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  1. REA Added 255,126 Stars in Eight Days: Re-Measuring GitHub's Fastest Star Curve, Where Forks Grew 43x Against Stars' 18x and 76% of the Git History Is 16 Days Old

    On 2026-10-08 this site measured morluto/rea at 15,095 stars, 44 watchers and 1,569 forks. Eight days later the same API returns 270,221 stars, 915 watchers and 67,778 …

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  2. Rust Accepted This Safe-Looking Code for 4,001 Days: Reproducing the Borrow-Checker Use-After-Free on Stable 1.99.0, Where the Fix Is 8 Lines and the Test-Suite Bill Is 38 Files

    Issue #164250 landed on 2026-10-13: a struct's lifetime bounds can be bypassed by assigning through a covariant field, with no unsafe block anywhere. I bisected the …

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  3. IRCv3 in 2026: 48 Specs, Only 3 Required, 13 Still Drafts — and a Website That Out-Commits the Spec Repo 1,064 to 604

    IRCv3 is the consensus standards effort behind modern IRC, and its specification repository contains 604 commits. Its website contains 1,064. Reading the project's own …

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  4. Bitwarden's Dual License Move: 823 Commercial Files, 52 Hidden Bundle Files, and the 95 Routes the Open-Source Build Never Ships

    Bitwarden told users on October 9, 2026 that store builds would become commercially licensed. The repository licence has not changed since 2022 — a three-commit history …

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  5. Auditing text-to-cad: 17,978 Stars, a Two-Tool MCP Server, and the 822 MB Runtime Behind "CAD Superpowers"

    text-to-cad promises CAD superpowers for coding agents, and at 17,978 stars it is the most visible project in the category. I installed cadgen 0.7.15 and measured what …

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  6. Auditing OpenReply: 2,544 Stars, Zero Releases, and the Meta Business Verification That Ends the Free Path

    OpenReply open-sources the Instagram comment-to-DM workflow that ManyChat charges a subscription for, and its documentation is unusually honest about the cost. I cloned …

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