Developer Tools Projects

Developer tools and utilities from Show HN — CLIs, editors, debugging tools, build systems, and developer productivity.

GitHub

A CSS 3D engine for the DOM. Renders polygon meshes in HTML by leveraging matrix3d transforms.

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A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)

CSS-only 3D engine that renders OBJ files—same constraint-craft energy as X86CSS.

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rofko
802714d ago
GitHub

Five SQLite-compatible engines (C/Rust/Zig/Go/Python + WASM) from one language-neutral spec — a LEAP research artifact

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I built five SQLite engines from one spec in a week

Five SQLite engines from one spec, all passing 99% of the upstream sqllogictest corpus.

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safitudo
301mo ago
GitHub

the MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by postgres

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MOS Tech 6502 emulated in pure Postgres

Pure SQL 6502 emulation with opcodes as stored procedures—no external code anywhere.

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heywinit
202mo ago
GitHub

WebAssembly interpreter in a Header (WAH)

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WebAssembly Interpreter in a Header

Single-header WebAssembly 3.0 interpreter beats Wasmtime on embed complexity.

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lifthrasiir
201mo ago
Text Post

I’ve spent the last few weeks pushing the limits of .NET 10 (Native AOT) to see if I could achieve deterministic, hard real-time performance for large-scale parameter indexing. Today, I hit the 1,000,

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Nexus – A 1KB .NET 10 core with <15μs latency for 1M parameters

1KB DLL hitting 12.8μs on 1M entries with live telemetry proving it.

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NexusCore
103mo ago
GitHub

Pure Go tree-sitter runtime

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I ported Tree-sitter to Go

90x faster incremental parsing in pure Go—tree-sitter without C toolchain friction.

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odvcencio
2221063mo ago
GitHub

Ollama for classical ML models. AOT compiler that turns XGBoost, LightGBM, scikit-learn, CatBoost & ONNX models into native C99 inference code. One command to load, one command to serve. 336x faster than Python inference.

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Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python

336× faster tree model inference; compiles sklearn/XGBoost to C99, serves like Ollama.

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kossisoroyce
207333mo ago
GitHub

enject: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext.

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enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes

Stops AI tools from reading .env files by never storing secrets as plaintext on disk.

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parkaboy
2011313mo ago
GitHub

General-purpose MCP bridge for Ableton Live

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Ableton Live MCP

Arbitrary Python eval inside Ableton beats rigid predefined tool sets for real creative control.

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bschoepke
123791mo ago
GitHub

Write your BPF programs in Go, not C. gobee transpiles a Go subset to BPF C and generates typed cilium/ebpf bindings.

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Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

Go-to-BPF transpilation beats Aya's Rust approach by reusing clang's mature backend.

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boratanrikulu
1125224d ago
GitHub

Open-source WYSIWYG .docx editor library with canonical OOXML, tracked changes, and real-time collaboration. Agent-ready.

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Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

Canonical OOXML parsing beats HTML conversion by preserving document semantics and layout fidelity.

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thisisjedr
1071724d ago
GitHub

Generating LLVM IR without malloc or external dependencies

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Nibble

Single-pass LLVM frontend in 3000 lines of C with zero heap allocations.

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glouwbug
102251mo ago
GitHub

Localhost service isolation and orchestration for git worktrees.

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Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents

Git worktree + docker isolation solves the AI agent localhost port collision nightmare.

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jsunderland323
99382mo ago