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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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 4 open

21,692

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Forks: 808
Commits: 4,611 commits
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postgres/postgres

Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

21,456

stars

Forks: 5,770
Commits: 64,756 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: 2026-06-11
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 457 open

20,706

stars

Forks: 1,187
Commits: 4,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8 open

19,404

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 644 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, 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: 2026-07-18
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-08
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

19,035

stars

Forks: 6,045
Commits: 111,469 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brunodev85/winlator

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

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-06-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-26
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: Disabled

18,159

stars

Forks: 1,526
Commits: 110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 420 open

17,680

stars

Forks: 1,094
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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bkaradzic/bgfx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

Stack

GitHub topics

#d3d11 #d3d12 #directx #directx-11 #directx-12 #engine

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-04
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 289 open

17,261

stars

Forks: 2,108
Commits: 9,348 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

systemd/systemd

The systemd System and Service Manager

AI dev

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 3,345 open

16,491

stars

Forks: 4,585
Commits: 90,540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-29
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 111 open

16,251

stars

Forks: 690
Commits: 4,343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-07-14
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-27
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 88 open

14,994

stars

Forks: 1,658
Commits: 2,410 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#security #vpn

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 217 open

14,219

stars

Forks: 3,359
Commits: 4,664 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coturn/coturn

coturn TURN server project

AI dev

Stack

C CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#networking #server #turn

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-20
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 324 open

14,211

stars

Forks: 2,266
Commits: 2,016 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: 3 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1,159 open

14,025

stars

Forks: 3,588
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: 2026-07-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

13,443

stars

Forks: 6,992
Commits: 131,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

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

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 292 open

13,377

stars

Forks: 2,765
Commits: 2,226 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alibaba/tengine

A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features

Stack

GitHub topics

#http3 #ingress #nginx #quic #tengine

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 499 open

13,309

stars

Forks: 2,505
Commits: 1,857 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #git #ncurses #tui

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-10
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 222 open

13,279

stars

Forks: 651
Commits: 2,910 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: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-11
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 665 open

13,234

stars

Forks: 2,857
Commits: 13,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

microsoft/mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-19
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 364 open

13,214

stars

Forks: 1,139
Commits: 3,797 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

darktable-org/darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

Stack

C CMake npm

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-07
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 647 open

12,781

stars

Forks: 1,373
Commits: 46,431 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: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 194 open

12,338

stars

Forks: 2,036
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: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 69 open

12,094

stars

Forks: 174
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: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-29
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 80 open

11,471

stars

Forks: 783
Commits: 9,357 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: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 315 open

11,248

stars

Forks: 677
Commits: 2,480 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

11,164

stars

Forks: 544
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

11,077

stars

Forks: 1,440
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 297 open

11,075

stars

Forks: 1,238
Commits: 1,158 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: 3 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 42 open

11,017

stars

Forks: 1,016
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 448 open

10,838

stars

Forks: 1,258
Commits: 2,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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