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Real-time projects on GitHub
Systems that process and deliver data with minimal latency.
As of , the most-starred Real-time projects on GitHub are laravel (85.2K stars), netdata (81K stars) and redis (76.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 240 Real-time repositories with 3.7M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was gods-eye-view, with +353 stars in a day.
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+353gods-eye-view
bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view · ★ 57.2KGod's Eye View is a browser-based spy-satellite style simulator that overlays real public data — live aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, traffic, and public cameras — onto a photorealistic 3D globe, with hands-free voice control via a realtime AI agent.
penpot
penpot/penpot · ★ 61.2KPenpot is an open-source design platform for product teams, letting them design UI, prototype, and build design systems with full self-hosting control instead of relying on a proprietary SaaS tool.
+62dsh-wallpaper-engine
elysia395/dsh-wallpaper-engine · ★ 1.4KIt is a DSH (DeepSeek Harness) plugin that takes the Wallpaper Engine wallpapers already installed on your PC and renders them as the animated background of the dsh web chat interface, with an iOS-style frosted 'liquid glass' overlay on top.
+62TalkLikeYou-Streaming-RealTime-Demo
BQ-Wang0511/TalkLikeYou-Streaming-RealTime-Demo · ★ 434A browser-based demo that generates talking-head video in real time: it can animate a still image from uploaded audio or a live microphone, dub a source video while keeping its original pose and timing, or drive the avatar through a live chat agent.
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#1 · laravel/laravellaravel
Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive syntax that handles routing, dependency injection, sessions/caching, database ORM, schema migrations, background jobs, and real-time event broadcasting so you can focus on building your app.
- 81K
#2 · netdata/netdatanetdata
Netdata is an open-source, real-time infrastructure monitoring platform that collects per-second metrics, visualizes them, and detects anomalies with machine learning.
- 76.9K
#3 · redis/redisredis
Redis is an in-memory server used as a cache, data structure store, and document/vector query engine for building real-time, data-driven applications.
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pathway
62.1Kpathwaycom/pathway · PythonPathway is a Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG, with the same code usable for batch jobs, CI/CD tests, and live data streams.
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penpot
61.2Kpenpot/penpot · ClojurePenpot is an open-source design platform for product teams, letting them design UI, prototype, and build design systems with full self-hosting control instead of relying on a proprietary SaaS tool.
- 6
Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
60.2KCorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning · PythonIt's an implementation of SV2TTS, a deep learning framework that lets you clone a voice from just a few seconds of audio and then generate arbitrary speech in that voice in real time.
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serviette
58.8Kpathwaycom/serviette · PythonThis repo provides ready-to-run cloud templates for RAG pipelines, AI pipelines, and enterprise search, built on the Pathway Live Data Framework and kept in sync with live data sources.
- 8
gods-eye-view
57.2Kbilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view · JavaScriptGod's Eye View is a browser-based spy-satellite style simulator that overlays real public data — live aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, traffic, and public cameras — onto a photorealistic 3D globe, with hands-free voice control via a realtime AI agent.
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VibeVoice
54.9Kmicrosoft/VibeVoice · PythonVibeVoice is Microsoft's family of open-source voice AI models covering text-to-speech and speech recognition: long-form multi-speaker TTS, real-time streaming TTS, and ASR built for hour-long recordings.
- 10
ClickHouse
50.5KClickHouse/ClickHouse · C++ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system for generating analytical data reports in real time.
- 11
airi
50.5Kmoeru-ai/airi · TypeScriptAIRI is a self-hosted, open-source AI companion/VTuber you own, inspired by Neuro-sama. It gives you a virtual character with a Live2D or VRM avatar that can chat with you in real time and even play games like Minecraft and Factorio.
- 12
Rocket.Chat
46.3KRocketChat/Rocket.Chat · TypeScriptRocket.Chat is an open-source, self-hostable team communications platform for real-time chat, voice calls, and federation, aimed at organizations with high data protection requirements.
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Sunshine
42.3KLizardByte/Sunshine · C++Sunshine is a self-hosted game streaming host that lets you play PC games remotely using any Moonlight client, with hardware-accelerated encoding on AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPUs (or software encoding as a fallback).
- 14
sniffnet
41.6KGyulyVGC/sniffnet · RustSniffnet is a cross-platform desktop app for monitoring your network traffic in real time, with a graphical interface instead of raw terminal output.
- 15
metasploit-framework
39.2Krapid7/metasploit-framework · RubyMetasploit Framework is an open-source penetration testing framework written in Ruby — one of the best-known security toolkits on GitHub, with about 39,000 stars.
- 16
Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI
38.8KRVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI · PythonRVC WebUI is a web-based tool for training and running voice conversion (voice-changing) models, letting you clone a target voice's timbre using as little as about 10 minutes of audio.
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tesseract.js
38.8Knaptha/tesseract.js · JavaScriptTesseract.js is a pure JavaScript OCR library that extracts text from images in more than 100 languages, running the Tesseract engine compiled to WebAssembly.
- 18
tiptap
38.8Kueberdosis/tiptap · TypeScriptTiptap is a headless, framework-agnostic rich text editor framework for web apps, built on top of ProseMirror and extended through extensions.
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mediapipe
37.3Kgoogle-ai-edge/mediapipe · C++Google's open-source, cross-platform toolkit for on-device machine learning in live and streaming media: ready-made libraries and pre-trained models you plug straight into your own app.
- 20
MockingBird
36.9Kbabysor/MockingBird · PythonMockingBird is a PyTorch voice-cloning toolbox: it learns a voice from a short audio clip and generates arbitrary Mandarin speech in real time. The repo is no longer actively updated — the author is building an optimized cloud-hosted version instead.
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buzz
36.1Kblock/buzz · RustBuzz is a self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms. Every message, review, workflow step, and git event is a signed Nostr event in one shared log, on a relay you own.
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framework
35Klaravel/framework · PHPLaravel is a PHP web application framework known for expressive, elegant syntax, built to make development enjoyable and to ease the common tasks most web projects share.
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openpose
34.5KCMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose · C++OpenPose is a real-time multi-person keypoint detection library: it detects 135 body, hand, face, and foot keypoints from images and video - the first system to detect all four jointly in real time.
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kafka
34Kapache/kafka · JavaApache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
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glances
33.8Knicolargo/glances · PythonGlances is an open-source cross-platform system monitoring tool, a top/htop alternative that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, sensors, and running processes in one dashboard, reachable via terminal, web UI, API, or an MCP server for AI assistants.
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fish-speech
33.2Kfishaudio/fish-speech · PythonFish Speech (Fish Audio S2) is a state-of-the-art open-source text-to-speech system that generates natural, emotionally rich speech in 80+ languages, led by the flagship S2-Pro model that combines a Dual-AR architecture with reinforcement-learning alignment.
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FinceptTerminal
32.6KFincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal · C++Fincept Terminal is a free, open-source desktop finance terminal in the spirit of a Bloomberg terminal: institutional-grade market analytics, AI research agents and trading tools combined in one application.
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graphiti
31.8Kgetzep/graphiti · PythonA Python framework for building and querying temporal knowledge graphs for AI agents. Instead of static RAG, it continuously folds new data into a graph that tracks how facts change over time.
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meetily
31.8KZackriya-Solutions/meetily · RustA privacy-first AI meeting assistant that captures your meetings, transcribes them in real time, and generates summaries — entirely on your own machine, with no data sent to the cloud.
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rxjs
31.7KReactiveX/rxjs · TypeScriptRxJS is a JavaScript library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs with Observable values. This repo is the platform-based next generation of RxJS, planned for release as RxJS 9.
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DeepFaceLive
31Kiperov/DeepFaceLive · PythonDeepFaceLive is a Windows desktop app for real-time face swap: it replaces the face from your webcam — or the face in a video — with a trained face model, aimed at PC streaming and video calls.
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jitsi-meet
30.1Kjitsi/jitsi-meet · TypeScriptJitsi Meet is a set of open-source projects for secure, simple and scalable video conferencing — use it as a standalone service or embed it in your own web application.
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openai-agents-python
30.1Kopenai/openai-agents-python · PythonIt is the OpenAI Agents SDK: a lightweight yet powerful Python framework for building multi-agent workflows, where an agent is an LLM configured with instructions, tools, guardrails and handoffs.
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kestra
29.7Kkestra-io/kestra · JavaKestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for building data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. You describe them in declarative YAML and manage everything from a built-in web UI.
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srs
29.3Kossrs/srs · C++SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server for live streaming: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codecs from H.264 to AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.
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valkey
27.4Kvalkey-io/valkey · CValkey is an open-source, high-performance data structure server for key/value workloads like caching and other realtime use cases. It ships a wide range of native structures plus a plugin system for adding new ones.
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rethinkdb
27Krethinkdb/rethinkdb · C++RethinkDB is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database built for realtime web applications; instead of making your app poll for changes, it pushes updated query results straight to you.
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discord.js
26.8Kdiscordjs/discord.js · TypeScriptdiscord.js is a powerful Node.js module for interacting with the Discord API — effectively the main JavaScript/TypeScript library for writing Discord bots. This repo hosts it and its helper packages.
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MiniCPM-V
26.8KOpenBMB/MiniCPM-V · PythonA family of pocket-sized multimodal AI models from OpenBMB (MiniCPM-V and MiniCPM-o) built to run on local devices, even phones — understanding images, video and text, and in the o-series also speech.
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DeepSpeech
26.8Kmozilla/DeepSpeech · C++Mozilla DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine — a machine-learning model that turns audio into text on your own hardware.
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flink
26.4Kapache/flink · JavaApache Flink is an open source stream processing framework with powerful stream- and batch-processing capabilities, running your programs on its own distributed runtime.
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Babylon.js
26.2KBabylonJS/Babylon.js · TypeScriptBabylon.js is an open 3D game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework: you build scenes in TypeScript or JavaScript and render them in the browser.
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zulip
26.1Kzulip/zulip · PythonZulip is an open-source team chat app built around topic-based threading that combines the best of email and chat, designed for both live and asynchronous conversation. Fortune 500 companies, leading open-source projects, and thousands of other organizations use it daily.
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yfinance
25.5Kranaroussi/yfinance · Pythonyfinance is a Python library that downloads financial and market data from Yahoo! Finance's API - stock quotes, live streaming, search and screener queries - straight from your Python code.
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SpacetimeDB
25.3Kclockworklabs/SpacetimeDB · RustSpacetimeDB is a relational database that is also a server: you upload your application logic into the database as a module, and clients connect straight to it with no web or game server in between. Data is synchronized to connected clients in real time.
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websocket
24.9Kgorilla/websocket · GoA Go implementation of the WebSocket protocol — a fast, well-tested and widely used Go package for WebSocket client-server communication.
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dockge
24.6Klouislam/dockge · TypeScriptDockge is a self-hosted, reactive web manager for Docker Compose stacks: from a browser you create, edit, start, stop, restart and delete compose.yaml stacks, update images and watch progress in real time.
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gaussian-splatting
24.2Kgraphdeco-inria/gaussian-splatting · PythonThis is the official reference implementation of the paper '3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering' — it reconstructs a 3D scene from photos as a set of 3D Gaussians and renders novel views in real time at 1080p.
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lexical
24Kfacebook/lexical · TypeScriptLexical is an extensible text editor framework for the web from Meta, built for reliability, accessibility and performance. You use it to build your own rich-text editors in the browser.
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timescaledb
23.7Ktimescale/timescaledb · CTimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension for high-performance real-time analytics on time-series and event data — sensor readings, financial ticks, application events. You work with it in regular SQL.
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deepface
23.6Kserengil/deepface · PythonDeepFace is a lightweight Python framework for face recognition and facial attribute analysis: it verifies whether two faces match, finds who someone is, and predicts age, gender, emotion and race.
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AI-Trader
22.8KHKUDS/AI-Trader · PythonAI-Trader is an agent-native trading platform where AI agents trade, publish signals, and learn from each other - and human traders can join alongside them.
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ws
22.8Kwebsockets/ws · JavaScriptws is a simple to use, blazing fast, thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation for Node.js, with support for the permessage-deflate compression extension.
- 54
thingsboard
22.6Kthingsboard/thingsboard · JavaThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device management, data collection, processing, and visualization: connect devices, store their telemetry, and build dashboards on top.
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tornado
22.2Ktornadoweb/tornado · PythonTornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. Thanks to non-blocking network I/O it can scale to tens of thousands of open connections.
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newsnow
22.1Knewsnext/newsnow · TypeScriptNewsNow is an open-source web app for elegantly reading real-time and trending news, aggregating hot stories from multiple sources into one clean, readable interface.
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matomo
22Kmatomo-org/matomo · PHPMatomo (formerly Piwik) is the leading free open-source web analytics platform — a privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics that you install on your own server. It is already used on more than 1,400,000 websites.
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dgraph
21.8Kdgraph-io/dgraph · GoDgraph is an open-source, horizontally scalable distributed graph database with a GraphQL interface, built for real-time queries over terabytes of data. It provides ACID transactions, consistent replication, and linearizable reads.
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Anime4K
21.5Kbloc97/Anime4K · Jupyter NotebookAnime4K is a set of open-source, real-time upscaling and denoising algorithms, implemented as GLSL shaders, that sharpen and upscale anime video on the fly inside your media player instead of permanently re-encoding the file.
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parse-server
21.4Kparse-community/parse-server · JavaScriptParse Server is an open source, self-hosted backend: you deploy it to any infrastructure that runs Node.js, standalone or inside an Express app, and it gives your application a ready-made API layer over a database so you don't build that plumbing yourself.
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wekan
21.1Kwekan/wekan · JavaScriptWeKan is a completely open-source and free collaborative kanban board: boards with lists and cards for personal todos, trip planning or team projects, with a real-time user interface.
- 62
goaccess
21.1Kallinurl/goaccess · CGoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer. It parses your web server access logs and shows HTTP statistics live, either in a terminal UI or as an HTML dashboard in your browser.
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FunASR
20.7Kmodelscope/FunASR · PythonFunASR is an open-source industrial speech recognition toolkit covering ASR, VAD, punctuation, speaker diarization, and emotion/audio-event models, deployable offline, in streaming mode, on edge devices, or behind an OpenAI-compatible API.
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filament
20.6Kgoogle/filament · C++Filament is Google's open-source, real-time physically based rendering engine (PBR) for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows and WASM/WebGL2, designed to be as small and efficient as possible — especially on Android.
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bokeh
20.5Kbokeh/bokeh · TypeScriptBokeh is a Python library for building interactive visualizations that run in modern web browsers: plots, dashboards, and data applications, with high-performance interactivity over large or streaming datasets.
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BlackHole
19.9KExistentialAudio/BlackHole · CA virtual audio loopback driver for macOS: it creates an audio device that lets one application pass its sound to another application with zero additional latency.
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motion-canvas
19.4Kmotion-canvas/motion-canvas · TypeScriptMotion Canvas is a free, open-source tool for creating informative vector animations — you program them in TypeScript and watch them in a real-time preview editor, optionally synchronized with a voice-over.
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compiler-explorer
19.1Kcompiler-explorer/compiler-explorer · TypeScriptAn interactive compiler exploration website: edit code in C, C++, Rust, Go or any of 30+ supported languages and see the compiled assembly update in real time. Try it at godbolt.org or self-host.
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iii
18.8Kiii-hq/iii · Rustiii is a real-time engine for your backend stack: queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents, and sandboxes are collapsed into one live system surface where every service is composable and observable.
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ZeroNet
18.8KHelloZeroNet/ZeroNet · JavaScriptZeroNet is open-source software for a decentralized web: it lets you publish and visit websites that use Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network for distribution instead of a traditional hosting provider.
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etherpad
18.6Kether/etherpad · TypeScriptEtherpad is a self-hosted, real-time collaborative document editor: every keystroke is attributed to its author, every revision is preserved, and a timeslider lets you scrub through a pad's entire history.
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matter-js
18.5Kliabru/matter-js · JavaScriptMatter.js is a JavaScript 2D rigid body physics engine for the web — a physics simulation you drop into web pages and Node.js apps.
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APIJSON
18.4KAPIJSON/APIJSON · JavaAPIJSON is a JSON-based communication protocol and ORM library that auto-provides CRUD APIs and documentation with no backend coding, while clients define exactly what JSON data and structure they get back.
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overleaf
18.2Koverleaf/overleaf · JavaScriptOverleaf is an open-source, web-based real-time collaborative LaTeX editor; this repo is the self-hostable Community Edition, while the hosted version runs at overleaf.com.
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asciinema
17.9Kasciinema/asciinema · RustIt's a command-line tool for recording and live-streaming terminal sessions. Instead of heavyweight video, it saves lightweight asciicast (.cast) files you can replay in a terminal, embed on a web page, or publish to asciinema.org.
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node-redis
17.6Kredis/node-redis · TypeScriptNode-Redis is a modern, high performance Redis client for Node.js — the library your JavaScript or TypeScript app uses to talk to a Redis server, with support for Redis Stack modules like JSON, Search and Time-Series.
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instant-ngp
17.6KNVlabs/instant-ngp · CudaNVIDIA Research's implementation of four neural graphics primitives — neural radiance fields (NeRF), signed distance functions, neural images and neural volumes — fast enough to train a fox NeRF in under 5 seconds.
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websocketd
17.5Kjoewalnes/websocketd · Gowebsocketd is a small command-line tool that wraps an existing command-line program and exposes it as a WebSocket server — like inetd, but for WebSockets. Any script that reads STDIN and writes STDOUT becomes a live, browser-reachable endpoint.
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questdb
17.4Kquestdb/questdb · JavaQuestDB is an open-source, low-latency time-series database on open formats: it ingests millions of events per second, computes on live data in milliseconds, and keeps years of history queryable through one SQL engine.
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flet
17.4Kflet-dev/flet · PythonFlet is a Python framework for building web, mobile and desktop apps from a single Python codebase - no frontend experience required, with Flutter rendering the UI.
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hls.js
17Kvideo-dev/hls.js · TypeScriptA JavaScript library that plays HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) video directly in the browser. It relies on HTML5 video and Media Source Extensions, transmuxing MPEG-2 TS and AAC/MP3 streams into MP4 fragments asynchronously in a Web Worker.
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kcp
16.9Kskywind3000/kcp · CKCP is a fast, reliable ARQ protocol for realtime traffic: it trades 10-20% extra bandwidth for 30-40% lower average latency and up to 3x lower maximum latency than TCP.
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webrtc
16.8Kpion/webrtc · GoA pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API: Go programs can exchange real-time audio, video and data with browsers and other peers, with no Cgo and no native WebRTC libraries.
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zephyr
16.8Kzephyrproject-rtos/zephyr · CZephyr is an open source real-time operating system (RTOS) — a small-footprint kernel for resource-constrained embedded devices, supporting many hardware architectures and built with security in mind.
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emqx
16.8Kemqx/emqx · ErlangEMQX is an MQTT broker and messaging platform for IoT: it connects millions of devices, routes messages in real time, and bridges them into backend data systems. Aimed at AI, IoT, IIoT, connected vehicles and smart cities.
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pipecat
16.5Kpipecat-ai/pipecat · PythonPipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents — from a single voice bot to a distributed multi-agent system — maintained by Daily and the community.
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avatarify-python
16.5Kalievk/avatarify-python · PythonIt puts photorealistic animated avatars into Zoom, Skype and other video-conferencing apps: instead of your webcam feed, an AI model drives a face photo with your movements.
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nicegui
16.3Kzauberzeug/nicegui · PythonNiceGUI is an easy-to-use, Python-based UI framework that shows up in your web browser, letting you build buttons, dialogs, 3D scenes, plots, dashboards and more without writing frontend code yourself.
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MailHog
16.2Kmailhog/MailHog · GoMailHog is an email testing tool for developers. You point your application's outgoing SMTP at it, then view the captured mail in a web UI or fetch it through a JSON API, instead of delivering it for real.
- 90
pglite
16.2Kelectric-sql/pglite · TypeScriptPGlite is Postgres compiled to WebAssembly and packaged as a TypeScript client library, so a real Postgres database runs directly in the browser, Node.js, Bun or Deno - no other dependencies needed.
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doris
16.1Kapache/doris · JavaApache Doris is an open-source, real-time analytics and search database built on MPP architecture. It serves fast SQL analytics, lakehouse query acceleration, and hybrid search across structured, text, and vector data.
- 92
scylladb
15.8Kscylladb/scylladb · C++Scylla is a real-time big data database — a distributed NoSQL data store that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB and built on the Seastar framework.
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openface
15.4Kcmusatyalab/openface · LuaOpenFace is a free, open-source face recognition toolkit built on deep neural networks, developed by Carnegie Mellon University.
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feathers
15.3Kfeathersjs/feathers · TypeScriptFeathers is a full-stack framework for building web APIs and real-time applications with TypeScript or JavaScript, working with any backend technology and any frontend like React, Vue, Angular or React Native.
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NodeBB
15.2KNodeBB/NodeBB · JavaScriptNodeBB is forum/bulletin-board software built on Node.js, with real-time discussions, mobile-responsive design, and RESTful read/write APIs on top of classic forum concepts like categories and user accounts.
- 96
apexcharts.js
15.2Kapexcharts/apexcharts.js · JavaScriptApexCharts is a JavaScript charting library for building interactive, SVG-based charts, designed for dashboards, SaaS products, and data-heavy UIs.
- 97
logstash
15Kelastic/logstash · JavaLogstash is a server-side data processing pipeline, part of the Elastic Stack, that ingests data from many sources at once, transforms it, and sends it to a destination like Elasticsearch.
- 98
TREK
14.8Kliketrek/TREK · TypeScriptTREK is a self-hosted travel and trip planner with real-time collaborative editing, interactive maps, budgets, packing lists, a journal, and built-in AI features.
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sampler
14.8Ksqshq/sampler · GoSampler is a terminal tool that repeatedly runs shell commands and turns their output into live visualizations like charts and gauges, with optional alerts, all configured through a single YAML file.
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Tone.js
14.8KTonejs/Tone.js · TypeScriptTone.js is a Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser, giving musicians and audio programmers DAW-like features such as a global transport, prebuilt synths and effects, plus low-level building blocks for custom audio processing.
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