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Haivision/srt

Secure, Reliable, Transport

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #live-streaming #low-latency #multimedia #srt #transport

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-21
History: 4 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 369 open

3,576

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Forks: 934
Commits: 2,007 commits
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OpenXRay/xray-16

Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Join OpenXRay! ;)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #arm64 #cmake #cplusplus #cpp17 #d3d11

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-05
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 294 open

3,548

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Forks: 526
Commits: 8,486 commits
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AtomicGameEngine/AtomicGameEngine

The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a consistent API in C++, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #cplusplus #csharp #game-development #game-engine #ios

Updated: 2024-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-24
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 394 open

3,473

stars

Forks: 587
Commits: 3,398 commits
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ihhub/fheroes2

fheroes2 is a recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#cpp #game #game-development #game-engine #heroes-2 #heroes-of-might-and-magic-2

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-30
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 431 open

3,473

stars

Forks: 482
Commits: 5,979 commits
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isledecomp/isle

A decompilation of LEGO Island (1997)

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-28
History: 42 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 4 open

3,463

stars

Forks: 146
Commits: 1,896 commits
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jurplel/qView

Practical and minimal image viewer

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #image-viewer #lightweight #photo-viewer #qt #qt-widgets

Updated: 2026-04-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 141 open

3,460

stars

Forks: 188
Commits: 1,753 commits
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fasiondog/hikyuu

Hikyuu Quant Framework 基于C++/Python的超高速开源量化交易研究框架，同时可基于策略部件进行资产重用，快速累积策略资产。

Stack

C++ pip

GitHub topics

#algorithms-trading #backtesting #finance #quant #stock #system-trading

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-06
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5 open

3,435

stars

Forks: 816
Commits: 5,797 commits
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appjs/appjs

(Deprecated!) SDK on top of nodejs to build desktop apps using HTML5/CSS/JS

Stack

C++ .NET SDK npm

Updated: 2016-05-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

3,421

stars

Forks: 349
Commits: 690 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Aegisub/Aegisub

Cross-platform advanced subtitle editor

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2025-01-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-01-16
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 163 open

3,371

stars

Forks: 337
Commits: 7,897 commits
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GarageGames/Torque3D

MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 372 open

3,363

stars

Forks: 1,184
Commits: 3,540 commits
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sbarex/QLMarkdown

macOS Quick Look extension for Markdown files.

Stack

C++ Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#markdown-viewer #quicklook-extension #quicklook-plugin

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-12-09
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 35 open

3,324

stars

Forks: 98
Commits: 209 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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intel/pcm

Intel® Performance Counter Monitor (Intel® PCM)

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpu #energy #freebsd #intel #linux #monitor-performance

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-31
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 69 open

3,322

stars

Forks: 527
Commits: 3,850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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snes9xgit/snes9x

Snes9x - Portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Meson

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 225 open

3,310

stars

Forks: 569
Commits: 2,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer

Main MiSTer binary and Wiki

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-13
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 128 open

3,267

stars

Forks: 408
Commits: 2,064 commits
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jwise/HoRNDIS

Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X

Stack

C++

Updated: 2023-02-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-10
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 100 open

3,254

stars

Forks: 348
Commits: 80 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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duckdb/pg_duckdb

DuckDB-powered Postgres for high performance apps & analytics.

Stack

C++ pytest PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-01-28
History: 43 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 125 open

3,234

stars

Forks: 206
Commits: 629 commits
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OvenMediaLabs/OvenMediaEngine

OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a Sub-Second Latency Live Streaming Server with Large-Scale and High-Definition. #WebRTC #LLHLS

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#broadcasting #cmaf #hls #large-scale-streaming #live-streaming-server #lldash

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-29
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

3,207

stars

Forks: 1,132
Commits: 4,992 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp

llama.cpp fork with additional SOTA quants and improved performance

Stack

C++ Android Express pytest React CMake Gradle npm

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 113 open

3,203

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 4,878 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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guillaumechereau/goxel

Goxel: Free and Open Source 3D Voxel Editor

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#voxel-editors #voxels

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-05
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 129 open

3,183

stars

Forks: 270
Commits: 2,620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Tencent/Tendis

Tendis is a high-performance distributed storage system fully compatible with the Redis protocol.

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#cpp17 #high-performance #kv #kvstore #nosql #redis

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-10
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 179 open

3,151

stars

Forks: 342
Commits: 2,090 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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facebookarchive/beringei

Beringei is a high performance, in-memory storage engine for time series data.

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2018-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-18
History: 116 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,149

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 182 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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SuperTux/supertux

SuperTux source code

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #games #opengl #sdl #sdl3

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 371 open

3,137

stars

Forks: 601
Commits: 14,644 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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easymodo/qimgv

Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #image-viewer #libmpv #linux #qt

Updated: 2026-01-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-18
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 308 open

3,119

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 1,822 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mapbox/tippecanoe

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #geojson #vector-tiles

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-05
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 217 open

3,114

stars

Forks: 430
Commits: 1,796 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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aksnzhy/xlearn

High performance, easy-to-use, and scalable machine learning (ML) package, including linear model (LR), factorization machines (FM), and field-aware factorization machines (FFM) for Python and CLI interface.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#data-analysis #data-science #factorization-machines #ffm #fm #machine-learning

Updated: 2023-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-10
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 194 open

3,090

stars

Forks: 516
Commits: 1,342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

shogun-toolbox/shogun

Shōgun

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #c-plus-plus #cmake #data-science #machine-learning #swig

Updated: 2023-12-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 426 open

3,079

stars

Forks: 1,034
Commits: 17,589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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squid-cache/squid

Squid Web Proxy Cache - Source Code

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#ecap #ftp #http #https #icap #proxy

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-02-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

3,058

stars

Forks: 652
Commits: 20,231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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widelands/widelands

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #bsd #c-plus-plus #cmake #floss #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-02-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 568 open

3,054

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 27,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

b4rtaz/distributed-llama

Distributed LLM inference. Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.

Stack

C++ pip

GitHub topics

#distributed-computing #distributed-llm #llama2 #llama3 #llm #llm-inference

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

3,050

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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InoriRus/Kyty

PS4 & PS5 emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2024-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

3,018

stars

Forks: 179
Commits: 49 commits
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