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Ask HN: Which project(s) made you go “I can't believe this is open-source”?
For me personally, Zulip and Blender.
Could be due to their look and feel, performance, overall UX, or any other criteria you see fit!
- f0e4c2f7 3y agoOpenAI Whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper
- wandering-nomad 3y agoFor me, it's Postgres all the way. I use MS SQL Server at work and Postgres for my personal projects and I was always amazed by its maturity and feature parity with commercial databases
- unlikelymordant 3y agoqgis - https://qgis.org/en/site/ https://qgis.org/en/site/ mainly just how useful it is, and i think it looks quite nice
- revskill 3y agoReact.js
- croo 3y agoKrita
- ekiauhce 3y agocoroot - https://github.com/coroot/coroot https://github.com/coroot/coroot
- joshxyz 3y agoredis, caddy, haproxy, uwebsockets.js, postgresql, lovell's sharp, zstd, zlib, many more
- sneed_chucker 3y agoSLURM
- botanicalfriend 3y agoHAProxy
- andrei_says_ 3y agoRails, Hotwire, a lot of gems.
- villgax 3y agoKong
- tra3 3y agoLots of developer tooling and adjacent here, no surprise. I'm gonna throw Emacs in. Amazing piece of tech. Can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be for "general populace" though. Is open source mostly devs scratching their own itches?
- jrepinc 3y agoKDE Plasma desktop environment in particular and GNU/Linux in general. Way ahead of any closed and proprietary alternative.
- RGBCube 3y agoIntelliJ Community is great, it has so many features making it a perfect IDE (except that it is pretty heavy)
- rochak 3y agoVim
- voltaireodactyl 3y agoFfmpeg is incredible and fundamental in a way that makes a lot of the modern media environment possible.
- swah 3y agovscode