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103 repositories•2,485,902 total stars
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#1
torvalds/linux
Linux kernel source tree
C
188,042
55,183
#2
Genymobile/scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
C
117,816
11,137
#3
netdata/netdata
Architected for speed. Automated for easy. Monitoring and troubleshooting, transformed!
C
73,535
6,015
#4
redis/redis
Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.
C
68,044
23,895
#5
ventoy/Ventoy
A new bootable USB solution.
C
64,902
4,183
#6
obsproject/obs-studio
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
C
62,324
8,201
#7
git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
C
53,575
25,910
#8
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
C
47,895
12,402
#9
php/php-src
The PHP Interpreter
C
38,684
7,812
#10
wg/wrk
Modern HTTP benchmarking tool
C
38,420
2,966
#11
curl/curl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
C
36,864
6,573
#12
tmux/tmux
tmux source code
C
36,527
2,165
#13
bilibili/ijkplayer
Android/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.4, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support.
C
32,741
8,160
#14
lizongying/my-tv
我的电视 电视直播软件，安装即可使用
C
31,772
3,566
#15
jqlang/jq
Command-line JSON processor
C
31,224
1,608
#16
coolsnowwolf/lede
Lean's LEDE source
C
30,336
19,565
#17
pbatard/rufus
The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
C
30,298
2,677
#18
mpv-player/mpv
🎥 Command line video player
C
29,723
2,978
#19
nothings/stb
stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
C
27,893
7,765
#20
cfenollosa/os-tutorial
How to create an OS from scratch
C
27,849
3,344
#21
openssl/openssl
TLS/SSL and crypto library
C
26,717
10,329
#22
ggreer/the_silver_searcher
A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
C
26,357
1,433
#23
ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
C
26,353
1,962
#24
nginx/nginx
The official NGINX Open Source repository.
C
26,052
7,157
#25
valinet/ExplorerPatcher
This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
C
26,044
1,096
#26
pjreddie/darknet
Convolutional Neural Networks
C
26,020
21,332
#27
raysan5/raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
C
25,305
2,441
#28
kingToolbox/WindTerm
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal.
C
25,282
1,956
#29
koekeishiya/yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
C
25,154
664
#30
libuv/libuv
Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
C
24,929
3,661
#31
facebook/zstd
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
C
24,496
2,195
#32
robertdavidgraham/masscan
TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.
C
24,172
3,104
#33
taosdata/TDengine
High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios
C
23,630
4,892
#34
arendst/Tasmota
Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at
C
22,916
4,876
#35
hashcat/hashcat
World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
C
22,136
3,007
#36
openwrt/openwrt
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
C
21,760
10,925
#37
SamyPesse/How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-System
How to Make a Computer Operating System in C++
C
21,693
3,445
#38
julycoding/The-Art-Of-Programming-By-July-2nd
本项目曾冲到全球第一，干货集锦见本页面最底部，另完整精致的纸质版《编程之法：面试和算法心得》已在京东/当当上销售
C
21,394
7,078
#39
radareorg/radare2
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
C
21,293
3,055
#40
iovisor/bcc
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
C
21,041
3,937
#41
micropython/micropython
MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
C
20,009
8,022
#42
gentilkiwi/mimikatz
A little tool to play with Windows security
C
19,868
3,814
#43
TheAlgorithms/C
Collection of various algorithms in mathematics, machine learning, computer science, physics, etc implemented in C for educational purposes.
C
19,828
4,473
#44
jarun/nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
C
19,796
767
#45
Awesome-HarmonyOS/HarmonyOS
A curated list of awesome things related to HarmonyOS. 华为鸿蒙操作系统。
C
19,512
3,308
#46
valkey-io/valkey
A flexible distributed key-value datastore that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.
C
19,370
742
#47
allinurl/goaccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
C
19,078
1,126
#48
jart/cosmopolitan
build-once run-anywhere c library
C
19,047
667
#49
HandBrake/HandBrake
HandBrake's main development repository
C
18,958
1,398
#50
qmk/qmk_firmware
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
C
18,830
40,787
#51
DarkFlippers/unleashed-firmware
Flipper Zero Unleashed Firmware
C
18,773
1,552
#52
lvgl/lvgl
Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.
C
18,558
3,483
#53
timescale/timescaledb
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
C
18,519
916
#54
karpathy/llama2.c
Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C
C
18,142
2,208
#55
ish-app/ish
Linux shell for iOS
C
17,719
984
#56
postgres/postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
C
17,013
4,790
#57
woltapp/blurhash
A very compact representation of a placeholder for an image.
C
16,115
368
#58
ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
C
15,952
616
#59
skywind3000/kcp
:zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol
C
15,835
2,531
#60
NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source
C
15,599
1,356
#61
ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly
C
15,243
906
#62
reactos/reactos
A free Windows-compatible Operating System
C
15,124
1,798
#63
swaywm/sway
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
C
15,076
1,132
#64
videolan/vlc
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
C
15,035
5,182
#65
UberGuidoZ/Flipper
Playground (and dump) of stuff I make or modify for the Flipper Zero
C
14,881
3,439
#66
espressif/esp-idf
Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
C
14,664
7,518
#67
sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie
Sandboxie Plus & Classic
C
14,603
1,641
#68
pgvector/pgvector
Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
C
14,497
693
#69
sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
SumatraPDF reader
C
14,383
1,769
#70
tursodatabase/libsql
libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.
C
13,967
359
#71
gojue/ecapture
Capturing SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF. Supported on Linux/Android kernels for amd64/arm64.
C
13,962
1,477
#72
SpacehuhnTech/esp8266_deauther
Affordable WiFi hacking platform for testing and learning
C
13,868
2,669
#73
systemd/systemd
The systemd System and Service Manager
C
13,865
3,918
#74
flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware
Flipper Zero firmware source code
C
13,820
2,894
#75
davatorium/rofi
Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
C
13,790
629
#76
memcached/memcached
memcached development tree
C
13,740
3,298
#77
acidanthera/OpenCorePkg
OpenCore bootloader
C
13,731
2,132
#78
vurtun/nuklear
A single-header ANSI C gui library
C
13,729
1,113
#79
arut/nginx-rtmp-module
NGINX-based Media Streaming Server
C
13,664
3,548
#80
glfw/glfw
A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
C
13,546
5,437
#81
cloudwu/skynet
A lightweight online game framework
C
13,509
4,222
#82
s-matyukevich/raspberry-pi-os
Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
C
13,380
1,302
#83
ImageMagick/ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a powerful, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats. Ideal for web developers, graphic designers, and researchers, it offers versatile tools for image processing, including batch processing, format conversion, and complex image transformations.
C
13,036
1,403
#84
peng-zhihui/Dummy-Robot
我的超迷你机械臂机器人项目。
C
12,972
2,837
#85
alibaba/tengine
A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features
C
12,919
2,516
#86
openresty/openresty
High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT
C
12,888
1,561
#87
haiwen/seafile
High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.
C
12,812
1,564
#88
fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.
C
12,790
481
#89
jonas/tig
Text-mode interface for git
C
12,628
627
#90
jedisct1/libsodium
A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
C
12,559
1,760
#91
octalmage/robotjs
Node.js Desktop Automation.
C
12,488
980
#92
nicbarker/clay
High performance UI layout library in C.
C
12,245
431
#93
twitter/twemproxy
A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis
C
12,216
2,054
#94
SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN
Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.
C
12,076
2,631
#95
coturn/coturn
coturn TURN server project
C
11,988
2,081
#96
google/sanitizers
AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, MemorySanitizer
C
11,815
1,058
#97
libsdl-org/SDL
Simple Directmedia Layer
C
11,649
2,045
#98
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
C
11,601
7,052
#99
EZLippi/Tinyhttpd
Tinyhttpd 是J. David Blackstone在1999年写的一个不到 500 行的超轻量型 Http Server，用来学习非常不错，可以帮助我们真正理解服务器程序的本质。官网:http://tinyhttpd.sourceforge.net
C
11,580
3,952
#100
OpenVPN/openvpn
OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
C
11,512
3,081

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