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hacksysteam/HackSysExtremeVulnerableDriver

HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver (HEVD) - Windows & Linux

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#buffer-overflow #driver #exploit-development #exploitation #hevd #info-leak

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-28
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,110

stars

Forks: 586
Commits: 175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

FFTW/fftw3

DO NOT CHECK OUT THESE FILES FROM GITHUB UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (See below.)

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-06-02
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 191 open

3,108

stars

Forks: 722
Commits: 3,196 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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HeyWillow/willow

Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#alexa #deep-learning #echo #esp-adf #esp-idf #esp32

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-31
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

3,105

stars

Forks: 127
Commits: 1,000 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubinius/rubinius

The Rubinius Language Platform

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#programming-languages #rubinius #virtual-machine

Updated: 2025-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-12
History: 6 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 19 open

3,094

stars

Forks: 587
Commits: 25,813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FDH2/UxPlay

AirPlay Unix mirroring server

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

3,017

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 1,489 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strongswan/strongswan

strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN

Stack

C Android Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ikev2 #ipsec #strongswan #vpn #vpn-client #vpn-server

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-11-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 168 open

2,975

stars

Forks: 933
Commits: 20,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite

No description.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-10
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 71 open

2,962

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 227 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kamailio/kamailio

Kamailio - The Open Source SIP Server for large VoIP and real-time communication platforms, focusing on flexibility, security and scalability

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#iot #kamailio #sip #telephony #voip #volte

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2001-09-03
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 25 open

2,949

stars

Forks: 1,135
Commits: 41,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openmv/openmv

OpenMV Camera Module

Stack

C pytest pip

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-13
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 65 open

2,875

stars

Forks: 1,279
Commits: 8,312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ioquake/ioq3

The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#fps #fps-engine #fps-game #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 155 open

2,836

stars

Forks: 623
Commits: 3,795 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coreboot/coreboot

Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.

AI dev

Stack

C Go modules Meson pip

GitHub topics

#bios #c #coreboot #firmware

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,797

stars

Forks: 659
Commits: 65,175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hfiref0x/KDU

Kernel Driver Utility

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#byovd #driver-loader #dse #loader

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,768

stars

Forks: 555
Commits: 249 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine

An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c #game-engine #game-engine-3d #opengl #python #real-time-strategy

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-25
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,760

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 1,889 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DynamoRIO/drmemory

Memory Debugger for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2025-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,047 open

2,755

stars

Forks: 291
Commits: 2,600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rewardone/OSCPRepo

A list of commands, scripts, resources, and more that I have gathered and attempted to consolidate for use as OSCP (and more) study material. Commands in 'Usefulcommands' Keepnote. Bookmarks and reading material in 'BookmarkList' CherryTree. Reconscan Py2 and Py3. Custom ISO building.

Stack

GitHub topics

#oscp #penetration-testing #pentest #reconscan

Updated: 2020-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,753

stars

Forks: 752
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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eth-brownie/brownie

A Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

AI dev

Stack

C pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#ethereum #solidity #vyper #web3py

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-02
History: 40 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 398 open

2,722

stars

Forks: 594
Commits: 4,657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

strace/strace

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

AI dev

Stack

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-02-19
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 109 open

2,715

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 11,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

flame/blis

BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework

Stack

GitHub topics

#blas #blas-libraries #blis #high-performance #high-performance-computing #hpc

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-03
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 136 open

2,693

stars

Forks: 435
Commits: 2,438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

TokTok/c-toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

C CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cryptography #encryption #network #p2p #security #toxcore

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 219 open

2,693

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 5,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pipelinedb/pipelinedb

High-performance time-series aggregation for PostgreSQL

Stack

C pytest pip

GitHub topics

#aggregation #analytics #pipelinedb #postgresql #push #realtime

Updated: 2022-02-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-07
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 133 open

2,664

stars

Forks: 243
Commits: 1,023 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rbsec/sslscan

sslscan tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-11
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 66 open

2,632

stars

Forks: 419
Commits: 777 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server

FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#aaa #arp #authentication #bfd #c #daemon

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 91 open

2,588

stars

Forks: 1,193
Commits: 53,905 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MayaPosch/NymphCast

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.

Stack

C Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#angelscript #audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #casting #nymphcast-server

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-08
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 23 open

2,559

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rspamd/rspamd

Rapid spam filtering system.

AI dev

Stack

C FastAPI CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#c #email #lua #rspamd #spam-filter

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 307 open

2,539

stars

Forks: 484
Commits: 24,285 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

wiseman/py-webrtcvad

Python interface to the WebRTC Voice Activity Detector

Stack

C pip

Updated: 2024-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-23
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 51 open

2,499

stars

Forks: 431
Commits: 79 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom

Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port that is minimalist and historically accurate.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #doom #fps #fps-game #games #gplv2

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-23
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 335 open

2,411

stars

Forks: 718
Commits: 5,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

slembcke/Chipmunk2D

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-physics #c #rigid-body

Updated: 2026-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 69 open

2,410

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 1,477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

EyalAr/lwip

Light Weight Image Processor for NodeJS

Stack

C npm

Updated: 2022-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 123 open

2,354

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 289 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

rsyslog/rsyslog

High-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

AI dev

Stack

C Maven pip

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #kafka #logging #mongodb #rsyslog

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-11-08
History: 8 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 212 open

2,336

stars

Forks: 736
Commits: 21,876 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WireGuard/wireguard-monolithic-historical

Historical monolithic WireGuard repository, split into wireguard-tools, wireguard-linux, and wireguard-linux-compat.

Archived

Stack

C Cargo

Updated: 2019-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-05
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,318

stars

Forks: 296
Commits: 1,390 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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