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id-Software/Quake

Quake GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2024-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

6,051

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Forks: 1,058
Commits: 2 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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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: 4 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 11 open

6,030

stars

Forks: 911
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 217 open

6,000

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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tinyproxy/tinyproxy

tinyproxy - a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2000-02-16
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 139 open

5,955

stars

Forks: 756
Commits: 1,787 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hishamhm/htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #console-application #freebsd #htop #linux

Updated: 2020-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 315 open

5,895

stars

Forks: 571
Commits: 1,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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memovai/mimiclaw

MimiClaw: Harness on a $5 chip. No OS(Linux). No Node.js. No Mac mini. No Raspberry Pi. No VPS. Hardware agents OS.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#ai #assistant #clawdbot #edge-ai-agents #memory #openclaw

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

5,747

stars

Forks: 892
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

memononen/nanovg

Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.

Stack

Updated: 2026-02-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-12
History: 5 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 321 open

5,690

stars

Forks: 807
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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andmarti1424/sc-im

sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

Stack

GitHub topics

#console #console-application #ncurses #spreadsheet #terminal #terminal-app

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-10
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 117 open

5,674

stars

Forks: 236
Commits: 1,572 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eradman/entr

Run arbitrary commands when files change

Stack

GitHub topics

#inotify #kqueue #test-automation

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

5,650

stars

Forks: 123
Commits: 601 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ptitSeb/box64

Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices

AI dev

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#arm64 #box64 #dynarec #emulator #linux

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 199 open

5,617

stars

Forks: 461
Commits: 8,762 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mruby/mruby

Lightweight Ruby

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

5,601

stars

Forks: 849
Commits: 20,012 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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justinfrankel/licecap

LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows and OS X

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 100 open

5,587

stars

Forks: 465
Commits: 3,740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #dbus #libnotify #notification-daemon #wayland #x11

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 124 open

5,578

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 2,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Netflix/vmaf

Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

Stack

C Meson PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 107 open

5,441

stars

Forks: 826
Commits: 2,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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3proxy/3proxy

3proxy - tiny free proxy server

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#accounting #c #https-proxy #ipv6 #network-management #network-security

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-08
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 34 open

5,427

stars

Forks: 929
Commits: 1,155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

visit1985/mdp

A command-line based markdown presentation tool.

Stack

GitHub topics

#command-line #markdown #presentation

Updated: 2025-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 12 open

5,273

stars

Forks: 262
Commits: 305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lxc/lxc

LXC - Linux Containers

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #containers #hacktoberfest #lxc

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 148 open

5,253

stars

Forks: 1,180
Commits: 12,065 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coreutils/coreutils

Public mirror. Pull requests and Issues accepted

Stack

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1992-10-31
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

5,245

stars

Forks: 1,067
Commits: 31,655 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gluster/glusterfs

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #distributed-systems #erasure-coding #filesystem #fuse-filesystem #gluster

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 287 open

5,223

stars

Forks: 1,108
Commits: 16,865 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

abishekvashok/cmatrix

Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #matrix #screensaver

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 82 open

5,197

stars

Forks: 534
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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signalwire/freeswitch

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a versatile software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. From a Raspberry PI to a multi-core server, FreeSWITCH can unlock the telecommunications potential of any device.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#freeswitch #iot #open-source #signalwire #sip #source-code

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,216 open

5,127

stars

Forks: 1,840
Commits: 36,176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

XProger/OpenLara

Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#openlara #tombraider

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 164 open

5,081

stars

Forks: 411
Commits: 1,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

google/pebble

This is the latest version of the internal repository from Pebble Technology providing the software to run on Pebble watches. Proprietary source code has been removed from this repository and it will not compile as-is. This is for information only.

Stack

C Bundler Conan npm

Updated: 2025-02-25
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-12-13
History: 42 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

4,961

stars

Forks: 399
Commits: 6 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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openvenues/libpostal

A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#address #address-parser #c #deduping #deduplication #international

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 299 open

4,881

stars

Forks: 470
Commits: 5,501 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NLnetLabs/unbound

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-privacy #dnssec #recursor #resolver

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-01-03
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 383 open

4,850

stars

Forks: 451
Commits: 8,525 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nbs-system/naxsi

NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX

Archived

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #naxsi #nginx #waf

Updated: 2023-11-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-28
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,811

stars

Forks: 598
Commits: 761 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

snesrev/zelda3

No description.

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2023-12-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-11
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 89 open

4,758

stars

Forks: 433
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

microshow/RxFFmpeg

🔥💥RxFFmpeg 是基于 ( FFmpeg 4.0 + X264 + mp3lame + fdk-aac + opencore-amr + openssl ) 编译的适用于 Android 平台的音视频编辑、视频剪辑的快速处理框架，包含以下功能：视频拼接，转码，压缩，裁剪，片头片尾，分离音视频，变速，添加静态贴纸和gif动态贴纸，添加字幕，添加滤镜，添加背景音乐，加速减速视频，倒放音视频，音频裁剪，变声，混音，图片合成视频，视频解码图片，抖音首页，视频播放器及支持 OpenSSL https 等主流特色功能

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #arm64-v8a #armeabi-v7a #encoder-decoder #fdk-aac #ffmpeg

Updated: 2023-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-10
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 201 open

4,744

stars

Forks: 778
Commits: 358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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86Box/86Box

Emulator of x86-based machines.

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #ibm #pc-emulator #x86

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 19 open

4,726

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 22,407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

giltene/wrk2

A constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk

Stack

Updated: 2024-03-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-18
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 106 open

4,627

stars

Forks: 425
Commits: 116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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