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sarah-walker-pcem/pcem

PCem

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 128 open

1,944

stars

Forks: 253
Commits: 1,992 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fabric8io/docker-maven-plugin

Maven plugin for running and creating Docker images

Stack

Java Spring Boot CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#docker #fabric8 #java #maven

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-26
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 519 open

1,931

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 2,465 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mgerdes/Open-Golf

A cross-platform minigolf game written in C.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android #c #game #game-dev #game-development #gamedev

Updated: 2024-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-24
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strukturag/libde265

Open h.265 video codec implementation.

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-26
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

1,913

stars

Forks: 496
Commits: 2,549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Reference-LAPACK/lapack

LAPACK development repository

Stack

Fortran CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#blas #eigenvalues #eigenvectors #lapack #lapacke #linear-algebra

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-28
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 159 open

1,910

stars

Forks: 517
Commits: 4,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pioneerspacesim/pioneer

A game of lonely space adventure

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#3d #elite #exploration #frontier #game #newtonian

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-06-24
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 335 open

1,909

stars

Forks: 412
Commits: 22,335 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

baidu/tera

An Internet-Scale Database.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#baidu #bigtable #c-plus-plus #data #database #hbase

Updated: 2024-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-26
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,904

stars

Forks: 432
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OpenLoco/OpenLoco

An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #game #hacktoberfest #help-wanted #linux

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 458 open

1,903

stars

Forks: 220
Commits: 4,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lightspark/lightspark

An open source flash player implementation

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 77 open

1,899

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 9,681 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dphnAI/sonar

Large-scale LLM inference engine

AI dev

Stack

Python Astro Axum FastAPI pytest Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#api-rest #cuda #inference-engine #inferentia #intel #lora

Updated: 2026-10-18
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 71 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 56 open

1,877

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 2,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +6 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mlc-ai/xgrammar

Fast, Flexible and Portable Structured Generation

Stack

C++ pytest Ruby on Rails Bundler CMake npm

GitHub topics

#large-language-models #structured-generation

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-30
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 92 open

1,868

stars

Forks: 197
Commits: 532 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toggl-open-source/toggldesktop

Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#desktop #linux #macos #objective-c #poco #qt

Updated: 2023-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

1,867

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 10,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LadybugDB/ladybug

LadybugDB a graph database

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#code-knowledge-base #code-knowledge-graph #cypher #cypher-query-language #database #graph

Updated: 2026-10-18
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-26
History: 138 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 112 open

1,857

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 6,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +20 +1.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +78 +1.2%

Website GitHub

mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 52 open

1,852

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 6,773 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BobbyAnguelov/Esoterica

Esoterica Engine

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#animation #ecs #game #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-15
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

1,848

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenSCAP/openscap

NIST Certified SCAP 1.2 toolkit

Stack

XSLT CMake

GitHub topics

#compliance #cpe #data-stream #openscap #oval #scanning

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-03
History: 1 history point
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 58 open

1,828

stars

Forks: 451
Commits: 11,774 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pelicanmapping/osgearth

3D Maps & Terrain SDK (C++)

AI dev

Stack

C CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #cpp17 #gis #maps #opengl #openscenegraph

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-03
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

1,810

stars

Forks: 849
Commits: 16,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

0vercl0k/wtf

wtf is a distributed, code-coverage guided, customizable, cross-platform snapshot-based fuzzer designed for attacking user and / or kernel-mode targets running on Microsoft Windows and Linux user-mode (experimental!).

Stack

C++ pytest Tornado Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#bochs #bochscpu #code-coverage #fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

1,808

stars

Forks: 155
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pencil2d/pencil

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#animation #bitmap #cartoon #cplusplus #drawing #graphics2d

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 209 open

1,806

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 5,343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simsong/tcpflow

TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. Download from:

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#digital-forensics #forensics #tcp-protocol #tcpip

Updated: 2026-01-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 74 open

1,778

stars

Forks: 245
Commits: 802 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dphnAI/aphrodite-engine

Large-scale LLM inference engine

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro FastAPI Flask pytest CMake pip pnpm

GitHub topics

#api-rest #cuda #inference-engine #inferentia #intel #lora

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-23
History: 4 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 126 open

1,771

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 1,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter

A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

Stack

C CMake Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#c #libxlsxwriter #spreadsheet #xlsx #xlsx-files #xlsxwriter

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

1,760

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 1,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ycm-core/ycmd

A code-completion & code-comprehension server

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#code-analysis #code-completion #editor #semantic-engine

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-13
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

1,740

stars

Forks: 776
Commits: 3,356 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dealii/dealii

The development repository for the deal.II finite element library

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fem #finite-elements #hpc #kokkos #parallel-computing

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-11-24
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 534 open

1,738

stars

Forks: 869
Commits: 68,359 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

GitHub

Haoming02/sd-webui-forge-classic

The good ol' Forge WebUI, now updated with new features~

Stack

Python FastAPI CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ai #generative-ai #pytorch #stable-diffusion #stable-diffusion-webui #stable-diffusion-webui-forge

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-22
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 13 open

1,723

stars

Forks: 227
Commits: 9,619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

openappsec/openappsec

open-appsec is a machine learning security engine that preemptively and automatically prevents threats against Web Application & APIs. This repo include the main code and logic.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#api-security #application-security #appsec #devsecops #kong #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-26
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

1,717

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

4paradigm/OpenMLDB

OpenMLDB is an open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform computing consistent features for training and inference.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake Go modules Maven

GitHub topics

#database-for-ai #database-for-machine-learning #feature-engineering #feature-extraction #feature-store #featureops

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 410 open

1,715

stars

Forks: 331
Commits: 14,868 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bwapi/bwapi

Brood War API

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#ai #brood-war-api #broodwar #bwapi #c-plus-plus #game

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 129 open

1,702

stars

Forks: 297
Commits: 2,647 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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