The Daily Index — Monday, August 26, 2024

Repositories, courses and useful tools

Resources & Tools

TLDR · GitHub repository

BUFFDB

buffdb is a lightweight and high-performance persistence layer for gRPC. It is designed to be used in environments where bandwidth is limited and performance is critical. buffdb uses protobuff as its messaging format of choice but support for other formats is planned. It has full support for SQLite and partial support for DuckDB and RocksDB.

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TLDR · GitHub repository

RUROCO

ruroco is a tool that lets users execute commands on a server by sending UDP packets. It contains several security features that prevent port scanning and clients running unauthorized commands. It encrypts data sent from client to server using RSA and it runs server software in a way that uses as little operating system rights as possible. ruroco can be used for single packet authorization, enabling webservices, and more.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

EFFICIENT TRITON KERNELS FOR LLM TRAINING

The Liger Kernel, released surprisingly by LinkedIn, is an efficient set of kernels for language model training. It increases throughput by 20% and decreases memory usage by almost 60% for the popular Llama models. Importantly for practitioners, it only requires 3 lines of code change and integrates with many popular modeling frameworks.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

POSTGRESQL IS A GOOD VECTOR DATABASE

pgvectorscale builds on pgvector with higher performance embedding search and cost-efficient storage for AI applications. It is around 28x faster than competitive and commonly used vector stores.

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TLDR AI · GitHub repository

REDUCING GENDER BIAS IN LLMS

GenderCARE is a comprehensive framework aimed at assessing and mitigating gender biases. It introduces innovative criteria for evaluating gender bias, emphasizing inclusivity, diversity, and objectivity.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

CHARTDB

ChartDB is a powerful, web-based database diagramming editor. It can be used to visualize database schemas with a single "Smart Query,” customize diagrams, and export SQL scripts.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

FUITE

Fuite is a CLI tool that detects memory leaks in web applications by simulating user interactions, analyzing heap snapshots, and identifying leaked objects, event listeners, and DOM nodes.

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TLDR Web Dev · GitHub repository

TRANSFORMERS.RB

transformers.rb is a Ruby gem that provides state-of-the-art transformer models for natural language processing tasks, such as sentence embeddings, question answering, and sentiment analysis.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

AZURE-WIRESHARK-NETWORK-PROTOCOLS

This tutorial walks readers through setting up Windows and Ubuntu VMs in Azure and using Wireshark to observe various types of network traffic. It teaches how to create and configure virtual machines, monitor ICMP, SSH, DHCP, DNS, and RDP traffic, and understand the behavior of each traffic type.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

EMBA

EMBA is a central firmware analysis tool for penetration testers and product security teams. It supports the complete security analysis process with firmware extraction, static and dynamic analysis via emulation, and generating a web report.

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TLDR InfoSec · GitHub repository

SCUBAGEAR

ScubaGear is a tool that assesses Microsoft 365 tenants against the CISA Secure Cloud Business Applications configurations baselines.

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TLDR Design · Tool

BOOK COVER ARCHIVE

A collection of beautiful book covers for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design.

bookcoverarchive.com

TLDR Design · Tool

REMOVE VIDEO BACKGROUND

Unscreen uses AI to automatically remove video backgrounds without chroma keying or greenscreens.

unscreen.com

TLDR Design · Tool

CREATE PRO-LEVEL GRAPHS

Simplifying data visualization, Graphy enables users to create stunning, actionable graphs that drive decisions.

graphy.app

TLDR Founders · Tool

INTERNAL LINKING OPPORTUNITY FINDER

Analyze all blog posts to identify and document internal linking opportunities with AI.

gumloop.com

TLDR Founders · Tool

SEVEN24

Capture real feedback when users interact with your product.

seven24.ai

TLDR Founders · Tool

JUPITRR AI

Auto-create B-roll visuals 10x faster with AI.

jupitrr.com