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valhalla/valhalla

Open Source Routing Engine for OpenStreetMap

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#astar #dijkstra #directions #isochrones #multi-modal #openstreetmap

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-18
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 942 open

6,154

stars

Forks: 970
Commits: 14,616 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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86Box/86Box

Emulator of x86-based machines.

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #ibm #pc-emulator #x86

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 19 open

4,726

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 22,407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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infiniflow/infinity

The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js pytest React Svelte CMake Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai-native #approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #bm25 #cpp20 #cpp20-modules #embedding

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 122 open

4,706

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 3,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CorsixTH/CorsixTH

Open source clone of Theme Hospital

Stack

Lua CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#game #opensource #remake #strategy-game #theme-hospital

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-07-24
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 251 open

4,555

stars

Forks: 428
Commits: 5,698 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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royshil/obs-backgroundremoval

An OBS plugin for removing background in portrait images (video), making it easy to replace the background when recording or streaming.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro Vite CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#background-segmentation #computer-vision #image-segmentation #libobs #mac-osx #obs

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-07
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 27 open

4,455

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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clementine-player/Clementine

:tangerine: Clementine Music Player

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #linux #mac #music #qt #windows

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-24
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2,439 open

4,238

stars

Forks: 725
Commits: 8,361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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introlab/rtabmap

RTAB-Map library and standalone application

Stack

C++ CMake Swift Package Manager vcpkg

GitHub topics

#android #ios #localization #mapping #project-tango #robotics

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-17
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 582 open

3,993

stars

Forks: 956
Commits: 3,691 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mapnik/mapnik

Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#beautiful-maps #c-plus-plus #cartography #gis #mapnik #mapping

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 728 open

3,956

stars

Forks: 841
Commits: 14,396 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Warzone2100/warzone2100

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #campaign #cheats #cmake #freebsd #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 609 open

3,950

stars

Forks: 615
Commits: 22,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MrNeRF/LichtFeld-Studio

Train, inspect, edit, automate, and export 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes from a single native application.

AI dev

Stack

C++ React CMake PEP 517 pnpm

GitHub topics

#computer-graphics #computer-vision #cuda #gaussian-splatting #optimization

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 213 open

3,669

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 2,744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SuperTux/supertux

SuperTux source code

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #games #opengl #sdl #sdl3

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 371 open

3,137

stars

Forks: 601
Commits: 14,644 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DescentDevelopers/Descent3

Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #game-engine

Updated: 2026-01-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-04-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

3,005

stars

Forks: 285
Commits: 1,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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duckdb/ducklake

DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-03
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 181 open

2,965

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 3,056 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite

No description.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-10
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 71 open

2,962

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 227 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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scummvm/scummvm

ScummVM main repository

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#adventure-engine #adventure-games #multiplatform #rpg-engine

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-09
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,807

stars

Forks: 1,374
Commits: 178,901 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine

An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c #game-engine #game-engine-3d #opengl #python #real-time-strategy

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-25
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,760

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 1,889 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

TokTok/c-toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

C CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cryptography #encryption #network #p2p #security #toxcore

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 221 open

2,679

stars

Forks: 312
Commits: 5,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rasterio/rasterio

Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets

Stack

Python pytest pip uv vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cli #cython #gdal #gis #mapbox-satellite-oss #python

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 157 open

2,567

stars

Forks: 569
Commits: 4,085 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GameTechDev/PresentMon

Capture and analyze the high-level performance characteristics of graphics applications on Windows.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Vite Vue .NET SDK npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#tool

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 199 open

2,542

stars

Forks: 194
Commits: 3,003 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

man-group/ArcticDB

ArcticDB is a high performance, serverless DataFrame database built for the Python Data Science ecosystem.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #data #data-analysis #data-science #database #dataframe

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-15
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 321 open

2,475

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 2,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom

Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port that is minimalist and historically accurate.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #doom #fps #fps-game #games #gplv2

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-23
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 335 open

2,411

stars

Forks: 718
Commits: 5,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fooyin/fooyin

A customisable music player

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#alsa #audio #audio-player #chiptune #cpp23 #customizable

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 317 open

2,346

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 5,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

synfig/synfig

This is the Official source code repository of Synfig Studio animation software

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #animation #c-plus-plus #gtkmm #hacktoberfest #synfig

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 729 open

2,279

stars

Forks: 430
Commits: 12,513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

UZDoom/UZDoom

UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on GZDoom, adding an advanced renderer and powerful scripting capabilities

Stack

C++ CMake Conan .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-02-24
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 646 open

2,208

stars

Forks: 190
Commits: 23,895 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

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

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

Website GitHub

Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake

pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest CMake Pipenv vcpkg

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-10-31
History: 106 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 112 open

1,638

stars

Forks: 116
Commits: 374 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +4 +1.1%

Website GitHub

xLLM-AI/xllm

A high-performance inference engine for LLM, VLM, DiT and REC models, optimized for diverse AI accelerators. It is hosted in OpenAtom Foundation.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro Vite CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#deepseek #glm #inference #inference-engine #large-language-models #llm-inference

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-08-13
History: 56 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 212 open

1,571

stars

Forks: 298
Commits: 1,534 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +4 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +32 +2.1%

Website GitHub

jd-opensource/xllm

A high-performance inference engine for LLM, VLM, DiT and REC models, optimized for diverse AI accelerators.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#deepseek #glm #inference #inference-engine #large-language-models #llm-inference

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-08-13
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 162 open

1,370

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 1,115 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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