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smashah /

traicer

TrAIcer – capture your AI coding traces to sell later

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douglascrockford /

Base32

An IETF Internet-Draft Example Written in Kramdown-RFC (Crockford's Base32)

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alexanderwanyoike /

the0

The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own language

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jeninh /

openotp

OpenOTP – Your email verification codes, autofilled on your Mac

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free-soellingeraj /

paraLlmDirectory

Triumph Hands-free Coding while Driving

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minorole /

HanToggle

HanToggle – Toggle selected Chinese text between Simplified and Traditional

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aditauqir /

fyp

YouTube Premium (Free) for iPhones (iOS)

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mxmehl /

proctr

PRoctr – doctor/triage for your renovate/dependabot PRs

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Gedsh /

InviZible

InviZible Pro – Android application for online privacy and security

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Clockwork-Tree-Inc /

atlas-poc-v1

Post Quantum Liveness, Identity, Provenance. No Biometric Identification

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dgem /

ipace-owners

Reproducible builds for GenAI products (in 20 self-maintained prompts)

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jk20342 /

TinySnip

A tiny 2504 byte Windows snipping tool written in 32-bit MASM assembly:D

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Kristaq77 /

kross

Kross – 2D Software Rasterizer from scratch in C

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kaelzhang /

volas

Volas – Technical Indicators for Python

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kerem-kaynak /

wt

I built myself the simplest worktree management tool

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kainlang /

kain

Kain – A non-von Neumann language (Zero GC, Python syntax, no borrow checker)

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vinicius91carvalho /

harness-engineering

Loop Engineering Workflow Based on Anthropic and Google Papers

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