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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: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-27
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 737 open

18,890

stars

Forks: 1,812
Commits: 11,506 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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InterviewMap/CS-Interview-Knowledge-Map

Build the best interview map. The current content includes JS, network, browser related, performance optimization, security, framework, Git, data structure, algorithm, etc.

GitHub topics

#algorithms #blog #interview #javascript #react #vue

Updated: 2020-05-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-19
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 42 open

18,257

stars

Forks: 2,531
Commits: 630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bcicen/ctop

Top-like interface for container metrics

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #commandline #containers #docker #monitoring #runc

Updated: 2024-07-08
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 121 open

17,803

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ranger/ranger

A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#console #file-launcher #file-manager #file-preview #vim

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 933 open

17,320

stars

Forks: 937
Commits: 5,276 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thedaviddias/Front-End-Performance-Checklist

🎮 The only Front-End Performance Checklist that runs faster than the others

Stack

npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#checklist #css #front-end-developer-tool #front-end-development #frontend #guidelines

Updated: 2025-03-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-20
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

17,311

stars

Forks: 1,255
Commits: 224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rupa/z

z - jump around

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-19
History: 9 history points
License: WTFPL
Issues: 107 open

17,037

stars

Forks: 1,175
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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vasanthk/how-web-works

What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser?

Updated: 2023-03-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-17
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

16,729

stars

Forks: 1,743
Commits: 56 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fortra/impacket

Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip

GitHub topics

#dcerpc #dcom #impacket #kerberos #msrpc #netbios

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-10-09
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 319 open

15,941

stars

Forks: 3,951
Commits: 4,256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Bash-it/bash-it

A community Bash framework.

AI dev

Stack

Shell pip

GitHub topics

#bash #bash-alias #bash-completion #bash-configuration #bash-hacks #bash-prompt

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-02
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

15,125

stars

Forks: 2,307
Commits: 4,559 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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s0md3v/XSStrike

Most advanced XSS scanner.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#waf-detection #xss #xss-bruteforce #xss-detection #xss-exploit #xss-python

Updated: 2025-04-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-26
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 92 open

15,106

stars

Forks: 2,087
Commits: 475 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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owasp-amass/amass

In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#attack-surfaces #dns #enumeration #go #golang #information-gathering

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 234 open

14,888

stars

Forks: 2,161
Commits: 2,874 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tomnomnom/gron

Make JSON greppable!

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #json

Updated: 2025-05-31
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

14,491

stars

Forks: 331
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rstacruz/cheatsheets

Cheatsheets for web development - devhints.io

AI dev

Stack

SCSS Astro Tailwind CSS Vite Bundler pnpm

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-16
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 927 open

14,448

stars

Forks: 3,584
Commits: 2,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook

How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#best-practices #cheatsheet #hacks #handbook #http #https

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-27
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

14,219

stars

Forks: 1,134
Commits: 1,338 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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projectdiscovery/subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #hacking #hacktoberfest #osint #reconnaissance #subdomain-enumeration

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-31
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

14,085

stars

Forks: 1,589
Commits: 2,216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jessfraz/dockerfiles

Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.

Stack

Dockerfile

GitHub topics

#bash #containers #docker #dockerfile #dockerfiles #linux

Updated: 2024-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-11
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 79 open

13,940

stars

Forks: 2,509
Commits: 1,596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OJ/gobuster

Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #go #pentesting #tool #web

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-14
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 20 open

13,927

stars

Forks: 1,601
Commits: 607 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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blaCCkHatHacEEkr/PENTESTING-BIBLE

articles

Updated: 2023-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-28
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

13,906

stars

Forks: 2,462
Commits: 482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Gallopsled/pwntools

CTF framework and exploit development library

Stack

Python pip uv

GitHub topics

#assembly #bsd #capture-the-flag #ctf #ctf-framework #defcon

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-01
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 120 open

13,614

stars

Forks: 1,849
Commits: 4,645 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#anonymized #anonymized-dns #dns #dns-over-https #dnscrypt #dnscrypt-proxy

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-08
History: 6 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 8 open

13,509

stars

Forks: 1,120
Commits: 2,632 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dbcli/pgcli

Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#database #postgres #postgresql #psql #python

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-12
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 38 open

13,319

stars

Forks: 600
Commits: 2,433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alibaba/tengine

A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features

Stack

GitHub topics

#http3 #ingress #nginx #quic #tengine

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 499 open

13,309

stars

Forks: 2,505
Commits: 1,857 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

threat9/routersploit

Exploitation Framework for Embedded Devices

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#bruteforce #creds #dictionary-attack #embedded #exploits #infosec

Updated: 2026-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-30
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 93 open

13,200

stars

Forks: 2,401
Commits: 839 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OWASP/mastg

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

AI dev

Stack

Python Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#android #android-application #compliancy-checklist #dynamic-analysis #hacking #ios

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 4 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 226 open

13,085

stars

Forks: 2,779
Commits: 10,721 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

s0md3v/Photon

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#crawler #information-gathering #osint #python #spider

Updated: 2026-02-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-30
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 58 open

13,065

stars

Forks: 1,679
Commits: 331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Idnan/bash-guide

A guide to learn bash

Updated: 2024-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-01
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

12,336

stars

Forks: 1,042
Commits: 105 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hadolint/hadolint

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

Stack

Haskell

GitHub topics

#docker #dockerfile #dockerfile-linter #haskell #linter #shellcheck

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 226 open

12,326

stars

Forks: 500
Commits: 1,363 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

future-architect/vuls

Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#administrator #cybersecurity #freebsd #go #golang #linux

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 84 open

12,217

stars

Forks: 1,239
Commits: 1,893 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

danluu/post-mortems

A collection of postmortems. Sorry for the delay in merging PRs!

GitHub topics

#debugging #hacktoberfest #post-mortem

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-03
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

12,195

stars

Forks: 496
Commits: 389 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dbcli/mycli

A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#auto-completion #database #mycli #mysql #python #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-05
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 11 open

11,949

stars

Forks: 695
Commits: 3,497 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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