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• trapzzy/tetherosA bootable Linux distribution for anonymous penetration testing that routes traffic through Tor with auto IP r
• trickypi/blog_newA personal blog combining a VuePress front-end with a Koa back-end, GitHub OAuth2 login, and Docker Compose fo
• troopermaniac/ai-projectsAn automated system that improves AI prompts and code by running repeated tournaments where candidate solution
• tschneidereit/livescratchpadA Firefox add-on that shows you what your JavaScript code does as you type it, updating results instantly and
• tseno26/probefishA Claude Code skill that catches AI agents silently losing data during code refactors by planting small verifi
• tsokasgit/primitive-voxels-godotA Godot 4 prototype that generates smooth, diggable voxel terrain with caves, mountains, and biomes using the
• tstomsmith-arch/cosy-watch-octopus-heat-pump-widgetAn unofficial iPhone Scriptable widget that shows Octopus Cosy heat pump status, temperatures, and energy use
• tsyvm/mwsdkA verified C++ modding toolkit for the 2005 game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, letting modders read the game's
• tushar80rt/estateEstateGPT turns a plain-English property request into a ranked, AI-explained shortlist of real estate listings
• tusharsinghbisht/pong.netA terminal based, peer to peer Pong game written in Go where two players connect directly to each other with n
• tvalentius/docusaurusA tool that turns Markdown files into a polished, searchable documentation website, so open source teams can s
• tylerbroqs/sturnaA simulated investment desk where six AI agents work together to research, build, and rebalance a portfolio of
• tyrframework/tyrA TypeScript CLI framework that wraps automation scripts in typed, dependency injected commands with built in
• uberguidoz/simple_typerA lightweight Windows desktop tool that gives you a panel of customizable buttons. Click a button to instantly
• uberstorm/fifinek688companionA free Windows desktop app for the Fifine K688 microphone that provides a visual EQ, compressor, noise gate, a
• ucoingroup/agency-agentsA collection of AI agent personality prompt files that turn coding assistants like Claude Code or Cursor into
• ufoex/azahar-viewerAn Android app that turns a second phone into a touch screen for a Nintendo 3DS emulator. It streams the botto
• ujjwalkarn/workshopA 2013 NYU workshop's teaching materials for scraping tweets and website data using R, aimed at researchers an
• ulyssestenn/allthenewsyouneedA daily news digest that picks five headlines each from WSJ, NYT, NBC, and AP based on long term significance
• umidguluzada/security-tools-referenceA reference guide of markdown notes explaining how various cybersecurity and penetration testing tools work, i
• untrustedguy/untrusted-translations-androidAn Android app for translating and re lettering manga and comics on your phone, combining OCR, an editable tra
• upmcplanetracker/ntpd-rs-nts-for-firewallaA community install script that replaces a Firewalla router's default time service with encrypted, authenticat
• ur-ai-net/rcrr-benchA benchmark that tests document conversion systems by checking whether an AI can still correctly answer questi
• usedgranny/illyasviel-stable-diffusion-web-ui-amd-A modified Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge setup that lets AMD graphics cards run image generation through Direct
• useroamteknoloji/nodenNoden is a native macOS SSH and SFTP client with multi-session terminals, drag-and-drop file transfers, and an
• ustbhuangyi/vue-cliVue CLI is a toolkit that helps developers quickly generate ready-to-go Vue.js web application projects with a
• utkarshp845/ai-infra-starter-kitA hands-on learning kit that teaches AI infrastructure concepts gradually, starting from a plain FastAPI servi
• utzel-butzel/bmp-readerA JavaScript library that decodes German Bundeseinheitlicher Medikationsplan barcode payloads into a structure
• uudruid74/cavepainterA server that lets AI agents draw images by controlling real GIMP software through tool calls, instead of usin
• uxgnod/openreadA bring-your-own-key browser extension that translates web pages in place using your own OpenAI-compatible AI
• uxkero/lastmemoryA Claude Code skill that gives coding agents a persistent, linked-markdown memory of a project that loads in c
• vaibhavs10/videoprismVideoPrism is an AI research project that helps computers watch and understand video by recognizing actions, o
• valleytheknight/kanban-complete-moverAn Obsidian plugin that automatically moves a Kanban card to a Complete lane the instant its checkbox is check
• valtors/smithSmith is a package manager for MCP servers — tools that AI agents can use. Install, update, secure, and run an
• vanjaoljaca/arxiv-daily-briefA personal system that turns the daily arXiv paper batch into a filtered, conversational daily brief tailored
• varvet/ruby-companiesA community-maintained directory of companies that use Ruby, powered by a website where each company has a pro
• vengeful180-dot/lumenfallA Windows executable demo of a custom C++ and OpenGL voxel game engine, showcasing procedural terrain, long-di
• venkateshk111/aws-global-infrastructureAn interactive 3D website that visually explains AWS regions, availability zones, and global network infrastru
• venndev/amz-shop-pxmlA demo Amazon-like online store defined entirely in structured XML specification files, then compiled into a w
• ventry089/llm-anywhereA single Cloudflare Worker that gives a static website a free AI chat backend, keeping API keys out of the fro
• verona136/common-official-document-format-skillChinese-language skill pack for Codex, Claude, and openclaw that makes the assistant produce .docx files follo
• vesperino/swarm-boardA tool for Claude Code that lets one AI judge coordinate many AI workers in parallel to solve complex tasks, w
• vetaladev/vetalaA terminal-based AI coding assistant that explores your codebase, writes code, and runs commands directly from
• vibherpunk/buzzA self-hosted team chat app where humans and AI agents share the same workspace. Agents act as full team membe
• vibhorxpandey/aureliusAn MCP research server that plugs into Claude, Gemini CLI, and Cursor to fact-check citations and claims again
• vicsanity623/cronbuildA scheduled script that uses AI coding agents to autonomously build, commit, and merge features into your proj
• vikingmute/neo-discoA lightweight JavaScript library that adds an animated, customizable disco ball to any website using HTML Canv
• vincitamore/pascal-gbaA Pascal toolchain for building real Game Boy Advance games, complete with its own Pascal-written emulator, de
• vinhnx/vtcode-battery-packA curated bundle of Rust code components extracted from the VT Code coding agent, letting developers reuse pie
• vishalsingh2972/namma-mcpA real-time voice assistant for Bengaluru that understands English and Kannada speech and can call code to ans
• vishr/homebrewHomebrew is a command-line tool for Mac that lets you install, update, and manage software packages quickly wi
• vitaly-zdanevich/shotcut-multicam-syncA command line tool that automatically syncs multicam video footage to a master audio track and builds a ready
• vivesweb/seedlink_zejfseisA small C program that bridges SeedLink earthquake data servers to the ZejfSeis visualization app, translating
• viwaz/sentiment_analysisA sentiment analysis tool for Facebook comments in a low-resource, code-switched language, comparing simple an
• vjects/v-copanel-windowsA single lightweight program for Windows that gives each of your web projects its own isolated PHP, Node, and
• vladislav-kalinkin/wieAn experimental Rust project that tries to run 64-bit Windows console programs directly on an Apple Silicon Ma
• vladyslavdmitriiev/ai-qa-pipelineTurn plain-English feature descriptions into reliable Playwright tests through a multi-agent review pipeline.
• vladzima/herdA tool that lets one AI agent manage other AI agents. Give a task to a head agent and it delegates to worker a
• void-ghost000/salt-map-liteA local Python tool that scans CSV files for hidden data inconsistencies like duplicate keys or bad formatting
• voxelio-app/ios-gaussian-splatting-demoAn iOS demo app that scans an object with the camera and trains a 3D Gaussian Splat model entirely on the phon
• vzzoxo/2faA single-file web tool that generates two-factor authentication codes in your browser. Paste your secret key a
• waevans10/cremaA self-hosted tool that reviews your espresso shots using Claude, suggesting grind, dose, and profile changes
• waht41/rejellyA TypeScript framework for building AI agents as functions, inspired by React, with reusable prompt building b
• walkthru-earth/styleglotA tool that converts digital map style files between Esri, Mapbox, and MapLibre formats automatically, so you
• wangnov/codex-meterA Chrome extension that adds a spending dashboard inside ChatGPT's Codex analytics page, showing credit usage,
• waromiv/therapistmcpA mostly joking MCP tool that lets one Claude instance refer itself to a separate Claude instance for a short
• wasserpuncher/readme-checkA tool that runs the example commands shown in your README and fails your build if the real output no longer m
• wassimbouabid/animationeffectsAn iOS app with interactive editors for tuning spring, bezier, and keyframe animation curves, then exporting t
• wassupdoc/gmail-autocleanA Google Apps Script tool that automatically deletes old newsletters and recurring emails while protecting any
• wattarea/fxuiFXUI is a 117-component React library with a bold, high-contrast neo-brutalist design, built on Tailwind CSS a
• wayj84/synced-lyrics-cardSynced Lyrics Card is a Home Assistant frontend card that shows time-synced song lyrics from LRCLIB for any me
• web3privacy/w3pn-anonymizerA privacy-first, browser-based tool that automatically detects and blurs faces in photos and videos, with all
• webdevamey/imageinterminal-jsA Node.js command line tool that turns any image into colored text art rendered directly in a terminal, using
• weirdcodesofficial/mokshaA browser game where you steer a chariot representing the body, managing karma and senses to reach one of thre
• weizhishu123/jelly-computerAn open-source design toolkit for building a computer that runs on light instead of electricity. It includes s
• welikecode/mintkeyA self-hostable broker that gives AI agents short-lived, scoped credentials to call services without ever expo
• wenqijiang/deep-reinforcement-learning-for-atari-gamesA project that teaches a computer to play the Atari game Breakout by learning through trial and error, compari
• wesbos/aerospaceAeroSpace is a tiling window manager for macOS that automatically arranges your windows side-by-side and lets
• wesbos/diffA CSS tool that visually compares two versions of a stylesheet to show what changed between them. It is an ear
• weschera/laguna-s-2.1-nvfp4-1x-dgx-sparkA tested recipe and benchmark for running poolside's Laguna S-2.1 language model on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark
• wgawan/video-mcpAn MCP server that lets AI coding agents record your screen and automatically produce a narrated video walkthr
• whoknowsasaint/reposcopeA tool that lets you ask plain-English questions about any GitHub repo's code and get answers with exact file
• wietze/tfs-history-to-csvA Windows tool that exports Team Foundation Server change history into a CSV file for easy analysis in Excel.
• will75g/soc-day16-aws-cloud-security-investigationA hands on lab report showing how an analyst investigates AWS account activity with CloudTrail to find securit
• wim66/conky-system-redone-v2A glass-styled Conky desktop system monitor for Linux, hand-drawn with Lua and Cairo instead of Conky's defaul
• winduadiprabowo-pixel/zerosniperZeroSniper is a real-time dashboard that scores newly listed Solana tokens using six signals so traders can de
• windyrobin/idataA project called idata with an empty README, possibly a middleware tool for connecting to multiple data source
• windyrobin/itierThis repository has no README content available, so what it does and how to use it can't be determined yet.
• windyrobin/nquerynQuery lets you query databases, key-value stores, and web APIs with one SQL-like language instead of learning
• winglechen/disruptorA Java library that lets threads inside one application pass messages to each other extremely fast using a loc
• wisec/z-babelZ-Babel lets you play classic text adventure games in 20 languages by translating your commands to English and
• wizenheimer/whimsyWhimsy compresses text using an AI language model's next-token predictions combined with arithmetic coding, tr
• wojtczyk/serverload2A small self-contained Rust tool that monitors a Linux server's load and uptime, exposing both a JSON API and
• wolbarg/wolbarg-benchmarksThis repository publishes reproducible speed benchmarks for Wolbarg, a local-first semantic memory SDK for AI
• wongsyrone/socks5A Go library implementing the SOCKS5 proxy protocol, letting developers build SOCKS5 servers and clients for r
• wrkx/ai_voiceoverdata_wotlkA fan made data pack of AI generated voice lines for World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King, played throug
• wurstmeister/starterA template for automating Mac setup using Ansible. Define your apps and settings in text files once, then run
• wuyunjiang/chatgpt-task-hookA local macOS tool that lets you trigger ChatGPT or Codex tasks via HTTP webhooks instead of time-based schedu
• wyfyjc/tilecopyA Godot editor plugin for copying tile properties and batch-changing terrain across selected tiles.
• wyman42/trucs-homeassistantA small personal repository sharing one Home Assistant dashboard card, with almost no other documentation or e

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