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deepanwadhwa /

samosa-chat

Samosa Chat: Run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Locally on a 16 GB Mac

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GGChamp85 /

Emboss

Emboss – a Python PDF engine that keeps documents as structured data

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Hikari-Systems /

slater

Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs

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19h /

EPathfinder

Russian kamikaze drone C++ reconstruction of onboard autonomy stack

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mraza007 /

minute

Minute – Offline meeting notes on macOS with Whisper and llama.cpp

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pIat0n /

BareMetal-RAM-Dumper

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

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redplanethq /

town

Town – Discord in a pixel town where the NPCs have skills

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fcjr /

restorekit

RestoreKit: Recover a Mac in one click from any platform

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korrectional /

GilfoyleAI

Gilfoyle's Project but IRL

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RightNow-AI /

auto

Auto: The AGI Compiler

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mplsllc /

macsurf

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

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SuLab /

ECAA-workflow

ECAA-workflow: deterministic workflow compiler for FAIR bioinformatics

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openmetaharness /

openmetaharness

OpenMetaHarness

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jimparis /

qr-font

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

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linuxrebel /

DocuBrowser

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

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deepbluedynamics /

skiff

Skiff, a frontier isochrone tuning simulation for sailboats

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corca-ai /

wasmtex

WASM TeX Engines (PdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX)

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