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jtesta/ssh-mitm

SSH man-in-the-middle tool

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#hacking #man-in-the-middle #man-in-the-middle-attack #mitm #penetration-testing #ssh

Updated: 2021-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-16
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,741

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gamelinux/passivedns

A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup

Stack

Updated: 2024-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-29
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 38 open

1,735

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HypoPG/hypopg

Hypothetical Indexes for PostgreSQL

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #database #extension #hypothetical-indexes #index #indexing

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-12
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8 open

1,728

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

leo-arch/clifm

💾 The shell-like, command-line terminal file manager

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#autosuggestion #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #console

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-19
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

1,726

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 10,465 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

oxters168/Pluvia

Lightweight unofficial Steam client for Android

Stack

C CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #steam #winlator

Updated: 2026-02-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-10-05
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 77 open

1,724

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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EnterpriseDB/repmgr

A lightweight replication manager for PostgreSQL (Postgres)

Stack

GitHub topics

#autofailover #cluster #failover #ha #postgres #postgresql

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-17
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 139 open

1,718

stars

Forks: 262
Commits: 1,986 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mptre/yank

Yank terminal output to clipboard

Stack

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-24
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,713

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TorqueGameEngines/Torque2D

A completely free, open-source, 2D game engine built on proven torque technology.

AI dev

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,702

stars

Forks: 141
Commits: 1,623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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taisei-project/taisei

A free and open-source Touhou Project fangame

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #danmaku #game #glsl #opengl #sdl

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-12
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,616

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 4,723 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ARM-software/CMSIS_5

CMSIS Version 5 Development Repository

Archived

Stack

C pip

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-18
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 217 open

1,600

stars

Forks: 1,098
Commits: 3,264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

freeciv/freeciv

Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. Upstream repository for the standalone Freeciv client and server. Report bugs and submit patches at https://redmine.freeciv.org/projects/freeciv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#freeciv

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-03-09
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

1,591

stars

Forks: 291
Commits: 32,602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

angband/angband

A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#angband #c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-23
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 228 open

1,569

stars

Forks: 393
Commits: 10,627 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bmax121/KernelPatch

Patching and hooking the Linux kernel with only a stripped Linux kernel image.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android-root #hijack #inline-hook #kernel-security #kernelpatch #syscall-hook

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 57 open

1,567

stars

Forks: 394
Commits: 413 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core

Core module of the Mupen64Plus project

Stack

GitHub topics

#emulation #n64

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-02
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 205 open

1,562

stars

Forks: 281
Commits: 2,756 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xMasterX/all-the-plugins

Big apps pack with builds for latest flipper UL firmware

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#faps #flipper #flipper-plugins #flipper-zero #flipper-zero-firmware #flipperzero

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-28
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

1,553

stars

Forks: 176
Commits: 1,810 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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solusipse/fiche

Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output.

Stack

Updated: 2023-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

1,550

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenSIPS/opensips

OpenSIPS is a GPL implementation of a multi-functionality SIP Server that targets to deliver a high-level technical solution (performance, security and quality) to be used in professional SIP server platforms.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 321 open

1,543

stars

Forks: 688
Commits: 20,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bloomberg/comdb2

Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS

AI dev

Stack

C Bundler CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-17
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 310 open

1,530

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 5,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Audio4Linux/JDSP4Linux

An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

Stack

C Qt CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#audio #dsp #effects #equalizer #gst #gst-plugin

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-02
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 71 open

1,523

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 1,111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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skaiworldwide-oss/agensgraph

AgensGraph, a transactional graph database based on PostgreSQL

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#enterprise #graph-database #graphdb #multi-model-database #nosql #postgresql

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 147 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 141 open

1,511

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 62,439 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

adsr/phpspy

low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP 7+

Stack

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #performance #php #profiler

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-08
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

1,501

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 261 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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jtheoof/swappy

A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Stack

C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#annotation-tool #screenshot #snappy #snapshot #sway #wayland

Updated: 2025-12-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

1,497

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brianmario/yajl-ruby

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,489

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

celluloid-player/celluloid

A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #celluloid #gnome-mpv #gtk #gtk4

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 291 open

1,466

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 1,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NightDive-Studio/shockmac

System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release)

Stack

Updated: 2018-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-05
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

1,465

stars

Forks: 184
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64

No description.

Stack

C pip

Updated: 2021-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

1,459

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 73,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tmewett/BrogueCE

Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game

Stack

GitHub topics

#brogue #dungeon #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-01
History: 1 history point
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 211 open

1,455

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 948 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/cloudberry

One advanced and mature open-source MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) database. Open source alternative to Greenplum Database.

Stack

C pytest Starlette CMake Maven Meson

GitHub topics

#ai #big-data #c #cloudberry #data-analysis #data-warehouse

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 251 open

1,423

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 78,254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Jafaral/bmon

bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Stack

GitHub topics

#monitoring #network #network-analysis #network-monitoring #networking

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-05
History: 51 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 37 open

1,393

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 203 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -2 -0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

hapostgres/pg_auto_failover

Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability

Stack

C CMake Meson npm

GitHub topics

#auto-failover #high-availability #postgres #postgresql #postgresql-extension

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-02
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 111 open

1,392

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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