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Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

Focuses on community-driven open source

Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

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That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

Over 115k participants and 500+ global meetups

That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

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Every keyboard is a mechanical keyboard with Klicky

Every keyboard is a mechanical keyboard with Klicky

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Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

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One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.

One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.

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A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026

A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026

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How to Steer the model via tool call to improve Harness Quality

How to Steer the model via tool call to improve Harness Quality

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I liked Nginx Proxy Manager, but I wanted a WAF in the same place

I liked Nginx Proxy Manager, but I wanted a WAF in the same place

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Building a free embeddable widget that earns attribution honestly: iframe + credit line design

Building a free embeddable widget that earns attribution honestly: iframe + credit line design

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Docraft: Turn Pasted AI Responses into Word, PDF and HTML Files, Locally in Your Browser

Docraft: Turn Pasted AI Responses into Word, PDF and HTML Files, Locally in Your Browser

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Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights: A Developer's Checklist Before You Self-Host a 2.8T Model

Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights: A Developer's Checklist Before You Self-Host a 2.8T Model

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# We Put Our Math AI Through 50,000 Problems. It Passed All of Them in 11.4 Seconds.

# We Put Our Math AI Through 50,000 Problems. It Passed All of Them in 11.4 Seconds.

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Fast Compose: Run Jetpack Compose code instantly without compiling

Fast Compose: Run Jetpack Compose code instantly without compiling

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Why I Ditched Slow Pandas Loops for Vectorized Quant Code (And Built an Open Library of 125+ Scripts)

Why I Ditched Slow Pandas Loops for Vectorized Quant Code (And Built an Open Library of 125+ Scripts)

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PC Engine CD BIOS Devlog: A Multi-Sector IPL Loader Now Runs from a 256 KiB DEV Image

PC Engine CD BIOS Devlog: A Multi-Sector IPL Loader Now Runs from a 256 KiB DEV Image

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