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1-60 of 382 projects
54,230 stars

WerWolv/ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

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Stars54,230
21,164 stars

jart/cosmopolitan

build-once run-anywhere c library

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Stars21,164
17,704 stars

upx/upx

UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

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Stars17,704
14,998 stars

Nuitka/Nuitka

Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.14. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

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Stars14,998
13,570 stars

nexe/nexe

🎉 create a single executable out of your node.js apps

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Stars13,570
8,963 stars

gperftools/gperftools

Main gperftools repository

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Stars8,963
8,172 stars

TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

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Stars8,172
7,098 stars

lxn/walk

A Windows GUI toolkit for the Go Programming Language

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Stars7,098
5,399 stars

remkop/picocli

Picocli is a modern framework for building powerful, user-friendly, GraalVM-enabled command line apps with ease. It supports colors, autocompletion, subcommands, and more. In 1 source file so apps can include as source & avoid adding a dependency. Written in Java, usable from Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc.

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Stars5,399
4,552 stars

aquasecurity/tracee

Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF

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Stars4,552
4,527 stars

AleoHQ/snarkOS

A Decentralized Operating System for ZK Applications

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Stars4,527
4,390 stars

extremecoders-re/pyinstxtractor

PyInstaller Extractor

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Stars4,390
4,217 stars

pantsbuild/pex

A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs.

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Stars4,217
4,202 stars

sass/dart-sass

The reference implementation of Sass, written in Dart.

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Stars4,202
4,133 stars

philippe44/AirConnect

Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices

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Stars4,133
4,022 stars

DependencyTrack/dependency-track

Dependency-Track is an intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain.

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Stars4,022
3,707 stars

sozu-proxy/sozu

Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy, configurable at runtime, fast and safe, built in Rust. It is awesome!

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Stars3,707
3,347 stars

bojand/ghz

Simple gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool

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Stars3,347
3,084 stars

tomojitakasu/RTKLIB

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Stars3,084
3,069 stars

pmq20/node-packer

Packing your Node.js application into a single executable.

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Stars3,069
2,749 stars

RazrFalcon/cargo-bloat

Find out what takes most of the space in your executable.

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Stars2,749
2,624 stars

libgdx/packr

Packages your JAR, assets and a JVM for distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

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Stars2,624
2,538 stars

friendlyanon/cmake-init

The missing CMake project initializer

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Stars2,538
2,442 stars

GeertJohan/go.rice

go.rice is a Go package that makes working with resources such as html,js,css,images,templates, etc very easy.

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Stars2,442
2,295 stars

mathiasbynens/small

Smallest possible syntactically valid files of different types

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Stars2,295
2,280 stars

psenough/teach_yourself_demoscene_in_14_days

A guide to learn and become active in the demoscene within a couple of weeks

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Stars2,280
2,116 stars

phra/PEzor

Open-Source Shellcode & PE Packer

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Stars2,116
2,056 stars

erocarrera/pefile

pefile is a Python module to read and work with PE (Portable Executable) files

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Stars2,056
2,043 stars

zeldaret/botw

Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch 1.5.0)

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Stars2,043
1,977 stars

takama/daemon

A daemon package for use with Go (golang) services

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Stars1,977
1,944 stars

praat/praat

Praat: Doing Phonetics By Computer

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Stars1,944
1,894 stars

mxcl/swift-sh

Easily script with third-party Swift dependencies.

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Stars1,894
1,838 stars

prettier/vim-prettier

A Vim plugin for Prettier

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Stars1,838
1,805 stars

ar51an/iperf3-win-builds

iperf3 binaries for Windows. Benchmark your network limits.

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Stars1,805
1,768 stars

mszep/pandoc_resume

The Markdown Resume

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Stars1,768
1,755 stars

MScholtes/PS2EXE

Module to compile powershell scripts to executables

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Stars1,755
1,753 stars

govolution/avet

AntiVirus Evasion Tool

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Stars1,753
1,734 stars

rexdex/recompiler

Xbox360 -> Windows executable converter

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Stars1,734
1,671 stars

rust-osdev/bootloader

An experimental pure-Rust x86 bootloader

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Stars1,671
1,591 stars

pmq20/ruby-packer

Packing your Ruby application into a single executable.

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Stars1,591
1,574 stars

facebookincubator/xar

executable archive format

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Stars1,574
1,551 stars

austral/austral

Systems language with linear types and capability-based security.

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Stars1,551
1,505 stars

Glavin001/atom-beautify

:mega: Help Wanted - Looking for Maintainer: https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/issues/2572 | :lipstick: Universal beautification package for Atom editor (:warning: Currently migrating to https://github.com/Unibeautify/ and have very limited bandwidth for Atom-Beautify Issues. Thank you for your patience and understanding :heart: )

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Stars1,505
1,475 stars

ananthakumaran/tide

Tide - TypeScript Interactive Development Environment for Emacs

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Stars1,475
1,425 stars

kaegi/alass

"Automatic Language-Agnostic Subtitle Synchronization"

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Stars1,425
1,419 stars

bake-bake-bake/bakeware

Compile Elixir applications into single, easily distributed executable binaries

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Stars1,419
1,347 stars

twostraws/Sitrep

A source code analyzer for Swift projects.

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Stars1,347
1,341 stars

bevry/cson

CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.

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Stars1,341
1,274 stars

kosua20/MIDIVisualizer

A small MIDI visualizer tool, using OpenGL

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Stars1,274
1,269 stars

runestubbe/Crinkler

Crinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for compressing small 32-bit Windows demoscene executables. As of 2026, it is the most widely used tool for compressing 1k/4k/8k intros.

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Stars1,269
1,223 stars

eembc/coremark

CoreMark® is an industry-standard benchmark that measures the performance of central processing units (CPU) and embedded microcrontrollers (MCU).

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Stars1,223
1,222 stars

ThunderCls/xAnalyzer

xAnalyzer plugin for x64dbg

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Stars1,222
1,207 stars

lucyoa/kernel-exploits

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Stars1,207
1,198 stars

NathanFlurry/VisualProgrammingLanguage

Visual programming language written in Swift that assembles to executable Swift code.

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Stars1,198
1,185 stars

Link-Kou/intellij-mybaitslog

用于在IDEA将Mybatis的SQL日志还原为可执行的SQL,Used to restore Mybatis SQL logs to executable SQL in IDEA,

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Stars1,185
1,169 stars

nodejs/llnode

An lldb plugin for Node.js and V8, which enables inspection of JavaScript states for insights into Node.js processes and their core dumps.

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Stars1,169
1,160 stars

SkrewEverything/Swift-Keylogger

Keylogger for mac written in Swift using HID

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Stars1,160
1,067 stars

13xforever/ps3-disc-dumper

A handy utility to make decrypted PS3 disc dumps

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Stars1,067
1,066 stars

EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN

Stable Diffusion in NCNN with c++, supported txt2img and img2img

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Stars1,066
1,057 stars

fortran-lang/fpm

Fortran Package Manager (fpm)

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Stars1,057
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