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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: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-28
History: 116 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8,049 open

10,539

stars

Forks: 1,313
Commits: 39,939 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +17 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +95 +0.2%

Website GitHub

Dr-TSNG/ZygiskNext

Standalone implementation of Zygisk

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #kernelsu #magisk

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-14
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

10,487

stars

Forks: 635
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 133 open

10,121

stars

Forks: 848
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: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-26
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 170 open

9,839

stars

Forks: 1,586
Commits: 3,277 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: 2026-08-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1998-09-16
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

9,730

stars

Forks: 2,195
Commits: 99,846 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

meetecho/janus-gateway

Janus WebRTC Server

Stack

C npm pip

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 43 open

9,146

stars

Forks: 2,622
Commits: 5,830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 332 open

9,001

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 2,592 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: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-27
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 365 open

8,976

stars

Forks: 1,718
Commits: 5,458 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 9 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 787 open

8,903

stars

Forks: 4,165
Commits: 9,371 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: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-11
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 18 open

8,820

stars

Forks: 659
Commits: 6,544 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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n64decomp/sm64

A Super Mario 64 decompilation, brought to you by a bunch of clever folks.

Stack

C PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2024-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-25
History: 1 history point
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: Disabled

8,772

stars

Forks: 1,615
Commits: 30 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 99 open

8,751

stars

Forks: 1,295
Commits: 3,771 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: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

8,230

stars

Forks: 2,181
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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htop-dev/htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 342 open

8,228

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 3,865 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: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 204 open

8,091

stars

Forks: 349
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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asmvik/skhd

Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

Stack

Updated: 2025-12-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-08-07
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 152 open

8,068

stars

Forks: 240
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: 7 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 21 open

7,942

stars

Forks: 597
Commits: 943 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 34 open

7,448

stars

Forks: 1,161
Commits: 6,692 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 4 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 851 open

7,332

stars

Forks: 1,066
Commits: 9,128 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c

A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 running inference on a single CPU in 8.24 GB of RAM. Portable C99: no BLAS, no framework, no GPU.

Stack

C CMake uv

GitHub topics

#avx2 #c99 #cpu-inference #deep-learning #from-scratch #inference-engine

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-08-01
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

7,128

stars

Forks: 1,159
Commits: 64 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: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 23 open

6,882

stars

Forks: 285
Commits: 2,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-28
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 22 open

6,736

stars

Forks: 1,317
Commits: 8,853 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: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 46 open

6,700

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

uber/h3

Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

Stack

C React CMake Yarn

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-26
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 164 open

6,521

stars

Forks: 617
Commits: 1,477 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: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-16
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

6,367

stars

Forks: 986
Commits: 1,417 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: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 247 open

6,364

stars

Forks: 704
Commits: 10,084 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: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

6,337

stars

Forks: 877
Commits: 58,836 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cmus/cmus

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

Stack

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 219 open

6,236

stars

Forks: 522
Commits: 2,379 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: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 147 open

6,210

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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tmate-io/tmate

Instant Terminal Sharing

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-07-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 129 open

6,100

stars

Forks: 336
Commits: 5,917 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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