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cgallic /

video-review-os

Local video clipping infrastructure for creators and small teams

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adam-s /

car-diagnosis

Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining

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andrewfader /

crtulum

a Rust, Wayland, Vulkan 3D CRT, screencast application, retroarch cores

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Kjos /

VideoTomb

Encryption for YouTube Videos++

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sidevworks /

aria-sec

ARIA – Voice-native 3D spatial AI SoC with governed autonomy (BSL 1.1)

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siinghd /

brookmd

Brookmd – streaming Markdown renderer in Rust (web, RN, Swift and more)

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omar-owis /

VoxelEngine

A GPUdriven voxel engine with binary greedy meshing & indirectrendering

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hieuha /

LazyCamHUD

LazyCamHUD – daily video logs with a sci‑fi HUD, like in The Martian

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jamalrfordii-arch /

Vanguard-Map

3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map

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voidnullvalue /

InfiniWolf

InfiniWolf: A Procedural Map Generator for Wolf3d

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Shadi /

docs-search

Fulltext search on PDFs and scanned images

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eVersor-HN /

FindAFrameInterpolation

I built a free Windows video player with real-time frame interpolation

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Wimacs /

trellis2.c

Trellis2.c – Local 3D generation with Vulkan and CUDA

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dollspace-gay /

Wildforge

A Minecraft-alpha-style voxel game written in Rust with a custom engine

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Eiryou /

rqshc-image-compressor

Rqshc – A C++/x64 assembly image compressor with its own RQI format

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CharmingBlaze /

moonbasic

MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games

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Wren6991 /

RISCBoy

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

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10#054

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