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Top 23 Github Open-Source Projects
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HelloGitHub
:octocat: 分享 GitHub 上有趣、入门级的开源项目。Share interesting, entry-level open source projects on GitHub.
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SaaSHub
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30-Days-Of-Python
The 30 Days of Python programming challenge is a step-by-step guide to learn the Python programming language in 30 days. This challenge may take more than 100 days. Follow your own pace. These videos may help too: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7PNRuno1rzYPb1xLa4yktw
A free, beginner‑friendly programming challenge on GitHub, 30 Days of Python breaks down the process of learning Python into daily lessons and exercises that guide you step by step from the basics to more advanced concepts.
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Gitea
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Project mention: Gitea is 10 years old, but official repo is still hosted on GitHub | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-02 -
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Summer2026-Internships
Summer 2026 software engineering, data science, AI, quant, product management, and hardware internship postings. Updated daily by Simplify and Pitt CSC.
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refined-github
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
The refined github extension[0] has some defaults that make the default view a little more tolerable. Past that I can personally recommend Renovate, which supports far more ecosystems and customisation options (like auto merging).
[0]: https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github
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The official GitHub MCP server registers 83 tools. Most people set it up for reading code and managing issues. What they don't realise is they've also handed their agent the keys to:
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awesome-github-profile-readme
😎 A curated list of awesome GitHub Profile which updates in real time (by abhisheknaiidu)
You can check this article to create an amazing Profile Readme and check this Github repo for some inspiration.
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Project mention: How to Write a Good README: Your Project's Most Important File [2026 Guide] | dev.to | 2026-05-01
Badges. Those little colored shields at the top of a README — build passing, coverage percentage, npm version, license type — aren't decoration. According to shields.io, which powers most of them, badges provide live, at-a-glance information about a project's health. A green "build passing" badge tells me this project has CI. A coverage badge tells me someone cares about testing. I've worked on teams where the presence or absence of badges was literally part of the library evaluation checklist.
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PicGo
:rocket: The Ultimate Image Uploader for Efficient Creators. Supports Obsidian, Typora, VS Code etc. and 60+ image hosting services (S3, GitHub, Cloudflare R2, Imgur, Aliyun OSS...). Paste, upload, done.
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github-profile-readme-generator
🚀 Generate GitHub profile README easily with the latest add-ons like visitors count, GitHub stats, etc using minimal UI.
github-profile-readme-generator (rahuldkjain)
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What surprised me, going through the tooling landscape for this post, is that nothing else in the stack answers the question either. Renovate understands dependency manifests more deeply than almost any tool in existence, one repository at a time. Asked directly whether cross-repository dependency detection was planned, a maintainer's answer this May was unambiguous: "Renovate only operates on a per-repository basis", with no plans to change. Dependabot has the same shape. The tools that read your manifests every single day read them one repo at a time, and then forget what they saw.
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Project mention: I built the VS Code Remote WSL extension, but for GitHub Desktop | dev.to | 2026-03-26
Think of it like the VS Code Remote WSL extension but for GitHub Desktop. A fork of GitHub Desktop that makes WSL repositories work properly — 6-27x faster git operations, working SSH keys, and no more CRLF issues.
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Project mention: The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-11
Surprised to see they kept Tauri. In our experience of using Tauri, it has been a significant source of compatibility and performance issues related to it's use of WebKit and WebKitGTK. So much so that we have started an effort of migrating away from it for our app, in favor of Electron (https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/tree/master/apps/l...)
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dyad
Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!
Project mention: Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-27One dev of a Lovable competitor pointed me to the rules thats supposed to ensure queries are limited to that user's data. This seems like "pretty please?" to my amateur eyes.
https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/blob/de2cc2b48f2c8bfa401608c...
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Project mention: How I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months — I started at 16 | dev.to | 2026-05-08
The inevitable comparison: yes, I know about Obtainium. I get asked "why not Obtainium?" every week. Obtainium is the lightweight power-user updater for repos you already know about. GitHub Store is the discovery-first store for people who don't know what to install yet — and it's cross-platform. Use Obtainium. Use GitHub Store. Use both. We built Obtainium import/export so libraries move between them in one tap.
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deepwiki-open
Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket Repositories. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/gMwThUMeme
Project mention: Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab Repos | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-01 -
metrics
📊 An infographics generator with 30+ plugins and 300+ options to display stats about your GitHub account and render them as SVG, Markdown, PDF or JSON!
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Github projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | HelloGitHub | 161,841 |
| 2 | 30-Days-Of-Python | 65,592 |
| 3 | Gitea | 56,374 |
| 4 | github-cheat-sheet | 56,254 |
| 5 | Summer2026-Internships | 44,964 |
| 6 | refined-github | 31,555 |
| 7 | github-mcp-server | 30,843 |
| 8 | awesome-github-profile-readme | 29,841 |
| 9 | awesome-actions | 27,854 |
| 10 | shields | 26,827 |
| 11 | PicGo | 26,821 |
| 12 | github-profile-readme-generator | 24,286 |
| 13 | octotree | 23,192 |
| 14 | stackedit | 22,861 |
| 15 | renovate | 21,808 |
| 16 | desktop | 21,595 |
| 17 | gitbutler | 21,081 |
| 18 | dyad | 20,665 |
| 19 | Obtainium | 17,698 |
| 20 | deepwiki-open | 16,956 |
| 21 | metrics | 16,799 |
| 22 | git-tips | 15,844 |
| 23 | gitdiagram | 15,707 |
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