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System projects on GitHub

System design and computer systems fundamentals

As of , the most-starred System projects on GitHub are system-design-primer (374.5K stars), awesome-scalability (74.8K stars) and winutil (64.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 22 System repositories with 858K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was system-design-primer, with +116 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+116

system-design-primer

donnemartin/system-design-primer · ★ 374.5K

A curated, organized collection of resources for learning how to design large-scale systems, built specifically to help engineers prepare for system design interviews.

+74

winutil

ChrisTitusTech/winutil · ★ 64.4K

Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility (WinUtil) is a curated compilation of Windows system tasks: it streamlines installs, debloats with tweaks, troubleshoots, and configures Windows updates.

+35

Mocreak

OdysseusYuan/Mocreak · ★ 4.5K

Mocreak is a one-click deployment tool that automatically downloads, installs and configures genuine-licensed Windows 10/11 and Office (2016-2024) on a PC, completely free of charge.

+34

CL4R1T4S

elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S · ★ 51.3K

CL4R1T4S is a crowd-sourced archive of leaked/extracted system prompts, guidelines, and internal tool definitions from major AI products like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Cursor, Lovable, and Replit, published for AI transparency.

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22 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · donnemartin/system-design-primer

    system-design-primer

    A curated, organized collection of resources for learning how to design large-scale systems, built specifically to help engineers prepare for system design interviews.

    374.5K
  2. #2 · binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability

    awesome-scalability

    A curated, continuously updated reading list of articles, case studies, and talks from engineers at companies like Netflix, Uber, Facebook, and Amazon, showing concrete patterns for building scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems.

    74.8K
  3. #3 · ChrisTitusTech/winutil

    winutil

    Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility (WinUtil) is a curated compilation of Windows system tasks: it streamlines installs, debloats with tweaks, troubleshoots, and configures Windows updates.

    64.4K
  1. 4

    CL4R1T4S

    51.3Kelder-plinius/CL4R1T4S

    CL4R1T4S is a crowd-sourced archive of leaked/extracted system prompts, guidelines, and internal tool definitions from major AI products like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Cursor, Lovable, and Replit, published for AI transparency.

  2. 5

    JavaFamily

    37KAobingJava/JavaFamily

    A massive Chinese-language study guide and interview prep collection for Java developers, covering core computer science, Java internals, frameworks, databases, distributed systems, and real interview questions from major Chinese tech companies.

  3. 6

    ExplorerPatcher

    34.1Kvalinet/ExplorerPatcher · C

    ExplorerPatcher is a Windows customization tool that restores and tweaks the classic Windows 10-style interface (taskbar, Start menu, Alt+Tab window switcher) on newer Windows versions like Windows 11.

  4. 7

    glances

    33.8Knicolargo/glances · Python

    Glances 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.

  5. 8

    system-design-interview

    23.9Kcheckcheckzz/system-design-interview

    A curated guide for preparing system design interviews at IT companies, covering interview tips, basic system design knowledge, engineering blogs, real-world architectures, and common design questions with reference material.

  6. 9

    blueprint

    22.1Kpalantir/blueprint · TypeScript

    Blueprint is Palantir's React-based UI toolkit for the web: a library of ready-made, Sass-styled UI components written in TypeScript and published under the Apache 2.0 license.

  7. 10

    BlackHole

    19.9KExistentialAudio/BlackHole · C

    A 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.

  8. 11

    sway

    17.4Kswaywm/sway · C

    Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor: the program that draws and arranges your windows on Linux, tiling them automatically like the i3 window manager.

  9. 12

    systemd

    16.8Ksystemd/systemd · C

    systemd is the system and service manager for Linux — the init system that brings the OS up at boot and supervises services while it runs.

  10. 13

    duf

    15.3Kmuesli/duf · Go

    duf is a terminal utility for checking disk usage and free space — a user-friendly, better-looking alternative to df for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.

  11. 14

    Vector

    12.8KJingMatrix/Vector · Kotlin

    Vector is a high-performance ART hooking framework for modern Android. It ships as a Zygisk module and keeps API consistency with the original Xposed, so Xposed-style modules keep working on current devices.

  12. 15

    one-key-hidpi

    11.2Kxzhih/one-key-hidpi · Shell

    A shell script that simulates macOS HiDPI on a non-retina display, so System Preferences gets a 'Native' Scaled option just like on a Retina Mac.

  13. 16

    platform_frameworks_base

    10.8Kaosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base · Java

    This is a GitHub mirror of the 'frameworks/base' repository from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), containing the core Java framework code that powers the Android OS, including system services like the Activity Manager, Window Manager, Package Manager, and the View/UI toolkit.

  14. 17

    fsnotify

    10.8Kfsnotify/fsnotify · Go

    fsnotify is a Go library that provides cross-platform filesystem notifications, letting your Go program watch files and directories for changes.

  15. 18

    Bash-Oneliner

    10.8Konceupon/Bash-Oneliner

    A curated collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks for data processing and Linux system maintenance, covering variables, grep, sed, awk, xargs, find, and more.

  16. 19

    nezha

    10.4Knezhahq/nezha · Go

    Nezha Monitoring is a self-hosted, lightweight tool for monitoring your servers and websites and handling O&M from one dashboard: status checks, alerts, scheduled tasks and a web terminal.

  17. 20

    Mocreak

    4.5KOdysseusYuan/Mocreak

    Mocreak is a one-click deployment tool that automatically downloads, installs and configures genuine-licensed Windows 10/11 and Office (2016-2024) on a PC, completely free of charge.

  18. 21

    Shizuku-Next

    775rushiranpise/Shizuku-Next · Kotlin

    An Android app that lets other apps use system-level APIs requiring ADB or root privileges. Shizuku Next is a feature-rich fork of Shizuku with improved setup, reliability, UI and extra start methods.

  19. 22

    HaloBattery

    656HeyOkay/HaloBattery · Python

    HaloBattery is a Windows tray app that shows battery levels for wireless mice, keyboards, headsets and controllers, giving each device its own icon instead of making you install each vendor's own software.

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