Show HN: All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own

1. libqalculate

   1 57 2,050 8.9 C++

   Qalculate! library and CLI

   

   My favourite desktop calculator so far is Qalculate![0] for similar reasons, and I basically never have the keypad shown. It uses libqalculate, which also provides a console version of the same library.

   It's incredible and I love it.

   [0] https://qalculate.github.io/

2. InfluxDB

   influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. insect

   2 25 3,179 1.8 PureScript

   Discontinued High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units

   

   I recommend https://insect.sh (you can install it through NPM to use it locally). Does simple maths well, does functions, does units, does conversions... pretty cool shell calculator.

4. ralc

   3 2 6 3.0 TypeScript

   A simple cross-platform RPN calculator written with React

   

   I love this, great idea! I don't need the majority of the fancy features but I can see the use case for them.

   I built my own calculator app a while ago [0]. I've used an HP-41C as my main calculator for many years and I have not yet found a good RPN calculator app available on ALL platforms. I wanted a simple calculator that felt like an HP-41C that I can use on my phone + all desktop operating systems and get the same experience.

   [0] https://github.com/shamus03/ralc (if you're on desktop, it looks much better if you install it as a PWA and resize to your preferred size)

5. numi

   4 52 5,985 4.2 JavaScript

   Beautiful calculator app for macOS, Linux & Windows

   

   I haven't seen Soulver, but it looks very similiar to the one I use on Mac, called Numi. On Android, I use an app called CalcNote which works in a similiar way. Neither does graphing, but you can do common formulas and functions like cos/sin/rad. I use numi for simple calculations, and find it fantastic when I'm trying to figure out project stuff. A recent use is entering wall dimensions to figure out square footage and compare different building materials. I often leave most of my old calculations in numi like a long-lived numerical memory.

   https://numi.app/

   https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burton999....

6. duckduckgo-locales

   5 2,232 99 9.9 Perl

   Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

   

7. in-line-calculator

   6 1 59 10.0 AutoHotkey

   📟 an interface-less calculator for Windows

   

   > The only calculators I know that makes keypad optional/hideable are SpeedCrunch and Qalculate!, and now this.

   or theres "invisible" calculators like this[1] that do away with GUI altogether. microsoft's onenote has something similar built in as well

   1: https://github.com/davebrny/in-line-calculator

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