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  1. 127,000 Stars, an 872 MiB Installer and 141 MiB of Apple and Microsoft Fonts: Auditing MoneyPrinterTurbo

    MoneyPrinterTurbo has 127,556 stars, sits on today's GitHub Trending list with 431 stars in a day, and sits at 19,953 forks. I downloaded the 872.79 MiB Windows build and …

    Open Source

  2. 22,000 Stars, a '25 MB' Badge and 443 MB of Java Agents: Auditing the DBX Database Client

    DBX markets itself as '25 MB to manage 100+ databases' and has collected 21,998 stars since April 2026. I pulled every one of its 306 releases: only one of 33 artifacts …

    Open Source

  3. 25,759 Stars, a $3,991 Bare-Board Quote and a '20 km' Figure That Is Really a Timing Limit: Auditing the Open-Source AERIS-10 Radar

    AERIS-10 (PLFM_RADAR) has 25,759 GitHub stars, 5,886 forks and press coverage claiming a 20 km X-band phased array radar for 90-95% less than the $250,000 commercial …

    Open Source

  4. 40,145 Stars and a 6-Point Hacker News Thread: Auditing VoiceStudio, the 'Fully-Local ElevenLabs Alternative' Whose Default Engine Is CC-BY-NC

    VoiceStudio (AGPL-3.0, formerly OmniVoice Studio) reached 40,145 GitHub stars in under six months on the promise of 'fully-local voice cloning, dubbing and audiobooks in …

    Multimedia

  5. 3 Million Agent Sandboxes a Day, 380,000 at Once: Inside DeepSeek's DSec — and the Open-Source Twin You Can Self-Host

    DeepSeek's DSec report (arXiv 2609.22978, submitted 19 September 2026, 31 pages, 131 authors) claims one 160-node scale unit serves about 3 million sandboxes per day, …

    Infrastructure

  6. 739,705 Stars, 13 Megabytes: I Validated All 73 SKILL.md Files in the Three Biggest Agent-Skills Repos

    On 26 September 2026 the three most-starred agent-skills repositories on GitHub — obra/superpowers (291,663 stars), mattpocock/skills (269,725) and anthropics/skills …

    AI