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prescale

PreScale – Open-source load tester that finds what breaks first, and why

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yuedongze /

tlstat

Netstat for TLS Traffic

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mherschberg /

Throughstone

Turn vibe coding into a structured software engineering process

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BYK /

binpatch

binpatch

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Vivek76760 /

shatachandra-shield-sdk

Shatachandra Shield – PQC Engine SDK (FIPS 203M-KEM) in Cython/C

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AstralXVoid /

NoWreck

NoWreck-A deterministic verifier for AI coding assistants

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mankins /

50Hz-vs-60Hz-Alzheimers

50 vs. 60 Hz and Alzheimer's Disease, an AI Exploration

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b-erdem /

belay

Belay – durable job engine for Elixir (step-level retries, Oban alt)

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helloyanis /

age-verification-bypass

And someone has already made an age verification bypass addon for Firefox

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prabhuavula7 /

scout

Scout, understand any Enterprise Platform in minutes

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pyjeebz /

ports

Ports – see what's running by project, and kill it by name

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getcognition-online /

sovereign-metal

Sovereign-Metal – Zero-Dependency Python/Metal GPGPU Advection

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pedroaugusto04 /

Kote

Kote – Capture and reuse engineering context from AI chats and Git

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haivala /

dj-usb-tkit

DJ USB T[ool]kit

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Axelrod-Python /

Axelrod

Axelrod – A research tool for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

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tamarillo-ai /

theta

Theta, Harness Agnostic Configuration

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lexiforest /

curl_cffi

curl_cffi - Python binding for curl-impersonate

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jamesberge-coder /

equivalency-kernel

The Equivalency Kernel: A 12-axiom framework for human-AI symbiosis

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