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Open-source projects on GitHub
Software with publicly available source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and distribute.
As of , the most-starred Open-source projects on GitHub are awesome (520.2K stars), public-apis (489.6K stars) and openclaw (392.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5,666 Open-source repositories with 103.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was photocraft, with +1.5K stars in a day.
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photocraft
storytold/photocraft · ★ 65KPhotoCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, built entirely in pure Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, type, vectors, brushes and real PSD file support.
+1.4Kclaude-plugins-official
anthropics/claude-plugins-official · ★ 40.5KThe official, Anthropic-managed directory of high-quality plugins for Claude Code — a curated marketplace whose entries install straight from Claude Code's built-in plugin system.
+1.2Kxerj
xerj-org/xerj · ★ 6.9KXERJ is a local-first search engine that automatically indexes any folder - code, docs, logs, PDFs - so an AI coding agent can pull the exact passage it needs instead of grepping or reading whole files into context, and it speaks the Elasticsearch API so existing clients work against it unchanged.
+1.2KECC
affaan-m/ECC · ★ 281.5KECC is a performance-optimization system (a harness) for coding agents: it plans before building, verifies changes with tests, reviews its own work from a fresh context, remembers what matters, and turns repeated wins into reusable skills. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other agent harnesses.
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#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.
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#2 · public-apis/public-apispublic-apis
A collective list of free APIs: a huge, manually curated catalog of public APIs for developers, maintained by the community for years. You do not call it — you browse the catalog and pick third-party APIs to use in your own product.
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#3 · openclaw/openclawopenclaw
An open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer and meets you in the chat apps you already use — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, iMessage, Slack and 20+ more.
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awesome-python
328.1Kvinta/awesome-python · PythonAwesome Python is a curated, opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools, organized by category — the classic answer to 'I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?'
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awesome-selfhosted
327.3Kawesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhostedIt 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.
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ECC
281.5Kaffaan-m/ECC · JavaScriptECC is a performance-optimization system (a harness) for coding agents: it plans before building, verifies changes with tests, reviews its own work from a fresh context, remembers what matters, and turns repeated wins into reusable skills. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other agent harnesses.
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996.ICU
277.1K996icu/996.ICUA protest initiative by Chinese IT practitioners against the '996' overtime culture, started in March 2019 — it has since drawn about 277k GitHub stars.
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hermes-agent
254.5KNousResearch/hermes-agent · PythonHermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent from Nous Research that creates and refines its own skills from experience, persists memory about you across sessions, and can be driven from a terminal or from chat apps like Telegram and Discord.
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linux
252.2Ktorvalds/linux · CThis is the Linux kernel itself - the core of any Linux operating system. It manages hardware and system resources and provides the fundamental services all other software runs on.
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deepseek-harness
251.2Kdeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · TypeScriptDeepSeek Harness (dsh) is an open-source agent harness from DeepSeek AI, built entirely on an everything-is-a-plugin architecture and powered by the Cordis composability engine.
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Python
225.3KTheAlgorithms/Python · PythonA large collection of classic algorithms and data structures implemented in Python, built as an educational reference for learning and practicing algorithms.
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andrej-karpathy-skills
220.4Kmultica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillsA single CLAUDE.md file (also distributable as a Claude Code plugin) that encodes four guidelines derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on common LLM coding pitfalls, meant to make Claude Code behave more carefully and avoid overengineering.
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opencode
214.4Kanomalyco/opencode · TypeScriptOpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that helps you write, explore, and edit code, available as a CLI and now also as a beta desktop app.
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computer-science
210.1Kossu/computer-science · HTMLOSSU Computer Science is a free, self-taught curriculum that stitches together top university-level online courses (from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, etc.) into a complete computer science education, roughly equivalent to an undergraduate CS degree minus general education requirements.
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FreeDomain
204.5KDigitalPlatDev/FreeDomain · MarkdownDigitalPlat FreeDomain is a free domain registration service paired with a practical, book-style DNS learning guide, taking you from claiming a domain all the way through setting up a website, email and DNS operations.
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yt-dlp
198.7Kyt-dlp/yt-dlp · Pythonyt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader that supports thousands of sites, built as a fork of youtube-dl based on the inactive youtube-dlc.
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javascript-algorithms
196.7Ktrekhleb/javascript-algorithms · JavaScriptA large collection of JavaScript implementations of classic algorithms and data structures, where each one has its own folder with code, tests, and a README explaining the theory and further reading links.
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claw-code
194.9Kultraworkers/claw-code · RustClaw Code is the public Rust implementation of 'claw', a CLI coding-agent harness. By its own README it is less a production tool and more an 'agent-managed museum exhibit' maintained entirely by AI agents/harnesses with no human intervention, in the spirit of (but unaffiliated with) Claude Code.
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Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
194.8Kmassgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts · BatchfileMicrosoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is an open-source tool that activates Windows and Office using methods like HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS, plus troubleshooting tools for failed activations.
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vscode
193.8Kmicrosoft/vscode · TypeScriptThis is the open-source repository ('Code - OSS') where Microsoft and the community develop Visual Studio Code, a free code editor with built-in debugging, Git, and extension support.
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firecrawl
192.2Kfirecrawl/firecrawl · TypeScriptFirecrawl turns any website into clean, LLM-ready data by crawling, scraping, and searching the web, delivering markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots that AI agents can consume directly.
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markitdown
190.7Kmicrosoft/markitdown · PythonMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility that converts files like PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP archives, EPubs and even YouTube URLs into Markdown, designed for feeding documents into LLMs and text analysis pipelines.
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ohmyzsh
190Kohmyzsh/ohmyzsh · ShellOh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration, with 300+ optional plugins and 150+ bundled themes for your terminal.
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AutoGPT
187.6KSignificant-Gravitas/AutoGPT · PythonAutoGPT is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and running AI agents that carry out complete workflows. You describe an outcome in plain English or build it step by step in a visual builder, then run the agent on demand, on a schedule, or from a trigger.
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ollama
183.5Kollama/ollama · GoOllama is a tool for downloading and running open large language models like DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Mistral and gpt-oss on your own machine, with a simple CLI and a local REST API.
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HelloGitHub
182.5K521xueweihan/HelloGitHub · PythonHelloGitHub 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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flutter
180.2Kflutter/flutter · DartFlutter is Google's SDK for building beautiful, fast apps for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.
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prompts.chat
173.2Kf/prompts.chat · HTMLA curated, open-source collection of prompts for AI chat models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, formerly known as Awesome ChatGPT Prompts.
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open-webui
155.9Kopen-webui/open-webui · PythonOpen WebUI is a self-hosted AI platform that gives you a chat-style web interface for Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API, built to run entirely offline if you want.
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langflow
155.8Klangflow-ai/langflow · PythonLangflow is a platform for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows with a visual, drag-and-drop interface.
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scrcpy
152.3KGenymobile/scrcpy · Cscrcpy (pronounced 'screen copy') displays and controls your Android device from the computer: it mirrors video and audio over USB or TCP/IP and lets you drive the phone with your keyboard and mouse.
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clash-verge-rev
151.9Kclash-verge-rev/clash-verge-rev · RustClash Verge Rev is a modern desktop GUI client for the Clash Meta (mihomo) proxy core, letting you manage proxy configurations visually on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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javascript
148.1Kairbnb/javascript · JavaScriptA JavaScript style guide from Airbnb covering conventions for types, variables, functions, classes, modules, naming, whitespace, and more, described as 'a mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript'.
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langchain
148Klangchain-ai/langchain · PythonLangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications: it chains together interoperable components and third-party integrations to simplify AI app development.
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cc-switch
145.2Kfarion1231/cc-switch · RustCC Switch is an all-in-one desktop manager that lets you switch API providers with one click for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi and MiniMax Code, and also manage their MCP servers, Skills, and Prompts from a single place instead of hand-editing config files.
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system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools
144.1Kx1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-toolsA public collection of the actual system prompts used by popular AI products - coding agents, browsers and assistants - plus their internal tools and AI models.
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tech-interview-handbook
143Kyangshun/tech-interview-handbook · TypeScriptA free, curated collection of technical interview preparation materials for software engineers, created by the author of Blind 75, covering algorithms, behavioral questions, resumes, and more.
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awesome-llm-apps
142.1KShubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps · PythonA collection of 100+ open-source AI agent, agent skill, and RAG app examples - hand-built, tested end-to-end, and released under Apache-2.0 so you can clone, run, or even sell them.
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spec-kit
141.6Kgithub/spec-kit · PythonSpec Kit is an open source toolkit for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) — you write specs, plans, and tasks that an AI coding agent turns into working code, instead of writing code first and documentation as an afterthought.
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youtube-dl
141.3Kytdl-org/youtube-dl · Pythonyoutube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and many other video sites.
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iptv
141.1Kiptv-org/iptv · TypeScriptA collection of publicly available IPTV channel playlists (M3U) gathered from all over the world.
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PowerToys
139.4Kmicrosoft/PowerToys · CPowerToys is a collection of over 30 utilities from Microsoft that let you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks, like a window manager, color picker, bulk file renamer, and more.
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go
139.3Kgolang/go · GoGo is an open source programming language for building simple, reliable, and efficient software; this repository holds the language's canonical Git repository.
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ComfyUI
137.9KComfy-Org/ComfyUI · PythonComfyUI is a node-based graph interface for building and running diffusion model workflows: image, video, 3D, and audio generation, editing, and more, all without writing code.
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gstack
136.7Kgarrytan/gstack · TypeScriptgstack is Garry Tan's personal Claude Code setup: a pack of 23 opinionated skills that act like a full engineering team (CEO, eng manager, designer, reviewer, QA, security officer, release engineer) inside Claude Code.
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excalidraw
134Kexcalidraw/excalidraw · TypeScriptAn open source virtual whiteboard with a hand-drawn look for sketching diagrams, wireframes and whatever you like — use it at excalidraw.com or embed the npm package in your own app.
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MoneyPrinterTurbo
132.2Kharry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo · PythonMoneyPrinterTurbo is an all-in-one AI tool that turns a topic or keyword into a finished short video: it writes the script, finds matching footage, generates subtitles and background music, and renders the final HD clip automatically.
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llama.cpp
131.4Kggml-org/llama.cpp · C++llama.cpp is a plain C/C++ implementation for running LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance, either locally or in the cloud.
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hello-algo
130.8Kkrahets/hello-algo · JavaHello Algo is a free, open-source illustrated book that teaches data structures and algorithms from scratch using animated diagrams and one-click runnable code.
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codex
129.6Kopenai/codex · RustCodex is a lightweight coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally in your terminal, helping you write and work with code using natural language.
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kubernetes
128.3Kkubernetes/kubernetes · GoKubernetes (K8s) is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, handling the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of those applications.
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graphify
127.3KGraphify-Labs/graphify · PythonGraphify turns a whole codebase — plus its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs — into a queryable knowledge graph you traverse instead of grepping files.
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react-native
126.7Kreact/react-native · C++React Native lets you build native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and other platforms using React. UI is described in JavaScript but rendered with real native platform components, not a webview.
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rustdesk
126.1Krustdesk/rustdesk · RustRustDesk is an open-source remote desktop application written in Rust, positioned as a self-hostable alternative to TeamViewer.
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ui
125.8Kshadcn-ui/ui · TypeScriptshadcn/ui is a collection of beautifully designed, accessible React components with thoughtful defaults that you copy into your own codebase instead of installing as a locked dependency, so you can customize and extend them freely.
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electron
123.4Kelectron/electron · C++Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by apps like Visual Studio Code.
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node
122.4Knodejs/node · JavaScriptNode.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets you run JavaScript code outside a browser, typically for servers and command-line tools.
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rust
120.4Krust-lang/rust · RustThis is the main source repository for the Rust programming language — it contains the compiler (rustc), the standard library, and documentation.
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godot
118.5Kgodotengine/godot · C++Godot is a free, cross-platform game engine for creating both 2D and 3D games from one unified editor, with a comprehensive set of built-in tools.
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immich
116.4Kimmich-app/immich · TypeScriptImmich is a self-hosted platform for backing up, organizing and browsing your photos and videos, built as an open-source alternative to Google Photos.
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pi
115.7Kearendil-works/pi · TypeScriptPi is an agent harness: a toolkit of packages for building and running AI agents, including a self-extensible interactive coding agent CLI, a unified multi-provider LLM API, an agent runtime, and a terminal UI library.
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d3
113.8Kd3/d3 · ShellD3 (or D3.js) is a free, open-source JavaScript library for visualizing data.
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caveman
113.1KJuliusBrussee/caveman · GoCaveman is a skill plus an optional local proxy for AI coding agents that makes them answer in short, caveman-style prose instead of padded explanations, cutting roughly 65% of output tokens and up to 33% of input tokens in the project's own benchmarks without changing the technical content of the answer.
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supabase
111.7Ksupabase/supabase · TypeScriptSupabase is an open source Postgres development platform that gives you a hosted Postgres database plus auth, auto-generated APIs, realtime subscriptions, storage, and edge functions, built as an open source alternative to Firebase.
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TradingAgents
111.6KTauricResearch/TradingAgents · PythonTradingAgents is a multi-agent LLM framework that simulates a trading firm: specialized agents analyze fundamentals, sentiment, news, and technicals, bull/bear researchers debate the findings, and a trader plus risk/portfolio manager team decide whether to execute the trade.
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TypeScript
111.5Kmicrosoft/TypeScript · GoTypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript: JavaScript extended with a type system, developed by Microsoft for building large applications.
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whisper
110.7Kopenai/whisper · PythonWhisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model trained on a large, diverse dataset with weak supervision. It can perform multilingual transcription, translate speech into English, and identify the spoken language.
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frp
110Kfatedier/frp · Gofrp is a fast reverse proxy that lets you expose a local server sitting behind a NAT or firewall to the internet, forwarding TCP, UDP, HTTP and HTTPS traffic, with an optional P2P mode for direct client-to-client transfers.
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deno
108.7Kdenoland/deno · RustDeno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that focuses on secure defaults and good developer experience. It's built on V8, Rust, and Tokio.
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gemini-cli
107.4Kgoogle-gemini/gemini-cli · TypeScriptGemini CLI is an open-source AI agent that brings Google's Gemini models directly into your terminal, letting you chat, generate code, and run tools from the command line.
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nodebestpractices
105.7Kgoldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · DockerfileA curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.
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terminal
105.2Kmicrosoft/terminal · C++This is the source code for Windows Terminal, a modern tab-based terminal app for Windows, plus the original Windows console host (conhost.exe) that powers classic command-line apps, both maintained in the same repo.
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pytorch
104.8Kpytorch/pytorch · PythonPyTorch is a Python package providing fast tensor computation with strong GPU acceleration and deep neural networks built on a tape-based autograd system, serving as both a NumPy-like GPU library and a flexible deep learning research platform.
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DeepSeek-V3
104.5Kdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 · PythonDeepSeek-V3 is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters but only 37B activated per token, built for efficient yet high-performing inference and matching leading closed-source models on many benchmarks.
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paperclip
103.3Kpaperclipai/paperclip · TypeScriptPaperclip is an open-source Node.js server and React UI for orchestrating a whole team of AI agents to run a business — assigning goals, tracking work, and managing costs from one dashboard instead of babysitting individual agent sessions.
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create-react-app
103.2Kreact/create-react-app · JavaScriptCreate React App is a command-line tool that sets up a new React single-page app with zero build configuration, preconfiguring webpack, Babel, ESLint, and a test runner for you.
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fastapi
103.1Kfastapi/fastapi · PythonFastAPI is a modern Python web framework for building APIs using standard Python type hints, with automatic data validation and interactive documentation.
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neovim
103Kneovim/neovim · Vim ScriptNeovim is a fork of Vim, a modal text editor, rebuilt to be more extensible, maintainable, and friendly to multiple contributors and advanced UIs.
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HowToCook
102.8KAnduin2017/HowToCookA community-maintained cookbook written specifically for programmers, rewriting common Chinese home recipes with precise, step-by-step instructions instead of the vague wording typical of food blogs.
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angular
101.1Kangular/angular · TypeScriptAngular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript.
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material-ui
99.2Kmui/material-ui · JavaScriptMaterial UI is a comprehensive library of React components implementing Google's Material Design system, used to build web UIs quickly with pre-built buttons, inputs, dialogs, and more.
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RuView
98.4Kruvnet/RuView · RustRuView turns ordinary WiFi signals into a spatial-intelligence sensor — it detects presence, measures breathing and heart rate, tracks motion and falls, and even estimates body pose through walls, using Channel State Information (CSI) captured by cheap ESP32 boards, with no cameras or wearables.
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Agent-Reach
98.4KPanniantong/Agent-Reach · PythonAgent Reach is a capability layer that gives an AI agent the ability to actually read and search the internet — Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu, RSS, web pages and more — instead of hitting paywalls, 403s or login walls.
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app-ideas
98.2Kflorinpop17/app-ideasA curated collection of application ideas you can build to practice coding, organized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced tiers with detailed specs for each project.
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thefuck
97.9Knvbn/thefuck · PythonThe Fuck is a command-line app that corrects your previous mistyped console command. Run 'fuck' after a failed command and it suggests a fixed version to run instead.
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tailwindcss
97.9Ktailwindlabs/tailwindcss · TypeScriptTailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces by composing small, single-purpose classes directly in your markup.
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playwright
97.9Kmicrosoft/playwright · TypeScriptPlaywright is a framework for web testing and automation that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API, usable in test suites, automation scripts, and as a tool for AI agents.
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Deep-Live-Cam
97.1Khacksider/Deep-Live-Cam · PythonDeep-Live-Cam is an app that performs real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfakes using just a single source image, working live through your webcam or on existing images/videos.
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Web-Dev-For-Beginners
97Kmicrosoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners · JavaScriptA free 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum from Microsoft Cloud Advocates that teaches web development fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) through hands-on projects like a terrarium, a browser extension, a typing game and a space game.
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awesome-mcp-servers
96.5Kpunkpeye/awesome-mcp-serversA curated, community-maintained list of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — tools that let AI agents and LLM apps connect to external data sources, APIs, and services.
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puppeteer
95.7Kpuppeteer/puppeteer · TypeScriptPuppeteer is a JavaScript library that gives you a high-level API to control Chrome or Firefox programmatically, either over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi.
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nvm
95.6Knvm-sh/nvm · Shellnvm (Node Version Manager) is a POSIX-compliant bash script that lets you install, switch between, and manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine.
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OpenCut
95KOpenCut-app/OpenCut · TypeScriptOpenCut is a free, open-source video editor meant to be a CapCut alternative, built to work across web, desktop, and mobile.
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java-design-patterns
94.8Kiluwatar/java-design-patterns · JavaA collection of Java implementations for classic software design patterns (Creational, Structural, Behavioral and more), each shown as a well-commented, runnable code example.
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localsend
94.6Klocalsend/localsend · DartLocalSend is a free, open-source app for securely sharing files and messages with nearby devices over your local network, without needing an internet connection - a cross-platform AirDrop alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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Stirling-PDF
94.4KStirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF · TypeScriptStirling PDF is an open-source PDF editing platform with over 50 tools for editing, merging, splitting, signing, redacting, converting, OCR-ing, and compressing PDFs.
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uptime-kuma
92.6Klouislam/uptime-kuma · JavaScriptUptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime and server monitoring tool with a fancy web UI, status pages, and notifications when your services go down.
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ragflow
92.4Kinfiniflow/ragflow · GoRAGFlow is an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that combines RAG with Agent capabilities to build a context layer for LLMs, turning complex enterprise data into production-ready AI systems.
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DeepSeek-R1
91.9Kdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek-R1 is an open-source family of reasoning-focused large language models from DeepSeek, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to handle math, code, and general reasoning at a level comparable to OpenAI's o1.
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zed
91.8Kzed-industries/zed · RustZed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor built by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, designed to feel extremely fast and support real-time collaboration.
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