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jlblancoc/nanoflann

nanoflann: a C++11 header-only library for Nearest Neighbor (NN) search with KD-trees

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #kd-trees #nanoflann #point-clouds

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 42 open

2,660

stars

Forks: 526
Commits: 674 commits
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teeworlds/teeworlds

A retro multiplayer shooter

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #game #linux #macos #multiplayer

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-22
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 360 open

2,620

stars

Forks: 646
Commits: 6,560 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Qalculate/libqalculate

Qalculate! library and CLI

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 188 open

2,602

stars

Forks: 191
Commits: 2,020 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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shaka-project/shaka-packager

A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-13
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 150 open

2,556

stars

Forks: 565
Commits: 1,605 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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dmlc/decord

An efficient video loader for deep learning with smart shuffling that's super easy to digest

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#video-loader

Updated: 2024-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 220 open

2,508

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 352 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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henki-robotics/robotics_essentials_ros2

Learn the basics of robotics through hands-on experience using ROS 2 and Gazebo simulation.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#course #navigation #odometry #path-planning #ros2 #slam

Updated: 2025-11-25
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-10-30
History: 53 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

2,487

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Forks: 267
Commits: 62 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +18 +0.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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GameTechDev/PresentMon

Capture and analyze the high-level performance characteristics of graphics applications on Windows.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Vite Vue .NET SDK npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#tool

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-09
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 200 open

2,485

stars

Forks: 189
Commits: 2,992 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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griddb/griddb

GridDB is a next-generation open source database that makes time series IoT and big data fast,and easy.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Maven

GitHub topics

#bigdata #database #fast #griddb #iot #newsql

Updated: 2026-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-24
History: 66 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

2,475

stars

Forks: 4,980
Commits: 500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp

Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-08-04
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 225 open

2,459

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 2,369 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Overload-Technologies/Overload

3D game engine with lua scripting

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #3d-graphics #c-plus-plus #cpp #game-editor #game-engine

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 88 open

2,454

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 609 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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man-group/ArcticDB

ArcticDB is a high performance, serverless DataFrame database built for the Python Data Science ecosystem.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #data #data-analysis #data-science #database #dataframe

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-15
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 310 open

2,429

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 2,043 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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SourMesen/Mesen2

Multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, GB, GBA, PCE, SMS/GG, WS) for Windows, Linux and macOS

Archived

Stack

C++ Avalonia .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-gear #gameboy #gba #master-system #nes

Updated: 2026-06-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-12
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,411

stars

Forks: 302
Commits: 3,511 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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flyinghead/flycast

Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #sega-dreamcast #sega-naomi

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 279 open

2,400

stars

Forks: 300
Commits: 7,297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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xenia-canary/xenia-canary

Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #d3d12 #emulation #emulator #ppc

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-10
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,375

stars

Forks: 287
Commits: 8,599 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

strato-emu/strato

Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device!

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cpp #emulation #emulator #nintendo

Updated: 2024-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-28
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

2,338

stars

Forks: 292
Commits: 2,207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

IENT/YUView

The Free and Open Source Cross Platform YUV Viewer with an advanced analytics toolset

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#analysis #ffmpeg #h265 #hevc #player #raw-video

Updated: 2026-05-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-11
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 97 open

2,298

stars

Forks: 425
Commits: 3,518 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ossappscollective/OSS-DocumentScanner

Document scanning app

Stack

C++ Android React Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #document #document-scan #document-scan-to-text #document-scanner #document-scanner-app

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 80 open

2,294

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 4,257 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JACoders/OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #fps #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 276 open

2,277

stars

Forks: 703
Commits: 4,675 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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synfig/synfig

This is the Official source code repository of Synfig Studio animation software

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #animation #c-plus-plus #gtkmm #hacktoberfest #synfig

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-03-21
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 728 open

2,262

stars

Forks: 426
Commits: 12,503 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Icinga/icinga2

The core of our monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language and REST API.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cluster #distributed-monitoring #elastic #graphite #graylog #icinga

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-28
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 477 open

2,214

stars

Forks: 612
Commits: 14,868 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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elfmz/far2l

Linux port of FAR v2

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#filemanager #linux #macos #osx #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-10
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 487 open

2,196

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 7,530 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenXcom/OpenXcom

Open-source clone of the original X-Com 👽

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #openxcom-game #sdl #strategy-game-engine #turn-based-combat

Updated: 2026-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-25
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 81 open

2,196

stars

Forks: 566
Commits: 8,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wheybags/freeablo

[ARCHIVED] Modern reimplementation of the Diablo 1 game engine

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2023-04-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-08
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 63 open

2,172

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 1,751 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alibaba/loongcollector

Fast and Lightweight Observability Data Collector

AI dev

Stack

C++ Cobra gRPC Go CMake Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#aliyun #apm #cloud-native #ebpf #kubernetes #log

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-08
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 148 open

2,163

stars

Forks: 437
Commits: 1,390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

0vercl0k/rp

rp++ is a fast C++ ROP gadget finder for PE/ELF/Mach-O x86/x64/ARM/ARM64 binaries.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#binary-exploitation #exploit-development #exploitation-framework #gadget #return-oriented-programming #rop

Updated: 2025-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-26
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

2,157

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 170 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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znc/znc

Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #irc #irc-bouncer #znc

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-08-24
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 391 open

2,119

stars

Forks: 402
Commits: 5,989 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pierotofy/OpenSplat

Production-grade 3D gaussian splatting with CPU/GPU support for Windows, Mac and Linux 🚀

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#3d #gaussian #radiance-field #splats #splatting

Updated: 2026-05-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-01-23
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 54 open

2,098

stars

Forks: 206
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

milkytracker/MilkyTracker

A Fasttracker II compatible music editor

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #chiptune-tracker #multiplatform #music #tracker-music

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 86 open

2,077

stars

Forks: 184
Commits: 1,083 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stepmania/stepmania

Advanced rhythm game for Windows, Linux and OS X. Designed for both home and arcade use.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game #lua #rhythm-game #stepmania

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-18
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 572 open

2,076

stars

Forks: 475
Commits: 36,135 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

maplibre/maplibre-native

MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.

Stack

C++ Android Express Cargo CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#maplibre #maps #vector-tiles

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-07
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 560 open

2,073

stars

Forks: 552
Commits: 18,718 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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