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pierotofy/OpenSplat

Production-grade 3D gaussian splatting with CPU/GPU support for Windows, Mac and Linux 🚀

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#3d #gaussian #radiance-field #splats #splatting

Updated: 2026-05-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-01-23
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 54 open

2,121

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Forks: 214
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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liballeg/allegro5

The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #audio #c #game-development #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-05-14
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 392 open

2,119

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Forks: 320
Commits: 12,173 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stepmania/stepmania

Advanced rhythm game for Windows, Linux and OS X. Designed for both home and arcade use.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game #lua #rhythm-game #stepmania

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-18
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 572 open

2,094

stars

Forks: 477
Commits: 36,144 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

milkytracker/MilkyTracker

A Fasttracker II compatible music editor

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #chiptune-tracker #multiplatform #music #tracker-music

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-05
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 86 open

2,092

stars

Forks: 186
Commits: 1,083 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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libretro/Lakka-LibreELEC

Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown game console.

Stack

Makefile CMake

GitHub topics

#embedded-systems #emulation #libreelec #libretro #linux #os

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-18
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 45 open

2,040

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 48,686 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-prof/ruby-prof

A ruby profiler. See https://ruby-prof.github.io for more information.

Stack

Ruby Bundler CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-12
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

2,032

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 1,454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Inori/GPCS4

A work-in-progress PlayStation 4 emulator.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #gcn #graphics #ps4 #vulkan

Updated: 2023-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-20
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,022

stars

Forks: 144
Commits: 1,554 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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EKA2L1/EKA2L1

A Symbian OS/N-Gage emulator

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#cpp17 #emulates #emulation #emulator #games #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-22
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 137 open

2,009

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 6,014 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

google/rekall

Rekall Memory Forensic Framework

Archived

Stack

Python CMake .NET SDK npm

Updated: 2020-10-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-06-29
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,007

stars

Forks: 402
Commits: 1,409 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RetroShare/RetroShare

RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-11-15
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 360 open

2,007

stars

Forks: 325
Commits: 17,858 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

moveit/moveit2

:robot: MoveIt for ROS 2

Stack

C++ pytest Qt CMake pip

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-12
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 396 open

2,003

stars

Forks: 788
Commits: 9,517 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chaos-zhu/easynode

一个多功能Linux&win服务器WEB终端面板(webSSH&webSFTP). 更新通知TG：

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Express Flutter Vite CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

2,000

stars

Forks: 275
Commits: 883 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#browser #bsd #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-04
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 276 open

1,983

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 10,991 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MediaArea/MediaInfo

Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

Stack

C++ Android CMake CocoaPods .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-18
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 225 open

1,979

stars

Forks: 189
Commits: 2,881 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,973

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

DeaDBeeF Player

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #cross-platform #customizable-ui #linux-app #mac-app

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 378 open

1,962

stars

Forks: 208
Commits: 12,100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RPCSX/rpcsx

No description.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 10 open

1,950

stars

Forks: 128
Commits: 18,657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

iaddis/metalnes

Transistor level NES simulation

Stack

JavaScript CMake Conan .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-04-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,947

stars

Forks: 39
Commits: 7 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

gitahead/gitahead

Understand your Git history!

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2025-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-12
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 293 open

1,941

stars

Forks: 252
Commits: 430 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sarah-walker-pcem/pcem

PCem

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-21
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 134 open

1,933

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 1,983 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mgerdes/Open-Golf

A cross-platform minigolf game written in C.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android #c #game #game-dev #game-development #gamedev

Updated: 2024-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-24
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pioneerspacesim/pioneer

A game of lonely space adventure

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#3d #elite #exploration #frontier #game #newtonian

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-06-24
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 335 open

1,909

stars

Forks: 412
Commits: 22,335 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OpenLoco/OpenLoco

An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #game #hacktoberfest #help-wanted #linux

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 458 open

1,903

stars

Forks: 220
Commits: 4,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

baidu/tera

An Internet-Scale Database.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#baidu #bigtable #c-plus-plus #data #database #hbase

Updated: 2024-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-26
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,902

stars

Forks: 433
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strukturag/libde265

Open h.265 video codec implementation.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-26
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 31 open

1,898

stars

Forks: 493
Commits: 2,516 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lightspark/lightspark

An open source flash player implementation

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 75 open

1,893

stars

Forks: 228
Commits: 9,665 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toggl-open-source/toggldesktop

Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#desktop #linux #macos #objective-c #poco #qt

Updated: 2023-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

1,870

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 10,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mlc-ai/xgrammar

Fast, Flexible and Portable Structured Generation

Stack

C++ pytest Ruby on Rails Bundler CMake npm

GitHub topics

#large-language-models #structured-generation

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-30
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 92 open

1,868

stars

Forks: 197
Commits: 532 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dphnAI/sonar

Large-scale LLM inference engine

AI dev

Stack

Python Astro Axum FastAPI pytest Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#api-rest #cuda #inference-engine #inferentia #intel #lora

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 40 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 58 open

1,859

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 2,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +1 0.0%

Website GitHub

mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 49 open

1,829

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 6,746 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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