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comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
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emilk
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emilk/egui, emilk/eon
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sxyazi
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sxyazi/yazi
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elie222
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elie222/inbox-zero
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yetone
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yetone/avante.nvim
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hiyouga
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hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory
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hrydgard
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hrydgard/ppsspp
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jlowin
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jlowin/fastmcp
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azure-sdk
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azure-sdk/github-event-processor-test, azure-sdk/mcp, azure-sdk/azure-docs-sdk-java
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VikParuchuri
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VikParuchuri/marker
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zeux
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zeux/meshoptimizer
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lukasmasuch
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lukasmasuch/best-of-ml-python, lukasmasuch/best-of-crypto
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dalathegreat
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dalathegreat/Battery-Emulator
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amir1376
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amir1376/ab-download-manager
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Cyan4973
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Cyan4973/xxHash
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mattt
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10.29
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mattt/Ono, mattt/iMCP, mattt/Euler
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ayangweb
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4.2
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ayangweb/BongoCat
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miurla
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5.8
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miurla/morphic
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EricLBuehler
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11.86
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EricLBuehler/mistral.rs
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rasbt
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rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
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mxsm
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mxsm/rocketmq-rust
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LmeSzinc
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LmeSzinc/AzurLaneAutoScript
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idosal
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idosal/git-mcp, idosal/mcp-ui
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mldangelo
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mldangelo/personal-site
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DaniPopes
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DaniPopes/keccak-asm, DaniPopes/const-hex, DaniPopes/optimism
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dgtlmoon
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12.17
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dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
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DHowett
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DHowett/go-plist, DHowett/FrameworkWindowsUtils
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78
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78/xiaozhi-esp32
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mistercrunch
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mistercrunch/superset, mistercrunch/awesome-data-engineering
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randombit
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randombit/botan
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lgallard
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lgallard/terraform-aws-backup
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bracesproul
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11.6
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bracesproul/awesome-langgraphjs, bracesproul/gen-ui-python, bracesproul/typescript-template
2,025
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MervinPraison
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MervinPraison/PraisonAI
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zhaochenyang20
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12.4
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zhaochenyang20/Awesome-ML-SYS-Tutorial
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mitchellh
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mitchellh/nixos-config, mitchellh/libxev
2,025
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LaurentMazare
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4
10
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LaurentMazare/tch-rs
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hathach
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10.5
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hathach/tinyusb
2,025
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seveibar
3
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seveibar/cloudflare-cors-proxy
2,025
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a-r-r-o-w
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11
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a-r-r-o-w/finetrainers
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steipete
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11
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steipete/agent-rules, steipete/macos-automator-mcp
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JamesNK
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8
11.25
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JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json
2,025
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buger
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5
11.25
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buger/goreplay, buger/probe
2,025
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bolinfest
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3
11.5
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bolinfest/monaco-tm
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monkeyWie
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monkeyWie/gopeed-extension-baiduwp
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Jarred-Sumner
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Jarred-Sumner/hop
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schrockn
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null
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arvinxx
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arvinxx/gitmoji-commit-workflow, arvinxx/npm-template, arvinxx/zotero-engine-list
2,025
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sairon
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7
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sairon/esphome-nspanel-lovelace-ui
2,025
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hyochan
4
6
12.75
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hyochan/expo-iap, hyochan/react-native-audio-recorder-player
2,025
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qgallouedec
3
1
8.67
7
qgallouedec/panda-gym
2,025
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AlexCheema
3
6
9.33
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AlexCheema/mlx
2,025
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arsenm
4
3
13.75
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arsenm/sanitizers-cmake, arsenm/llvm-reduce-tutorial
2,025
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MichaIng
3
6
9.67
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MichaIng/DietPi
2,025
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Yeuoly
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12
14.25
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Yeuoly/0xUBypass, Yeuoly/Dress, Yeuoly/Yeuoly
2,025
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weblate
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14.5
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weblate/texworks, weblate/ytify, weblate/keystore-explorer
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roblourens
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null
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dqbd
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dqbd/tiktokenizer
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mattsse
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mattsse/chromiumoxide
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baconpaul
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baconpaul/six-sines
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blampe
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blampe/rreading-glasses
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sethvargo
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sethvargo/go-githubactions, sethvargo/go-envconfig, sethvargo/go-limiter
2,025
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LalitMaganti
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5.5
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null
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OrKoN
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1
5.5
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null
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logan-markewich
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12.67
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logan-markewich/llama_index_starter_pack
2,025
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bghira
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6
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bghira/SimpleTuner
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alexey-milovidov
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12.67
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null
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JarbasAl
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13
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null
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mikavilpas
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mikavilpas/yazi.nvim
2,025
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RobinMalfait
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RobinMalfait/advent-of-code
2,025
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geohot
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6.5
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geohot/fromthetransistor
2,025
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sissbruecker
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6
6.5
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sissbruecker/linkding
2,025
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HenryHengZJ
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19.5
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HenryHengZJ/flowise-streamlit
2,025
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DefTruth
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13.33
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DefTruth/CUDA-Learn-Notes
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michalsnik
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7
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michalsnik/aos
2,025
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lirantal
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lirantal/npq
2,025
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bpasero
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13.67
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bpasero/vscode-deviceid
2,025
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wendigo
4
3
16.75
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null
2,025
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AliSoftware
3
7
13.67
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AliSoftware/OHHTTPStubs, AliSoftware/SourceryTemplates
2,025
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holtskinner
3
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13.67
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null
2,025
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maxdeviant
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7.5
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maxdeviant/peacock, maxdeviant/aragorn2
2,025
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threepointone
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threepointone/durable-chat, threepointone/emojico, threepointone/dynos
2,025
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pschatzmann
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pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools
2,025
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brophdawg11
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brophdawg11/minimal-rrv7-template, brophdawg11/react-router-auth0-example
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mwaskom
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mwaskom/seaborn
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zerosnacks
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null
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Myriad-Dreamin
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Myriad-Dreamin/tinymist
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martinothamar
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martinothamar/Mediator
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dsnet
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dsnet/matrix-transpose
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leestott
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leestott/ai-agents-for-beginners
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HansKristian-Work
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HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton
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ripienaar
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ripienaar/free-for-dev
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mylinuxforwork
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mylinuxforwork/dotfiles
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me-no-dev
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me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer, me-no-dev/arduino-esp32fs-plugin
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danielchalef
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bdraco
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Narsil
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Narsil/rdev
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joshhanley
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dcramer
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dcramer/peated
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nickfrosty
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hartwork
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hartwork/grub2-theme-preview
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GitHub Top Developers by Year (2015-2025)

A derived dataset showing the top-ranked GitHub trending developers for each year, based on weighted scoring of their trending appearances across 41,841 raw data points from the Wayback Machine.

πŸ“Š Dataset Overview

  • Total Entries: 8,125 ranked developers
  • Years Covered: 2015 - 2025 (11 years)
  • Unique Developers: 4,763
  • Source: Derived from Wayback Machine snapshots of GitHub trending developers
  • Data Order: Sorted by year (descending: 2025 β†’ 2015) and rank within each year
  • Update Frequency: Static historical dataset

πŸ”§ Dataset Configurations

This dataset has two configurations defined in the YAML header:

Configuration: yearly (Default)

Top-ranked developers by year with 8,125 entries

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset('ronantakizawa/github-top-developers', 'yearly')

Columns:

  • year (int): Year (2015-2025)
  • rank (int): Overall rank for that year (1 = highest score)
  • name (string): Developer/organization GitHub username
  • times_trended (int): Number of times appeared on trending
  • best_rank (int): Highest rank achieved (lowest number)
  • avg_rank (float): Average rank across all appearances
  • median_rank (int): Median rank
  • popular_repos (string): Top repositories (comma-separated)

Configuration: full

Complete daily trending data with 41,841 entries (sorted by date: most recent first)

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset('ronantakizawa/github-top-developers', 'full')

Columns:

  • name (string): Developer/organization GitHub username
  • rank (int): Position in trending (1-25)
  • popular_repo (string): Associated repository at the time
  • date (string): Snapshot date (YYYY-MM-DD, sorted descending)

πŸ† Scoring Methodology

Each developer's yearly score is calculated using:

Score = Ξ£ (26 - rank) for each trending appearance

Where:
- Rank 1 = 25 points
- Rank 2 = 24 points
- ...
- Rank 25 = 1 point

Why this works:

  • βœ… Rewards frequent appearances (more days trending = more points)
  • βœ… Rewards high rankings (rank 1 is worth more than rank 25. We use 25 because github ranks the top 25 developers on their page)
  • βœ… Balances consistency with peak performance

🌟 Key Insights

1. Year Winners (Highest Score Each Year)

Year Winner Score Appearances Notable Project
2025 comfyanonymous 257 18 ComfyUI
2024 emilk 2,052 124 egui (Rust GUI)
2023 hrydgard 1,858 111 PPSSPP emulator
2022 emilk 1,958 107 egui
2021 PySimpleGUI 1,993 120 PySimpleGUI
2020 stefanprodan 1,033 64 Flux CD
2019 Microsoft 308 15 Various
2018 google 325 15 Various
2017 facebook / Microsoft 77 4 (tie)
2016 facebook 485 23 React ecosystem
2015 facebook 48 2 React

Notable: emilk appeared on trending 124 times in 2024 alone (nearly every 3 days!)

2. All-Time Top 10 (Total Score Across All Years)

Rank Developer Total Score Total Appearances Years Active
1 emilk 6,311 370 2020-2025
2 hrydgard 5,181 324 2018-2024
3 stefanprodan 4,910 306 2018-2022
4 stephencelis 4,870 301 2016-2024
5 a8m 4,649 323 2016-2024
6 hathach 3,629 264 2018-2024
7 azure-sdk 3,621 251 2020-2024
8 twpayne 3,124 196 2017-2024
9 PySimpleGUI 3,059 185 2019-2023
10 arvidn 2,737 164 2017-2022

3. Trend Shifts Over Time

2015-2017: Organization Era

  • Big tech dominated: Facebook, Google, Microsoft
  • Individual developers rarely broke top 3
  • React ecosystem (Facebook) was the dominant force

2018-2019: Transition Period

  • Mix of organizations and influential individuals
  • Rise of open-source foundations (Apache, Linux Foundation)
  • Container/cloud technologies gained traction

2020-2025: Individual Developer Era

  • Individuals dominate top ranks consistently
  • emilk (egui) becomes most successful developer ever
  • Specialized tool creators rise (PySimpleGUI, hrydgard's PPSSPP)
  • AI/ML researchers become more prominent (rasbt, 2024-2025)

5. Notable Patterns

  • Extreme Consistency: emilk appeared 370 times across 6 years (average 62 times/year)
  • 2021 Peak: PySimpleGUI set record with 120 appearances in a single year
  • Developer Longevity: sindresorhus maintained relevance from 2015-2021 (7 years)
  • Organization Decline: Big tech companies dropped from top spots after 2019
  • Ecosystem Impact: Most top developers maintain influential open-source libraries
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