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a0rtega/pafish

Pafish is a testing tool that uses different techniques to detect virtual machines and malware analysis environments in the same way that malware families do

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#analysis-environments #malware #malware-analysis #malware-families #malware-research #rdtsc

Updated: 2024-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

3,940

stars

Forks: 498
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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citusdata/pg_cron

Run periodic jobs in PostgreSQL

Stack

GitHub topics

#cron #periodic-jobs #postgresql #scheduler

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-20
History: 1 history point
License: PostgreSQL
Issues: 135 open

3,906

stars

Forks: 263
Commits: 346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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NetHack/NetHack

Official NetHack Git Repository

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2002-01-05
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 143 open

3,905

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 19,268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jordansissel/xdotool

fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-22
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 326 open

3,858

stars

Forks: 346
Commits: 687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OpenKinect/libfreenect

Drivers and libraries for the Xbox Kinect device on Windows, Linux, and OS X

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Maven

Updated: 2024-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-10
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 149 open

3,844

stars

Forks: 1,174
Commits: 735 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FelixKratz/JankyBorders

A lightweight window border system for macOS

Stack

GitHub topics

#border #customization #fast #lightweight #macos #tiling-window-manager

Updated: 2026-05-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-11-02
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 74 open

3,815

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ptitSeb/box86

Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#arm #arm-platforms #dynarec #linux #x86

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 186 open

3,814

stars

Forks: 250
Commits: 5,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aubio/aubio

a library for audio and music analysis

Stack

C pytest CMake Meson pip

GitHub topics

#analysis #annotation #audio #beat #c #extraction

Updated: 2026-04-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2004-10-28
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 160 open

3,770

stars

Forks: 428
Commits: 4,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

joncampbell123/dosbox-x

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-08
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 2,056 open

3,763

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 22,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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geany/geany

A fast and lightweight IDE

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#geany #ide #text-editor

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,283 open

3,737

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 10,815 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

blechschmidt/massdns

A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration)

Stack

C CMake pip

GitHub topics

#bulk-dns #dns #dns-bruteforcer #dns-client #dns-lookup #dns-resolution

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,653

stars

Forks: 506
Commits: 318 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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AlexAltea/orbital

Experimental PlayStation 4 emulator

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2024-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

3,649

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unbit/uwsgi

uWSGI application server container

Stack

C Bundler pip

Updated: 2025-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-20
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 895 open

3,547

stars

Forks: 695
Commits: 6,933 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asterisk/asterisk

The official Asterisk Project repository.

Stack

GitHub topics

#asterisk #c #pbx #sip #voip

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-10-08
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 195 open

3,543

stars

Forks: 1,306
Commits: 34,523 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw

GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic 2D games for better compatibility with Windows ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS/Android) and Virtual Machines

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#borderless #compatiblity #d3d9 #ddraw #directdraw #directx

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 102 open

3,529

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 2,828 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ireader/media-server

RTSP/RTP/RTMP/FLV/HLS/MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS/MPEG-DASH/MP4/fMP4/MKV/WebM

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#flv #fmp4 #hls #m3u #m3u8 #mkv

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

3,517

stars

Forks: 1,157
Commits: 1,484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zigzap/zap

blazingly fast backends in zig

Archived

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#api #blazingly #fast #http #rest #zig

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

3,416

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 439 open

3,391

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 14,098 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bvschaik/julius

An open source re-implementation of Caesar III

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#citybuilder #clone #game

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 11 open

3,371

stars

Forks: 440
Commits: 2,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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collectd/collectd

The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Stack

GitHub topics

#amqp-client #c #collectd #cpu-monitoring #graphite-client #influxdb-client

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-02
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 790 open

3,371

stars

Forks: 1,252
Commits: 12,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

libAudioFlux/audioFlux

A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.

Stack

C CMake pip

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-analysis #audio-features #audio-processing #deep-learning #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-03-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-16
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

3,368

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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traviscross/mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 141 open

3,366

stars

Forks: 375
Commits: 984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

id-Software/Quake-2

Quake 2 GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2023-12-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

3,343

stars

Forks: 757
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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Celtoys/Remotery

Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #cpu #cuda #d3d11 #d3d12 #gpu

Updated: 2024-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

3,316

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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basil00/WinDivert

WinDivert: Windows Packet Divert

Stack

GitHub topics

#divert-sockets #firewall #network-programming #packet-capture #packet-sniffer #traffic-analysis

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-19
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 65 open

3,310

stars

Forks: 606
Commits: 280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gpac/gpac

GPAC Ultramedia OSS for Video Streaming & Next-Gen Multimedia Transcoding, Packaging & Delivery

Stack

C Android Gradle npm pip

GitHub topics

#atsc3 #broadcast #cenc #gpac #graphics #hls

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-13
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 56 open

3,308

stars

Forks: 596
Commits: 19,990 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

emersion/mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#cli #notifications #swaywm #wayland

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 134 open

3,247

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sleuthkit/sleuthkit

The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.

AI dev

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#forensics #incident-response #ntfs #sleuthkit #tct

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-28
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 483 open

3,162

stars

Forks: 713
Commits: 10,803 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

tomojitakasu/RTKLIB

No description.

Stack

C .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-29
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 458 open

3,152

stars

Forks: 1,880
Commits: 69 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

irssi/irssi

The client of the future

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#irc #irc-client #irc-protocol #irssi

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-09-03
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 235 open

3,138

stars

Forks: 396
Commits: 6,931 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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