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3proxy/3proxy

3proxy - tiny free proxy server

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#accounting #c #https-proxy #ipv6 #network-management #network-security

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 28 open

5,511

stars

Forks: 934
Commits: 1,181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Netflix/vmaf

Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

Stack

C Meson PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 123 open

5,484

stars

Forks: 833
Commits: 2,281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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coreutils/coreutils

Public mirror. Pull requests and Issues accepted

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1992-10-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

5,309

stars

Forks: 1,081
Commits: 31,789 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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visit1985/mdp

A command-line based markdown presentation tool.

Stack

GitHub topics

#command-line #markdown #presentation

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

5,282

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lxc/lxc

LXC - Linux Containers

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #containers #hacktoberfest #lxc

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 160 open

5,269

stars

Forks: 1,181
Commits: 12,076 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gluster/glusterfs

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #distributed-systems #erasure-coding #filesystem #fuse-filesystem #gluster

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 328 open

5,259

stars

Forks: 1,106
Commits: 16,883 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

abishekvashok/cmatrix

Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #matrix #screensaver

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-23
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 83 open

5,249

stars

Forks: 546
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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signalwire/freeswitch

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a versatile software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. From a Raspberry PI to a multi-core server, FreeSWITCH can unlock the telecommunications potential of any device.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#freeswitch #iot #open-source #signalwire #sip #source-code

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-29
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,266 open

5,232

stars

Forks: 1,885
Commits: 36,206 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

XProger/OpenLara

Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#openlara #tombraider

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-13
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 164 open

5,081

stars

Forks: 411
Commits: 1,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NLnetLabs/unbound

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#dns #dns-privacy #dnssec #recursor #resolver

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-01-03
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 396 open

4,981

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 8,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

google/pebble

This is the latest version of the internal repository from Pebble Technology providing the software to run on Pebble watches. Proprietary source code has been removed from this repository and it will not compile as-is. This is for information only.

Stack

C Bundler Conan npm

Updated: 2025-02-25
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-12-13
History: 42 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

4,961

stars

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

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openvenues/libpostal

A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#address #address-parser #c #deduping #deduplication #international

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 299 open

4,912

stars

Forks: 474
Commits: 5,501 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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86Box/86Box

Emulator of x86-based machines.

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #ibm #pc-emulator #x86

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 16 open

4,888

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 24,025 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/age

Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.

Stack

C Go modules Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#age-database #agensgraph #analytics #graph-database #graphdb #multi-model-dbms

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-17
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 257 open

4,881

stars

Forks: 532
Commits: 900 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nbs-system/naxsi

NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX

Archived

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #naxsi #nginx #waf

Updated: 2023-11-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-28
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,806

stars

Forks: 594
Commits: 761 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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snesrev/zelda3

No description.

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2023-12-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-11
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 89 open

4,758

stars

Forks: 433
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

microshow/RxFFmpeg

🔥💥RxFFmpeg 是基于 ( FFmpeg 4.0 + X264 + mp3lame + fdk-aac + opencore-amr + openssl ) 编译的适用于 Android 平台的音视频编辑、视频剪辑的快速处理框架，包含以下功能：视频拼接，转码，压缩，裁剪，片头片尾，分离音视频，变速，添加静态贴纸和gif动态贴纸，添加字幕，添加滤镜，添加背景音乐，加速减速视频，倒放音视频，音频裁剪，变声，混音，图片合成视频，视频解码图片，抖音首页，视频播放器及支持 OpenSSL https 等主流特色功能

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #arm64-v8a #armeabi-v7a #encoder-decoder #fdk-aac #ffmpeg

Updated: 2023-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-10
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 201 open

4,742

stars

Forks: 779
Commits: 358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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giltene/wrk2

A constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk

Stack

Updated: 2024-03-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-18
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 105 open

4,632

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

coolwanglu/vim.js

JavaScript port of Vim

Archived

Stack

C npm

Updated: 2016-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-27
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 18 open

4,440

stars

Forks: 265
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Gnucash/gnucash

GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 1997-11-01
History: 69 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

4,378

stars

Forks: 994
Commits: 30,623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

kohler/gifsicle

Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations

Stack

Updated: 2026-01-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-03-01
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 29 open

4,320

stars

Forks: 256
Commits: 899 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eunomia-bpf/bpf-developer-tutorial

eBPF Developer Tutorial: Learning eBPF Step by Step with Examples

AI dev

Stack

C Cargo

GitHub topics

#bpf #ebpf #examples #libbpf #tutorial #xdp

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-02
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

4,295

stars

Forks: 603
Commits: 323 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

F-Stack/f-stack

F-Stack is an user space network development kit with high performance based on DPDK, FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and coroutine API.

Stack

C Meson Poetry

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-14
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

4,255

stars

Forks: 964
Commits: 1,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

google/AFL

american fuzzy lop - a security-oriented fuzzer

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2021-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-25
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 66 open

4,197

stars

Forks: 672
Commits: 53 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tanersener/mobile-ffmpeg

FFmpeg for Android, iOS and tvOS. Not maintained anymore. Superseded by FFmpegKit.

Archived

Stack

C Android CMake CocoaPods .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#android #ffmpeg #fontconfig #freetype #fribidi #gmp

Updated: 2025-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,140

stars

Forks: 893
Commits: 831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HyperDbg/HyperDbg

State-of-the-art native debugging tools

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#anti-debug #anti-debugging #anti-virtualization #binary-analysis #debug #debugger

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

4,131

stars

Forks: 514
Commits: 3,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

timescale/pg_textsearch

PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search. Postgres OSS licensed.

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bm25 #c-extension #full-text-search #postgresql

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-09-05
History: 137 history points
License: PostgreSQL
Issues: 30 open

4,032

stars

Forks: 123
Commits: 349 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +10 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +4 +1.2%

GitHub

icholy/ttygif

Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs

Stack

GitHub topics

#gifs #terminal

Updated: 2025-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

4,012

stars

Forks: 247
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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apache/guacamole-server

The Apache Guacamole proxy daemon (guacd), C API (libguac), and protocol support.

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #guacamole #java #javascript #network-client #network-server

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-08
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

4,001

stars

Forks: 812
Commits: 4,372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ChefKissInc/Inferno

Apple Silicon device emulator.

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#apple #apple-silicon #emulation #emulator #ios #iphone

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 36 open

3,962

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 125,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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