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harshaneel /

humanize

Humanize – Best static AI text humanizer, based on 50 research papers

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lifthrasiir /

libbeef

Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf

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ferrumox /

rabbit

Ran Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 on a GPU-less mini-PC

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safetype /

blackbar-nano

blackbar-nano – local PII detection and redaction on CPU

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myshapeprotocol /

myshape-protocol

PES Benchmark v0.2 – Detecting AI-generated motion (Cohen's d=10.4)

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dipto0321 /

nodeup

Nodeup – automate Node.js version upgrades and NPM package migration

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danthegoodman1 /

tinysandbox

Tinysandbox – An ultra-minimal sandbox with QuickJS WASM isolates

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voidnullvalue /

Icsee-android

I RE'd (and reimplemented) the ICSee camera app. The security is atrocious

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databendlabs /

openraft

OpenRaft: Async rust raft crate with improvements

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docbrain-ai /

docbrain

DocBrain, turns merged PRs and Slack threads into documentation

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evo-design /

proto-tools

Eliminating Conda/CUDA dependency hell in computational biology pipelines

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Gogo27Gallet /

Fronde

Adaptive speculative decoding on a $300 GPU

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mathaix /

OpenClawMachines

OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise

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synlace /

project-docs

Documentation is insurance for the future

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jamkernel /

jamkernelp2p

Jamkernelp2p: A sovereign P2P microkernel for ultimate lightness and control

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maximhq /

bifrost

Fastest Enterprise AI Gateway

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