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zeldaret/tp

Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-29
History: 1 history point
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 34 open

2,016

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 2,374 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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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: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-18
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 223 open

2,013

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 2,885 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

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bsnes-emu/bsnes

bsnes is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator focused on performance, features, and ease of use.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #snes #snes-emulator

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 155 open

2,001

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 4,091 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-04
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 276 open

1,986

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 11,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

enzo1982/freac

The fre:ac audio converter project

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aac #alac #audio #c-plus-plus #cd-ripper #converter

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-09-22
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 223 open

1,966

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 2,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gitahead/gitahead

Understand your Git history!

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-12
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 293 open

1,952

stars

Forks: 252
Commits: 431 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ponchio/untrunc

Restore a damaged (truncated) mp4, m4v, mov, 3gp video. Provided you have a similar not broken video.

Stack

C++

Updated: 2024-05-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-16
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 193 open

1,950

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 192 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: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-26
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

1,913

stars

Forks: 496
Commits: 2,549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,904

stars

Forks: 432
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lightspark/lightspark

An open source flash player implementation

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 77 open

1,899

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 9,681 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

VROOM-Project/vroom

Vehicle Routing Open-source Optimization Machine

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#cvrp #delivery #logistics #optimization #pdptw #pickup

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-13
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 48 open

1,891

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 3,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

h2oai/datatable

A Python package for manipulating 2-dimensional tabular data structures

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#data-analysis #data-structure #fedramp #ftrl #performance #python

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 9 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 183 open

1,877

stars

Forks: 164
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

multitheftauto/mtasa-blue

Multi Theft Auto is a game engine that turns Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into networked multiplayer.

AI dev

Stack

C++ .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#cpp #game #game-engine #game-mod #gaming #grand-theft-auto

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,064 open

1,875

stars

Forks: 597
Commits: 11,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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

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: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

1,867

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

LadybugDB/ladybug

LadybugDB a graph database

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#code-knowledge-base #code-knowledge-graph #cypher #cypher-query-language #database #graph

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-26
History: 137 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 99 open

1,854

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 6,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +20 +1.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +91 +1.4%

Website GitHub

python-greenlet/greenlet

Lightweight in-process concurrent programming

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-10
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 23 open

1,852

stars

Forks: 270
Commits: 1,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

BobbyAnguelov/Esoterica

Esoterica Engine

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#animation #ecs #game #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-15
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

1,848

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

HoShiMin/Kernel-Bridge

Windows kernel hacking framework, driver template, hypervisor and API written on C++

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-11-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 17 open

1,827

stars

Forks: 401
Commits: 155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn

Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn

Archived

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#command-and-conquer #open-source #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-27
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,809

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 3 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

0vercl0k/wtf

wtf is a distributed, code-coverage guided, customizable, cross-platform snapshot-based fuzzer designed for attacking user and / or kernel-mode targets running on Microsoft Windows and Linux user-mode (experimental!).

Stack

C++ pytest Tornado Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#bochs #bochscpu #code-coverage #fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,808

stars

Forks: 155
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pencil2d/pencil

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#animation #bitmap #cartoon #cplusplus #drawing #graphics2d

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 209 open

1,806

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 5,343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simsong/tcpflow

TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. Download from:

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#digital-forensics #forensics #tcp-protocol #tcpip

Updated: 2026-01-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 74 open

1,778

stars

Forks: 245
Commits: 802 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dphnAI/aphrodite-engine

Large-scale LLM inference engine

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro FastAPI Flask pytest CMake pip pnpm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 126 open

1,771

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 1,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ycm-core/ycmd

A code-completion & code-comprehension server

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#code-analysis #code-completion #editor #semantic-engine

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-13
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

1,740

stars

Forks: 776
Commits: 3,356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dealii/dealii

The development repository for the deal.II finite element library

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fem #finite-elements #hpc #kokkos #parallel-computing

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-11-24
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 534 open

1,738

stars

Forks: 869
Commits: 68,359 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aahmad097/AlternativeShellcodeExec

Alternative Shellcode Execution Via Callbacks

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,735

stars

Forks: 334
Commits: 54 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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