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htop-dev/htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #console #hacktoberfest #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 353 open

8,329

stars

Forks: 637
Commits: 3,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Qiskit/qiskit

Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.

Stack

Python Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c #python #qiskit #quantum #quantum-circuit #quantum-computing

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 12 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,033 open

7,874

stars

Forks: 3,078
Commits: 10,670 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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arkime/arkime

Arkime is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system.

AI dev

Stack

C Express Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #javascript #network-monitoring #nsm #packet-capture

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 39 open

7,519

stars

Forks: 1,171
Commits: 6,751 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hishamhm/htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #console-application #freebsd #htop #linux

Updated: 2020-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 315 open

5,888

stars

Forks: 571
Commits: 1,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #dbus #libnotify #notification-daemon #wayland #x11

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 124 open

5,578

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 2,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

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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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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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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google/open-location-code

Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.

Stack

Java Android Bundler Cargo Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#c #cplusplus #dart #geo #golang #gps

Updated: 2026-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-27
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

4,364

stars

Forks: 532
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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

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

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

mitchellh/libxev

libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + WASI. Available as both a Zig and C API.

Stack

Zig Next.js React npm

GitHub topics

#async #c #epoll #io-uring #kqueue #wasi

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

3,586

stars

Forks: 192
Commits: 591 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

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

zephir-lang/zephir

Zephir is a compiled high-level language aimed to ease the creation of C-extensions for PHP

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#c #hacktoberfest #phalcon #php #php-extension #php-extensions

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

3,382

stars

Forks: 460
Commits: 6,742 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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

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%

GitHub

BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

Transform ML models into a native code (Java, C, Python, Go, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, R, PowerShell, PHP, Dart, Haskell, Ruby, F#, Rust) with zero dependencies

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #csharp #dartlang #go #haskell #java

Updated: 2024-08-03
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

3,001

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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

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

GitHub

teeworlds/teeworlds

A retro multiplayer shooter

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #game #linux #macos #multiplayer

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-22
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 361 open

2,646

stars

Forks: 655
Commits: 6,560 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website 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

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

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

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

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