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firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo PEP 517 Poetry

GitHub topics

#containers #minimalist #open-source #oversubscription #rust #sandbox

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-23
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 104 open

36,302

stars

Forks: 2,583
Commits: 8,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

Stack

Shell Bundler

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #autosuggest #fish #shell #zsh #zsh-autosuggestions

Updated: 2025-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-26
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 203 open

36,016

stars

Forks: 1,940
Commits: 562 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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certbot/certbot

Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#acme #acme-client #certbot #certificate #letsencrypt #python

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-17
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 188 open

33,222

stars

Forks: 3,509
Commits: 11,430 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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GoogleChrome/lighthouse

Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Express npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#audit #best-practices #chrome-devtools #developer-tools #performance-analysis #performance-metrics

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-15
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 459 open

30,706

stars

Forks: 9,759
Commits: 6,612 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openssl/openssl

General purpose TLS and crypto library

Stack

GitHub topics

#cryptography #decryption #encryption #openssl #ssl #tls

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-12-21
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,509 open

30,703

stars

Forks: 11,416
Commits: 40,865 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cfenollosa/os-tutorial

How to create an OS from scratch

Stack

Updated: 2026-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-29
History: 41 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 130 open

30,698

stars

Forks: 3,558
Commits: 149 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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micro-editor/micro

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #cross-platform #editor #go #golang #micro

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-11
History: 48 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 945 open

29,559

stars

Forks: 1,363
Commits: 3,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tj/commander.js

node.js command-line interfaces made easy

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-14
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

28,380

stars

Forks: 1,770
Commits: 1,517 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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digitalocean/nginxconfig.io

⚙️ NGINX config generator on steroids 💉

Stack

JavaScript Vue npm

GitHub topics

#cdn #digitalocean #digitalocean-community-tools #drupal #gzip #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2024-12-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-27
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 71 open

28,268

stars

Forks: 2,033
Commits: 322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

locustio/locust

Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest React Vite npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #http #load-generator #load-test #load-testing #load-tests

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-20
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

28,115

stars

Forks: 3,237
Commits: 6,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yeasy/docker_practice

最新Docker容器技术，从真实案例中学习最佳实践！| Learn and understand Docker&Container technologies, with real DevOps practice!

Stack

Go Django React Tailwind CSS npm pip

GitHub topics

#book #cloud-computing #container #devops #docker #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-05
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

26,222

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Forks: 5,786
Commits: 1,629 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

robertdavidgraham/masscan

TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-28
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 414 open

25,959

stars

Forks: 3,237
Commits: 892 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rancher/rancher

Complete container management platform

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#cattle #containers #docker #kubernetes #orchestration #rancher

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-14
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,341 open

25,878

stars

Forks: 3,216
Commits: 14,936 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tsenart/vegeta

HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #go #http #load-testing

Updated: 2026-02-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-13
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 122 open

25,170

stars

Forks: 1,421
Commits: 741 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

radareorg/radare2

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

AI dev

Stack

C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#binary-analysis #c #commandline #disassembler #forensics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-02-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 820 open

24,675

stars

Forks: 3,310
Commits: 36,943 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

osquery/osquery

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #intrusion-detection #monitoring #security #sql

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-31
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 633 open

23,531

stars

Forks: 2,595
Commits: 6,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

StreisandEffect/streisand

Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.

Archived

Stack

Shell pip

GitHub topics

#ansible #anyconnect #censorship #openconnect #openvpn #shadowsocks

Updated: 2021-05-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-23
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 237 open

23,460

stars

Forks: 1,949
Commits: 1,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist

Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

GitHub topics

#api #jwt #oauth2 #security

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

23,306

stars

Forks: 2,652
Commits: 374 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#screenshot #shell #syntax-highlighting #zsh #zsh-syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-25
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 214 open

22,961

stars

Forks: 1,375
Commits: 1,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet

Docker Cheat Sheet

GitHub topics

#cheet-sheet #docker

Updated: 2024-12-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-05
History: 4 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 7 open

22,545

stars

Forks: 4,607
Commits: 434 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

Community guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#apple #checklist #disk-encryption #guide #guides #hardening

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-31
History: 41 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

22,521

stars

Forks: 1,464
Commits: 1,090 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 4 open

21,838

stars

Forks: 815
Commits: 4,632 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gentilkiwi/mimikatz

A little tool to play with Windows security

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-04-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 196 open

21,799

stars

Forks: 4,157
Commits: 355 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

netbox-community/netbox

The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework React npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cabling #dcim #django #infrastructure-management #ipam #netbox

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-01
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 196 open

21,432

stars

Forks: 3,112
Commits: 15,622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vulhub/vulhub

Pre-Built Vulnerable Environments Based on Docker-Compose

AI dev

Stack

Dockerfile Celery Django Django REST Framework Express Bundler Composer Maven

GitHub topics

#docker #docker-compose #dockerfile #vulhub #vulnerability-environment

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-10
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

21,175

stars

Forks: 4,806
Commits: 2,549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

peass-ng/PEASS-ng

PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

Stack

C# CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bash #batch #batch-script #color #csharp #enumeration

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

20,390

stars

Forks: 3,391
Commits: 2,116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bee-san/RustScan

🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #hacking #hacktoberfest #networking #nmap #pentesting

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 61 open

20,349

stars

Forks: 1,378
Commits: 1,007 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rakyll/hey

HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-05
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 189 open

20,246

stars

Forks: 1,303
Commits: 302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#docker #docker-gen #nginx #reverse-proxy

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-05
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 325 open

19,902

stars

Forks: 3,046
Commits: 1,720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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google/gvisor

Application Kernel for Containers

AI dev

Stack

Go Express gRPC Go Sinatra Bundler Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kernel #kubernetes #linux #oci

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 841 open

19,190

stars

Forks: 1,951
Commits: 11,846 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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