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Ask HN: Which project(s) made you go “I can't believe this is open-source”?

25 points by EMIRELADERO ↗ HN
For me personally, Zulip and Blender.

Could be due to their look and feel, performance, overall UX, or any other criteria you see fit!

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wandering-nomad
For 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
DANmode
Not sure the scale or reach of your personal projects, but, ever try sqlite?

That's my pick!

joshxyz
redis, caddy, haproxy, uwebsockets.js, postgresql, lovell's sharp, zstd, zlib, many more
e12e
lovell's sharp in particular or oibvips in general?
villgax
Kong
tra3
Kong the apigw? It's commercial open source and is itself based on other open source projects..
villgax
Yeah, it is pretty neat & lightweight considering nothing else has better out of the box experience to use.
jrepinc
KDE Plasma desktop environment in particular and GNU/Linux in general. Way ahead of any closed and proprietary alternative.
RGBCube
IntelliJ Community is great, it has so many features making it a perfect IDE (except that it is pretty heavy)
voltaireodactyl
Ffmpeg is incredible and fundamental in a way that makes a lot of the modern media environment possible.