Open Source Projects

Open source projects from Show HN — libraries, frameworks, and community tools with public code.

GitHub

BXP — Open universal file system standard for atmospheric exposure data. Like HTTP for air quality. No hardware required. Apache 2.0.

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BXP – An open standard for atmospheric exposure data

HTTP-equivalent standard for air quality data, federated networks, no licensing or hardware lock-in.

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BXP
104mo ago
GitHub

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. Hook an AI agent up to have it parse through data and find previously unseen correlations. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now.

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I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds

Tracks jets, ships, satellites, and earthquakes live on one unified dark-ops map.

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vancecookcobxin
3121234mo ago
GitHub

The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Supports text-to-text, vision, text-to-image

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Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone

Complete offline AI suite on mobile: text, images, vision, voice—no servers, no uploads, real speeds.

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ali_chherawalla
124665mo ago
GitHub

Darwin system built with Nix

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Darnix – Darwin Built with Nix

Finally boots Darwin in QEMU without proprietary kexts or root access.

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jonhermansen
1312mo ago
GitHub

Northstar web browser, Open Source License: GPL v3. Northstar web browser is a real web browser, not based on Firefox or Chrome.

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Northstar Browser

142k lines of C with no JIT and Landlock sandboxing—real browser, real constraints.

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roschdal
636d ago
GitHub

AUREA beats JPEG by compressing images using variable-size Lapped Orthogonal Transform (8/16/32), a zero-bit Turing morphogenesis saliency field, AC-domain Chroma-from-Luma prediction, and rANS entropy coding with Exp-Golomb.

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Aurea, a lossy image codec I built from scratch that beats JPEG (Rust)

Beats JPEG with zero-bit saliency fields and full 4:4:4 chroma — rare codec craft in Rust.

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Symphoenix
404mo ago
GitHub

BeePub is a self-hosted ebook library and reader for EPUB collections. It can serve as a modern alternative to calibre-web, while also working as a standalone library for users who do not run Calibre.

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BeePub – A reading-first alternative to Calibre-Web

Finally beats calibre-web with native iOS app and proper vertical CJK text rendering.

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sheldon7337
4015d ago
Text Post

Started with a hyper-compact C++ bit-packed sieve — months of whittling it down to ~9 lines of raw bit manipulation. One bit per odd number, Brian Kernighan's bit trick for extraction, hardware tzcnt

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Bit-packed segmented prime sieve in Rust, 32KB working memory, 0 deps

Impressively engineered low-level, bit-packed segmented sieve in Rust — a technical showcase with niche appeal to systems and algorithm enthusiasts.

whisprer
315mo ago
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Collaborative Blogging

Git-meets-docs blogging: readers fork posts, edits become pull requests, merges in real-time.

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sgoto
314mo ago
GitHub

A legally defensible, industry-grade blueprint for building an open-source NTFS structural repair engine from scratch.

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A Clean Room RFC for NTFS Structural Repair

1400-line clean-room NTFS repair spec when ntfsfix can't handle real corruption.

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seb3773
313mo ago
GitHub

The missing Kindle toolkit. Dictionaries, books, comics. Single Rust binary. ~7,000x faster than kindlegen for Modern Greek, ~40x faster for French.

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Kindling – reverse-engineered kindlegen, ~7,000x faster in Rust

Reverse-engineered undocumented MOBI format — builds dictionaries in 6 seconds vs 12 hours.

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ciscoriordan
213mo ago