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RenderBear /

hci

Harmonic Contour Integration: Compact, distributed edge detection algorithm

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alfonsojimenez /

kgazer

KGazer: Kafka Compacted Topic Explorer

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11#632
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Asyncinnovator /

hallint

Hallint – lint AI-generated code for security issues

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11#633
keplertech /

kepler-formal

Open source HW equivalence checking tool at both RTL and gate level

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11#634
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wizenink /

aethers3

A self-hostable, distributed, S3-compatible object store on the BEAM

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11#635
firstfault /

Trinity

A (nice) Java reverse engineering tool

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11#636
Griffith-7 /

Tpo-torch

Tpo-Torch – Target Policy Optimization for Stable RLHF Alignment in PyTorch

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11#638
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richlegrand /

bitbang-cli

BitBang – turn any machine into a URL

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11#639
pescheckit /

dmarc-service

Tired of paying per domain for DMARC, so I built a self-hosted one

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11#641
research-farm /

substrate

Local-first, turn-based threads for most things

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11#642
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borkdude /

cljbang.el

Cljbang.el – A Clojure-like language that runs as Emacs Lisp

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11#643
erivlis /

mappingtools

MappingTools

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11#644
corenting /

eddrit

Eddrit – A lightweight alternative front end for Reddit

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11#645
miggy-code /

Panoptes

Panoptes – AI audit and alignment layer

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11#646
captablex /

captablex

CapTablex: Open-source cap table managment in Elixir

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11#647
berabuddies /

redis-poc

Kimi K3 found 19 0days in latest Redis 8.8.0 in 1.5hrs

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11#648

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