📦 pimpinpumpkin/vela

Vela: The Google Maps Alternative

Navigate anywhere with full turn-by-turn directions, live traffic, and rich place details, all on a phone stripped of every Google service. This app is built for privacy-first Android users who want the familiar feel of Google Maps without the account, the Play Services dependency, or the constant data pings. It renders maps using open source data, so you can browse streets and search locations without anyone watching. When you actually need directions, it cleverly uses Google only for the route calculation, keeping the rest of your journey private. It is a native app that works offline, meaning you can drive through a dead zone and still get guidance.

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📦 hinln/artex

How Artex Automates Security Testing

Artex is the autonomous penetration testing system that turns complex security audits into a visual, collaborative workflow. It replaces manual guessing with a smart AI planner that maps out specific attack paths, while a team of digital workers executes those steps in real-time. The coolest part is the live exploration graph, which visually connects every test result to the specific asset being scanned, so you can instantly see exactly where your coverage gaps are. It even lets human security experts step in to approve sensitive actions, keeping you in control.

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📦 bincequ/roboharness

RoboHarness: AI Robots That See Like You

RoboHarness is the robotic control system that lets AI agents physically interact with the world using simple visual cues. Instead of training massive, expensive models to learn how to pick up a cup from scratch, this project gives an existing language model a direct line of sight to a robot's camera. The AI just marks a dot on the image where it wants to grab, and the system handles the heavy math to translate that two-dimensional click into the precise three-dimensional movement needed to execute the task.

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📦 dayuanjiang/pecofence

PecoFence: Let Your AI Organize Your Windows 11 Desktop

PecoFence is a free, open-source desktop organizer that lets your favorite AI agent manage your Windows 11 files using a built-in command line tool. It creates glass-like panels to hold your work, automatically sorting new files into the right places based on rules you define. The standout feature is its ability for tools like Claude to read your current setup and apply changes directly, such as adjusting transparency or creating new project folders. You can even save snapshots to restore your layout later if things get messy. This open-source alternative to paid software is built in Rust, supports ten languages, and runs entirely locally without needing an account.

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📦 antfu/skills-pack

skills-pack

Give your AI coding assistants a serious education with a single command. This tool bundles a carefully selected collection of instructions, or skills, from various open-source projects into one installable package. Instead of hunting down individual guides for code review, testing, or writing clear documentation, you install this pack and let it automatically wire those capabilities into your local development environment. The standout feature is how it links these external skills to the AI agents you already use, like Claude Code or Cursor. This means your tools instantly gain specialized expertise for specific tasks, such as rigorous code reviews or structured research, without you needing to manually manage configuration files.

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📦 parachord/parachord

Parachord: Your Music, Everywhere

Parachord plays your music from everywhere at once. It finds the best source for every track, whether that’s Spotify, YouTube, Bandcamp, or files on your hard drive. No more switching apps. Just one interface. It even lets you drag and drop to reorder which service you prefer. That means you can support indie artists on Bandcamp while still falling back to YouTube for rare tracks. All in one flow. It’s a smart, flexible way to listen to everything you own. Your music is scattered. Parachord brings it together. Give it a try. It’s surprisingly good.

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📦 rankftw/rhi

RHI: One-Click HDR for Every Game

RHI is the game library manager that finally makes HDR setup painless. It scans your entire PC collection across every major store and handles the messy, technical side of visual enhancements automatically. You get one-click installation for ReShade, HDR mods, and driver profiles, meaning you skip the tedious file renaming and manual config editing that usually breaks immersion. It is the ultimate time saver for players who want their games to look incredible without becoming an IT support ticket for their own computer. If you play on Windows, this is the shortcut you have been waiting for.

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📦 mrlesk/groma.md

Groma: Your Code as a City

Groma turns your entire software architecture into a living, three-dimensional city map that lives right inside your code repository. Instead of static diagrams that rot the moment you change a file, this tool scans your actual source code and renders your systems as buildings and streets. You can walk through this digital landscape, zooming in from a high-level overview all the way down to individual files. It solves the problem of architecture drift by keeping your visual map in sync with your code.

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📦 yuliang-liu/awesome-ocr-llm

Awesome OCR LLM: The Future of Document Reading

Awesome OCR LLM is the curated collection that maps the rapid shift from rule-based text extraction to unified visual intelligence. It solves the problem of fragmented research by tracking how modern vision-language models now read entire documents in one go, handling complex layouts without needing a separate step for every image component. This resource is vital for anyone following how computers move past simple character recognition to truly understanding the structure and meaning of scanned pages, financial reports, and handwritten notes. If you are curious about the technology behind reading machines, this single list is your best map to the current state of the art.

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📦 goodseafly/how-to-make-work-pay

The 576 Point Workplace Survival Guide

This isn't another corporate productivity hack; it is a five hundred and seventy six point legal survival guide for navigating the Chinese workplace. Every single item is ranked by a simple cost versus benefit ratio, telling you exactly what you spend in time or effort and what you get back, whether that is money, health, or your job. It cuts through the noise by citing only official government documents and hard data, so you know precisely what your rights are without guessing. You do not need to do everything; it is a menu of high value moves, letting you pick just one or two actions that actually matter.

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📦 finnvoor/pidurablekit

PiDurableKit: AI Agents That Never Forget

PiDurableKit is the Swift library that finally makes AI agents on Apple devices survive crashes. It runs your agent logic inside JavaScriptCore but saves every single step directly to local storage before anything is displayed. This solves a huge problem where your app might lose track of what it was doing if the system kills it in the background. If the phone restarts or the app closes, the agent simply picks up exactly where it stopped without losing context or data. It is like having a memory that persists even when the power cuts out.

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📦 qwibitai/nanoclaw

Nanoclaw: The AI That Actually Locks Itself In

Nanoclaw lets you run a personal AI assistant that lives inside its own secure sandbox, so you can actually trust it with your digital life. Most big AI projects are huge, complicated blobs of code that you just have to take on faith. Nanoclaw is different because it is small enough for you to read and understand every line yourself. The really cool part is that it plugs directly into the apps you already use, like Slack, WhatsApp, or Telegram. This means you can message your AI agent right from your phone, just like texting a friend.

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📦 octanejs/octane

Octane: React speed without the pain

Octane is the JavaScript UI framework that makes React feel fast by removing the clutter. It takes the component code you already know and compiles it directly into browser instructions, skipping the virtual DOM entirely. The best part is that the compiler figures out your dependencies for you, so you never write a dependency array again. It is the successor to Inferno, built by someone who has worked on React itself. If you want React's ease without the manual bookkeeping, this is the tool for you.

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📦 schroedernathan/expo-ui-examples

Expo UI Examples: Native UIs in React Native

Expo UI Examples lets you build apps that look and feel like native system apps, not just React Native wrappers. The whole app is built with Expo UI, a library that renders real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views. This means you get true native components, like liquid glass effects on the latest iPhones or Material You themes on Android, all from the same codebase. It solves the problem of looking generic by giving you direct access to the platform's newest design languages.

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📦 zingerlittlebee/heeler

Heeler

Pull up your coding agents right from your phone. Heeler connects your iPhone directly to the machines running your code, letting you watch and steer them live over a secure link. The coolest part is getting a push notification the second an agent gets stuck, so you don’t have to keep checking. It turns your phone into a remote control for your dev workflow. Just pair your computer once, and you are set. It’s a clever little tool for staying in the loop without sitting at your desk.

📰 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022477

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📦 ender-wang/edgemark

EdgeMark: The Open Source Notes Panel

A free notes panel that hides off the edge of your screen until you need it. EdgeMark solves the problem of quick capture without clutter by sliding in from the side of your Mac, staying out of the way until you move your mouse to the edge. It is built for people who want full control because every note is saved as a simple plain text file on your hard drive. You can open them in any editor, sync them anywhere, and inspect exactly where your data goes. This makes it a transparent alternative to paid closed source apps.

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📦 twostraws/swiftdata-agent-skill

SwiftData Pro: Stop AI From Breaking Your iOS Data Layer

Teach your AI coding assistant to write SwiftData that actually survives contact with production. SwiftData Pro is a specialized agent skill that plugs into tools like Claude Code and Codex to fix the exact data persistence mistakes these models make by default. It stops them from ignoring delete rules, writing predicates that crash on launch, or breaking iCloud sync by using features that Apple quietly forbids. Instead of generic advice, it enforces the specific, tricky constraints of modern Swift data handling.

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📦 sybil-solutions/glm-flash-lite

Run a Massive AI on One Card

Serve a massive, 125 gigabyte language model on a single 24 gigabyte graphics card by cleverly spilling the extra parts into your computer's memory and fast storage. This project, called GLM Flash Lite, solves the problem of huge models that simply do not fit on one card. It uses a smart tiering system where the graphics card holds the most important parts, while your processor handles the rest in the background. This lets you run complex, local AI without buying expensive server clusters. You get a standard API that works just like the big cloud services, but entirely on your own machine.

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📦 chengyi-ai/cy-carousel-skill

cy-carousel: AI Carousels That Actually Check Facts

C y carousel skill takes a single topic and builds a ten page image carousel with every fact checked against primary sources. It handles the messy parts of social media content creation, finding open license images, laying out the text, and running automated checks before you publish. The result is a polished visual package that includes a cover, ten interior pages, and a list of references, all designed to be factually accurate and visually consistent. It solves the problem of creating high quality educational graphics without spending hours on fact checking and layout.

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📦 rumoii/streamfirefly

StreamFirefly: The Browser Tool That Actually Finds Hidden Videos

StreamFirefly is the local-first browser tool that finally lets you download exactly what you see on the web. It works as a simple browser extension paired with a lightweight Windows helper to sniff out hidden video, audio, and live stream files that most users can’t easily save. The standout feature here is its ability to grab live streams directly, letting you start, pause, and stop recording without any re-encoding, which keeps the original quality intact. Since everything runs locally on your machine, your data stays private while you queue up tasks and manage downloads with ease.

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