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miguelfreitas/twister-core

twister core / daemon

Stack

C++ CMake pip

Updated: 2024-01-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 173 open

1,407

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Forks: 254
Commits: 5,092 commits
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rescrv/HyperDex

HyperDex is a scalable, searchable key-value store

Stack

C++ npm

Updated: 2024-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-13
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 37 open

1,405

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 2,439 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nasa/astrobee

NASA Astrobee Robot Software

Stack

C++ CMake pip

Updated: 2025-12-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-31
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,404

stars

Forks: 377
Commits: 553 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gerbera/gerbera

UPnP Media Server for 2026: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺

Stack

C++ Express CMake Conan npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #dlna #dlna-server #duktape #flac

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-14
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,394

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 6,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS

HLE 3DS emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#3ds #android #arm #c-plus-plus #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 65 open

1,393

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 2,527 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NVIDIA/VideoProcessingFramework

Set of Python bindings to C++ libraries which provides full HW acceleration for video decoding, encoding and GPU-accelerated color space and pixel format conversions

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake npm PEP 517

Updated: 2024-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-13
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 70 open

1,378

stars

Forks: 238
Commits: 448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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guidedhacking/GuidedHacking-Injector

The BEST DLL Injector Library.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#dll-inject #dll-injection #dll-injector #dllinjector #game-hacking #injection

Updated: 2025-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-04
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,377

stars

Forks: 282
Commits: 66 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openbabel/openbabel

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #chemical-data #chemical-toolbox #cheminformatics #chemistry

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-11-27
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 578 open

1,376

stars

Forks: 482
Commits: 6,623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jd-opensource/xllm

A high-performance inference engine for LLM, VLM, DiT and REC models, optimized for diverse AI accelerators.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#deepseek #glm #inference #inference-engine #large-language-models #llm-inference

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-08-13
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 162 open

1,370

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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googleprojectzero/TinyInst

A lightweight dynamic instrumentation library

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-30
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

1,355

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bochs-emu/Bochs

Bochs - Cross Platform x86 Emulator Project

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-10-09
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 69 open

1,350

stars

Forks: 182
Commits: 14,622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hyprwm/hyprpaper

Hyprpaper is a wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpp20 #wallpaper #wayland #wlroots

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 51 open

1,349

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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inspircd/inspircd

A high-performance Internet Relay Chat (IRCv3) server for UNIX-like and Windows systems

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #inspircd #internet-relay-chat #irc #irc-protocol #irc-server

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-01-23
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 112 open

1,348

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 17,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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adamyaxley/Obfuscate

Guaranteed compile-time string literal obfuscation header-only library for C++14

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpp14 #cpp17 #embedded-string-literals #header-only #obfuscate #obfuscate-strings

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-15
History: 4 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 2 open

1,337

stars

Forks: 185
Commits: 90 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ION28/BLUESPAWN

An Active Defense and EDR software to empower Blue Teams

Stack

C++ Django .NET SDK pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#active-defense #anti-virus #blue-team #edr #mitre-attack #security

Updated: 2026-03-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-28
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 31 open

1,335

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 887 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SourMesen/Mesen

Mesen is a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#

Archived

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #famicom #nes

Updated: 2024-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-10
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 104 open

1,329

stars

Forks: 330
Commits: 2,904 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ratwithacompiler/OBS-captions-plugin

Closed Captioning OBS plugin using Google Speech Recognition

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2025-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-13
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 82 open

1,321

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hydrogen-music/hydrogen

The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest Qt CMake Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#audio #drum-machine #jack #midi #music #qt5

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-06-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 130 open

1,319

stars

Forks: 182
Commits: 10,032 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance

A cycle-accurate Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator.

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#cycle-accurate #emulator #emulator-development #gameboy-advance #gameboy-advance-emulator #gba

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,309

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 1,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Harrison1/unrealcpp

Unreal Engine 4 C++ examples

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #ue4 #unreal #unreal-engine #unreal-engine-4 #unrealengine

Updated: 2024-11-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,307

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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CE-Programming/CEmu

Third-party TI-84 Plus CE / TI-83 Premium CE emulator, focused on developer features

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#calculator #emulation #emulator #ez80 #ti-83-premium-ce #ti-84-plus-ce

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-13
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

1,305

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 2,693 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WinDurango/WinDurango

The world's first Xbox One compatibility layer for Windows.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

GitHub topics

#compatibility-layer #emulation #windurango #xb1 #xbox-one

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-01-24
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

1,298

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dreamlayers/em-dosbox

An Emscripten port of DOSBox

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#dos #dosbox #emscripten #emulator #emulators #gaming

Updated: 2023-01-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-07-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 30 open

1,286

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 4,346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

decaf-emu/decaf-emu

Researching Wii U emulation.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cpp #decaf-emu #emulator #wii-u

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

1,278

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 5,222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bareos/bareos

Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

AI dev

Stack

C++ FastAPI Qt Vite Vue CMake Composer npm

GitHub topics

#archiving #backup #backup-solution #backup-utility #bareos #ceph

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-02
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 71 open

1,244

stars

Forks: 311
Commits: 16,068 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yvt/openspades

Compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#ace-of-spades #action-game #c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform-game #fps

Updated: 2024-06-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-18
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 248 open

1,244

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 2,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

colobot/colobot

Source code of open-source Colobot: Gold Edition project developed by Epsitec and TerranovaTeam

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#colobot #colobot-gold #game #programming

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-08
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 364 open

1,243

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 4,404 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brenocq/implot3d

Immediate Mode 3D Plotting

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#3d #gui #imgui #plot #plotting #plotting-library

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-11-16
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,241

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 485 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods

Main development repository for Rigs of Rods soft-body physics simulator

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#airplanes #boats #cars #physics-simulation #sandbox-game #soft-bodies

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-11
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 236 open

1,240

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 6,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

codilime/veles

Binary data analysis and visualization tool

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #hexeditor #python #qt #reverse-engineering #shaders

Updated: 2019-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-16
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 56 open

1,239

stars

Forks: 122
Commits: 637 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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