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#1 TRENDING starship/starship Rust 2019

☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

◇ bash ◇ fish ◇ fish-prompt ◇ fish-theme

2.7K ↑ +7 today

60.1K

#2 TRENDING narumiruna/pi-extensions TypeScript NEW 2026

A monorepo of Pi Coding Agent extensions

◇ ai-agents ◇ codex ◇ codex-cli ◇ coding-agent

121 ↑ +2 today

625

#3 TRENDING Stellarium/stellarium C++ 2014

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows, macOS and Haiku. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

◇ astronomy ◇ c ◇ c-plus-plus ◇ planetarium

1.1K ↑ +1 today

10K

#4 TRENDING unhappychoice/splashboard Rust NEW 2026

A customizable terminal splash screen with plugin-based data sources.

◇ bash ◇ cli ◇ customizable ◇ dashboard

4 ↑ +1 today

216

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