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Does harness2 Need an API Key?

19/10/2026

harness2 does not need an API key for its local demo. I ran it with no key and a 0.0 cost field, and it fixed a ledger script that dropped refunds, from 105.25 to 85.15.

Open Source
Is There a Faster Alternative to Tesseract OCR?

Indra OCR is a free Tesseract alternative that read scanned pages 3-5x faster on a 2-core CPU, offline, turned an upside-down page…

18/10/2026
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Open Source
SolidCraft vs FreeCAD for a Simple Bracket

SolidCraft vs FreeCAD for a shelf bracket: one timeline and a command line that rebuilt the solid exactly when one length changed,…

18/10/2026
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Open Source
Does serviette update when files change?

I had a refund note that said 14 days. I copied that sentence into a second file and treated the copy as…

18/10/2026
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Developer Tools
How Do I Know If I Have a Malicious npm Package on My Computer?

After an npm hijack alert, check every project, extension and AI config on your Mac or Linux machine for the bad version…

17/10/2026
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AI News
Claude found a 25-year lock number. Your passwords are not broken.

Anthropic says an internal Claude model traced the NIST elliptic curve seeds to a 1990s lrand48 shuffle started from a 1997 clock.…

17/10/2026
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Open Source
Can I Combine Two Internet Connections for Faster Internet?

Two internet connections add up for many downloads at once, but one download stays at one link's speed unless you use bonding.…

16/10/2026
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Open Source
Should I download Reflection Beam, or just call the API?

Reflection Beam has 501 billion parameters and 23 billion active, and its Apache 2.0 weights are about 1 TB at full size.…

16/10/2026
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Open Source
Can I run Muse Spark Open at home?

Muse Spark Open has 816 billion parameters and 42 billion active, but you still have to store all of them. Here is…

16/10/2026
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Open Source
Is there a free video editor like CapCut with no watermark?

Yes. Concat is a free, open source video editor that does the CapCut jobs most people care about, auto-captions, voices, background removal,…

15/10/2026
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Open Source
ManimGX vs Manim

I asked for a three second clip of a blue square turning into a pink circle. Manim (the Python library people use…

15/10/2026
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