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fooyin/fooyin

A customisable music player

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#alsa #audio #audio-player #chiptune #cpp23 #customizable

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-20
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 293 open

2,061

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 5,218 commits
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vapoursynth/vapoursynth

A video processing framework with simplicity in mind

Stack

C++ .NET SDK Meson uv

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-16
History: 3 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 12 open

2,056

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 4,907 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Inori/GPCS4

A work-in-progress PlayStation 4 emulator.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #gcn #graphics #ps4 #vulkan

Updated: 2023-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-20
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,018

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 1,554 commits
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RetroShare/RetroShare

RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-11-15
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 360 open

1,996

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 17,824 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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EKA2L1/EKA2L1

A Symbian OS/N-Gage emulator

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#cpp17 #emulates #emulation #emulator #games #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-22
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 143 open

1,981

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Forks: 171
Commits: 5,852 commits
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OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#browser #bsd #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-04
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 276 open

1,981

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Forks: 283
Commits: 10,964 commits
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MediaArea/MediaInfo

Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

Stack

C++ Android CMake CocoaPods .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-18
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 221 open

1,969

stars

Forks: 188
Commits: 2,881 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bsnes-emu/bsnes

bsnes is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator focused on performance, features, and ease of use.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #snes #snes-emulator

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-12-22
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 148 open

1,957

stars

Forks: 191
Commits: 4,088 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gitahead/gitahead

Understand your Git history!

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2025-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-12
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 292 open

1,938

stars

Forks: 251
Commits: 430 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ponchio/untrunc

Restore a damaged (truncated) mp4, m4v, mov, 3gp video. Provided you have a similar not broken video.

Stack

C++

Updated: 2024-05-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-16
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 192 open

1,938

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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enzo1982/freac

The fre:ac audio converter project

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aac #alac #audio #c-plus-plus #cd-ripper #converter

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-09-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 220 open

1,916

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 2,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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moveit/moveit2

:robot: MoveIt for ROS 2

Stack

C++ pytest Qt CMake pip

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-12
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 371 open

1,915

stars

Forks: 764
Commits: 9,476 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RPCSX/rpcsx

No description.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 6 open

1,904

stars

Forks: 123
Commits: 18,657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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baidu/tera

An Internet-Scale Database.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#baidu #bigtable #c-plus-plus #data #database #hbase

Updated: 2024-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-26
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,902

stars

Forks: 434
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strukturag/libde265

Open h.265 video codec implementation.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-26
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 29 open

1,895

stars

Forks: 492
Commits: 2,516 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lightspark/lightspark

An open source flash player implementation

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 74 open

1,889

stars

Forks: 227
Commits: 9,653 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pioneerspacesim/pioneer

A game of lonely space adventure

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#3d #elite #exploration #frontier #game #newtonian

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-24
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 334 open

1,884

stars

Forks: 409
Commits: 22,212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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h2oai/datatable

A Python package for manipulating 2-dimensional tabular data structures

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#data-analysis #data-structure #fedramp #ftrl #performance #python

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 7 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 183 open

1,876

stars

Forks: 166
Commits: 2,249 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

toggl-open-source/toggldesktop

Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#desktop #linux #macos #objective-c #poco #qt

Updated: 2023-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

1,869

stars

Forks: 282
Commits: 10,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

python-greenlet/greenlet

Lightweight in-process concurrent programming

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-10
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

1,834

stars

Forks: 270
Commits: 1,288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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HoShiMin/Kernel-Bridge

Windows kernel hacking framework, driver template, hypervisor and API written on C++

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-11-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-15
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 17 open

1,815

stars

Forks: 397
Commits: 155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dphnAI/sonar

Large-scale LLM inference engine

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro Axum FastAPI pytest Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#api-rest #cuda #inference-engine #inferentia #intel #lora

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 13 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 129 open

1,810

stars

Forks: 206
Commits: 2,169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +88 +4.2%

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multitheftauto/mtasa-blue

Multi Theft Auto is a game engine that turns Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into networked multiplayer.

AI dev

Stack

C++ .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#game-engine #game-mod #grand-theft-auto #gtasa #lua #modding

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,018 open

1,800

stars

Forks: 560
Commits: 11,529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mlc-ai/xgrammar

Fast, Flexible and Portable Structured Generation

Stack

C++ pytest Ruby on Rails Bundler CMake npm

GitHub topics

#large-language-models #structured-generation

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 36 open

1,787

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 471 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

0vercl0k/wtf

wtf is a distributed, code-coverage guided, customizable, cross-platform snapshot-based fuzzer designed for attacking user and / or kernel-mode targets running on Microsoft Windows and Linux user-mode (experimental!).

Stack

C++ pytest Tornado Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#bochs #bochscpu #code-coverage #fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-10
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

1,773

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 93 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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simsong/tcpflow

TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. Download from:

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#digital-forensics #forensics #tcp-protocol #tcpip

Updated: 2026-01-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-01
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 73 open

1,773

stars

Forks: 245
Commits: 802 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pencil2d/pencil

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#animation #bitmap #cartoon #cplusplus #drawing #graphics2d

Updated: 2026-05-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 203 open

1,772

stars

Forks: 306
Commits: 5,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dphnAI/aphrodite-engine

Large-scale LLM inference engine

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro FastAPI Flask pytest CMake pip pnpm

GitHub topics

#api-rest #cuda #inference-engine #inferentia #intel #lora

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 126 open

1,771

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 1,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ycm-core/ycmd

A code-completion & code-comprehension server

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#code-analysis #code-completion #editor #semantic-engine

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-13
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 33 open

1,736

stars

Forks: 777
Commits: 3,356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aahmad097/AlternativeShellcodeExec

Alternative Shellcode Execution Via Callbacks

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-28
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,728

stars

Forks: 333
Commits: 54 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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