters-io-build-your-own-x.html
- sindresorhus/awesome: ranked #2 of 81 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.9% since 2026-11-01 (as of 2026-11-08). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/sindresorhus-awesome.html
- public-apis/public-apis: ranked #3 of 81 by GitHub stars among the entries we track; stars +0.5% since 2026-11-01 (as of 2026-11-08). Source: Signals 4 (Signals API) — https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/t/repos/public-apis-public-apis.html
This week's churn: 2 new entries, 35 not seen in the latest snapshot, 284 rank moves
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xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-hereticmoved from #154 to #120 (+417.8% downloads) -
moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Promoved from #91 to #88 (+13.3% downloads) -
speridlabs/idolmoved from #94 to #91 (+10.5% downloads)
Biggest model gains (downloads)
| Model | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml | +24,716,304 | 23,964,952 → 48,681,256 |
autogluon/chronos-2 | +5,240,273 | 23,513,356 → 28,753,629 |
openai-community/gpt2 | +2,514,892 | 28,989,033 → 31,503,925 |
Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3 | +2,110,705 | 30,246,865 → 32,357,570 |
google-bert/bert-base-uncased | +1,636,035 | 29,830,833 → 31,466,868 |
Biggest repo gains (stars)
| Repo | Gain | From → To |
|---|---|---|
morluto/rea | +23,600 | 418,610 → 442,210 |
deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype | +7,997 | 13,022 → 21,019 |
storytold/craft-anything | +6,765 | 14,892 → 21,657 |
Gathin23/cleanyourtv | +5,094 | 49,134 → 54,228 |
sindresorhus/awesome | +4,836 | 528,690 → 533,526 |
What showed up, by source
GitHub (140 items)
- codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x — 2026-11-08
- sindresorhus/awesome — 2026-11-08
- public-apis/public-apis — 2026-11-08
- freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp — 2026-11-08
Hugging Face (339 items)
- speridlabs/idol — 2026-11-08
- xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-heretic — 2026-11-08
- moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro — 2026-11-08
- ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Coder — 2026-11-08
arXiv (444 items)
- SwarmEvolve: Latent Agent Swarms for Evolutionary Discovery and Optimization — 2026-11-08
- Scientist World: Grow a Research World for AI-Scientists — 2026-11-08
- XStack: A Benchmark for ML Repo Migration — 2026-11-08
- Same Behavior, Different Mechanism: What Finite Experiments Can Certify About Integrated Information — 2026-11-08
YouTube (96 items)
- How to Get Someone to Tell You the Truth - Robert Caro — 2026-11-08
- OpenAI's Astra Just Opened The Black Box Of AI — 2026-11-08
- The Loneliness That Shaped Lyndon Johnson - Robert Caro — 2026-11-08
- The Future of AI Is Absolutely Incredible (Spencer Huang) — 2026-11-08
Silicon Valley news (185 items)
- Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlash (SemiAnalysis) — 2026-11-08
- Petered (what happens after the Peter Principle) — 2026-11-08
- GitHub Down Again? — 2026-11-08
- I'm Rewriting IBM SPSS Statistics in 100% Safe Rust, Alone — 2026-11-08
Industry news (1034 items)
- The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China - The Verge — 2026-11-08
- US believes Nvidia’s Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy - Financial Times — 2026-11-08
- Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo - TechCrunch — 2026-11-08
- US intelligence believes Jensen Huang had romantic relationship with Chinese spy in honeypot operation — spy suspect linked to company accused of smuggling $2 billion in AI chips - Tom's Hardware — 2026-11-08
AI hardware (175 items)
- AMD Reports Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results — 2026-11-08
- AMD and Meta Advance Strategic Partnership to Power Meta’s Superintelligence Infrastructure — 2026-11-08
- Introducing AMD Helion, Agentic AI Compute at Rack Scale — 2026-11-08
- AMD to Report Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results — 2026-11-08
Notes
- All links point to the original sources; nothing is rewritten.
- The daily digest is free and archived permanently: https://data.jiangzhang.ca/signals4/archive/
- Machine-readable summary: https://data.jiangzhang.ca/llms.txt
- Raw daily data is also mirrored on GitHub: https://github.com/jiangzhangcc-glitch/ai-signals-daily

