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junegunn/fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

Stack

Go Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#bash #cli #fish #fzf #go #neovim

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-23
License: MIT
Issues: 332 open

83,535

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Forks: 4,984
Commits: 3,755 commits
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moby/moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #go #golang

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-01-19
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,939 open

72,193

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Forks: 19,235
Commits: 58,473 commits
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FiloSottile/mkcert

A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#certificates #chrome #firefox #https #ios #linux

Updated: 2024-08-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-25
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 177 open

59,725

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Forks: 3,142
Commits: 165 commits
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Website GitHub

Kong/kong

🦍 The API and AI Gateway

Stack

Lua pytest Cargo Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-gateway #api-gateway #api-management #apis #artificial-intelligence

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-17
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 222 open

44,275

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Forks: 5,237
Commits: 11,280 commits
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portainer/portainer

Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Cobra gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#docker #docker-compose #docker-container #docker-deployment #docker-image #docker-swarm

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-09
License: Zlib
Issues: 764 open

38,673

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Forks: 2,923
Commits: 6,126 commits
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Website GitHub

aquasecurity/trivy

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

Stack

Go Celery Cobra Django Django REST Framework Bun Bundler Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #devsecops #docker #go #golang #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-27
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 261 open

38,368

stars

Forks: 755
Commits: 4,273 commits
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Website GitHub

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
License: MIT
Issues: 945 open

29,559

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Forks: 1,363
Commits: 3,548 commits
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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: 2026-10-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-14
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,389 open

25,983

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Forks: 3,224
Commits: 15,238 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: +59 +0.4%

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: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-13
License: MIT
Issues: 125 open

25,223

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Forks: 1,426
Commits: 741 commits
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Website 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
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 192 open

20,675

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Forks: 1,323
Commits: 302 commits
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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: 2026-10-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-27
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 958 open

19,645

stars

Forks: 2,045
Commits: 12,589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +16 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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browsh-org/browsh

A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

Stack

JavaScript Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#bandwidth-saver #http-performance #mosh #ssh #tty #vnc

Updated: 2025-07-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-22
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 241 open

19,089

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Forks: 481
Commits: 429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Website GitHub

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: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
License: MIT
Issues: 120 open

17,845

stars

Forks: 590
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 244 open

15,334

stars

Forks: 2,200
Commits: 2,874 commits
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Website GitHub

projectdiscovery/subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-31
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

14,578

stars

Forks: 1,633
Commits: 2,287 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

14,524

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 223 commits
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OJ/gobuster

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

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #go #pentesting #tool #web

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-14
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

14,208

stars

Forks: 1,622
Commits: 607 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-10-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-08
License: ISC
Issues: 6 open

13,730

stars

Forks: 1,139
Commits: 2,658 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website 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: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-27
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 91 open

12,283

stars

Forks: 1,250
Commits: 1,924 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bunkerity/bunkerweb

🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI Flask Starlette CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#antibot #cybersecurity #devops #devsecops #dnsbl #docker

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-20
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 197 open

11,061

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 10,816 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

asciimoo/wuzz

Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #curl #go #golang #http #http-inspection

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-30
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 42 open

10,737

stars

Forks: 411
Commits: 251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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xo/usql

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #database #go #golang #mariadb #microsoft-sql-server

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-02
License: MIT
Issues: 60 open

10,136

stars

Forks: 406
Commits: 1,294 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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smallstep/certificates

🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#acme #acme-server #ca #certificate-authority #certificates #go

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-10-05
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 310 open

8,958

stars

Forks: 607
Commits: 5,757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 0.0%

Website GitHub

google/tsunami-security-scanner

Tsunami is a general purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence.

Stack

Java Go modules Gradle pip

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-11
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 14 open

8,619

stars

Forks: 929
Commits: 403 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

codesenberg/bombardier

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #bombardier #cli #fast #go #golang

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-29
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

6,841

stars

Forks: 332
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

j3ssie/osmedeus

A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Next.js React Bun Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#agentic-ai #attack-surface-management #bugbounty #go #hacking #hacking-tool

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-18
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

6,595

stars

Forks: 1,037
Commits: 141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

google/syzkaller

syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing #kernel #linux #security

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-12
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 631 open

6,344

stars

Forks: 1,457
Commits: 12,930 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

microsoft/ethr

Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-25
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

5,868

stars

Forks: 405
Commits: 111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

mholt/archiver

DEPRECATED. Please use mholt/archives instead.

Archived

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#7zip #archives #brotli #bzip2 #compression #decompression

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-08
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

4,375

stars

Forks: 393
Commits: 263 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mpolden/echoip

A simple IP address lookup service.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#geoip #go #ip-address-lookup #ip-location #ip-lookup

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-19
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 12 open

4,355

stars

Forks: 565
Commits: 356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

qustavo/httplab

The interactive web server

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #developer-tools #development #golang #http #httplab

Updated: 2024-02-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-08
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

4,140

stars

Forks: 122
Commits: 150 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

eth0izzle/shhgit

Ah shhgit! Find secrets in your code. Secrets detection for your GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories.

Stack

JavaScript Go modules

GitHub topics

#cyint #github #github-api #golang #osint #secret

Updated: 2025-02-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-06
License: MIT
Issues: 33 open

3,987

stars

Forks: 479
Commits: 67 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mehrdadrad/mylg

Network Diagnostic Tool

Stack

Go Angular Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#bgp #golang #looking-glass #network #ping #snmp

Updated: 2020-02-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-06-21
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

2,719

stars

Forks: 236
Commits: 659 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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square/certstrap

Tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bootstrap #certificate #certificate-authority #crypto #csr #golang

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

2,456

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 200 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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djhworld/simple-computer

the scott CPU from "But How Do It Know?" by J. Clark Scott

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-15
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

1,997

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

looterz/grimd

:zap: fast dns proxy that can run anywhere, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware servers

Stack

Go Gin Go modules

Updated: 2024-03-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-18
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

1,416

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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itchyny/bed

Binary editor written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#binary #golang #hex-editor

Updated: 2024-12-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-12
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,344

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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globocom/secDevLabs

A laboratory for learning secure web and mobile development in a practical manner.

Stack

PHP Android Angular Cobra Echo CocoaPods Dart Pub Go modules

GitHub topics

#development #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2022 #labs #owasp-top-10 #security

Updated: 2024-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-01
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 31 open

979

stars

Forks: 464
Commits: 710 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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summerwind/h2spec

A conformance testing tool for HTTP/2 implementation.

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#go #hpack #http2

Updated: 2023-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-29
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

736

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 380 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

bl4de/ctf

My CTF journey since 2015. Stats, writeups, code snippets, notes, challenges.

Stack

HTML Express FastAPI Flask Spring Boot Go modules Maven npm

GitHub topics

#ctf #ctf-events #ctf-writeup #ctf-writeups #ctftime #hacking

Updated: 2026-02-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-23
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

586

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 319 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sachaos/tcpterm

tcpterm is a packet visualizer in TUI.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#go #golang #pcap #tcp #tcpdump #terminal

Updated: 2024-01-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-11
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

490

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 31 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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juice-shop/multi-juicer

Host and manage multiple Juice Shop instances for security trainings and Capture The Flags

Stack

TypeScript React Tailwind CSS Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#capture-the-flag #ctf-platform #hacking #hacktoberfest #juice-shop #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-10
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 16 open

326

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 1,677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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x-way/iptables-tracer

Insert trace-points into the running configuration to observe the path of packets through the iptables chains.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#golang #iptables #iptables-tracer #netfilter #nflog

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-04
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

297

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 450 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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