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Collection projects on GitHub

Awesome-style curated collections of resources and tools.

As of , the most-starred Collection projects on GitHub are awesome (520.7K stars), awesome-selfhosted (327.7K stars) and HelloGitHub (182.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 82 Collection repositories with 3.1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was awesome, with +539 stars in a day.

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awesome

sindresorhus/awesome · ★ 520.7K

It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

+388

awesome-selfhosted

awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted · ★ 327.7K

It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

+312

agency-agents

msitarzewski/agency-agents · ★ 161K

A growing roster of meticulously crafted AI agent personalities — each a specialized expert with its own voice, workflows, and deliverables, ready to plug into your AI coding assistant.

+220

HelloGitHub

521xueweihan/HelloGitHub · ★ 182.7K

HelloGitHub is a monthly magazine that rounds up interesting, entry-level open source projects from GitHub, publishing a fresh issue on the 28th of each month.

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  1. #1 · sindresorhus/awesome

    awesome

    It is 'awesome', the original curated directory of awesome lists maintained by Sindre Sorhus: a hand-picked index of lists about all kinds of interesting topics, from programming languages and platforms to gaming, security, and business.

    520.7K
  2. #2 · awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

    awesome-selfhosted

    It is a curated list of free-software network services and web applications that you can host yourself instead of relying on third-party SaaS providers.

    327.7K
  3. #3 · 521xueweihan/HelloGitHub

    HelloGitHub

    HelloGitHub is a monthly magazine that rounds up interesting, entry-level open source projects from GitHub, publishing a fresh issue on the 28th of each month.

    182.7K
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    gitignore

    176Kgithub/gitignore

    GitHub's official collection of .gitignore templates: ready-made ignore rules for popular languages, tools and operating systems, and the list behind the .gitignore choosers on GitHub.com.

  2. 5

    agency-agents

    161Kmsitarzewski/agency-agents · Shell

    A growing roster of meticulously crafted AI agent personalities — each a specialized expert with its own voice, workflows, and deliverables, ready to plug into your AI coding assistant.

  3. 6

    every-programmer-should-know

    100.5Kmtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

    A curated, highly opinionated collection of technical resources — articles, books, videos and papers — covering things every software developer should know, from algorithms and data structures to security, architecture and career advice.

  4. 7

    awesome-for-beginners

    90.4KMunGell/awesome-for-beginners

    A curated list of open-source projects that have issues specifically labeled for first-time contributors (like 'good first issue' or 'first-timers-only'), organized by programming language.

  5. 8

    ChinaTextbook

    83KTapXWorld/ChinaTextbook · Roff

    An open-source archive of PDF textbooks for Chinese primary school, middle school, high school and university courses, currently focused mainly on the full math curriculum from grade 1 through university.

  6. 9

    SecLists

    74.2Kdanielmiessler/SecLists · PHP

    SecLists is a huge collection of ready-made wordlists for security testing: usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells and more, all gathered in one repository.

  7. 10

    Java

    66.4KTheAlgorithms/Java · Java

    A GitHub collection of classic algorithms and data structures, each implemented in Java for educational purposes as part of The Algorithms project.

  8. 11

    guava

    51.9Kgoogle/guava · Java

    Guava is a set of core Java libraries from Google, providing new collection types (multimap, multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, and utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, and strings. It is heavily used inside Google and by many other companies.

  9. 12

    hacker-scripts

    49.9KNARKOZ/hacker-scripts · JavaScript

    A comedic collection of sysadmin automation scripts inspired by a viral forum post about a build engineer who scripted away every annoying chore, from faking late-night SSH activity to auto-replying to panicked client emails.

  10. 13

    zju-icicles

    41.3KQSCTech/zju-icicles · HTML

    A community-maintained collection of course materials for Zhejiang University (ZJU) students, including course-selection guides, electronic textbooks, homework answers, past exam papers, and review notes, shared on GitHub so future students don't have to hunt for the same resources all over again.

  11. 14

    leetcode

    36.7Kdoocs/leetcode · Java

    A massive collection of LeetCode solutions, plus solutions for two popular Chinese interview prep books (Coding Interviews, 2nd edition and Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th edition), each problem solved in multiple programming languages.

  12. 15

    awesome-javascript

    35Ksorrycc/awesome-javascript

    A curated list of browser-side JavaScript libraries, resources and 'shiny things' — one of the classic GitHub awesome-lists, with over 35,000 stars.

  13. 16

    stb

    34.9Knothings/stb · C

    A collection of 21 single-file libraries for C/C++ covering image loading, writing and resizing, font rasterizing, audio decoding, containers and more — all released into the public domain, with an MIT option if you need a regular license.

  14. 17

    libpku

    34.1Klib-pku/libpku · TeX

    A community-curated collection of course materials for Peking University: past exams, slides, notes and course advice, organized by course and free to download. The title literally means 'an unofficial collection of course materials for your school'.

  15. 18

    awesome-awesomeness

    33.7Kbayandin/awesome-awesomeness · Ruby

    An index of awesome lists: one page linking to hundreds of topic-specific awesome-* collections — from programming languages to DevOps, security and design — each maintained by its own curator.

  16. 19

    modern-unix

    33Kibraheemdev/modern-unix

    A curated collection of modern, faster and saner alternatives to common Unix commands - an index of CLI tools like bat, ripgrep, fd, fzf and zoxide.

  17. 20

    GPTs

    32Klinexjlin/GPTs

    A curated collection of leaked system prompts from OpenAI's custom GPTs — the hidden instruction texts behind hundreds of popular GPTs, gathered in one GitHub repo.

  18. 21

    iTerm2-Color-Schemes

    27.3Kmbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes · Shell

    A community collection of over 750 color schemes for the iTerm2 terminal, with every scheme also ported to dozens of other terminals and editors.

  19. 22

    awesome-design-systems

    26.1Kalexpate/awesome-design-systems

    A curated list of design systems — the documented principles, best practices and UI/pattern libraries that help a team build digital products consistently.

  20. 23

    Rust

    26.1KTheAlgorithms/Rust · Rust

    A free, open-source collection of classic algorithms implemented in Rust — the Rust volume of TheAlgorithms on GitHub. It exists for education: you read the code to learn how each algorithm works.

  21. 24

    awesome-claude-code-subagents

    25.8KVoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents · Shell

    A curated collection of 158+ specialized subagents for Claude Code: ready-made AI assistants, each tuned to one development task, organized into 10 categories from core development to data and AI.

  22. 25

    TVAPP

    25.3Kyouhunwl/TVAPP · JavaScript

    This is a huge curated collection of Android TV box apps — video/movie players, live TV, karaoke, games and utility tools — bundled with download links, version info, status flags and TVBox/影视仓-style interface source URLs to configure them.

  23. 26

    Public-APIs

    24Kn0shake/Public-APIs

    A community-maintained public list of APIs from around the web that expose their resources for consumption, organized by category in a single README.

  24. 27

    Awesome-Nano-Banana-images

    23.9KPicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images

    A curated gallery of fun, creative images generated with Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro — Google's Gemini-2.5-flash-image based models — each paired with the prompt that produced it.

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    Best-Flutter-UI-Templates

    22.8Kmitesh77/Best-Flutter-UI-Templates · Dart

    A collection of ready-made UI templates for Flutter that the author shares completely free for everyone — every template is built with Flutter and Dart.

  26. 29

    Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books

    22.6Kcat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books

    A community-curated GitHub collection of pictures showing anime girls holding programming books, sorted into folders by the book's subject. It has collected over 22,000 stars since 2017.

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    L1B3RT4S

    21.9Kelder-plinius/L1B3RT4S

    A public collection of jailbreak prompts — the author calls them 'liberation prompts' — meant to make flagship AI models respond without their usual refusals. It is maintained by AI red-teamer elder-plinius.

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    awesome-dotnet

    21.7Kquozd/awesome-dotnet

    A curated, community-driven catalog of well-known .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software, sorted by task into roughly a hundred categories.

  29. 32

    fonts

    20.6Kgoogle/fonts · HTML

    The canonical repository of the binary font files (.ttf) served by Google Fonts, organized by license and family, plus a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts.

  30. 33

    books

    20.3Kprogramthink/books

    A curated collection of e-book recommendations maintained by the Chinese blogger known as 'programthink' (编程随想), spanning many academic disciplines, with each entry pointing to a download source.

  31. 34

    kkndme_tianya

    19.5Kkkndmetianya/kkndme_tianya

    A Markdown archive of kkndme's famous Tianya forum thread on China's 2010 housing-price controls — a condensed edition kept in the original thread's chronological order, which also preserves the best replies from other users.

  32. 35

    python-mini-projects

    19.4KPython-World/python-mini-projects · Python

    A collection of simple Python mini projects — small scripts and tiny apps meant to help you improve your Python skills by reading and writing real code.

  33. 36

    proposals

    19.2Ktc39/proposals

    The official TC39 repository that tracks every proposal for future JavaScript (ECMAScript) features — a living index of what is being considered for the next versions of the language standard.

  34. 37

    awesome-python-applications

    18.1Kmahmoud/awesome-python-applications · Jupyter Notebook

    A curated catalog of 426 free, open-source Python applications, arranged by topic with links to each app's repo, homepage, and docs — case studies in successfully shipping Python software.

  35. 38

    awesome-zsh-plugins

    18.1Kunixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins · Shell

    A community-maintained awesome list collecting ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials — annotated links to hundreds of shell projects, curated since 2014 with about 18k GitHub stars.

  36. 39

    Flipper

    17.7KUberGuidoZ/Flipper · C

    A personal playground and dump of files for the Flipper Zero: stuff the author made, modified, researched or found, free for anyone to grab and try on their device.

  37. 40

    PyTorch-GAN

    17.5Keriklindernoren/PyTorch-GAN · Python

    It is a collection of PyTorch implementations of GAN varieties from research papers: 32 models ranging from the original GAN and DCGAN to CycleGAN, StarGAN and WGAN-GP.

  38. 41

    ToolsOfTheTrade

    17.2Kcjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

    A curated, categorized list of SaaS and self-hosted tools that startups and developers use instead of building and hosting their own infrastructure, originally collected from Hacker News discussions.

  39. 42

    ChineseBQB

    16.3Kzhaoolee/ChineseBQB · TypeScript

    ChineseBQB is a huge open collection of Chinese internet memes and sticker images (emoji packs), organized into themed folders covering pop culture, celebrities, games, anime, and historical internet memes, plus an online tool to search and share them.

  40. 43

    public-api-lists

    16.1Kpublic-api-lists/public-api-lists

    A community-maintained, hand-curated catalog of 730+ free public APIs across 48 categories — from Animals and Anime to Weather.

  41. 44

    open-source-games

    16Kbobeff/open-source-games · Python

    A curated list of open-source video games and open-source remakes/clones of commercial games, organized by genre.

  42. 45

    30-seconds-of-css

    16KChalarangelo/30-seconds-of-css · CSS

    A collection of short CSS code snippets for all your development needs, maintained by the 30 seconds of code organization on GitHub.

  43. 46

    stable-diffusion-webui-colab

    15.9Kcamenduru/stable-diffusion-webui-colab · Jupyter Notebook

    A set of ready-made Google Colab notebooks that install and run the Stable Diffusion WebUI in the cloud — one notebook per popular model, from SD 1.5 to waifu-diffusion and style fine-tunes.

  44. 47

    homebrew-core

    15.6KHomebrew/homebrew-core · Ruby

    This is homebrew-core, the default tap of the Homebrew package manager — a catalog of package formulae (build recipes) that 'brew install' pulls from. It comes installed with Homebrew out of the box.

  45. 48

    pwc

    15.3Kzziz/pwc

    A curated GitHub reading list of machine learning research papers: every entry pairs the paper PDF with a link to an open-source implementation and shows that implementation's star count. Nothing to install or run.

  46. 49

    extensions

    15.3Kkeiyoushi/extensions · HTML

    This is an extension repository that supplies manga source plugins for the Mihon Android manga reader app and its compatible forks, letting the app pull manga content from many different websites.

  47. 50

    FMHY

    15.2Kfmhy/FMHY

    FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah) is a massive curated wiki of free internet resources: streaming, downloading, piracy, adblocking/privacy tools, AI tools, gaming/emulation, and more, hosted at fmhy.net.

  48. 51

    leaked-system-prompts

    15Kjujumilk3/leaked-system-prompts

    A collection of leaked system prompts from widely used LLM-based services, gathered as individual documents in one repository.

  49. 52

    Are-u-ok

    14.3KAUK9527/Are-u-ok

    A download repository of prebuilt third-party plugin packages for iStore — the app store used on OpenWrt routers — with separate package sets for OpenWrt 22.03 and 24.10.

  50. 53

    awesome-ruby

    14.2Kmarkets/awesome-ruby

    A curated, community-driven list of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software, covering everything needed to build modern apps and web apps.

  51. 54

    zhao

    14.1Kprogramthink/zhao · Python

    A dataset documenting China's 'Princeling Party' (太子党) — the family and business networks of the country's political elite — compiled to expose corruption and nepotism among Chinese officials.

  52. 55

    PENTESTING-BIBLE

    14KblaCCkHatHacEEkr/PENTESTING-BIBLE

    A curated catalog of over 200 numbered links to pentesting articles, bug bounty write-ups, cheat sheets and other security lists — a reading collection, not software.

  53. 56

    grokking_algorithms

    13.7KegonSchiele/grokking_algorithms · JavaScript

    This repository holds the source code examples from the book Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava, meant to be read alongside the book's chapters.

  54. 57

    galaxy

    13.6Kuiverse-io/galaxy · HTML

    Galaxy is an open-source archive of over 3000 unique UI elements (buttons, cards, loaders, checkboxes, etc.) built with CSS or Tailwind, automatically mirrored from the community-driven Uiverse.io platform.

  55. 58

    Badges4-README.md-Profile

    13.5Kalexandresanlim/Badges4-README.md-Profile · Markdown

    A curated collection of badges — ready-made images you paste into your GitHub profile README to show off your tools and skills and make the page stand out.

  56. 59

    theZoo

    13.5Kytisf/theZoo · Python

    theZoo is a public repository of live malware samples and their source code, gathered so that anyone interested in malware analysis can study real specimens in an organized and accessible way.

  57. 60

    geektime-books

    13.4Kit-ebooks-0/geektime-books

    A GitHub repository that collects e-books from GeekTime (极客时间), a Chinese online-learning platform for programmers — it has gathered more than 13,000 stars since early 2023.

  58. 61

    awesome-github-vue

    12.8Kopendigg/awesome-github-vue

    A curated Chinese-language list of Vue.js open-source projects, maintained by OpenDigg, covering UI components, frameworks, utility libraries, server-side rendering tools, helper tools, and real-world app examples.

  59. 62

    ansible-examples

    12.1Kansible/ansible-examples · Shell

    A collection of starter Ansible playbooks that demonstrate common features and show how they work together, meant as a learning reference rather than a finished app.

  60. 63

    hello-world

    12Kleachim6/hello-world · Assembly

    A massive crowdsourced collection of 'Hello, World!' programs written in over 1000 different computer languages, from mainstream ones to obscure esolangs.

  61. 64

    movies-for-hackers

    12Kk4m4/movies-for-hackers · Shell

    It is a curated list of movies every hacker and cyberpunk fan should watch, with each title scored by its IMDb rating — plus a section of TV shows.

  62. 65

    remote-working

    11.8Kgreatghoul/remote-working · Ruby

    This is a curated, Chinese-language collection of remote-work resources: articles, Q&A discussions, hiring teams, videos, podcasts, channels, survey reports, books, and productivity tools.

  63. 66

    Awesome-Profile-README-templates

    11.2Kkautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templates · JavaScript

    A curated collection of awesome GitHub profile README templates, meant to inspire developers when designing their own profile page.

  64. 67

    CSS-Inspiration

    10.8Kchokcoco/CSS-Inspiration · CSS

    A curated collection of pure-CSS demos and visual effects, organized by category (layout, shadows, gradients, filters, blend modes, 3D, animation, clip-path, SVG) so you can browse them for inspiration or to learn a specific CSS technique.

  65. 68

    AngularJS-Learning

    10.8Kjmcunningham/AngularJS-Learning

    This is a curated list of links to blog posts, articles, videos, courses, and books for learning AngularJS (the 1.x version of the framework).

  66. 69

    webshell

    10.8Ktennc/webshell · PHP

    It's a community collection of webshells - scripts that give you control of a web server once uploaded - covering all the common server-side languages and maintained by tennc with 10k+ stars.

  67. 70

    chinese-dos-games

    10.3Krwv/chinese-dos-games · Python

    A collection of 1,898 classic Chinese DOS games, playable directly in the browser. The project hosts the game files themselves and links to a website built around them.

  68. 71

    bug

    10.3Kliu673cn/bug · HTML

    This is a configuration/source repository for TVBox, a popular Chinese streaming-box app. It is described as an 'open-source version of TVBox (empty shell - configure yourself)', meaning it provides source links you load into the TVBox app rather than the app itself.

  69. 72

    lx-music-source

    10Kpdone/lx-music-source · JavaScript

    This repo is a curated collection of music source links (and their sync servers) for the LX Music (洛雪音乐) player, scraped from various community sources.

  70. 73

    dmca

    6.4Kgithub/dmca · DIGITAL Command Language

    This is GitHub's public archive of DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices it has received, posted largely as-is to document their potential effect on online speech.

  71. 74

    exploitarium

    5.2Kbikini/exploitarium · Python

    Exploitarium is a single consolidated archive of the author's public proof-of-concept exploits and vulnerability research writeups, merging dozens of their former standalone PoC repos into one place.

  72. 75

    TOTK-Mods-collection

    3.1Khoverbike1/TOTK-Mods-collection · Shell

    A community repository of mods for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK), put together for playing the game on a real Switch or in Switch emulators.

  73. 76

    mozc-devices

    3Kgoogle/mozc-devices · C++

    A collection of circuit diagrams and firmware source code for Google's quirky, often absurd DIY keyboards, most of which started out as April Fools' Day gags for Google Japanese Input and later Gboard (e.g. a Morse-code keyboard, a drum-set keyboard, a spoon that bends to type).

  74. 77

    awesome-nuclear

    508paulromano/awesome-nuclear

    A curated directory of open source software for nuclear science and engineering: roughly 75 codes and tools spanning particle transport, nuclear data, fuel cycle, thermal hydraulics, and multiphysics, each a one-liner with a link.

  75. 78

    LEAKSFORUMS

    364FSECDEV/LEAKSFORUMS

    LEAKSFORUMS is a collection of leaked data from hacker forums — a README table listing breached communities like Breached Forums, Black Market Reloaded, and Russian boards, each with a download link.

  76. 79

    SIH-Winners-PPt-and-Sources

    261Aadiii00/SIH-Winners-PPt-and-Sources

    A curated collection of Smart India Hackathon winning presentations, prep materials and references for students and teams getting ready for SIH, one of India's biggest innovation competitions.

  77. 80

    product-weekly-rank

    215discoverhubgroup/product-weekly-rank

    A weekly-updated digest that ranks the top 20 trending open-source GitHub projects by star growth, published every week.

  78. 81

    awesome-mcp-servers

    191mcpHQ/awesome-mcp-servers · JavaScript

    A hand-curated, link-checked catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — tools that let AI applications connect to databases, developer tools, browsers, cloud services and more.

  79. 82

    awesome-efficient-devtools

    88ejboy/awesome-efficient-devtools

    A curated list of developer tools chosen for cutting overhead — compute, AI context and tokens, terminal noise, setup complexity, or workflow friction. It spans AI-context helpers, fast CLIs, lightweight monitoring, and environment managers.

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