300+ Open Source LLM Projects You Can Clone, Learn, or Monetize Today

If you want to understand where the future is headed, follow where builders are tinkering today.

This resource is for developers, students, indie hackers, and researchers who learn by studying real projects — not just documentation or theory. What you’re getting here is a curated selection of standout GitHub repositories, each originally posted and discussed on Hacker News. These aren’t random picks. They’ve been hand-picked for their originality, technical relevance, and real-world application in the rapidly evolving space of large language models (LLMs).

Each project includes the original README.md file — the starting point of understanding any repo. Skimming GitHub? Not helpful. Reading the README? That’s where clarity begins.

What’s inside:

• 300+ standout LLM-related projects posted to Hacker News
• Full list in a clean, searchable Markdown index
• All the original READMEs, saved and zipped
• Perfect for studying architectures, tool ideas, and implementation patterns

Why it matters:

• Save hours of manual GitHub digging
• Find research leads or startup ideas that matter
• Validate what’s worth your time to explore deeper
• Get practical inspiration from projects that real developers are talking about

Delivered instantly. Just a Markdown file and a README ZIP. No bloat. No fluff. Just signal.

This is like walking into a builder’s lab — without the noise.