Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?

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yadm

#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 50 social mentions

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HTTP Toolkit

Https://httptoolkit.com - HTTP debugging proxy with really easy one-click launch to intercept android devices/browsers/docker containers/etc.

#Software Development #Development Tools #Security 24 social mentions

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Earthly

Earthly https://earthly.dev/ Fast, consistent builds with an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 46 social mentions

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OpenSCAD

There's OpenSCAD, but I don't think it's exactly what you mean https://openscad.org/.

#3D #Architecture #3D Modeling 95 social mentions

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Nextcloud

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Encrypted Cloud Storage 283 social mentions

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Krita

The entire KDE project, which not only includes the Plasma Shell but also Projects like Krita [0] and Kdenlive [1] and some other great applications that work cross platform. [0] https://krita.org/en/ [1] https://kdenlive.org/de/.

#Concept Art #Art Tools #Illustrations 296 social mentions

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ART

Https://art.sourceforge.net/ Business intelligence tool. Not the prettiest but it is like one of those all in one types of tools. Can connect to any data source that has JSBC driver and most databases have a JDBC driver. Reports can be simple SQL scripts, groovy code, JasperReport or created used Excel, Word or PowerPoint. You can schedule extracts and FTP files ... It is a developers BI tool.

#Business Intelligence #Data Dashboard #Data Visualization 1 social mentions

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KumoMTA

I've been using KumoMTA for the past 3 months and it's one of the most well thought-out, stable and fast softwares I've ever used. https://kumomta.com/.

#Email #Self-hosted Email #SMTP Server 1 social mentions

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync https://freefilesync.org/ I have been a happy user for years and have made a donation too.

#Backup And Disaster Recovery #File Sharing And Backup #Backup & Restore 203 social mentions

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QPDF

Qpdf[1], and, in particular, libqpdf, is the most useful PDF tool I've ever used, because it was the first library I found that works at the proper level of abstraction for dealing with the PDF file format <i>on its own terms</i>. In other words, the library directly exposes the essential PDF object structure (pages, dictionaries, strings, numbers, streams, etc.) for easy editing, while abstracting away as much of the incidental PDF file structure as possible (encryption, compression, object references, the page tree structure, etc.). Among many other applications, I've used it to • Automatically repair minor PDF file format problems (of the sort that would be fixed by Open + Save in Acrobat). • Concatenate multiple PDFs into a single PDF, adding a bookmark to the first page of each, with the bookmark title derived from information not contained within the PDFs or their file names. • Losslessly reduce the size of PDFs in not-entirely-trivial ways. For example, I was given a ~1 TB set of PDFs that stored 1-bit monochrome scanned images as losslessly-compressed (RLE, LZW, or flate) 24-bit color images with every pixel either 0x000000 or 0xFFFFFF, but also stored color images in exactly the same way, and also included important non-image data. Libqpdf made it easy to loop through each PDF file, extract and analyze the pixel data for each image, and replace relevant images with JBIG2-compressed "true" 1-bit equivalents. • Lossily recompress large images embedded in PDFs, but only if they matched certain criteria. Specifically, I had a large number of PDFs that contained lots of lossless high-DPI 4K screenshots of a specific application, where even relatively high JPEG compression maintained legibility, interspersed with images where such recompression was undesirable (photos, document scans, 1080p screenshots). • Create PDFs by overlaying plain text on forms — "paper" forms defined by PDFs, not PDF forms — without duplicating form content for each page. [1] https://qpdf.sourceforge.io.

#PDF Tools #PDF Editor #PDF Creator 11 social mentions

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Every Door

StreetComplete is fabulous, and another surveying app worth mentioning is Every Door [0] which is specifically focused on updating business and other POI details. [0] https://every-door.app/.

#Tech #Payments #Website Builder 13 social mentions

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Typst

#Document Management #Writing Tools #Writing 18 social mentions