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History projects on GitHub

Tools for command, code, or browsing history; scope varies.

As of , the most-starred History projects on GitHub are Apollo-11 (75.4K stars), atuin (32K stars) and kkndme_tianya (19.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 History repositories with 223.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was Apollo-11, with +48 stars in a day.

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223.1KStars in total
+126Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+48

Apollo-11

chrislgarry/Apollo-11 · ★ 75.4K

The original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).

+27

statecraft-israel

eyalgolan/statecraft-israel · ★ 433

Statecraft: Israel is a turn-based grand-strategy game where you play as the prime minister starting on 15 May 1948, managing real ministers, a real coalition, and sourced historical events through a deterministic C# simulation rendered in Unity.

+13

mame

mamedev/mame · ★ 10.6K

MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework whose purpose is to preserve decades of software history by documenting vintage arcade hardware, computers, consoles and calculators, with the emulator itself serving to validate the accuracy of that documentation.

+11

atuin

atuinsh/atuin · ★ 32K

Atuin replaces your shell history with a SQLite database, records extra context for every command, and adds a full-screen interactive search UI — with optional fully encrypted sync of history between machines.

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14 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · chrislgarry/Apollo-11

    Apollo-11

    The original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).

    75.4K
  2. #2 · atuinsh/atuin

    atuin

    Atuin replaces your shell history with a SQLite database, records extra context for every command, and adds a full-screen interactive search UI — with optional fully encrypted sync of history between machines.

    32K
  3. #3 · kkndmetianya/kkndme_tianya

    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.

    19.5K
  1. 4

    Mind-Expanding-Books

    14.4Khackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books · JavaScript

    A curated, categorized list of great non-fiction and fiction books to read, covering topics like startups, philosophy, psychology, history, economics, and more.

  2. 5

    git-history

    13.7Kpomber/git-history · JavaScript

    Git History is a free tool for quickly browsing the history of any file in a git repository — you see how the file evolved, commit by commit.

  3. 6

    csharplang

    12.7Kdotnet/csharplang · C#

    The official repo where the C# language itself is designed: new language features are proposed, debated, adopted and specified here by the C# Language Design Team (LDT), in coordination with Roslyn, the project that implements C#.

  4. 7

    expert_readed_books

    12.7K0voice/expert_readed_books

    This is a curated Chinese-language reading list of books recommended for software engineers, covering computer science, software engineering, startups, philosophy, history, business biographies, math, economics, and novels.

  5. 8

    turbolinks

    12.6Kturbolinks/turbolinks · TypeScript

    Turbolinks makes navigating a traditional server-rendered web app feel fast like a single-page app, by intercepting link clicks, fetching the new page via XHR, and swapping in the body without a full page load.

  6. 9

    obsidian-git

    12.1KVinzent03/obsidian-git · TypeScript

    Obsidian Git is a community plugin that brings Git version control right into Obsidian.md, letting you commit, pull, and push your vault changes from inside the app.

  7. 10

    mame

    10.6Kmamedev/mame · C++

    MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework whose purpose is to preserve decades of software history by documenting vintage arcade hardware, computers, consoles and calculators, with the emulator itself serving to validate the accuracy of that documentation.

  8. 11

    hister

    6.1Kasciimoo/hister · Go

    Hister is a private, self-hosted search engine that fully indexes the pages you visit and the files you keep, so you can search their content later from a web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant via MCP.

  9. 12

    c64-keyboard-font

    636szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font · Python

    C64 Keyboard is a font that recreates the printed letter and symbol legends from a real Commodore 64 keyboard, traced and cleaned up from photographs of the actual keycaps. It ships as desktop TTF/OTF files, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen for previewing the glyphs.

  10. 13

    statecraft-israel

    433eyalgolan/statecraft-israel · C#

    Statecraft: Israel is a turn-based grand-strategy game where you play as the prime minister starting on 15 May 1948, managing real ministers, a real coalition, and sourced historical events through a deterministic C# simulation rendered in Unity.

  11. 14

    empire

    157thebuggeddev/empire · TypeScript

    Empire Atlas is an interactive 3D atlas that lets you explore domestic architecture across eight historical empires, from Ancient Egypt to the Mughal Empire, by orbiting detailed 3D dwelling models and reading annotated architectural features.

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