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- #1awesome@sindresorhus
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics [NOTE: Pull requests are temporarily disabled until I have a chance to catch up with the existing ones]
★ 499,978 - #2public-apis@public-apis
A collective list of free APIs
★ 471,162 - #3freeCodeCamp@freeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free.
★ 454,645 - #4free-programming-books@EbookFoundation
:books: Freely available programming books
★ 395,286 - #5openclaw@openclaw
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
★ 387,740 - #6system-design-primer@donnemartin
Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
★ 366,268 - #7developer-roadmap@nilbuild
Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers.
★ 365,537 - #8coding-interview-university@jwasham
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
★ 359,812 - #9awesome-python@vinta
The definitive list that answers "I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?"
★ 316,306 - #10awesome-selfhosted@awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
★ 315,453 - #11project-based-learning@practical-tutorials
Curated list of project-based tutorials
★ 281,008 - #12superpowers@obra
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
★ 278,203 - #13996.ICU@996icu
Repo for counting stars and contributing. Press F to pay respect to glorious developers.
★ 276,785 - #14react@react
The library for web and native user interfaces.
★ 247,910 - #15linux@torvalds
Linux kernel source tree
★ 244,516 - #16ECC@affaan-m
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
★ 243,561 - #17the-book-of-secret-knowledge@trimstray
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.
★ 240,558 - #18skills@mattpocock
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
★ 238,126 - #19hermes-agent@NousResearch
The agent that grows with you
★ 236,972 - #20Python@TheAlgorithms
All Algorithms implemented in Python
★ 224,051
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