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yugabyte/yugabyte-db

YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

AI dev

Stack

C Cobra Express FastAPI gRPC Go CMake Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cpp #database #distributed-database #distributed-sql #distributed-sql-database

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-28
History: 65 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8,117 open

10,426

stars

Forks: 1,292
Commits: 39,058 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +4 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +118 +0.3%

Website GitHub

antimatter15/alpaca.cpp

Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2023-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 133 open

10,128

stars

Forks: 850
Commits: 126 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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VirusTotal/yara

The pattern matching swiss knife

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-26
History: 2 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 171 open

9,739

stars

Forks: 1,578
Commits: 3,258 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wireshark/wireshark

Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.

Stack

C Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#packet-capture #stratoshark #tshark #wireshark

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1998-09-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

9,626

stars

Forks: 2,184
Commits: 99,656 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

meetecho/janus-gateway

Janus WebRTC Server

Stack

C npm pip

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-11
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 43 open

9,128

stars

Forks: 2,622
Commits: 5,828 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

capstone-engine/capstone

Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework for ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Alpha, BPF, Ethereum VM, HPPA, LoongArch, M68K, M680X, Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, RISC-V(rv32G/rv64G), SH, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, TriCore, Webassembly, XCore and X86.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#arm #arm64 #bpf #disassembler #ethereum #framework

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-27
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 348 open

8,915

stars

Forks: 1,708
Commits: 5,444 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pygame/pygame

🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

Stack

C Conan pip

GitHub topics

#game-dev #game-development #gamedev #pygame #python #sdl

Updated: 2025-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-11-08
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 786 open

8,870

stars

Forks: 4,150
Commits: 9,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

flightlessmango/MangoHud

A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #hud #linux #monitoring #opengl #vulkan

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 305 open

8,829

stars

Forks: 409
Commits: 2,567 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mikebrady/shairport-sync

AirPlay and AirPlay 2 audio player

Stack

GitHub topics

#airplay #airplay-2 #audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #embedded-systems

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-11
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

8,762

stars

Forks: 650
Commits: 6,478 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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irungentoo/toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

GitHub topics

#str8c #tox

Updated: 2024-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 99 open

8,752

stars

Forks: 1,293
Commits: 3,771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

htop-dev/htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #console #hacktoberfest #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 346 open

8,182

stars

Forks: 608
Commits: 3,849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

id-Software/Quake-III-Arena

Quake III Arena GPL Source Release

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

8,100

stars

Forks: 2,143
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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asmvik/skhd

Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

Stack

Updated: 2025-12-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-08-07
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 154 open

8,050

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yarrick/iodine

Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

Stack

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-tunnel #hacktoberfest #iodine #tunnel #vpn

Updated: 2025-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 6 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 21 open

7,936

stars

Forks: 595
Commits: 943 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asg017/sqlite-vec

A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere!

Stack

C FastAPI pytest Starlette Vite Bundler Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#sqlite #sqlite-extension

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-20
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 198 open

7,883

stars

Forks: 335
Commits: 464 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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arkime/arkime

Arkime is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system.

AI dev

Stack

C Express Svelte Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #javascript #network-monitoring #nsm #packet-capture

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 39 open

7,423

stars

Forks: 1,158
Commits: 6,644 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mgba-emu/mgba

mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

Stack

C pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-boy #game-boy-advance #game-boy-color #game-boy-emulator #gameboy

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 2 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 836 open

7,165

stars

Forks: 1,024
Commits: 9,086 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RubyMetric/chsrc

chsrc 全平台通用换源工具与框架. Change Source everywhere for every software

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#archlinux #brew #c11 #cargo #composer #cpan

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-28
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

6,793

stars

Forks: 277
Commits: 1,987 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

beanstalkd/beanstalkd

Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue.

Stack

Updated: 2025-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-21
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 46 open

6,698

stars

Forks: 867
Commits: 849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

The fuzzer afl++ is afl with community patches, qemu 5.1 upgrade, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicorn_mode, and a lot more!

Stack

C Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#afl #afl-compiler #afl-fuzz #afl-fuzzer #afl-gcc #fuzz-testing

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-28
History: 3 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

6,675

stars

Forks: 1,313
Commits: 8,673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

uber/h3

Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

Stack

C React CMake Yarn

GitHub topics

#geospatial #h3 #hexagon #spatial-indexing #uber

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-26
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 158 open

6,385

stars

Forks: 592
Commits: 1,448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Provenance-Emu/Provenance

iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |

AI dev

Stack

C Bundler Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#atari #catalyst #emulation #emulator #game #gameboy

Updated: 2026-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-07
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 257 open

6,338

stars

Forks: 704
Commits: 9,913 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GNOME/gimp

Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

6,279

stars

Forks: 873
Commits: 58,619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zmap/zmap

ZMap is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#internet-measurement #internet-scanning #port-scanner #research

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-16
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 9 open

6,263

stars

Forks: 977
Commits: 1,415 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JoeDog/siege

Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-26
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 147 open

6,206

stars

Forks: 399
Commits: 724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cmus/cmus

Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

Stack

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-05
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 223 open

6,174

stars

Forks: 522
Commits: 2,372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tmate-io/tmate

Instant Terminal Sharing

Stack

Updated: 2026-03-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-07-09
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 129 open

6,082

stars

Forks: 336
Commits: 5,916 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RPISEC/MBE

Course materials for Modern Binary Exploitation by RPISEC

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#ctf #exploitation #wargame

Updated: 2021-12-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-20
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 11 open

6,014

stars

Forks: 910
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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id-Software/Quake

Quake GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2024-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

5,947

stars

Forks: 1,026
Commits: 2 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

FeralInteractive/gamemode

Optimise Linux system performance on demand

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#linux #videogames

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-11
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 213 open

5,925

stars

Forks: 216
Commits: 740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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