✨ The most talked about open source projects on Hacker News 🚀

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You will find in this article last month's most talked about open-source projects on HackerNews. 🚀

The below are chosen based on the amount of engagement and a little handpicking from our side.✌️

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1. Quiet

A private, p2p alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor & IPFS

Data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor without a server.
Project is written mainly in TypeScript, with Electron and React Native frontends.
Do not use when privacy and security are critical (it is not audited).

GitHub repo

2. puck

The self-hosted drag-and-drop editor for React

Visual editing for your existing React component library.
Self-host or integrate with your existing application.
Load your content from a 3rd party headless CMS.

GitHub repo + demo page

3. obi-sync

Reverse engineering of the native Obsidian server

An 18-year-old could not afford the $8 per month for the official sync service, so he tried to replicate the server. He knew he might be violating the TOS and said he would take it down if asked. The actual CEO of Obsidian got back to him! He congratulated him on his achievement and gave some feedback - pretty neat story 🚀

End-to-end encryption and live sync (across devices)
File history/recovery/snapshots
Works natively on IOS/Android/Linux/MacOS/Windows

GitHub repo

4. VSCodium

Freely-licensed binary distribution of VS Code

Microsoft's releases of Visual Studio Code are licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contain telemetry/tracking.
VSCodium's binary releases of VS Code exist without MS branding/telemetry/licensing.
This repo gives a version of VS Code that gives users more freedom.

GitHub repo.

5. jazz2-native

Native C++ reimplementation of Jazz Jackrabbit 2

Jazz² Resurrection is the reimplementation of the game Jazz Jackrabbit 2 released in 1998.
This repo contains a fully rewritten game in C++ with better performance.
Supports various versions of the game (Shareware Demo, Holiday Hare '98, The Secret Files and Christmas Chronicles).

GitHub repo

6. Ryujinx

Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator

Tested on approximately 4,050 titles with roughly 3,400 being considered playable.
Written in C#, it provides good accuracy and performance.
You can submit a new game test or update an existing game test entry.

GitHub repo

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