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vhelin/wla-dx

WLA DX - Yet Another ANSI C GB-Z80/Z80/Z80N/eZ80/6502/65C02/65CE02/65816/68000/6800/6801/6809/8008/8080/HUC6280/SPC-700/SuperFX/Cx4/SH-2 Multi Platform Cross Assembler Package

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-16
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 27 open

607

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 2,013 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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binji/binjgb

Gameboy emulator implemented in C, that also runs in the browser

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #gb-emulator #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-28
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

605

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

khanhduytran0/SparseBox

On-device toolbox?

Stack

C Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 68 open

605

stars

Forks: 177
Commits: 72 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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LingDong-/skeleton-tracing

A new algorithm for retrieving topological skeleton as a set of polylines from binary images

Stack

C npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#algorithm #computational-geometry #computer-vision #polylines #skeletonization

Updated: 2022-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-18
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

605

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 47 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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btbd/umap

UEFI bootkit for driver manual mapping

Stack

Updated: 2024-01-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-16
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

602

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 9 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bitmovin/libdash

MPEG-DASH Access Library - Official ISO/IEC MPEG-DASH Reference Implementation

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-15
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 27 open

601

stars

Forks: 169
Commits: 434 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dyne/frei0r

A large collection of free and portable video plugins

AI dev

Stack

C Vite Vue CMake npm

GitHub topics

#dyne #linux #osx #plugins #video-effects #video-filtering

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-10-30
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 28 open

583

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 874 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD

This is official OpenSMTPD Portable repository. Forks, pull requests and other contributions are welcome!

Stack

Updated: 2026-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-01
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 122 open

581

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 11,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eggheads/eggdrop

The Eggdrop IRC Bot

Stack

C pytest uv

GitHub topics

#bot #c #eggdrop #hacktoberfest #irc #python

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-06-23
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 255 open

580

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 3,827 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ngircd/ngircd

Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #chat #daemon #internet-relay-chat #irc

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-12-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 32 open

574

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 3,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aosp-mirror/kernel_common

No description.

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2025-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-16
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

571

stars

Forks: 772
Commits: 1,404,787 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NLnetLabs/nsd

The NLnet Labs Name Server Daemon (NSD) is an authoritative, RFC compliant DNS nameserver.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#authoritative #dns #dnssec #name-server

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-11-30
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 74 open

570

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 6,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenHEVC/openHEVC

HEVC decoder

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2023-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 29 open

570

stars

Forks: 194
Commits: 2,075 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

huntandhackett/process-cloning

The Definitive Guide To Process Cloning on Windows

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-01-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-17
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

555

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Explorerlowi/ESP32_AI_LLM

本项目使用esp32、esp32s3接入Chatgpt、Claude、讯飞星火、豆包等15款大模型，实现语音对话聊天，支持语音唤醒、连续对话、音乐播放等功能，同时外接了一块显示屏实时显示对话的内容。

Stack

C CMake pip

Updated: 2024-12-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-07-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

550

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 39 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mcpcpc/kirc

Lightweight terminal IRC client

Stack

GitHub topics

#client #irc #portable

Updated: 2026-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

548

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 276 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

frkngksl/Huan

Encrypted PE Loader Generator

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-04-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-21
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

546

stars

Forks: 104
Commits: 21 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shlomif/fortune-mod

Implementation of the Unix fortune command for displaying a random quotation, for Linux and other systems.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#floss #fortune #fortune-cookie #fortune-mod #foss #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-02
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

540

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 826 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

id-Software/Wolf3D-iOS

Wolfenstein 3D for iOS Source Release

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

537

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 4 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cfengine/core

CFEngine Community

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#automation #c #cfengine #configuration-management #infrastructure-as-code

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-04
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

533

stars

Forks: 201
Commits: 19,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ajkhoury/UEFI-Bootkit

A small bootkit which does not rely on x64 assembly.

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#assembly #booitkit #driver #efi-application #efi-runtime-driver #uefi

Updated: 2019-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-03
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

528

stars

Forks: 136
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenVisualCloud/SVT-HEVC

SVT HEVC encoder. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is a software-based video coding technology that is highly optimized for Intel® Xeon® processors. Using the open source SVT-HEVC encoder, it is possible to spread video encoding processing across multiple Intel® Xeon® processors to achieve a real advantage of processing efficiency.

Archived

Stack

C CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#h265 #hevc #svt

Updated: 2024-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-28
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 46 open

528

stars

Forks: 167
Commits: 372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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libnet/nemesis

A command-line network packet crafting and injection utility

Stack

GitHub topics

#nemesis #packet-crafting #packet-generator #packet-injection

Updated: 2023-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-10-31
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 4 open

526

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unrealircd/unrealircd

Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #irc #irc-server #ircd #ircv3 #sasl

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

522

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 10,770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

deltabeard/Peanut-GB

A very fast and portable Game Boy (DMG) emulator single header library written in C99.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #dmg #emulator-library #gameboy #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-01-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-24
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

521

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Dn-Programming-Core-Management/Dn-FamiTracker

modifications and improvements for 0CC-FamiTracker (based on j0CC-FamiTracker 0.6.3)

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#0cc-famitracker #chiptune #chiptune-tracker #famicom #famitracker #nes

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-26
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 137 open

520

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 2,040 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pfq/PFQ

Functional Network Framework for Multi-Core Architectures

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2019-05-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-16
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 0 open

519

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 3,961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bazukas/obs-linuxbrowser

OBS Linux Browser Plugin

Archived

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2020-03-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-23
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 15 open

518

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 131 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Alex3434/wmi-static-spoofer

Spoofing the Windows 10 HDD/diskdrive serialnumber from kernel without hooking

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#10 #diskdrive #driver #fake #hdd #hook

Updated: 2018-12-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-10
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

514

stars

Forks: 139
Commits: 29 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Bigfoot71/r3d

3D Extension Library for raylib

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#3d #c #graphics #pbr #r3d #raylib

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-09
History: 4 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 6 open

514

stars

Forks: 31
Commits: 2,127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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