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DarkFlippers/unleashed-firmware

Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware

Stack

C npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#alternative-firmware #cfw #custom #custom-firmware #darkflippers #firmware

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

22,441

stars

Forks: 1,956
Commits: 8,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

postgres/postgres

Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

22,427

stars

Forks: 5,960
Commits: 65,672 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

micropython/micropython

MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

Stack

C CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#embedded #microcontroller #micropython #python

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-04
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,534 open

22,108

stars

Forks: 8,986
Commits: 19,127 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1 open

22,058

stars

Forks: 825
Commits: 4,688 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gentilkiwi/mimikatz

A little tool to play with Windows security

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-04-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-06
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 198 open

21,895

stars

Forks: 4,180
Commits: 355 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

allinurl/goaccess

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

Stack

GitHub topics

#analytics #apache #c #caddy #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-09
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 449 open

20,928

stars

Forks: 1,193
Commits: 4,504 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

Stack

GitHub topics

#audio #driver #loopback #macos #virtual-audio-cable

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-27
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

19,787

stars

Forks: 840
Commits: 648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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videolan/vlc

VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

Stack

C Cargo CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#c #framework #gplv2 #lgpl #multimedia #open-source

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-08
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

19,684

stars

Forks: 6,202
Commits: 112,399 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brunodev85/winlator

Android application for running Windows applications with Wine and Box86/Box64

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-26
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: Disabled

19,437

stars

Forks: 1,836
Commits: 115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly

Stack

C Angular Express Next.js React npm

GitHub topics

#audio #experimental-features #ffmpeg #transcode #video #wasm

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 426 open

17,807

stars

Forks: 1,111
Commits: 703 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

UberGuidoZ/Flipper

Playground (and dump) of stuff I make or modify for the Flipper Zero

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-09
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

17,694

stars

Forks: 3,922
Commits: 3,901 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +26 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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skywind3000/kcp

:zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#accelerator #ack #arq #c #kcp #kcptun

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-26
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 200 open

16,943

stars

Forks: 2,635
Commits: 287 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +11 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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systemd/systemd

The systemd System and Service Manager

AI dev

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #init #linux #services #system #systemd

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 3,551 open

16,838

stars

Forks: 4,760
Commits: 92,377 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware

Flipper Zero firmware source code

Stack

C npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#armv7m #ble #firmware #flipper #flipperzero #infrared

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 250 open

16,681

stars

Forks: 3,486
Commits: 2,787 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libsdl-org/SDL

Simple DirectMedia Layer

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#sdl #sdl2 #sdl3

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-10
History: 1 history point
License: Zlib
Issues: 831 open

16,557

stars

Forks: 2,971
Commits: 22,579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

davatorium/rofi

Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#application-launcher #c #dmenu #dmenu-replacement #i3 #linux

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 114 open

16,372

stars

Forks: 694
Commits: 4,350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gojue/ecapture

Capture SSL/TLS plaintext with eBPF—no MITM proxy or custom CA installation. Supports Linux and Android on x86_64 and arm64.

AI dev

Stack

C Cobra Gin Go modules

GitHub topics

#android #boringssl #ebpf #gnutls #golang #linux

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-13
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

15,509

stars

Forks: 1,650
Commits: 1,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +17 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +8 +0.7%

Website GitHub

haiwen/seafile

Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views

Stack

C .NET SDK pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cloud-storage #document-management #file-sharing #file-sync #knowledge-management #markdown

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-27
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 98 open

15,255

stars

Forks: 1,677
Commits: 2,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenVPN/openvpn

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#security #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-09-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 224 open

14,525

stars

Forks: 3,392
Commits: 4,780 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coturn/coturn

coturn TURN server project

AI dev

Stack

C CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#networking #server #turn

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-20
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 307 open

14,410

stars

Forks: 2,275
Commits: 2,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openresty/openresty

High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT

Stack

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-20
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 336 open

14,073

stars

Forks: 1,635
Commits: 1,851 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 +0.1%

Website GitHub

arut/nginx-rtmp-module

NGINX-based Media Streaming Server

Stack

Updated: 2024-12-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-08
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1,159 open

14,027

stars

Forks: 3,579
Commits: 962 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jedisct1/libsodium

A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #crypto #cryptography #zig-package

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-20
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

13,985

stars

Forks: 1,885
Commits: 4,705 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

qemu/qemu

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

AI dev

Stack

C pytest Cargo Meson pip

GitHub topics

#emulation #qemu #virtualization

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

13,790

stars

Forks: 7,231
Commits: 133,545 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nmap/nmap

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #c-plus-plus #libpcap #linux #lua #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-11
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 698 open

13,712

stars

Forks: 2,911
Commits: 13,831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#etherip #ike #ipsec #l2tp #l2tpv3 #openvpn

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-02
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 297 open

13,652

stars

Forks: 2,790
Commits: 2,277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

microsoft/mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 292 open

13,428

stars

Forks: 1,188
Commits: 4,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alibaba/tengine

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

Stack

GitHub topics

#forward-proxy #health-check #http3 #kubernetes-ingress #load-balancer #lua

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 502 open

13,384

stars

Forks: 2,508
Commits: 2,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #git #ncurses #tui

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 231 open

13,343

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 2,921 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

darktable-org/darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

AI dev

Stack

C CMake npm

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-07
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 672 open

13,111

stars

Forks: 1,436
Commits: 47,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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