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• eczarny/spectacleSpectacle is a free Mac app that snaps windows into preset positions — halves, thirds, corners, full screen —
• neovim/nvim-lspconfignvim-lspconfig is a Neovim plugin with pre-built configurations for hundreds of language servers, giving your
• apache/incubator-weexWeex is a framework for building Android, iOS, and mobile web apps from a single codebase using Vue-like synta
• evilsocket/opensnitchOpenSnitch is a Linux application firewall that prompts you whenever any program tries to connect to the inter
• nvidia/tensorrt-llmTensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's toolkit for running AI language models faster on NVIDIA GPUs by compiling them into a
• radarr/radarrRadarr is a self-hosted app that automatically finds, downloads, and organizes movies from Usenet and BitTorre
• projectdiscovery/subfinderSubfinder is a fast command-line tool that discovers subdomains of a target domain by querying public internet
• nevamind-ai/memuA Python library that gives AI agents persistent long-term memory, storing facts and preferences in a linked g
• sql-js/sql.jssql.js is a JavaScript library that runs a full SQLite database entirely inside a web browser or Node.js using
• tianxingchen/embodied-ai-guideA Chinese-language encyclopedia and hands-on guide for embodied AI — robots that perceive and act in the physi
• codesandbox/codesandbox-clientAn online code editor that runs entirely in a browser, letting you start a web project in seconds, see a live
• casdoor/casdoorA self-hosted login and access control server that handles authentication for all your apps in one place, supp
• semaphoreui/semaphoreA browser-based dashboard for running Ansible, Terraform, and other DevOps automation tasks on demand or on a
• sawyerhood/draw-a-uiA demo app that turns a hand-drawn wireframe sketch into a working HTML page styled with Tailwind CSS, using G
• lucksiege/pictureselectorAn Android library that adds a fully-featured image, video, and audio picker to your app with cropping, compre
• isl-org/open3dAn open-source library for processing and visualizing 3D data — point clouds, scene reconstruction, surface al
• krasimir/react-in-patternsA free online book covering the recurring patterns experienced developers use to structure React applications,
• sakanaai/ai-scientistA system that uses large language models to automate the full scientific research cycle — generating hypothese
• tmuxinator/tmuxinatorA Ruby tool that recreates your full terminal workspace from a YAML config file, opening the right tmux window
• anarios/return-youtube-dislikeA browser extension that restores the hidden dislike count on YouTube videos using archived data and crowd-sou
• juicedata/juicefsA distributed file system that lets applications use cloud object storage like Amazon S3 as a regular local di
• facebook/watchmanA background service from Meta that monitors files and folders for changes and triggers automated actions — li
• bolshchikov/js-must-watchA curated list of essential JavaScript conference talks from 2012 to 2020, covering the event loop, React, Red
• lgvalle/material-animationsA reference guide for Android's built-in Transition Framework with code samples and animated GIFs showing how
• lokesh/color-thiefA dependency-free JavaScript library that extracts the dominant color or a full palette from any image, workin
• mytechnotalent/reverse-engineeringA free, structured curriculum for learning reverse engineering across five CPU architectures — starting from b
• xpzouying/xiaohongshu-mcpA connector that lets AI assistants automate Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) — publishing posts, searching conte
• nexe/nexeA command-line tool that packages a Node.js application and the Node.js runtime into a single executable file
• python-pillow/pillowPillow is the most-used Python image library, letting you open, resize, crop, convert, filter, and composite i
• thephpleague/flysystemFlysystem is a PHP library that gives your app one consistent API for reading, writing, and managing files reg
• philipwalton/flexbugsFlexbugs is a community reference listing 17 confirmed CSS flexbox browser bugs with plain-English explanation
• postmanlabs/httpbinHttpbin is a web service that accepts any HTTP request and returns a JSON description of what it received — he
• divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-uiDiffusion Bee is a free macOS desktop app for generating AI images using Stable Diffusion entirely on your own
• alchaincyf/huashu-designHuashu Design is a skill for AI coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor that turns plain-English descriptions
• benbjohnson/litestreamLitestream is a background tool that continuously backs up a SQLite database to Amazon S3 or another location
• louischatriot/nedbNeDB is a lightweight embedded JavaScript database with a MongoDB-like API that runs inside Node.js, Electron,
• data-centric-ai-community/fg-data-profilingfg-data-profiling (formerly ydata-profiling and pandas-profiling) generates a thorough HTML or JSON analysis r
• gizak/termuitermui is a Go library for building interactive terminal dashboards with charts, tables, progress bars, and ot
• vlucas/phpdotenvPHP library that reads a .env file and loads configuration values like passwords and API keys into your app as
• tuhdo/os01A free book that teaches you to build a working operating system from scratch, covering x86 hardware, assembly
• hq450/fancyssA plugin for ASUS, Merlin, and OpenWrt home routers that routes your entire home network through proxy protoco
• myspaghetti/macos-virtualboxA single shell script that automatically downloads a genuine macOS installer from Apple and creates a working
• tink-crypto/tinkA cryptography library from Google that makes encryption, signing, and key management easy to do safely across
• rathole-org/ratholeA fast, lightweight tunnel tool that makes a device or service hidden behind a home router reachable from the
• browserslist/browserslistA shared config standard that lets you write your target browser list once and have multiple front-end build t
• ag-ui-protocol/ag-uiAn open protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to user-facing apps, defining around 16 event types s
• fluent/fluentdAn open-source log collector that gathers events from many apps and machines and routes them to databases, clo
• redis/redis-pyThe official Python library for connecting to a Redis server, letting you store and retrieve data, use data st
• librespark/libretvLibreTV is a free, self-hosted web app that searches third-party video sources and plays results in your brows
• babalae/better-genshin-impactBetterGI automates repetitive Genshin Impact tasks — fishing, daily chores, farming, crafting — using computer
• sidekiq/sidekiqSidekiq lets Ruby and Rails apps run slow tasks — sending emails, resizing images, processing uploads — in the
• microsoft/loraLoRA is a technique for cheaply adapting large pre-trained AI models to new tasks by training only tiny add-on
• tencent/secguideTencent's SecGuide gives developers a practical, language-by-language checklist for avoiding common security b
• cookiecutter/cookiecutter-djangoCookiecutter Django generates a fully wired-up, production-ready Django project in minutes by asking you setup
• php-cs-fixer/php-cs-fixerPHP CS Fixer automatically rewrites PHP code to match your chosen coding style — it finds formatting rule viol
• alexta69/metubeMeTube is a self-hosted web interface for yt-dlp that lets you download videos and audio from YouTube and hund
• yusufkaraaslan/skill_seekersSkill Seekers converts docs from websites, PDFs, GitHub repos, YouTube videos, and 14 other sources into struc
• rook/rookRook is a Kubernetes operator that automates the full lifecycle of Ceph distributed storage — setup, scaling,
• mmistakes/minimal-mistakesMinimal Mistakes is a flexible Jekyll theme for building personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. It works with
• searx/searxSearx is a self-hosted private metasearch engine that forwards your queries to other search engines without re
• zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extensionA browser extension that gives developers a panel to watch, inspect, and replay every state change in a Redux-
• tukuaiai/vibe-coding-cnA Chinese-language tutorial collection that teaches a structured five-layer system for building software by de
• adityatelange/hugo-papermodPaperMod is a fast, clean Hugo theme for blogs and personal sites. It offers light and dark mode, three home p
• todepond/gulfofmexicoGulf of Mexico (formerly DreamBerd) is a satirical joke programming language whose README is a deadpan list of
• dcloudio/muiMui is a Chinese-made JavaScript framework for building mobile apps with web technology that feel close to nat
• google/or-toolsOR-Tools is Google's free open-source toolkit for solving hard scheduling, routing, and assignment problems by
• facebook/flipperFlipper is Meta's open-source tool for debugging iOS and Android apps from your desktop browser, showing live
• thunderbird/thunderbird-androidThunderbird for Android is a free, open-source email app from Mozilla that manages multiple email accounts wit
• rolldown/rolldownRolldown is a fast JavaScript and TypeScript bundler written in Rust, designed to be a drop-in replacement for
• unleash/unleashUnleash is an open-source feature flag platform that lets you turn features on or off for specific users witho
• github-linguist/linguistLinguist is the Ruby library GitHub uses internally to detect programming languages in a repo, generate the co
• google-deepmind/mujocoMuJoCo is a fast physics engine by Google DeepMind for simulating robots, skeletons, and jointed bodies, widel
• mholt/papaparsePapa Parse is a fast, dependency-free JavaScript library for reading and writing CSV files in browsers and Nod
• jguer/yayYay is a command-line package manager helper for Arch Linux that lets you install and update software from bot
• bigkoo/android-pickerviewAndroid-PickerView is a Java library that adds iOS-style scrolling wheel selectors to Android apps for picking
• projectlombok/lombokProject Lombok is a Java library that automatically generates repetitive boilerplate code like getters, setter
• angular-ui/ui-routerUI-Router is a state-machine-based routing library for AngularJS 1.x that maps URLs to named states and enable
• egonschiele/grokking_algorithmsThis repo holds the example code and high-resolution illustrations from Grokking Algorithms, a beginner-friend
• fkhadra/react-toastifyA React library for adding toast notifications — brief pop-up messages that slide onto the screen and auto-dis
• gallopsled/pwntoolsA Python library that gives security competition participants ready-made tools for writing exploits, handling
• yerongai/office-toolA Windows desktop app that simplifies installing, configuring, activating, and managing Microsoft Office produ
• powerlevel9k/powerlevel9kA ZSH terminal prompt theme that adds visual icons, colors, and info panels — like Git status, language versio
• plasma-umass/scaleneA Python profiler from UMass Amherst that pinpoints exactly which lines of code are slow or wasting memory, wi
• vercel/satoriA Vercel library that converts HTML and CSS written as React JSX into SVG images entirely in code — no browser
• geeeekexplorer/nano-vllmA clean 1,200-line Python reimplementation of vLLM — a high-performance AI text generation engine — designed t
• prometheus/node_exporterA small Go program that collects hundreds of hardware and OS metrics from a Linux server — CPU, memory, disk,
• raspberrypifoundation/blocklyA JavaScript library from the Raspberry Pi Foundation that lets developers embed a drag-and-drop visual code e
• rwaldron/johnny-fiveA Node.js framework for programming robots and IoT devices using JavaScript, letting web developers control LE
• chartist-js/chartistA lightweight JavaScript charting library that draws bar, line, and pie charts as SVG, so they scale to any si
• mishoo/uglifyjsUglifyJS is a JavaScript toolkit that compresses source code into smaller files for faster web page loading, w
• macrozheng/mall-learningA structured Chinese-language tutorial series that walks Java developers through building a production-grade e
• graphql/dataloaderDataLoader is a small Node.js utility that batches and caches database or API requests, turning many individua
• qazbnm456/awesome-web-securityA curated reference list of articles, tools, and write-ups covering web security vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL
• apache/tvmApache TVM is an open-source compiler that takes trained AI models and converts them into optimized code for s
• lightning-ai/litgptLitGPT is a Python library with clean, from-scratch implementations of 20+ large language models like Llama 3
• facebookarchive/asyncdisplaykitAsyncDisplayKit (now Texture) was a Facebook-created iOS framework that moved expensive UI work like image dec
• tomschimansky/customtkinterCustomTkinter is a Python library that replaces Tkinter's dated-looking default widgets with modern, dark-mode
• github/gh-ostgh-ost is GitHub's tool for changing MySQL table structure while the database is live and serving traffic, usi
• golang/groupcacheA Go library that lets your application servers share a cache directly with each other, eliminating the need f
• drksephy/es6-cheatsheetA plain-text reference guide covering the new features added to JavaScript in ES6 (2015), with before-and-afte

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