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Joined June 2026
I CHECK EVERY AIRBNB WIFI WITH CLAUDE CODE NOW takes 2 minutes and it's kind of addictive check into a place, join the wifi, open claude code and ask "list every device on this network and what each one is" most of it is boring. the tv, a couple of smart plugs, the router. but you see the whole list, and the one box that doesn't belong stands out fast last trip one device was from a company that only makes ip cameras. didn't love that how to do it yourself 1. join the wifi, open claude code, paste the prompt in the first reply 2. it lists every device and flags anything that looks like a camera or a mic 3. if something looks off, lights out and run your phone flashlight over the smoke detectors, clocks and chargers. a lens glints back you won't remember this at 1am in a strange room. bookmark it now this only sees your own network, nothing else. just a traveler checking the room they rented ever found something weird in a rental? what did you use to check
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prompt: "list every device on this wifi network, group them by type, and flag anything that looks like a camera, microphone or recording device. i'm in a rental and just want to know what's here."
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HIDDEN GEM ON GITHUB 📈 mixelpixx/Konnect +228 stars in 24h ⭐ 1.2k total ⭐ claude can design circuit boards now. konnect is a kicad 10 plugin that gives your AI 228 tools over MCP it places parts and wires the schematic, lays out and routes the PCB in real time, runs ERC and DRC checks, and exports gerbers, BOM and pick-and-place files ready for the fab it even searches a local catalog of 2.5M JLCPCB parts for stuff that's actually in stock, and starts from reference circuits like USB-C, buck converters and STM32 smart detail: loading all 228 tools would eat ~23K tokens, so it starts with a ~2K starter kit and pulls the rest on demand single rust binary, ~9 MB download. still beta, so check every board before you order it bookmark it if you've ever spent a weekend routing traces by hand
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REPO OF THE DAY 📈 NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra the NSA's own reverse engineering tool, free and open source since 2019 +1,366 stars in 24h ⭐ 88.3k total ⭐ why it's trending again: rea. the agent tool that blew up this week uses ghidra under the hood to read .exe and mac apps. everyone installing rea ends up installing this what you get: disassembler, decompiler, graphs and scripting in java or python. runs on windows, mac and linux, apache 2.0 one thing the readme says upfront: some older versions have known vulnerabilities, check their security advisories and stay updated funny timeline. a tool built for nsa analysts is now an engine for your coding agent bookmark it if rea is next on your list
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OVERHYPED OR ACTUALLY USEFUL? 📈 mksglu/context-mode +902 stars in 24h ⭐ 29.6k total ⭐ claim: 98% less junk in your agent's context. my take: useful, if you read the fine print the problem is real. a playwright snapshot is 56 KB, 20 github issues are 59 KB. half an hour of tool calls and your context is gone context-mode runs those tools in a sandbox and only hands the model the result. their benchmarks: 315 KB of raw output down to 5.4 KB per session the best idea in it costs nothing: make the agent write a script that counts the files and prints one line, instead of reading 47 files into context fine print - the 98% is their own benchmark on tool output, not your whole token bill - license is Elastic 2.0. source-available, not open source. you can't resell it as a hosted service works with claude code, codex, cursor, gemini cli and a dozen more bookmark it if your agent sessions keep dying at compaction
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LOCAL ELEVENLABS ALTERNATIVE 📈 ELEVENLABS charges a MONTHLY sub for voice cloning. debpalash/VoiceStudio does it on your own machine for FREE +1,748 stars in 24h ⭐ 64.5k total ⭐ clone a voice, design a new one, dub a video with timed speech, dictate with a floating widget, turn a script into an audiobook. 646 languages runs on nvidia, apple silicon, or just your cpu if you're patient. one command to install on mac, linux or windows it also ships a local api and an MCP server, so your agent can talk in any voice you made only clone voices you have permission to use worth a bookmark if you make videos or podcasts
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REVERSE ENGINEERING JUST WENT MAINSTREAM 📈 posted rea a week ago at 7.9k ⭐ it's at 178k ⭐ now what it does: you ask your agent about an app in plain english, rea inspects the program on your machine, and every answer comes back with the function, file and call as proof the examples are what sold me - windows calculator shows 220 for 200 + 10% because after + the % button takes 10% of the first number. after × it's just 0.1 - the chrome dino starts at speed 6, adds 0.001 per update, caps at 13 - dx-ball sound function rebuilt in C, passes 3,205 tests and matches all 63 original bytes - aegis authenticator, 3,077 classes, rebuilt and matched all 133 test cases it reads electron apps like notion, slack and discord with nothing extra to install. exe and mac apps through ghidra, hopper or ida. android through jadx. even raw contract bytecode, handy for checking sketchy tokens what it can't do: touch anything on a server. it only reads what's on your machine, and decompiled code is a reconstruction, not the original source the legal line is simple. study the app, write a spec, build yours from that. copying their code or unlocking paid features is what gets people sued repos before they blow up, that's what this account is for bookmark it before you need it
someone built an MCP that lets your agent reverse engineer apps you see a feature you like in some app. you ask your agent how it works. it opens the app without any source code, digs through the binary and comes back with an explanation plus the evidence it found. then it can build a similar feature for your own project works on native binaries, electron and js apps, .NET and websites. uses hopper or ghidra under the hood if you have them, js stuff needs neither everything runs locally, nothing gets uploaded anywhere setup is one command and it plugs into claude code, codex, cursor, gemini cli and a bunch more they also say upfront it won't recover the original source or clone an app for you. honestly respect that, most readmes oversell morluto/rea, +2.9k stars today. fastest on github rn 👀
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FREE WAR ROOM ON GITHUB 📈 PALANTIR sells governments war rooms for MILLIONS a year. elie habib built one, open-sourced it, and it's sitting at 88k stars koala73/worldmonitor 88.3k stars ⭐ 13.5k forks ⭐ 3d globe, live news from around the world summarized by ai, a stability score for 31 countries, stocks, commodities and crypto in one panel it went viral in july. since then it got an MCP server, a CLI and python and ruby sdks so your agent can pull the same data now. worldmonitor risk IR returns iran's risk score right in the terminal local ai runs through ollama, no keys for that part. some data sources and MCP calls still need an api key, the readme says it upfront desktop app for mac, windows and linux. AGPL, free to self-host a dashboard is cool. an api your agent can query is the useful part bookmark it for the next time the news goes crazy
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TOP 5 GITHUB REPOS THIS WEEK 📈 1. mattpocock/skills +9,179 stars this week ⭐ 285.8k total ⭐ agent skills matt pocock uses for real engineering work 2. tester-army/e2e +6,564 stars this week ⭐ 8.9k total ⭐ e2e tests where an agent clicks through your app 3. heygen-com/hyperframes +4,081 stars this week ⭐ 60.7k total ⭐ write html, render video. built for agents 4. thedotmack/claude-mem +4,035 stars this week ⭐ 99.6k total ⭐ gives your coding agent memory between sessions 5. earthtojake/text-to-cad +2,369 stars this week ⭐ 19.2k total ⭐ describe a part, get a cad model all five are built around agents this week. tests, video, memory, cad, every tool is getting an agent version bookmark this one, it's the whole week in one post
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HIDDEN GEM ON GITHUB 📈 GLinnik21/plx-native +167 stars in 24h ⭐ 523 total ⭐ the official plex app on lg tvs is a web page running in the tv's chromium, that's why scrolling stutters. this guy threw the browser out and rewrote the client in rust it draws straight on the gpu at 60 fps and hands video to the tv's own decoder. direct play for 4k hevc, dolby vision 5 and 8, atmos. skip intro, up next, all the usual stuff no root needed, it installs through lg developer mode or homebrew channel. dev mode expires though, so you have to renew it one dev, one annoying problem, fixed properly. my favorite kind of repo bookmark it if you've got an lg tv and a plex server
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OVERHYPED OR ACTUALLY USEFUL? 📈 morluto/rea +15,335 stars in 24h ⭐ 35.7k total ⭐ my take: useful, as long as you know what it is under the hood hopper, ghidra or ida still do the heavy lifting. rea is the MCP layer that lets your agent drive them. follow calls, chase xrefs, pull strings, write the C what makes it work is evidence. every finding comes back with addresses and references, plus the stuff it couldn't figure out. an llm reading assembly without that is confident guessing best proof in the readme: they rebuilt a sound function from DX-Ball and the C passes 3,205 test cases against the original x86, all 63 bytes match two things people skip - tool results still go to your model provider, think before pointing it at client binaries - you need permission to reverse whatever you're reversing also there are already fake REA tokens going around. the readme says none are theirs bookmark it before you need it
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REPO OF THE DAY 📈 storytold/artcraft an IDE for AI images and video, made for artists +2,510 stars in 24h ⭐ 6.9k total ⭐ you set up the shot before generating. pose characters, place the camera, mix 2D layers with 3D props, then pick the model. the catalog has 62 of them, nano banana, kling and veo among them desktop app for windows and mac, linux if you build from source most ai image tools are a prompt box and luck. this one lets you plan the frame first worth a bookmark if you make ai art
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3 picks from github trending today 📈 1. openGym +1,494 stars in 24h ⭐ 6.6k total ⭐ self-hosted gym tracker. log sets and body weight, synced between phone and laptop. one docker compose up and it runs on your own box, no subscription 2. mattpocock/skills +1,406 stars in 24h ⭐ 279k total ⭐ the agent skills matt pocock uses every day. small, composable, work with any model. installs as a claude code plugin with one command 3. diagram-design +828 stars in 24h ⭐ 44.7k total ⭐ claude code skill for editorial diagrams in plain html + svg. reads your site and matches your brand in about 60 seconds rea is still #1 with +4.6k today btw, posted it yesterday
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