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scouttyg /

writekin

Writekin – fine-tune a local LLM on your own writing, on your Mac

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column-tax /

tax-calc-bench

TaxCalcBench: An open source eval for testing if AI can file taxes

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juan23z /

openclaw-audit

OpenClaw – Solidity scanner with 0 false positives across OpenZeppelin

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magicelk235 /

Viaduct-CLI

Viaduct – Convert Chrome extensions to Safari (open-source CLI)

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kiycoh /

silica-agent

Silica, a notes/codebase agent that reverts its edits if they break coherence

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amitkumardubey /

praana

Praana – a terminal coding agent that curates its own context

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github /

freno

GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service

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Modak-Labs /

modak

Tier-aware data federation between Postgres and Apache Iceberg

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10#1413
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getorb /

Orb-Backend

Orb – Self-hosted AI assistant that messages you first

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Shpigford /

nurb

Nurb – Agentic CAD for 3D printing

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10#1415
divinecanon /

signalengine-EN-

A Runtime Modulation Layer for Large Language Models

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10#1417
Liyfez /

PosSol

How to Display Stocks on GitHub Profile

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temperlang /

temper

Temper – A programming language for libraries translated to all the others

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furstenheim /

pg-jason-validator

Pg-jason-validator fastest JSON schema validation via C Macros

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grigoriitropin /

vehir-platform

Vehir – a platform built for AI agents: compiler, microkernel, CAS

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10#1421
TorqueGameEngines /

Torque2D

Torque2D 4.0 Early Access 3

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