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chenxiachan /

thoughtdag

I made ThoughtDAG – LLM as an editable graph, wires are the context

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20#937
erdaltoprak /

ContainerUtility

ContainerUtility: A macOS app for the container CLI

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20#939
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adamyasingh-12 /

Piggy-

Piggy – lazy senior dev mode for AI agents (80–94% less code)

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20#940
openlab-x /

OpenCircuitX

OpenCircuitX

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20#941
PureWaterArtist /

VortexArt88-

HN: Project Aetheris – Open-source fluid dynamics to replace chemical cooling

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20#942
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butterclaw-tech /

butterclaw

ButterClaw – AI agent runtime security, SIGKILL on breach, no cloud

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20#943
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zqiren /

Orbital

Open-source desktop agent that uses a local folder as its memory

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20#944
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tsirysndr /

fin

Fin – a TUI Jellyfin client powered by mpv with Chromecast support

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20#945
selectel /

pyte

Pyte – Python library emulating VTXXX-compatible terminals in memory

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20#946
jdyar /

discrete-assembly-sim

Open coordination stack for lattice-building robot swarms

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20#947
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ImmersiveFusion /

if-opentelemetry-tracegen

TraceGen – realistic OpenTelemetry traces, incl. AI-agent, one binary

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
20#948
AlwaysReadyAllies /

warden

Warden – a drop-in security proxy for MCP (audit, policy, injection defense)

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20#949
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RimantasZ /

contextspy

Save your Claude/codex/copilot tokens by using context profiler

AI & agentsLicense unchecked
20#950
oxplot /

burn2kicad

Tooling for AI agents to build KiCad project from simple circuit description

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20#951
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openvole /

openvole

OpenVole 4.5 Is Out

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20#952
lucky7xz /

chromaTUI

Chromatone spectrogram written in Rust for the terminal

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20#953
crevas /

Apple-Ads-CLI

Apple Ads CLI with Keyword-Level Analytics

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20#954

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