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slidr-cli /

slidr

Opinionated Python based Markdown slide generation tool

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ssteelfactor-oss /

Kestrel

Kestrel – passive AD audit tool on native C

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10#992
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Refloow /

Refloow-Geo-Forensics

Refloow Geo Forensics 1.4 – Local EXIF extraction and timeline mapping

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10#993
stricaud /

wpcapng

Wpcapng – Wireshark for the Web

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10#994
BartosK97 /

dead-process-mate

Dead Process Mate – a menu-bar app to kill leftover Node/dev processes

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DocSlicer /

DocSlicer

DocSlicer – Structure-aware PDF/DOCX/PPTX parser, 31 pages/sec on CPU

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10#996
CESARBR2025 /

youmindag

YouMindAG – give AI coding tools full project context in one command

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10#997
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eliasdejong /

spsc-ring-threadsafe

Spsc-ring-threadsafe Python C ext. 100x faster as multiprocessing.Queue

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10#998
docling-project /

docling

Docling - Composite file format

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10#999
zhaohongli678 /

FIM-Optimizer

Exact Fisher optimization beat AdamW in 43 of 44 noisy-data comparisons

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10#1001
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KristijanKocev /

lidwatch

Sleep external displays connected to a MacBook after closing lid

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10#1002
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Kirill89 /

webcensus

Super fast pipeline for finding specific paths across mills of domains

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10#1003
mogwi1983 /

policybot

PolicyBot–open source GitHub Action enforce commit convention and PR quality

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telefunc /

telefunc

Telefunc: Remote Functions

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10#1005
snokamedia /

flickerscope

FlickerScope – are your LEDs giving you a headache? stop guessing

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10#1006
gritfeld-design /

workerdeck

WorkerDeck – Run one isolated background process per user (Python, zero deps)

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10#1007
Sunpeak-AI /

FileGRC

FileGRC: Git and file-based SoC 2

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10#1008

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