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citusdata/citus

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

AI dev

Stack

C Flask pytest Tornado PEP 517 pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#citus #citus-extension #database #database-cluster #distributed-database #multi-tenant

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-11
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 1,063 open

12,808

stars

Forks: 800
Commits: 7,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

octalmage/robotjs

Node.js Desktop Automation.

Stack

C Electron npm

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-31
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

12,779

stars

Forks: 1,003
Commits: 728 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

FelixKratz/SketchyBar

A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement

Stack

GitHub topics

#bar #customization #darwin #macos #ricing #shell-scripts

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-29
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 78 open

12,405

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 1,103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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twitter/twemproxy

A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis

Stack

Updated: 2024-03-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-22
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 194 open

12,337

stars

Forks: 2,034
Commits: 604 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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veracrypt/VeraCrypt

Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#encryption #encryption-algorithms #encryption-decryption #idrix #veracrypt #veracrypt-source

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-22
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 500 open

11,737

stars

Forks: 1,353
Commits: 2,974 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libvips/libvips

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #cpp #gif #graphicsmagick #hdr #heic

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-08-29
History: 9 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 83 open

11,735

stars

Forks: 802
Commits: 9,465 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #c89 #gui #header-only #imgui #multiplatform

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 315 open

11,451

stars

Forks: 687
Commits: 2,495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pymumu/smartdns

A local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP for the best Internet experience, support DoT, DoH, DoQ. 一个本地DNS服务器，获取最快的网站IP，获得最佳上网体验，支持DoH，DoT，DoQ。

Stack

C Cargo

GitHub topics

#c #dns #dns-over-https #dns-over-tls #dns-server #dns64

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 318 open

11,308

stars

Forks: 1,246
Commits: 1,169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

krallin/tini

A tiny but valid `init` for containers

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #docker #init #init-system #linux

Updated: 2025-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

11,232

stars

Forks: 547
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fogleman/Craft

A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders).

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #game #glsl #minecraft #multiplayer #opengl

Updated: 2024-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

11,117

stars

Forks: 1,458
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Syllo/nvtop

GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#adreno #amd #apple #ascend #command-line-tool #gpu

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-16
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 140 open

11,089

stars

Forks: 450
Commits: 772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

FFmpeg libav tutorial - learn how media works from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more. Translations: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#codec #ffmpeg #ffmpeg-libraries #libav #transcode-video #tutorial

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-06
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 42 open

11,047

stars

Forks: 1,013
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yugabyte/yugabyte-db

YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

AI dev

Stack

C Cobra Express FastAPI gRPC Go CMake Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cpp #database #distributed-database #distributed-sql #distributed-sql-database

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-28
History: 147 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8,379 open

10,599

stars

Forks: 1,347
Commits: 40,568 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +13 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +160 +0.4%

Website GitHub

Dr-TSNG/ZygiskNext

Standalone implementation of Zygisk

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #kernelsu #magisk

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-14
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

10,595

stars

Forks: 629
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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antimatter15/alpaca.cpp

Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2023-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 133 open

10,110

stars

Forks: 840
Commits: 126 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wireshark/wireshark

Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.

Stack

C Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#packet-capture #stratoshark #tshark #wireshark

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1998-09-16
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

9,940

stars

Forks: 2,219
Commits: 100,257 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

VirusTotal/yara

The pattern matching swiss knife

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-26
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 171 open

9,938

stars

Forks: 1,586
Commits: 3,279 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Flipper-XFW/Xtreme-Firmware

The Dom amongst the Flipper Zero Firmware. Give your Flipper the power and freedom it is really craving. Let it show you its true form. Dont delay, switch to the one and only true Master today!

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#cfw #custom-firmware #flipper-firmware #flipper-zero #flipper-zero-firmware #flipperzero

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 64 open

9,898

stars

Forks: 713
Commits: 11,667 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Next-Flip/Momentum-Firmware

🐬 Feature-rich, stable and customizable Flipper Firmware

AI dev

Stack

C npm pip pnpm

GitHub topics

#custom #custom-firmware #firmware #flipper #flipper-zero #flipper-zero-firmware

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 99 open

9,233

stars

Forks: 593
Commits: 15,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

meetecho/janus-gateway

Janus WebRTC Server

Stack

C npm pip

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

9,168

stars

Forks: 2,628
Commits: 5,841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c

A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 running inference on a single CPU in 8.24 GB of RAM. Portable C99: no BLAS, no framework, no GPU.

Stack

C CMake uv

GitHub topics

#avx2 #c99 #cpu-inference #deep-learning #from-scratch #inference-engine

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-08-01
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

9,076

stars

Forks: 1,482
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

capstone-engine/capstone

Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework for ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Alpha, BPF, Ethereum VM, HPPA, LoongArch, M68K, M680X, Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, RISC-V(rv32G/rv64G), SH, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, TriCore, Webassembly, XCore and X86.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#arm #arm64 #bpf #disassembler #ethereum #framework

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-27
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 352 open

9,071

stars

Forks: 1,733
Commits: 5,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flightlessmango/MangoHud

A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #hud #linux #monitoring #opengl #vulkan

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 332 open

9,001

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 2,592 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pygame/pygame

🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

Stack

C Conan pip

GitHub topics

#game-dev #game-development #gamedev #pygame #python #sdl

Updated: 2025-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-11-08
History: 10 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 797 open

8,953

stars

Forks: 4,239
Commits: 9,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mikebrady/shairport-sync

AirPlay and AirPlay 2 audio player

Stack

GitHub topics

#airplay #airplay-2 #audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #embedded-systems

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-11
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

8,881

stars

Forks: 671
Commits: 6,593 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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n64decomp/sm64

A Super Mario 64 decompilation, brought to you by a bunch of clever folks.

Stack

C PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2024-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-25
History: 1 history point
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: Disabled

8,772

stars

Forks: 1,615
Commits: 30 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

irungentoo/toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

GitHub topics

#str8c #tox

Updated: 2024-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 100 open

8,746

stars

Forks: 1,297
Commits: 3,771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

htop-dev/htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #console #hacktoberfest #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 353 open

8,329

stars

Forks: 637
Commits: 3,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

id-Software/Quake-III-Arena

Quake III Arena GPL Source Release

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-08-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

8,230

stars

Forks: 2,181
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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asmvik/skhd

Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

Stack

Updated: 2025-12-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-08-07
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 152 open

8,117

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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