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dail8859/NotepadNext

A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#desktop #editor #linux #macos #notepad #notepad-plus-plus

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 91 open

14,555

stars

Forks: 912
Commits: 1,066 commits
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OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#security #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 224 open

14,525

stars

Forks: 3,392
Commits: 4,780 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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davisking/dlib

A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #deep-learning #dlib #machine-learning #machine-learning-library

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-02
History: 8 history points
License: BSL-1.0
Issues: 38 open

14,431

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Forks: 3,442
Commits: 8,370 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SFTtech/openage

Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀

Stack

Python CMake pip

GitHub topics

#age-of-empires #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #cpp20 #engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-22
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 215 open

14,426

stars

Forks: 1,265
Commits: 5,817 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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carla-simulator/carla

Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#ai #artificial-intelligence #autonomous-driving #autonomous-vehicles #carla #carla-simulator

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,202 open

14,369

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Forks: 4,685
Commits: 6,751 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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spotify/annoy

Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #c-plus-plus #golang #locality-sensitive-hashing #lua #nearest-neighbor-search

Updated: 2025-10-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 86 open

14,289

stars

Forks: 1,227
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dmlc/dgl

Python package built to ease deep learning on graph, on top of existing DL frameworks.

Stack

Python CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #graph-neural-networks

Updated: 2025-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 608 open

14,279

stars

Forks: 3,053
Commits: 4,417 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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coturn/coturn

coturn TURN server project

AI dev

Stack

C CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#networking #server #turn

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-20
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 316 open

14,271

stars

Forks: 2,267
Commits: 2,073 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hrydgard/ppsspp

A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulators #ppsspp #psp

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,365 open

14,258

stars

Forks: 2,584
Commits: 47,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

Suite of tools for deploying and training deep learning models using the JVM. Highlights include model import for keras, tensorflow, and onnx/pytorch, a modular and tiny c++ library for running math code and a java based math library on top of the core c++ library. Also includes samediff: a pytorch/tensorflow like library for running deep learn...

Stack

Java pytest CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #clojure #deeplearning #deeplearning4j #dl4j #gpu

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-06
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 53 open

14,242

stars

Forks: 3,830
Commits: 2,888 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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livekit/agents

A framework for building realtime voice AI agents 🤖🎙️📹

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#agents #ai #openai #real-time #video #voice

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-19
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 824 open

14,160

stars

Forks: 3,724
Commits: 3,994 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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isl-org/Open3D

Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-perception #arm #computer-graphics #cpp #cuda

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-28
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,309 open

13,945

stars

Forks: 2,618
Commits: 4,272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wanghongenpin/proxypin

Open source free capture HTTP(S) traffic software ProxyPin, supporting full platform systems

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Flutter CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#capture-traffic #charles #fiddler #proxy #proxypin #zhuabao

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-05
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 99 open

13,926

stars

Forks: 1,202
Commits: 658 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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apache/tvm

Open Machine Learning Compiler Framework

AI dev

Stack

Python Android pytest Tornado CMake Gradle Maven

GitHub topics

#compiler #deep-learning #gpu #javascript #machine-learning #metal

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-12
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 244 open

13,720

stars

Forks: 3,964
Commits: 14,284 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#etherip #ike #ipsec #l2tp #l2tpv3 #openvpn

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 296 open

13,524

stars

Forks: 2,777
Commits: 2,264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

luanti-org/luanti

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp17 #game-engine #lua #luanti #minetest

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,508 open

13,505

stars

Forks: 2,438
Commits: 13,720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

plasma-umass/scalene

Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python with AI-powered optimization proposals

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cpu #cpu-profiling #gpu #gpu-programming #memory-allocation #memory-consumption

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-17
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 153 open

13,497

stars

Forks: 437
Commits: 3,660 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nmap/nmap

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #c-plus-plus #libpcap #linux #lua #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-11
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 675 open

13,403

stars

Forks: 2,885
Commits: 13,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

microsoft/mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 318 open

13,300

stars

Forks: 1,159
Commits: 4,090 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 235 open

13,141

stars

Forks: 2,783
Commits: 10,722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cataclysm #game #hacktoberfest #zombies

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,807 open

13,123

stars

Forks: 4,637
Commits: 129,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

skypjack/entt

Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#architectural-patterns #cpp #cpp17 #cpp20 #data-oriented #data-oriented-design

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-24
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

13,061

stars

Forks: 1,112
Commits: 7,677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PaddlePaddle/PaddleNLP

Easy-to-use and powerful LLM and SLM library with awesome model zoo.

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI Gradio pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#bert #compression #distributed-training #document-intelligence #embedding #ernie

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 336 open

12,969

stars

Forks: 3,027
Commits: 6,040 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

StarTrail-org/LEANN

[MLsys2026 Best Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08276. RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI LlamaIndex pytest CMake PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#ai #faiss #gpt-oss #langchain #llama-index #llm

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-30
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

12,931

stars

Forks: 1,170
Commits: 633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

alicevision/Meshroom

Node-based Visual Programming Toolbox

AI dev

Stack

Python CMake pip

GitHub topics

#3d-reconstruction #alicevision #camera-tracking #computer-vision #hdr-imaging #image-stitching

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-16
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 516 open

12,928

stars

Forks: 1,224
Commits: 6,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

darktable-org/darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

Stack

C CMake npm

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-07
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 623 open

12,910

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 46,790 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vnotex/vnote

A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#editor #markdown #mathjax #note #note-taking #uml

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 8 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 535 open

12,895

stars

Forks: 1,297
Commits: 3,215 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapeditor/tiled

Flexible level editor

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #editor #game #game-development #hacktoberfest #java

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 833 open

12,843

stars

Forks: 1,952
Commits: 7,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/zookeeper

Apache ZooKeeper

Stack

Java React Tailwind CSS Vite CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#apache #configuration-management #consensus #coordination #database #distributed-configuration

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-19
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

12,803

stars

Forks: 7,317
Commits: 2,735 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Snapchat/KeyDB

A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-22
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 271 open

12,499

stars

Forks: 672
Commits: 27,522 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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