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Show HN: An OSS Python dependency scanner for exploited, unmaintained packages

I built an open source python dependency scanner that will scan and flag packages with known exploit CVEs(CISA's Known Exploited list and FIRST EPSS) and unmaintained packages that have not had a release or commit in 2 years. Theres also claude hook that will make your AI agent not install these typ

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incoai/splash

A local inference engine for Apple silicon, built around the model.

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AetherLabsAI/RSIAgent

A training-free multi-agent framework for recursive self-improvement in new environments through broad-then-deep autonomous exploration and reusable memory.

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Show HN: I built a PDF accessibility checker that is cross platform

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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Trending model on Hugging Face — image-text-to-text, transformers; 3239 likes, 482,270 downloads.

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What people actually built

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Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die

I'm a CS undergrad who has developed an interest in hardware keys ever since I used them for a school project a few years ago. I made a little chat app that only allows users to chat if they registered a key, nothing else. The backstory of how I came to work on Seal (this project

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Show HN: Timeline, a team project planner with a fast canvas Gantt view

I manage a few projects at work. I really am unsatisfied with modern tools available to me for that purpose. I had always envisioned a tool that I could interact with visually for this purpose. I started building one many years ago but the graphics programming was beyond my capab

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r/LLMDevs

I tried Jev-style decisions with local Qwen: same accuracy, 239 ms vs 368 ms

I liked the idea behind Jev, but I don't want to send all my data to someone else's server. So I made choosekit, a small TypeScript package for getting choices and probabilities from a model running in llama.cpp. I tested it with Qwen3.8 27B Q4 XL against Jev, using SemIf's 144-t

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Quick hits

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md ↗

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prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf ↗

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ruc-datalab/EvoOntology ↗

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EvoOntology: A Self-Evolving Ontology Layer for Data Agents ⚙️ EvoOntology插件为Claude Code/Codex 建立&进化本体层

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