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asg017/sqlite-vec

A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere!

Stack

C FastAPI pytest Starlette Vite Bundler Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#sqlite #sqlite-extension

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-20
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 204 open

8,091

stars

Forks: 349
Commits: 464 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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antirez/disque

Disque is a distributed message broker

Stack

Updated: 2021-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-06
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 59 open

8,074

stars

Forks: 532
Commits: 602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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yarrick/iodine

Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

Stack

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-tunnel #hacktoberfest #iodine #tunnel #vpn

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 25 open

7,980

stars

Forks: 598
Commits: 953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

Stack

C CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#blas #lapack #lapacke

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-24
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 136 open

7,623

stars

Forks: 1,735
Commits: 11,046 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

arkime/arkime

Arkime is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system.

AI dev

Stack

C Express Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #javascript #network-monitoring #nsm #packet-capture

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 39 open

7,519

stars

Forks: 1,171
Commits: 6,751 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mgba-emu/mgba

mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

Stack

C pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-boy #game-boy-advance #game-boy-color #game-boy-emulator #gameboy

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 860 open

7,490

stars

Forks: 1,118
Commits: 9,155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

RubyMetric/chsrc

chsrc 全平台通用换源工具与框架. Change Source everywhere for every software

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#archlinux #brew #c11 #cargo #composer #cpan

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 23 open

6,882

stars

Forks: 285
Commits: 2,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

AFL++ is a state-of-the-art fuzzer, and #1 in benchmarks. It was originally based on AFL. Today it comes with qemu 5.1, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicorn_mode, and a lot more!

Stack

C Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#afl #afl-compiler #afl-fuzz #afl-fuzzer #afl-gcc #fuzz-testing

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-28
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 22 open

6,786

stars

Forks: 1,323
Commits: 8,872 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

beanstalkd/beanstalkd

Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue.

Stack

Updated: 2025-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-21
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 46 open

6,704

stars

Forks: 866
Commits: 849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

uber/h3

Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

Stack

C React CMake Yarn

GitHub topics

#geospatial #h3 #hexagon #spatial-indexing #uber

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-26
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 177 open

6,599

stars

Forks: 632
Commits: 1,495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GNOME/gimp

Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

6,437

stars

Forks: 890
Commits: 59,231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zmap/zmap

ZMap is a fast single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#internet-measurement #internet-scanning #port-scanner #research

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-16
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

6,400

stars

Forks: 988
Commits: 1,419 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

RogueMaster/flipperzero-firmware-wPlugins

RogueMaster Flipper Zero Firmware

AI dev

Stack

C Electron Flask CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#armv7m #ble #bluetooth-low-energy #cfw #custom-firmware #flipper

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-10
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

6,378

stars

Forks: 615
Commits: 61,986 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cmus/cmus

Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

Stack

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 219 open

6,236

stars

Forks: 522
Commits: 2,379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JoeDog/siege

Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility

Stack

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-26
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 146 open

6,216

stars

Forks: 398
Commits: 732 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

tmate-io/tmate

Instant Terminal Sharing

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-07-09
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 129 open

6,127

stars

Forks: 335
Commits: 5,917 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RPISEC/MBE

Course materials for Modern Binary Exploitation by RPISEC

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#ctf #exploitation #wargame

Updated: 2021-12-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-20
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 11 open

6,060

stars

Forks: 911
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

id-Software/Quake

Quake GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2024-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

6,051

stars

Forks: 1,058
Commits: 2 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

tinyproxy/tinyproxy

tinyproxy - a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2000-02-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 144 open

6,005

stars

Forks: 765
Commits: 1,799 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

FeralInteractive/gamemode

Optimise Linux system performance on demand

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#linux #videogames

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-11
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 217 open

6,000

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hishamhm/htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #console-application #freebsd #htop #linux

Updated: 2020-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 315 open

5,888

stars

Forks: 571
Commits: 1,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

edenhill/kcat

Generic command line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-30
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 161 open

5,788

stars

Forks: 498
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

memovai/mimiclaw

MimiClaw: Harness on a $5 chip. No OS(Linux). No Node.js. No Mac mini. No Raspberry Pi. No VPS. Hardware agents OS.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#ai #assistant #clawdbot #edge-ai-agents #memory #openclaw

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

5,747

stars

Forks: 892
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

memononen/nanovg

Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.

Stack

Updated: 2026-02-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 320 open

5,707

stars

Forks: 808
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

andmarti1424/sc-im

sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

Stack

GitHub topics

#console #console-application #ncurses #spreadsheet #terminal #terminal-app

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-10
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 117 open

5,693

stars

Forks: 239
Commits: 1,572 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

eradman/entr

Run arbitrary commands when files change

Stack

GitHub topics

#inotify #kqueue #test-automation

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-07
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

5,687

stars

Forks: 124
Commits: 601 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ptitSeb/box64

Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64, RV64 and LoongArch Linux devices

AI dev

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#arm64 #box64 #dynarec #emulator #linux

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 181 open

5,664

stars

Forks: 475
Commits: 8,999 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mruby/mruby

Lightweight Ruby

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

5,614

stars

Forks: 855
Commits: 21,089 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

justinfrankel/licecap

LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows and OS X

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-16
History: 9 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 100 open

5,599

stars

Forks: 464
Commits: 3,740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #dbus #libnotify #notification-daemon #wayland #x11

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 124 open

5,578

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 2,640 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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