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A machine-wide counting semaphore for heavy commands: N slots shared by every checkout and agent on one machine
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GITHUB · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 35 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: distributed systems frameworks · 62 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -78% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- cli
- coding-agents
- concurrency
- developer-tools
- flock
- lock
- +4 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A machine-wide counting semaphore is a small command-line tool using file locks or a local socket, which is simple systems code an AI assistant can produce.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1032 of 3073 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
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