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LMMS/lmms

Cross-platform music production software

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#daw #hacktoberfest #midi #music #songs

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-09-22
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,458 open

10,379

stars

Forks: 1,265
Commits: 8,512 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bpftrace/bpftrace

High-level tracing language for Linux

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#bcc #bpf #ebpf #kprobes #tracepoints #tracing

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-11
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 256 open

10,357

stars

Forks: 1,493
Commits: 4,989 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks

Production ready toolkit to run AI locally

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Electron FastAPI Flutter Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #apple-intelligence #cpp #diffusion-models #edge #flutter

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-07-22
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 77 open

10,285

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 4,137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cocos/cocos-engine

Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#3d #cocos #cocoscreator #engine #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,034 open

9,855

stars

Forks: 2,140
Commits: 22,341 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Tiiny-AI/PowerInfer

High-speed Large Language Model Serving for Local Deployment

Stack

C++ Android pytest CMake Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#large-language-models #llama #llm #llm-inference #local-inference

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

9,787

stars

Forks: 599
Commits: 1,594 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NVIDIA/cudf

cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library

AI dev

Stack

C++ Axum pytest Cargo CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#arrow #cpp #cuda #cudf #dask #data-analysis

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-30
History: 17 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,415 open

9,777

stars

Forks: 1,130
Commits: 45,057 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +140 +0.3%

Website GitHub

diasurgical/DevilutionX

Diablo build for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#debian #devilution #diablo #game #hacktober #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-06
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 479 open

9,739

stars

Forks: 1,016
Commits: 12,065 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rapidsai/cudf

cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#arrow #cpp #cuda #cudf #dask #data-analysis

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-30
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,265 open

9,722

stars

Forks: 1,086
Commits: 44,211 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

falcosecurity/falco

Cloud Native Runtime Security

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cncf #cncf-project #containers #ebpf #falco

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-20
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 46 open

9,473

stars

Forks: 1,091
Commits: 5,494 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Studio3T/robomongo

Native cross-platform MongoDB management tool

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-07
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

9,364

stars

Forks: 824
Commits: 2,559 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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canonical/multipass

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Stack

C++ Flutter pytest Qt Shelf Cargo CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#cloud #container #hyper-v #linux #macos #qemu

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-01
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 422 open

9,247

stars

Forks: 829
Commits: 17,199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

activeloopai/deeplake

Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#agent #agentic-rag #ai #clawbot #computer-vision #datalake

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-09
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 66 open

9,229

stars

Forks: 723
Commits: 9,411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Nevcairiel/LAVFilters

LAV Filters - Open-Source DirectShow Media Splitter and Decoders

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 108 open

9,148

stars

Forks: 840
Commits: 4,567 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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catboost/catboost

A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU.

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#big-data #catboost #categorical-features #coreml #cuda #data-mining

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-18
History: 12 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 723 open

9,099

stars

Forks: 1,335
Commits: 50,755 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

anbox/anbox

Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#anbox #android #linux #snap

Updated: 2024-02-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 381 open

9,025

stars

Forks: 1,152
Commits: 1,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk

Complete Open Source and Modular solution for MMO

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#azerothcore #emulator #game #game-server #gaming #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 2,378 open

9,022

stars

Forks: 3,863
Commits: 19,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gperftools/gperftools

Main gperftools repository

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-27
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 109 open

8,981

stars

Forks: 1,537
Commits: 1,347 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit

Vowpal Wabbit is a machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online, hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive learning.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#active-learning #c-plus-plus #contextual-bandits #cpp #learning-to-search #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-29
History: 147 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

8,731

stars

Forks: 1,923
Commits: 10,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

avast/retdec

RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 458 open

8,642

stars

Forks: 1,003
Commits: 2,175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brndnmtthws/conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js React Tailwind CSS Bun CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cairo #conky #imlib2 #linux #lua

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 95 open

8,493

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 4,652 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mumble-voip/mumble

Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #client #cmake #cross-platform #gaming #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-08-31
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 480 open

8,346

stars

Forks: 1,403
Commits: 12,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

draios/sysdig

Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-04-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-15
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

8,301

stars

Forks: 751
Commits: 4,927 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

azahar-emu/azahar

An open-source 3DS emulator project based on Citra.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-30
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 405 open

8,284

stars

Forks: 716
Commits: 11,212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FEX-Emu/FEX

A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#arm64 #cpp #emulation #emulator #linux #x86

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 260 open

8,248

stars

Forks: 385
Commits: 15,247 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenTTD/OpenTTD

OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#game #isometric #openttd #sandbox #simulation

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2004-08-09
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 403 open

8,247

stars

Forks: 1,260
Commits: 33,133 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Project-OSRM/osrm-backend

Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express pytest CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #cpp17 #isochrones #map-matching #openstreetmap

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-09
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 366 open

8,126

stars

Forks: 3,976
Commits: 9,072 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

snapcast/snapcast

Synchronous multiroom audio player

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #lms #multiroom-audio #music

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-06-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 133 open

7,874

stars

Forks: 546
Commits: 3,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lballabio/QuantLib

The QuantLib C++ library

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#quantitative-finance

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-10-20
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 43 open

7,640

stars

Forks: 2,334
Commits: 19,145 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TigerVNC/tigervnc

High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-20
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 193 open

7,586

stars

Forks: 1,210
Commits: 5,841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

endless-sky/endless-sky

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d-game #adventure-game #arcade-game #c-plus-plus #cpp #endless-sky

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 918 open

7,552

stars

Forks: 1,309
Commits: 9,953 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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