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MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer

Main MiSTer binary and Wiki

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-13
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 122 open

3,257

stars

Forks: 398
Commits: 2,035 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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basil00/WinDivert

WinDivert: Windows Packet Divert

Stack

GitHub topics

#divert-sockets #firewall #network-programming #packet-capture #packet-sniffer #traffic-analysis

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-19
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 60 open

3,209

stars

Forks: 594
Commits: 280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

emersion/mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#cli #notifications #swaywm #wayland

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 132 open

3,186

stars

Forks: 172
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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irssi/irssi

The client of the future

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#irc #irc-client #irc-protocol #irssi

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-09-03
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 227 open

3,128

stars

Forks: 391
Commits: 6,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sleuthkit/sleuthkit

The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.

AI dev

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#forensics #incident-response #ntfs #sleuthkit #tct

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-28
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 467 open

3,108

stars

Forks: 702
Commits: 10,722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubinius/rubinius

The Rubinius Language Platform

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#programming-languages #rubinius #virtual-machine

Updated: 2025-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-12
History: 4 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 21 open

3,093

stars

Forks: 589
Commits: 25,813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

HeyWillow/willow

Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#alexa #deep-learning #echo #esp-adf #esp-idf #esp32

Updated: 2026-02-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-31
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

3,073

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hacksysteam/HackSysExtremeVulnerableDriver

HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver (HEVD) - Windows & Linux

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#buffer-overflow #driver #exploit-development #exploitation #hevd #info-leak

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-28
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,031

stars

Forks: 585
Commits: 175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

strongswan/strongswan

strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN

Stack

C Android Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ikev2 #ipsec #strongswan #vpn #vpn-client #vpn-server

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-11-03
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 154 open

2,910

stars

Forks: 926
Commits: 19,869 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FDH2/UxPlay

AirPlay Unix mirroring server

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

2,892

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 1,456 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kamailio/kamailio

Kamailio - The Open Source SIP Server for large VoIP and real-time communication platforms, focusing on flexibility, security and scalability

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#iot #kamailio #sip #telephony #voip #volte

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2001-09-03
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 30 open

2,875

stars

Forks: 1,112
Commits: 41,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openmv/openmv

OpenMV Camera Module

Stack

C pytest pip

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-13
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 60 open

2,843

stars

Forks: 1,270
Commits: 8,198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ioquake/ioq3

The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#fps #fps-engine #fps-game #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 153 open

2,782

stars

Forks: 609
Commits: 3,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

coreboot/coreboot

Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.

Stack

C Go modules Meson pip

GitHub topics

#bios #c #coreboot #firmware

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,747

stars

Forks: 638
Commits: 64,195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rewardone/OSCPRepo

A list of commands, scripts, resources, and more that I have gathered and attempted to consolidate for use as OSCP (and more) study material. Commands in 'Usefulcommands' Keepnote. Bookmarks and reading material in 'BookmarkList' CherryTree. Reconscan Py2 and Py3. Custom ISO building.

Stack

GitHub topics

#oscp #penetration-testing #pentest #reconscan

Updated: 2020-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-12
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,742

stars

Forks: 757
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DynamoRIO/drmemory

Memory Debugger for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2025-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-07
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,047 open

2,727

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 2,600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eth-brownie/brownie

A Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

AI dev

Stack

C PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

#ethereum #solidity #vyper #web3py

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-02
History: 32 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 395 open

2,723

stars

Forks: 593
Commits: 4,657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

TokTok/c-toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

C CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cryptography #encryption #network #p2p #security #toxcore

Updated: 2026-06-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 214 open

2,661

stars

Forks: 307
Commits: 5,692 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

strace/strace

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

AI dev

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-02-19
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 105 open

2,655

stars

Forks: 491
Commits: 11,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hfiref0x/KDU

Kernel Driver Utility

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#byovd #driver-loader #dse #loader

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-02
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,638

stars

Forks: 527
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rbsec/sslscan

sslscan tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites

Stack

Updated: 2026-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-11
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 64 open

2,608

stars

Forks: 414
Commits: 771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MayaPosch/NymphCast

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.

Stack

C Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#angelscript #audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #casting #nymphcast-server

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-08
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 23 open

2,555

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server

FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#aaa #arp #authentication #bfd #c #daemon

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 87 open

2,554

stars

Forks: 1,198
Commits: 52,891 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rspamd/rspamd

Rapid spam filtering system.

AI dev

Stack

C FastAPI CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#c #email #lua #rspamd #spam-filter

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-08
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 299 open

2,495

stars

Forks: 479
Commits: 23,926 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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slembcke/Chipmunk2D

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-physics #c #rigid-body

Updated: 2026-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 69 open

2,402

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 1,477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WireGuard/wireguard-monolithic-historical

Historical monolithic WireGuard repository, split into wireguard-tools, wireguard-linux, and wireguard-linux-compat.

Archived

Stack

C Cargo

Updated: 2019-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,322

stars

Forks: 297
Commits: 1,390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rsyslog/rsyslog

High-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

AI dev

Stack

C Maven pip

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #kafka #logging #mongodb #rsyslog

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-11-08
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 241 open

2,319

stars

Forks: 725
Commits: 21,469 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libgit2/rugged

ruby bindings to libgit2

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#git #libgit2 #ruby

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-07
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 121 open

2,311

stars

Forks: 293
Commits: 2,734 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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hzqst/VmwareHardenedLoader

Vmware Hardened VM detection mitigation loader (anti anti-vm)

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2022-12-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-19
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

2,301

stars

Forks: 533
Commits: 87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020

An updated version of GBDK, C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear.

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#gameboy #gbdk #sdcc

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-04
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

2,259

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 2,558 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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