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yc-software /

qm

qm

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astral-sh /

uv

Uv 0.12.0

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243#002
openai /

git

OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub

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2110#003
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twalichiewicz /

HNewhere

I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

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199#004
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BraveAnn011 /

ai-halo-valuation-bias

I put a $2.43 necklace on 3 outfits. VLMs priced it at $19 to $104

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1616#005
ammaarreshi /

Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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157#006
AdBusterOfficial /

Adbuster--WinApp

Offline tool to stabilize TV volume using IR control and spike detection

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156#007
gavamedia /

deltafin

Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Mac

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142#008
schlae /

BeavisUltrasound

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

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132#009
chrislgarry /

apollo-11

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

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132#010
PostHog /

posthog-foss

PostHog Open Sourced

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115#012
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twigg-vc /

monorepo

Twigg – open-source big-tech-like version control and software forge

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1010#014
theadamdanielsson /

ggufpacker

I packed 16 GB of GGUF quants into 1.8 GB, losslessly

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105#015
SmtimesIWndr /

gdid-reversal

Full Writeup of the Windows GDID

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104#016
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Kalcode /

spaceprojectsim

A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy

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102#017
ThatXliner /

NerdLens

NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR

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92#018

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