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  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

    • Project mention: Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15

    > convince management of the value

    This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.

    There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.

    Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:

    https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

    A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:

    > I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

    Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.

  • Godot

    Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

    • Project mention: Tetris Development 1 - Setting Up | dev.to | 2024-04-24

    Instead, I was recommended Godot by a fellow developer. It is an easy-to-pickup and beginner-friendly open-source engine, which I will use to develop the Tetris game.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • tesseract-ocr

    Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

    • Project mention: one of the Codia AI Design technologies: OCR Technology | dev.to | 2024-02-14

    You will also need to install the Tesseract OCR engine, which can be downloaded and installed from the following link: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

  • ClickHouse

    ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

    • Project mention: We Built a 19 PiB Logging Platform with ClickHouse and Saved Millions | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-02

    Yes, we are working on it! :) Taking some of the learnings from current experimental JSON Object datatype, we are now working on what will become the production-ready implementation. Details here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54864

    Variant datatype is already available as experimental in 24.1, Dynamic datatype is WIP (PR almost ready), and JSON datatype is next up. Check out the latest comment on that issue with how the Dynamic datatype will work: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54864#issuec...

  • ImHex

    🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

    • Project mention: Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

    ImHex

    “A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.”

    I actually used it not too long ago to inspect why a mp4 file wasn’t valid. The pattern language that they have is quite nice and having sections of the hex highlighted and being able to see what structures they represent and what data was on those structures was very useful!

    https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

  • C-Plus-Plus

    Collection of various algorithms in mathematics, machine learning, computer science and physics implemented in C++ for educational purposes.

  • emscripten

    Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler

    • Project mention: Python HTTP library 'urllib3' now works in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-30

    Browsers limit the ability for these platforms to use raw sockets, there simply is no API for it. The best that can be done /today/ is to use WebSockets, which are not the same thing any can't be used for HTTP requests without the server expecting a WebSocket connection:

    https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/5196#is...

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

    • Project mention: Flameshot: Free and open source screenshot software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15

  • solidity

    Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

    • Project mention: How to Register a Smart Contract to Mode SFS with Thirdweb | dev.to | 2024-04-25

    Have a basic understanding of Solidity.

  • OSQuery

    SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

    • Project mention: Ask HN: SQLite in Production? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-07

    Perhaps the OP means OsQuery: https://github.com/osquery/osquery

    OsQuery is an SQLite extension consisting of hundreds of virtual tables

  • keepassxc

    KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

    • Project mention: KeePassXC Issue: [Passkeys] should never be exported in clear text | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13

  • Kodi Home Theater Software

    Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

    • Project mention: Favorites no longer showing since upgraded to Kodi 21.0 Beta with Confluence skin | /r/kodi | 2023-12-10

  • Marlin

    Marlin is an optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform. Many commercial 3D printers come with Marlin installed. Check with your vendor if you need source code for your specific machine.

    • Project mention: Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-26

    There is _a lot_ wrong with Marlin. It is a complex codebase, full with ancient artefacts, litterred with preprocessor ifdefs every 2-3 lines of code, dynamic includes in the middle of CPP files, etc[1]. It's about as unreadable as C++ code gets--well, I guess it's not template metaprogramming.

    Klipper by contrast is a breeze to read through[2].

    I am very grateful for Marlin, for all of reprap, and everyone who has contributed to it. But saying there is nothing wrong with it is straight up misguided.

    [1]: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/blob/bugfix-2.1.x/M...

    [2]: https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/blob/master/src/lcd_hd4...

  • IoT-For-Beginners

    12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, IoT for All!

    • Project mention: Microsoft Security-101: Open-Source curriculum | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-29

    Microsoft also has similar courses on IoT, and Data Science. I found the IoT one really nice [0], and it covers a lot of ground.

    [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners

  • rpcs3

    PS3 emulator/debugger

    • Project mention: Idk if anyone's done a one-handed hitless run of the game or anything crazy like that, and this is 100% not that (i get hit A LOT on these runs) but Im still pretty proud of this. | /r/shittydarksouls | 2023-12-10

    The emulator: https://rpcs3.net/ The rom: https://vimm.net/vault/24833 I forget if you need anything else but finding a video on YouTube is not very hard for rpcs3, a bit complicated, sorry I can't remember how to do it all, it's been a while.

  • WLED

    Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!

    • Project mention: Those RGB Pixel Christmas trees cost how much? | /r/WLED | 2023-12-11

  • polybar

    A fast and easy-to-use status bar

    • Project mention: Is there a way I can tell which exit node I am using from CLI in Linux? | /r/Tailscale | 2023-12-08

    I'd like to just be able to write a short shell script to check if an exit node is in use, and then pipe that output into polybar which I use anyway. The problem is that I can't find an option in the tailscale Linux CLI client that will show me whether I'm using an exit node or not. Is there a way to do this?

  • OpenRCT2

    An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

    • Project mention: Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    OpenRCT2 - Roller Coster Tycoon 2 clone. C++, SDL2, OpenGL

  • tiled

    Flexible level editor

    • Project mention: How to build your interactive resume in 4 simple and 2 easy steps | dev.to | 2024-04-02

    When you decide on the high-level design of the resume, start building your map in Tiled. You can customise the map from the basic game you already have or build your one from scratch - just try and see what works best for you.

  • NebulaGraph Database

    A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability (by vesoft-inc)

  • Minetest

    Minetest is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

    • Project mention: Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    Minetest - Minecraft-inspired voxel game engine. C++

  • wslg

    Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

    • Project mention: FreeRDP: A Remote Desktop Protocol Implementation | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-28

    WSLg(Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) uses RDP and FreeRDP to work: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

    I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hopeful the experience is better than last time I tried Hyper-V enhanced linux experience. I imagine this use case is getting FreeRDP way more attention.

    For years I've developed in a Linux VM on a Windows host via VirtualBox. The typing lag on this, particularly in IDEs like VSCode and Rider, finally got to me. So, I moved over to WSL and have to say; the experience is amazing.

  • Cataclysm-DDA

    Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

    • Project mention: Weapons for 'Giants' | /r/cataclysmdda | 2023-12-11

    And that sucks! I really wish being Huge (or Tiny, but I haven't tried that personally) felt more distinct than it does. You really shouldn't be able to operate holdout pistols, but you should be able to stuff a thanksgiving turkey in your coat pocket.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source HacktoberFest projects in C++? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Windows Terminal 93,467
2 Godot 83,500
3 tesseract-ocr 58,022
4 ClickHouse 34,153
5 ImHex 32,832
6 C-Plus-Plus 29,094
7 emscripten 25,139
8 flameshot 23,125
9 solidity 22,263
10 OSQuery 21,338
11 keepassxc 19,176
12 Kodi Home Theater Software 17,502
13 Marlin 15,888
14 IoT-For-Beginners 14,676
15 rpcs3 14,318
16 WLED 13,864
17 polybar 13,508
18 OpenRCT2 12,889
19 tiled 10,611
20 NebulaGraph Database 10,114
21 Minetest 10,031
22 wslg 9,715
23 Cataclysm-DDA 9,667

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