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eunomia-bpf/bpf-developer-tutorial

eBPF Developer Tutorial: Learning eBPF Step by Step with Examples

AI dev

Stack

C Cargo

GitHub topics

#bpf #ebpf #examples #libbpf #tutorial #xdp

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

4,198

stars

Forks: 590
Commits: 318 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

google/AFL

american fuzzy lop - a security-oriented fuzzer

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2021-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-25
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 66 open

4,194

stars

Forks: 670
Commits: 53 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tanersener/mobile-ffmpeg

FFmpeg for Android, iOS and tvOS. Not maintained anymore. Superseded by FFmpegKit.

Archived

Stack

C Android CMake CocoaPods .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#android #ffmpeg #fontconfig #freetype #fribidi #gmp

Updated: 2025-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-27
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,138

stars

Forks: 892
Commits: 831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

icholy/ttygif

Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs

Stack

GitHub topics

#gifs #terminal

Updated: 2025-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

4,015

stars

Forks: 248
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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a0rtega/pafish

Pafish is a testing tool that uses different techniques to detect virtual machines and malware analysis environments in the same way that malware families do

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#analysis-environments #malware #malware-analysis #malware-families #malware-research #rdtsc

Updated: 2024-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-01
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

3,940

stars

Forks: 493
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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HyperDbg/HyperDbg

State-of-the-art native debugging tools

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#binary-analysis #debug #debugger #debugging #debugging-tool #ept

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-01
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 21 open

3,927

stars

Forks: 491
Commits: 3,239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/guacamole-server

The Apache Guacamole proxy daemon (guacd), C API (libguac), and protocol support.

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #guacamole #java #javascript #network-client #network-server

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-08
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

3,918

stars

Forks: 787
Commits: 4,328 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

timescale/pg_textsearch

PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search. Postgres OSS licensed.

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bm25 #c-extension #full-text-search #postgresql

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-09-05
History: 56 history points
License: PostgreSQL
Issues: 23 open

3,861

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 279 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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jordansissel/xdotool

fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-22
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 323 open

3,826

stars

Forks: 343
Commits: 686 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NetHack/NetHack

Official NetHack Git Repository

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2002-01-05
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 140 open

3,812

stars

Forks: 601
Commits: 19,112 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenKinect/libfreenect

Drivers and libraries for the Xbox Kinect device on Windows, Linux, and OS X

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Maven

Updated: 2024-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-10
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 148 open

3,812

stars

Forks: 1,172
Commits: 735 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ChefKissInc/Inferno

Apple Silicon device emulator.

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #ios #iphone #iphone-11 #qemu

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 38 open

3,802

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 125,692 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ptitSeb/box86

Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#arm #arm-platforms #dynarec #linux #x86

Updated: 2026-01-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-28
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 183 open

3,785

stars

Forks: 252
Commits: 5,071 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aubio/aubio

a library for audio and music analysis

Stack

C pytest CMake Meson pip

GitHub topics

#analysis #annotation #audio #beat #c #extraction

Updated: 2026-04-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-10-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 157 open

3,727

stars

Forks: 420
Commits: 4,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

FelixKratz/JankyBorders

A lightweight window border system for macOS

Stack

GitHub topics

#border #customization #fast #lightweight #macos #tiling-window-manager

Updated: 2026-05-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-11-02
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 66 open

3,688

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

geany/geany

A fast and lightweight IDE

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#geany #ide #text-editor

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,242 open

3,663

stars

Forks: 663
Commits: 10,812 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

joncampbell123/dosbox-x

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-08
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 2,031 open

3,660

stars

Forks: 545
Commits: 21,731 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

AlexAltea/orbital

Experimental PlayStation 4 emulator

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2024-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-28
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

3,647

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

blechschmidt/massdns

A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration)

Stack

C CMake pip

GitHub topics

#bulk-dns #dns #dns-bruteforcer #dns-client #dns-lookup #dns-resolution

Updated: 2026-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-23
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,627

stars

Forks: 505
Commits: 316 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

unbit/uwsgi

uWSGI application server container

Stack

C Bundler pip

Updated: 2025-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-20
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 893 open

3,547

stars

Forks: 695
Commits: 6,933 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ireader/media-server

RTSP/RTP/RTMP/FLV/HLS/MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS/MPEG-DASH/MP4/fMP4/MKV/WebM

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#flv #fmp4 #hls #m3u #m3u8 #mkv

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-03
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 106 open

3,489

stars

Forks: 1,151
Commits: 1,484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zigzap/zap

blazingly fast backends in zig

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#api #blazingly #fast #http #rest #zig

Updated: 2026-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-11
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

3,398

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 792 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

asterisk/asterisk

The official Asterisk Project repository.

Stack

GitHub topics

#asterisk #c #pbx #sip #voip

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-10-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 189 open

3,383

stars

Forks: 1,274
Commits: 34,466 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

collectd/collectd

The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Stack

GitHub topics

#amqp-client #c #collectd #cpu-monitoring #graphite-client #influxdb-client

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 785 open

3,362

stars

Forks: 1,250
Commits: 12,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 440 open

3,348

stars

Forks: 358
Commits: 13,920 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw

GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic 2D games for better compatibility with Windows ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS/Android) and Virtual Machines

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#borderless #compatiblity #d3d9 #ddraw #directdraw #directx

Updated: 2025-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-10
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 96 open

3,324

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 2,826 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Celtoys/Remotery

Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #cpu #cuda #d3d11 #d3d12 #gpu

Updated: 2024-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-12
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

3,306

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

traviscross/mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 136 open

3,301

stars

Forks: 373
Commits: 982 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

id-Software/Quake-2

Quake 2 GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2023-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

3,287

stars

Forks: 742
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

gpac/gpac

GPAC Ultramedia OSS for Video Streaming & Next-Gen Multimedia Transcoding, Packaging & Delivery

Stack

C Android Gradle npm pip

GitHub topics

#atsc3 #broadcast #cenc #gpac #graphics #hls

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-13
History: 3 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 56 open

3,279

stars

Forks: 588
Commits: 19,876 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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