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Motion-Project/motion

Motion, a software motion detector. Home page: https://motion-project.github.io/

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-12-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

4,029

stars

Forks: 559
Commits: 2,371 commits
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Website GitHub

kuzudb/kuzu

Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher.

Archived

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#cypher #database #embeddable #embedded #graph #graph-database

Updated: 2025-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-26
History: 65 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 329 open

4,027

stars

Forks: 515
Commits: 5,231 commits
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Website GitHub

introlab/rtabmap

RTAB-Map library and standalone application

Stack

C++ CMake Swift Package Manager vcpkg

GitHub topics

#android #ios #localization #mapping #project-tango #robotics

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-17
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 582 open

3,993

stars

Forks: 956
Commits: 3,691 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

spring/spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #lua #opengl #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2024-03-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,992

stars

Forks: 866
Commits: 28,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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AntiMicroX/antimicrox

Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#controller #gamepad #gamepad-api #games #gaming #keyboard-emulation

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-30
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 176 open

3,969

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 3,062 commits
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mapnik/mapnik

Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#beautiful-maps #c-plus-plus #cartography #gis #mapnik #mapping

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 728 open

3,956

stars

Forks: 841
Commits: 14,396 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Warzone2100/warzone2100

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #campaign #cheats #cmake #freebsd #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 609 open

3,950

stars

Forks: 615
Commits: 22,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

giuspen/cherrytree

cherrytree

Stack

C++ CMake pip

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-18
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 971 open

3,935

stars

Forks: 517
Commits: 4,602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

iree-org/iree

A retargetable MLIR-based machine learning compiler and runtime toolkit.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#compiler #cuda #jax #machine-learning #mlir #onnx

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,690 open

3,923

stars

Forks: 1,004
Commits: 20,418 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m

The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-10-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 214 open

3,911

stars

Forks: 374
Commits: 4,941 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

facebookarchive/scribe

Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers.

Archived

Stack

C++ pip

Updated: 2020-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-23
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

3,908

stars

Forks: 772
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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abcz316/SKRoot-linuxKernelRoot

新一代 SKRoot，完美隐藏Root功能，无视全网检测手段，实现SELinux零触碰、无挂载！通杀所有内核，免源码直接 Patch 原厂内核，完美保留官方内核所有特性。

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-09-03
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 52 open

3,905

stars

Forks: 862
Commits: 504 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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newsboat/newsboat

An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals

Stack

C++ Cargo

GitHub topics

#atom-feed-reader #newsbeuter #rss-feed-reader

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-11-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 409 open

3,885

stars

Forks: 252
Commits: 8,957 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hasherezade/pe-sieve

Scans a given process. Recognizes and dumps a variety of potentially malicious implants (replaced/injected PEs, shellcodes, hooks, in-memory patches).

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#anti-malware #hooking #libpeconv #malware-analysis #memory-forensics #pe-analyzer

Updated: 2026-06-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-08-22
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 7 open

3,877

stars

Forks: 495
Commits: 2,037 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nem0/LumixEngine

3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#3d-game-engine #data-oriented-design #editor #entity-component-system #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-11-21
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

3,869

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 7,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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danielkrupinski/Osiris

Cross-platform game hack for Counter-Strike 2 with Panorama-based GUI.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cheat #counter-strike #counter-strike-2 #cpp #cpp20 #cs2

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-28
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 331 open

3,854

stars

Forks: 1,052
Commits: 9,711 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressions

Compile Time Regular Expression in C++

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#awesome #compile-time #constexpr #cpp17 #cpp20 #header-only

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-25
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 104 open

3,842

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 792 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dendibakh/perf-ninja

This is an online course where you can learn and master the skill of low-level performance analysis and tuning.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-20
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 13 open

3,832

stars

Forks: 395
Commits: 242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

facebookresearch/habitat-sim

A flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ai #computer-vision #cplusplus #robotics #sim2real #simulator

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 268 open

3,819

stars

Forks: 548
Commits: 1,664 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

domoticz/domoticz

Free open source home automation system for Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi. Supports Z-Wave, Zigbee, MQTT, and 150+ devices.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#cpp #domoticz #dzvents #energy-monitoring #home-automation #html5

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 24 open

3,803

stars

Forks: 1,159
Commits: 16,240 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

hasherezade/pe-bear

Portable Executable reversing tool with a friendly GUI

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#bearparser #malware-analysis #multiplatform #pe-analyzer #pe-analyzer-gui #pe-editor

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-18
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 16 open

3,787

stars

Forks: 244
Commits: 698 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pqrs-org/Karabiner-archived

Karabiner (KeyRemap4MacBook) is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.

Archived

Stack

C++ CocoaPods

Updated: 2020-03-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-08
History: 11 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 112 open

3,784

stars

Forks: 293
Commits: 10,597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ravenscroftj/turbopilot

Turbopilot is an open source large-language-model based code completion engine that runs locally on CPU

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#code-completion #cpp #language-model #machine-learning

Updated: 2023-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-09
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 18 open

3,779

stars

Forks: 121
Commits: 304 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

farbrausch/fr_public

Farbrausch demo tools 2001-2011

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#demoscene #direct3d

Updated: 2019-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-11
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 27 open

3,776

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

MTG/essentia

C++ library for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis, including Python bindings

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-analysis #c-plus-plus #dsp #essentia #music

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-03
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 425 open

3,698

stars

Forks: 631
Commits: 3,769 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MrNeRF/LichtFeld-Studio

Train, inspect, edit, automate, and export 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes from a single native application.

AI dev

Stack

C++ React CMake PEP 517 pnpm

GitHub topics

#computer-graphics #computer-vision #cuda #gaussian-splatting #optimization

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 213 open

3,669

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 2,744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libjxl/libjxl

JPEG XL image format reference implementation

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#codec #decoder #encoder #image-compression #images #jpeg

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-27
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 467 open

3,616

stars

Forks: 384
Commits: 3,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

id-Software/DOOM-3

Doom 3 GPL source release

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2015-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-22
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

3,591

stars

Forks: 749
Commits: 2 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nmslib/nmslib

Non-Metric Space Library (NMSLIB): An efficient similarity search library and a toolkit for evaluation of k-NN methods for generic non-metric spaces.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#k-nn-graphs #knn-search #neighborhood-graphs #non-metric #vp-tree

Updated: 2026-04-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-10
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 74 open

3,589

stars

Forks: 461
Commits: 1,521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

nullptrlabs/pgmodeler

Open-source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL. No more typing DDL commands. Let pgModeler do the work for you!

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #code-generator #database #database-modeling #ddl-commands #entity-relationship-diagram

Updated: 2026-05-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-23
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 282 open

3,581

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 6,909 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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