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jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 4 open

21,838

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Forks: 815
Commits: 4,632 commits
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gentilkiwi/mimikatz

A little tool to play with Windows security

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-04-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 196 open

21,799

stars

Forks: 4,157
Commits: 355 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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allinurl/goaccess

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

Stack

GitHub topics

#analytics #apache #c #caddy #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-09
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 449 open

20,928

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Forks: 1,193
Commits: 4,504 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

Stack

GitHub topics

#audio #driver #loopback #macos #virtual-audio-cable

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-27
History: 13 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8 open

19,531

stars

Forks: 829
Commits: 644 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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videolan/vlc

VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

Stack

C Cargo CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#c #framework #gplv2 #lgpl #multimedia #open-source

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-08
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

19,247

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Forks: 6,134
Commits: 111,787 commits
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brunodev85/winlator

Android application for running Windows applications with Wine and Box86/Box64

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-26
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: Disabled

18,860

stars

Forks: 1,695
Commits: 112 commits
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ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly

Stack

C Angular Express Next.js React npm

GitHub topics

#audio #experimental-features #ffmpeg #transcode #video #wasm

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-20
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 421 open

17,714

stars

Forks: 1,095
Commits: 703 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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systemd/systemd

The systemd System and Service Manager

AI dev

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #init #linux #services #system #systemd

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 3,398 open

16,647

stars

Forks: 4,660
Commits: 91,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libsdl-org/SDL

Simple DirectMedia Layer

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#sdl #sdl2 #sdl3

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-10
History: 1 history point
License: Zlib
Issues: 831 open

16,557

stars

Forks: 2,971
Commits: 22,579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

davatorium/rofi

Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#application-launcher #c #dmenu #dmenu-replacement #i3 #linux

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 114 open

16,372

stars

Forks: 694
Commits: 4,350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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haiwen/seafile

Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views

Stack

C .NET SDK pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cloud-storage #document-management #file-sharing #file-sync #knowledge-management #markdown

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-27
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 87 open

15,069

stars

Forks: 1,668
Commits: 2,412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#security #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 224 open

14,525

stars

Forks: 3,392
Commits: 4,780 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

coturn/coturn

coturn TURN server project

AI dev

Stack

C CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#networking #server #turn

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-20
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 316 open

14,271

stars

Forks: 2,267
Commits: 2,073 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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arut/nginx-rtmp-module

NGINX-based Media Streaming Server

Stack

Updated: 2024-12-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-08
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1,160 open

14,032

stars

Forks: 3,584
Commits: 962 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

qemu/qemu

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

Stack

C pytest Cargo Meson pip

GitHub topics

#emulation #qemu #virtualization

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

13,579

stars

Forks: 7,081
Commits: 131,961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#etherip #ike #ipsec #l2tp #l2tpv3 #openvpn

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 296 open

13,524

stars

Forks: 2,777
Commits: 2,264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nmap/nmap

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #c-plus-plus #libpcap #linux #lua #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-11
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 675 open

13,403

stars

Forks: 2,885
Commits: 13,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alibaba/tengine

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

Stack

GitHub topics

#forward-proxy #health-check #http3 #kubernetes-ingress #load-balancer #lua

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 501 open

13,340

stars

Forks: 2,504
Commits: 2,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #git #ncurses #tui

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-10
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 225 open

13,301

stars

Forks: 657
Commits: 2,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

microsoft/mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 318 open

13,300

stars

Forks: 1,159
Commits: 4,090 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

darktable-org/darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

Stack

C CMake npm

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-07
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 623 open

12,910

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 46,790 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

twitter/twemproxy

A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis

Stack

Updated: 2024-03-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-22
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 194 open

12,337

stars

Forks: 2,034
Commits: 604 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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FelixKratz/SketchyBar

A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement

Stack

GitHub topics

#bar #customization #darwin #macos #ricing #shell-scripts

Updated: 2026-06-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-29
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 73 open

12,190

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 1,099 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libvips/libvips

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #cpp #gif #graphicsmagick #hdr #heic

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-29
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 81 open

11,622

stars

Forks: 796
Commits: 9,429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #c89 #gui #header-only #imgui #multiplatform

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 316 open

11,359

stars

Forks: 685
Commits: 2,486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

veracrypt/VeraCrypt

Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#encryption #encryption-algorithms #encryption-decryption #idrix #veracrypt #veracrypt-source

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-22
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 468 open

11,330

stars

Forks: 1,315
Commits: 2,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pymumu/smartdns

A local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP for the best Internet experience, support DoT, DoH, DoQ. 一个本地DNS服务器，获取最快的网站IP，获得最佳上网体验，支持DoH，DoT，DoQ。

Stack

C Cargo

GitHub topics

#c #dns #dns-over-https #dns-over-tls #dns-server #dns64

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 318 open

11,308

stars

Forks: 1,246
Commits: 1,169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

krallin/tini

A tiny but valid `init` for containers

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #docker #init #init-system #linux

Updated: 2025-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

11,232

stars

Forks: 547
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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fogleman/Craft

A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders).

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #game #glsl #minecraft #multiplayer #opengl

Updated: 2024-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

11,094

stars

Forks: 1,449
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

FFmpeg libav tutorial - learn how media works from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more. Translations: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#codec #ffmpeg #ffmpeg-libraries #libav #transcode-video #tutorial

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-06
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 42 open

11,026

stars

Forks: 1,012
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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