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Sumanth077/ai-engineering-toolkit is a curated, MIT-licensed collection of 100+ libraries and frameworks for building production LLM applications, with 3,232 GitHub stars and deep coverage of RAG, agents, evaluation, and inference tooling.

Open-source companion to O'Reilly's AI Systems Performance Engineering book. GPU optimization, distributed training, and inference scaling with PyTorch, CUDA, and Triton. 1,662 stars, Apache 2.0.

polakowo/vectorbt is a Python backtesting engine using vectorized NumPy operations and optional Rust acceleration to evaluate thousands of trading strategies simultaneously. 8,335 stars, active maintenance.

ancsemi/Haven is a self-hosted Discord alternative built with JavaScript and Node.js. Features peer-to-peer voice, screen sharing, Discord history import, E2EE DMs, and zero telemetry—deployable via Docker or native installers.

OpenBAS-Platform/openbas is an open-source adversary exposure validation platform for planning, scheduling, and conducting cyber simulation campaigns. Built in Java by Filigran, it integrates with OpenCTI threat intelligence and supports multi-channel inject delivery for comprehensive security testing.

fast-alpr is an open-source ALPR framework with ONNX-optimized models, multi-backend hardware support, and swappable detection/OCR components. MIT-licensed and actively maintained.

Zackriya-Solutions/meeting-minutes (Meetily) is a privacy-first AI meeting assistant built in Rust with Tauri. It runs Whisper and Parakeet transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization entirely locally on macOS and Windows. 25,079 GitHub stars, MIT licensed.

KeyCluCask is an open-source macOS utility that displays current application shortcuts via double-⌘ press. BSD-3-Clause licensed, 2,357 GitHub stars, supports skhd integration and markdown export.

mwaskom/seaborn is a Python statistical visualization library built on matplotlib with native Pandas DataFrame support. 13,960 stars, BSD 3-Clause licensed, Python 3.10+.

dedicatedcode/reitti is a self-hosted location tracking and analysis application with 2,350 GitHub stars. Features include automatic visit/trip detection, transport-mode classification, federated live sharing, Immich photo integration, and customizable map styles. Deploy via Docker Compose with Java backend and AGPL-3.0 licensing.

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