"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"

• typst

  110 28,218 9.9 Rust

  A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

  

I don't use LaTeX for anything these days but Typst popped up recently and seems like a decent alternative: https://github.com/typst/typst

• dxvk

  765 11,898 9.4 C++

  Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• cnc-ddraw

  88 2,009 9.6 C

  GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic games for better compatibility with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS) and Virtual Machines

  

https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw (fixes all issues you can have with DirectDraw, an old 2d API, can have its use for both windows users and people who use wine on linux)

• winevdm

  116 2,442 7.9 C

  16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm run 16 bit apps on 64 windows

This, along with Windows's own compatibility mode tweaks, should run almost any game that has ever been released on Windows.

• TSOEnabler

  6 239 2.0 C

  Kernel extension that enables TSO for Apple silicon processes

It’s worth remembering the x86 emulation on Apple Silicon is as good as it is (reportedly better than most other x86-on-ARM efforts) in part because of CPU features Apple added to the host platform for that explicit purpose, from memory ordering[1,2] to obscure flag bits[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731534

[2] https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635720

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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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