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DNSPod/dnspod-sr

A faster recursive dns server from DNSPod

Stack

Updated: 2026-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

1,374

stars

Forks: 320
Commits: 59 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tgraf/bmon

bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Stack

GitHub topics

#monitoring #network #network-analysis #network-monitoring #networking

Updated: 2023-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,374

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rosehgal/BinExp

Linux Binary Exploitation

Stack

GitHub topics

#binaries #buffer-overflow-attack #bufferoverflow #consolidation #exploitation #format-string-attack

Updated: 2021-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,356

stars

Forks: 208
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sist2app/sist2

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool

Stack

C Vite Vue CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #sqlite #vuejs

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

1,320

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 1,010 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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skylersaleh/SkyEmu

Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator

AI dev

Stack

C Android pytest CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-advance #gameboy-color #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 250 open

1,301

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 1,094 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

twitter/fatcache

Memcache on SSD

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2021-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-11
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

1,298

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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devos50/qemu-ios

A QEMU emulator for legacy Apple devices

Stack

C Meson pip

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 146 open

1,281

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 109,445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jarcode-foss/glava

GLava - OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-visualizer #linux #opengl #shaders

Updated: 2024-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-26
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 99 open

1,272

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 332 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dovecot/core

Dovecot mail server

AI dev

Stack

C Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#email #imap #imap4 #lmtp #mail #pop3

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-08-09
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,260

stars

Forks: 358
Commits: 37,630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cococry/ragnar

Minimal, flexible & user-friendly X tiling window manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#i3 #linux #tiling-window-manager #window-manager #x11

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-13
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 17 open

1,250

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 417 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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intel/media-driver

Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-30
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 266 open

1,245

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 8,390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

2ndQuadrant/pglogical

Logical Replication extension for PostgreSQL 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9.6, 9.5, 9.4 (Postgres), providing much faster replication than Slony, Bucardo or Londiste, as well as cross-version upgrades.

Stack

GitHub topics

#cdc #data-transformation #data-transport #database-replication #etl #logical-decoding

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-09
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 190 open

1,242

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 876 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

yodaos-project/yodaos

Yet another Linux distribution for voice-enabled IoT and embrace Web standards

Stack

C CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#javascript #linux #nodejs #openwrt #web #yodaos

Updated: 2019-12-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-13
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

1,227

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 107 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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schweikert/fping

High performance ping tool

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd-license #c #fping #icmp #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-12-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,225

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 853 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

owntracks/recorder

Store and access data published by OwnTracks apps

Stack

GitHub topics

#geolocation #http #jpdup #json #mqtt #owntracks

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-14
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 12 open

1,216

stars

Forks: 145
Commits: 1,294 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pyca/pynacl

Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library

Stack

C pytest .NET SDK PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cryptography #libsodium #nacl #python

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-22
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 64 open

1,209

stars

Forks: 271
Commits: 847 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simple64/simple64

Accurate N64 Emulator

Archived

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulation #n64

Updated: 2025-02-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

1,178

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 983 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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github/brubeck

A Statsd-compatible metrics aggregator

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2019-11-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

1,175

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 74 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

pound-emu/pound

Open source emulator for the Nintedo Switch 1 and 2. Highly work in progress

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #homebrew #nintendo #nintendo-switch #nintendo-switch-2

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-06
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

1,151

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 225 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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desowin/usbpcap

USB packet capture for Windows

Stack

Updated: 2025-02-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-10
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 64 open

1,137

stars

Forks: 199
Commits: 185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

red-data-tools/pycall.rb

Calling Python functions from the Ruby language

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#data-science #pycall #python #ruby #rubydatascience #rubyml

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

1,121

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 593 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

oetiker/rrdtool-1.x

RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#round-robin-database #rrdtool #time-series #tsdb

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-02-25
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 168 open

1,119

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 3,405 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

SimHacker/micropolis

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/micropolis

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2026-02-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-26
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 73 open

1,117

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 893 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

aws/pgactive

No description.

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-17
History: 69 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

1,112

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 1,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

cxong/cdogs-sdl

Classic overhead run-and-gun game

Stack

C CMake Conan Poetry

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-game #c #game #games #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-04-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 112 open

1,091

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 4,458 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

theZiz/aha

Ansi HTML Adapter

Stack

Updated: 2023-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-08
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

1,086

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

performancecopilot/pcp

Performance Co-Pilot

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#analysis #distributed #graph #lightweight #metrics #monitoring

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 188 open

1,079

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 36,582 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

confluentinc/librdkafka

The Apache Kafka C/C++ library

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#apache-kafka #c #c-plus-plus #consumer #high-performance #kafka

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-19
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 616 open

1,067

stars

Forks: 3,272
Commits: 4,754 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

btbd/access

Access without a real handle

Stack

Updated: 2021-04-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 13 open

1,061

stars

Forks: 235
Commits: 6 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

citusdata/pg_shard

ATTENTION: pg_shard is superseded by Citus, its more powerful replacement

Stack

Updated: 2016-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

1,060

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 907 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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