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GitHub Trending: Last week — System Design Primer, Awesome Mac, Authentik, Planka, OctoBot (github.com)

In last week's GitHub Trending: System Design Primer (architecture study guide), Awesome Mac (curated macOS software), Authentik (identity platform), Planka (self-hosted Kanban), and OctoBot (automated trading bot).

The unexpected common thread is not a new framework but accumulated trust: old repositories still solve recurring work, even when their current community chatter is sparse.

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GitHub Trending: Last week — Seerr, GitHub CLI, systematic trading, Vue, KernelSU (github.com)

In GitHub Trending this week: Seerr manages media requests, GitHub CLI brings GitHub to the terminal, awesome-systematic-trading maps quant resources, Vue powers web interfaces, and KernelSU provides kernel-based Android root. The common thread is control over tools people already run.

GitHub Trending: Last week — Croc, Paperless, build-your-own-x, Dioxus, Hyprland (github.com)

In last week’s GitHub Trending: Croc (secure computer-to-computer file transfer), Paperless-ngx (self-hosted document archive), build-your-own-x (programming-by-recreation guides), Dioxus (Rust apps across platforms), and Hyprland (Wayland tiling compositor).

Their shared appeal is legibility. Each exposes a layer that users often delegate—files, paperwork, learning, UI, or the desktop—and gives it a durable local shape.

GitHub Trending: Last week — SimpleX, CasaOS, free-for-dev, Plane, Ruff (github.com)

In last week's GitHub Trending: SimpleX (a messenger that assigns no user identifiers at all, for the privacy-maximalist crowd), CasaOS (a home-server OS that turns a spare box into a personal cloud), Plane (a self-hosted Jira and Linear alternative), and free-for-dev (a directory of free SaaS tiers).

The list sells digital independence. But its second-biggest gainer, CasaOS, hasn't merged a commit in nearly a year, and its own issue tracker is openly asking whether the project is dead.

GitHub Trending: Last week — iroh, Plane, Presidio, Meshery, freeCodeCamp (github.com)

Last week's climbers: iroh, a Rust stack that dials devices by cryptographic key instead of IP address (and just shipped 1.0); Plane, a self-hostable, air-gap-capable alternative to Jira and Linear; Presidio, Microsoft's PII scrubber that teams now wire in front of every LLM call; Meshery, a manager for your own cloud-native infrastructure.

The odd one out is freeCodeCamp, at 450k stars and trending yet again with nothing new to say. iroh reached 1.0 the hard way: it tore out its QUIC engine and shipped one it wrote itself.

GitHub Trending: Last week — PowerToys, FunASR, Trivy, Astro, Fastify (github.com)

Last week's board: PowerToys, Microsoft's Windows utility belt; FunASR, an Alibaba speech-recognition toolkit pitched as a Whisper replacement; Trivy, a container vulnerability scanner; and two web frameworks, Astro and Fastify.

Not one new viral repo among them. Every project is years old and carries between 17k and 135k stars. The outlier is Trivy, climbing again only weeks after attackers hijacked its release pipeline and turned the scanner itself into a credential stealer running inside thousands of CI jobs.

GitHub Trending: Last week — Sniffnet, Trivy, FunASR, PowerToys, Astro (github.com)

This week: Sniffnet — cross-platform network monitor with per-app visibility; Trivy — vulnerability scanner (recently supply-chain attacked); FunASR — Alibaba speech recognition at 170x realtime; PowerToys — Windows utilities; Astro — content web framework.

The sharpest detail: Trivy's March 2026 compromise — attackers force-pushed malicious commits to its GitHub Action tags and spread a worm to 47 npm packages — appears to have boosted, not buried, its star count. Security incidents are now marketing.