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pelicanmapping/osgearth

3D Maps & Terrain SDK (C++)

AI dev

Stack

C CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #cpp17 #gis #maps #opengl #openscenegraph

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 57 open

1,797

stars

Forks: 848
Commits: 16,200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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vergoh/vnstat

vnStat - a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #network-traffic-monitor #traffic #vnstat

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-24
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,767

stars

Forks: 139
Commits: 1,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter

A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

Stack

C CMake Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#c #libxlsxwriter #spreadsheet #xlsx #xlsx-files #xlsxwriter

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

1,754

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 1,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jtesta/ssh-mitm

SSH man-in-the-middle tool

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#hacking #man-in-the-middle #man-in-the-middle-attack #mitm #penetration-testing #ssh

Updated: 2021-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-16
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,740

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenPrinting/cups

OpenPrinting CUPS Sources

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bsd #ipp #linux #printing

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

1,737

stars

Forks: 323
Commits: 4,826 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gamelinux/passivedns

A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup

Stack

Updated: 2024-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-29
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 38 open

1,733

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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oxters168/Pluvia

Lightweight unofficial Steam client for Android

Stack

C CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #steam #winlator

Updated: 2026-02-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-10-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 77 open

1,725

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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leo-arch/clifm

💾 The shell-like, command-line terminal file manager

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#autosuggestion #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #console

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-19
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

1,710

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 10,370 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mptre/yank

Yank terminal output to clipboard

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-24
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,706

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TorqueGameEngines/Torque2D

A completely free, open-source, 2D game engine built on proven torque technology.

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,672

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 1,623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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taisei-project/taisei

A free and open-source Touhou Project fangame

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #danmaku #game #glsl #opengl #sdl

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-12
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,616

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 4,723 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

freeciv/freeciv

Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. Upstream repository for the standalone Freeciv client and server. Report bugs and submit patches at https://redmine.freeciv.org/projects/freeciv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#freeciv

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-03-09
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

1,591

stars

Forks: 291
Commits: 32,602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

angband/angband

A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#angband #c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-23
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 222 open

1,554

stars

Forks: 389
Commits: 10,569 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core

Core module of the Mupen64Plus project

Stack

GitHub topics

#emulation #n64

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-02
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 204 open

1,554

stars

Forks: 282
Commits: 2,749 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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solusipse/fiche

Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output.

Stack

Updated: 2023-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

1,547

stars

Forks: 179
Commits: 123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bloomberg/comdb2

Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS

AI dev

Stack

C Bundler CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-17
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 310 open

1,530

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 5,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Audio4Linux/JDSP4Linux

An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

Stack

C Qt CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#audio #dsp #effects #equalizer #gst #gst-plugin

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-02
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 71 open

1,523

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 1,111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenSIPS/opensips

OpenSIPS is a GPL implementation of a multi-functionality SIP Server that targets to deliver a high-level technical solution (performance, security and quality) to be used in professional SIP server platforms.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-06-13
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 290 open

1,518

stars

Forks: 678
Commits: 20,125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skaiworldwide-oss/agensgraph

AgensGraph, a transactional graph database based on PostgreSQL

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#enterprise #graph-database #graphdb #multi-model-database #nosql #postgresql

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 116 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 141 open

1,508

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 62,438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +16 0.0%

Website GitHub

bmax121/KernelPatch

Patching and hooking the Linux kernel with only a stripped Linux kernel image.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android-root #hijack #inline-hook #kernel-security #kernelpatch #syscall-hook

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-05
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 46 open

1,506

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 393 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jtheoof/swappy

A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Stack

C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#annotation-tool #screenshot #snappy #snapshot #sway #wayland

Updated: 2025-12-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

1,497

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brianmario/yajl-ruby

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,489

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NightDive-Studio/shockmac

System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release)

Stack

Updated: 2018-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

1,467

stars

Forks: 184
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64

No description.

Stack

C pip

Updated: 2021-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

1,460

stars

Forks: 128
Commits: 73,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tmewett/BrogueCE

Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game

Stack

GitHub topics

#brogue #dungeon #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-01
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 211 open

1,455

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 948 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

celluloid-player/celluloid

A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #celluloid #gnome-mpv #gtk #gtk4

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 285 open

1,444

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 1,895 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Jafaral/bmon

bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Stack

GitHub topics

#monitoring #network #network-analysis #network-monitoring #networking

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-05
History: 20 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 38 open

1,388

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 202 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +1 +0.5%

Website GitHub

DNSPod/dnspod-sr

A faster recursive dns server from DNSPod

Stack

Updated: 2026-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

1,374

stars

Forks: 320
Commits: 59 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

tgraf/bmon

bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Stack

GitHub topics

#monitoring #network #network-analysis #network-monitoring #networking

Updated: 2023-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,374

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rosehgal/BinExp

Linux Binary Exploitation

Stack

GitHub topics

#binaries #buffer-overflow-attack #bufferoverflow #consolidation #exploitation #format-string-attack

Updated: 2021-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-10
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,357

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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