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24 alternatives to A DMCA resistant fork of no-defender

I use no-defender, but noticed it got sent down the memory hole. Here's an updated version that doesn't ship any 3rd party binaries.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Versiobit▲83
Archives your files, versioned and audit-proof by Blockchain
2023 · versiobit.com · its alternatives →
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The Bike Shed - #32: Bug For Bug Compatibility▲55
Microsoft's interest in open source and Sean's progress imp…
2015 · bikeshed.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →
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A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C▲171
Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too. Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution. Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buildstash▲168
Hey HN! We just launched open sign up on Buildstash. It's a platform for managing and sharing software binaries. I'd worked across game dev, mobile apps, and agencies - and found every team had no real system for managing their built binaries. Often just dumped in a shared folder (if someone remembered!). No system for versioning, keeping track of who'd signed off what when, or what exact build had gone to a client, etc. Existing tools out there for managing build artifacts are really focused on package repository management. But miss all the other types of software not being deployed that…
2025 · buildstash.com · its alternatives →
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Shit, TinyGo Crazy Small WASM Binaries. Hack Go and WASM▲6
Dev's offline page is fun and we did implement it with Rust and WebAssembly. Go is simple. Can we d... Tagged with go, webassembly, showdev.
2019 · dev.to · its alternatives →
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Hadouken – a cross-platform, extensible BitTorrent daemon▲12
A cross-platform, headless BitTorrent client with low memory footprint. - hadouken/hadouken
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
7MS
Minimalistic secure open source paste bin service▲9
2016 · bin.so · its alternatives →
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I made an easier version control system▲10
Hi everyone! This is the first launch of my project, Jamsync, which is trying to make version control easier for everyone. Let me know if you have any feedback!
2022 · jamsync.io · its alternatives →
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Bt – 0-hassle BitTorrent for Java 8▲8
BitTorrent library and client with DHT, magnet links, encryption and more - atomashpolskiy/bt
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made a OSS alternative to Weights and Biases▲6
Hey HN! I made a completely open sourced alternative to Weights and Biases with (insert cringe) blazingly fast performance (yes we use rust and clickhouse) Weights and Biases is super unperformant, their logger blocks user code... logging should not be blocking, yet they got away with it. We do the right thing by being non blocking. Would love any thoughts / feedbacks / roasts etc
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AttackerView▲13
Last week I wrote about building a scanner that writes its own exploits. A cron job runs Claude Code every night, it reads new CVEs, writes proof-of-concept checks, tests them against vulnerable and patched Docker instances, and opens PRs. I review and merge in the morning. That post was about how t
Feb 2026 · attackerview.com · its alternatives →
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pompelmi▲10
Hi HN — I’m the author of pompelmi, an open-source, in-process scanner for untrusted file uploads in Node.js. Motivation: I wanted a practical “upload guard” that reduces common upload risks (ZIP bombs, traversal in archives, MIME spoofing, polyglots/macro hints) without sending files to a cloud AV service (privacy + latency + GDPR concerns). Key points: - Runs in-process (no cloud calls); files never leave your infrastructure - Deep ZIP inspection with configurable limits (depth/entries/ratio) + nested archive scanning - Composable scanners (heuristics + optional signature…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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StableBuild – make any Docker container deterministic▲8
Hi HN! I've posted this a few weeks back without much HN traction - today we've added a free community tier, so anyone can try it out. TL;DR: We’ve launched StableBuild, a new tool to easily freeze and pin Docker images, operating system packages, Python packages, and arbitrary build dependencies; in 5 lines of code: https://stablebuild.com . As the CTO at an ML startup w/ 75 people (https://edgeimpulse.com/) I’ve grown incredibly frustrated with non-deterministic builds. Last year basically every week one of our containers (we have 40+ unique ones in prod)…
2024 · stablebuild.com · its alternatives →
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PwnScan▲8
For at least a few years (since before COVID), in my circle everbody wants an AI tool that finds vulnerabilities in binaries. I have my reservations about such a tool because of my perception that AI is overhyped, so I decided to build one myself to see how useful it could be (or not). I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for my collection of binaries with known CVEs. It definitely has false positives and negatives, as any static analysis tool would, but I think its actually somewhat usable. I dont think the results are super actionable, but interesting nonetheless. I still…
2025 · pwnscan.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source code for a private, infinitely scalable, PQ-secure L1 layer▲7
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new Layer 1 blockchain designed to solve what I see as the fundamental trilemma in the space: achieving strong privacy, infinite scalability, and post-quantum security simultaneously. The result is NERV: a private-by-default, horizontally scalable blockchain that replaces Merkle trees with 512-byte neural state embeddings, proven inside Halo2 circuits and attested in hardware enclaves. Key technical innovations: Neural State Embeddings Instead of Merkle trees, the entire state of a shard is compressed into a 512-byte vector using a transformer…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The safest blue-green deployment for single machines▲5
Starting from version 3.0, it comes with a high availabilty (=safe)
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built an encrypted BLE dongle for pasting stuff to air-gapped devices▲5
Definitely one of those "20 minute adventure gone wrong" projects where all I wanted initially was a quick wireless rubber ducky for bitlocker keys and the like and then I kept adding stuff like AES-256..... Currently working on adding WebAuthn/FIDO support because the hardware is already there and scope creep is a lifestyle at this point. Would love feedback, especially on the security side. Repo and PCB files are fully open source.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shrouded, secure memory management in Rust▲5
Hi HN! I've been building a project that handles high-value credentials in-process, and I wanted something more robust than just zeroing memory on drop. A comment on a recent Show HN[0] made me realize that awareness of lower-level memory protection techniques might not be as widespread as I thought. The idea here is to pull out all the tools in one crate, with a relatively simple API. * mlock/VirtualLock to prevent sensitive memory from being swapped (eg the KeePass dump) * Core dump exclusion using MADV_DONTDUMP on Linux & Android * mprotect to minimize exposure over time * Guard…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm 15. I mass published 134K lines to hold AI agents accountable▲6
Software makes commitments all of the time. "I won't transfer more than $500," "I'll only access these three APIs," "I won't modify production data." But there is truly no way to verify it actually kept those commitments after the fact. All you do is just trust the logs and which the software itself wrote. I built Nobulex to fix this. It is open-source middleware that does three things: 1. Lets you define behavioral rules in a simple DSL (permit, forbid, require) 2. Intercepts all actions at runtime and blocks anything that will violate the rules 3. Logs everything in a hash-chained audit…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built a <60ms, open-source alternative to E2B using RustVMM and KVM▲7
Over the past few months, as we scaled our internal AI Agents, we hit a dead end: Running LLM-generated arbitrary code in Docker is basically running naked on security due to container escape risks. But using full traditional VMs takes minutes to boot and eats too much memory to support high-density concurrency. We loved the developer experience of SaaS sandboxes on the market, but they are closed-source, expensive, and have too high a barrier to entry for self-hosting. So, our team decided to build our own. After months of grinding, using RustVMM and KVM, we built a blazing-fast,…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Write webapps in Go without framework [updated]▲7
Over three months ago, I posted my book on HN and got tremendous +ve reponse. I am happy to inform that I have published the book to leanpub as per the comments I got on HN itself! It is pay as you go model, and the minimum is $0 because I wanted to contribute back to the FOSS Community
2016 · its alternatives →
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wsgrok▲7
I built it for myself because ngrok didn't let me add one more domain unless I paid $12 more. I probably should've looked for alternatives before building my own, but my grudge got in the way . Once I started, I wanted to make it better than the other options. Silly, I know. No one probably cares. I plan to open source it sometime next year because I’ve got other projects to finish first. It's free until I deplete my cloud credits, then it will switch to a tier-based model with a free option.
Jan 2026 · wsgrok.com · its alternatives →
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Shoehorn, a library to quantize an LLM to fit your Mac's VRAM▲6
I made this after seeing someone posit the idea online yesterday over lunch then spent some time refining it. So far it's pretty impressive IMO! Right now I am running Qwen3-30B-A3B on my 24gb unified memory m4 MacBook Pro at 50 tok/sec and this should definitely not be working for such a large model on my middling hardware. Things are detailed in the README to get up and running and DESIGN.md has details on all the choices and such made along the way.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DMCA Sender▲1
Anti-piracy solution Automate the send of DMCA takedown
2020 · hack-hunt.com · its alternatives →

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