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Fyyre/UPGDSED

Universal PatchGuard and Driver Signature Enforcement Disable

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bcd #c #driver-signature-enforcement #dse #kernel-patch-protection #kpp

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-24
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

883

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 34 commits
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hfiref0x/UPGDSED

Universal PatchGuard and Driver Signature Enforcement Disable

Archived

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#abandonware #bcd #c #dse #kpp #patchguard

Updated: 2019-03-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-24
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

874

stars

Forks: 263
Commits: 29 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ged/ruby-pg

A PostgreSQL client library for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #client #database #postgresql #rdbms #ruby

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

869

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 2,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nspire-emus/firebird

Multi-platform emulator of TI Nspire calculators

Stack

C++ Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #arm #c #calculator #cpp #emulator

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 89 open

850

stars

Forks: 116
Commits: 1,265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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punesemu/puNES

Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)

Stack

C Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#6502 #c #c-plus-plus #clang #d3d9 #emulation

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 59 open

826

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 2,392 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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intel/libva

Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #va-api #video-api #video-decoding #video-processing #video-recording

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-19
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 223 open

784

stars

Forks: 314
Commits: 1,951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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okbob/plpgsql_check

plpgsql_check is a linter tool (does source code static analyze) for the PostgreSQL language plpgsql (the native language for PostgreSQL store procedures).

Stack

C .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#c #extension #function-plpgsql #linter #pldbgapi #plpgsql

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-25
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

782

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 1,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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bradharding/doomretro

The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#boom #c #doom #doom2 #fps #free-software

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-21
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 107 open

776

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 21,331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mellowcandle/bitwise

Terminal based bit manipulator in ncurses

Stack

GitHub topics

#bitwise #bitwise-operation #c #curses #linux #terminal-app

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-07
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

721

stars

Forks: 31
Commits: 306 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ruby2d/ruby2d

🎨 The Ruby 2D gem

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#2d #c #graphics #opengl #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

700

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 479 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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brackeen/glfm

OpenGL ES and input for iOS, tvOS, Android, and WebGL

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android #c #emscripten #ios #opengles #tvos

Updated: 2025-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-21
History: 5 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 17 open

620

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Unidata/netcdf-c

Official GitHub repository for netCDF-C libraries and utilities.

Stack

C CMake npm

GitHub topics

#c #hacktoberfest #netcdf #unidata #unidata-netcdf

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-03
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 291 open

607

stars

Forks: 306
Commits: 11,595 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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eggheads/eggdrop

The Eggdrop IRC Bot

Stack

C pytest uv

GitHub topics

#bot #c #eggdrop #hacktoberfest #irc #python

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-06-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 241 open

583

stars

Forks: 102
Commits: 3,845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ngircd/ngircd

Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #chat #daemon #internet-relay-chat #irc

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-12-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 32 open

581

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 3,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cfengine/core

CFEngine Community

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#automation #c #cfengine #configuration-management #infrastructure-as-code

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-04
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

538

stars

Forks: 203
Commits: 19,253 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Bigfoot71/r3d

3D Extension Library for raylib

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#3d #c #graphics #pbr #r3d #raylib

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-09
History: 5 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 6 open

533

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 2,134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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deltabeard/Peanut-GB

A very fast and portable Game Boy (DMG) emulator single header library written in C99.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #dmg #emulator-library #gameboy #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-24
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

531

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unrealircd/unrealircd

Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #irc #irc-server #ircd #ircv3 #sasl

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

522

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 10,770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/sedona-db

A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen

Stack

Rust Axum pytest Cargo CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#c #database #geospatial #hacktoberfest #python #r

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-14
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 140 open

513

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MmgTools/mmg

open source software for bidimensional and tridimensional remeshing

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#anisotropic-mesh-adaptation #c #cxx #fortran #isotropic-mesh-adaptation #levelset-discretization

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-10
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 51 open

489

stars

Forks: 138
Commits: 4,607 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ByteCorum/DragonBurn

DragonBurn is CS2(Counter-Strike 2 cheat) kernel-mode read-only external cheat. Undetected by all anti-cheats except Faceit.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #cheat #counter-strike #counter-strike-2 #cpp #cs2

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-03-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 10 open

382

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

20urc3/Sekiryu

Comprehensive toolkit for Ghidra headless.

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#binary #binary-exploitation #c #cpp #ghidra #ghidra-decompiler

Updated: 2025-04-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-06
History: 124 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3 open

360

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

omdxp/fun

Fun is a statically-typed language that transpiles to C, combining safety and performance with C's efficiency.

Stack

TypeScript Express React Vite Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#c #compiler #fun #programming-language

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

322

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 1,670 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AntonioND/gbt-player

A music player library for the PSG audio channels of the GB, GBC and GBA.

Stack

GitHub topics

#assembly #assembly-language #c #demoscene #developer-tools #gameboy

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

305

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tek256/astera

A C99 Cross Platform 2D Game Library

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#2d-game-library #c #cmake #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

301

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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coala/coala-bears

Bears for coala

Stack

Python Bundler Composer npm

GitHub topics

#c #code-analysis #generic #hacktoberfest #java #languages

Updated: 2022-10-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-16
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 690 open

297

stars

Forks: 570
Commits: 1,529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AbyssEngine/AbyssEngine

Abyss Engine clean-room reimplementation of Diablo 2, written in C. The goal is to recreate the original game engine, but on a portable platform that can also easily be modded and extended.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #diablo #diablo2 #game-engine

Updated: 2024-04-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-04-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

290

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 72 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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1hAck-0/UE4-Cheat-Source-Code

This a small cheat menu for Sword With Sauce (a UE4 game) that I made in a week or so. The reason why I am sharing the project is that it is probably one of the best sources to learn UE game hacking from. The project has many comments.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aimbot #c #cheat #code #cpp #engine

Updated: 2022-01-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-08
History: 5 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 2 open

280

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 3 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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aurelian/ruby-stemmer

Expose libstemmer_c to Ruby

Archived

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#c #ruby #ruby-extension #rubynpl #stemmer

Updated: 2022-05-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-10-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

249

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kristoff-it/redis-cuckoofilter

Hashing-function agnostic Cuckoo filters for Redis

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#bloom-filter #c #cuckoo-filter #probabilistic-data-structures #redis #zig

Updated: 2020-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

233

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 50 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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