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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
469•nar001•4h ago•222 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
155•bookofjoe•2h ago•135 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
447•theblazehen•2d ago•161 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
32•thelok•2h ago•2 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
33•mellosouls•2h ago•27 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
93•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
781•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
42•samasblack•2h ago•28 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
26•simonw•2h ago•23 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
36•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1034•xnx•1d ago•583 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
180•alainrk•4h ago•255 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
171•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
9•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
16•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
7•0xmattf•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
265•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•43 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
278•dmpetrov•20h ago•148 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
36•matt_d•4d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•264 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
421•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•166 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
460•lstoll•1d ago•303 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
373•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
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Qt Creator 18 Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18-released
148•jrepinc•3mo ago

Comments

ktpsns•3mo ago
Amazing to see this still maintained. Qt creator was my go-to IDE about 20 years ago. At this time, Visual Code, Eclipse, NetBeans and friends had been incredibly resource demanding where Qt creator felt pretty lightweight yet powerful.
spacechild1•3mo ago
I'm still using QtCreator as my go-to cross-platform C++ IDE! It might give CLion a shot since there's now a free version, but so far I haven't really felt a need to do so.
brooke2k•3mo ago
I switched to using JetBrains for most things recently, and I'll say this about CLion: it is incredible and my instant go-to for CMake-based projects. For any other build system it is a massive headache to get working in my experience.
gmueckl•3mo ago
When CLion was launched, it only supported CMake. Support for other build tools has been bolted on to that and the seams are sadly very obvious IMO.
jcelerier•3mo ago
Every year I try to use CLion for my project and every year it fails miserably compared to Qt Creator for indexing, navigation, etc. on large-scale codebases. It has more complete refactors though.
germandiago•3mo ago
Did you switch the engine to Clion Nova from Classic? It makes a huge difference.
wavemode•3mo ago
Qt Creator has always been one of the nicer free C++ IDEs, and qmake one of the nicer build systems. Even if you're not doing Qt development at all.
jdboyd•3mo ago
Qt Creator is reasonably nice. I believe that qmake is deprecated now though in favour of CMake.
wavemode•3mo ago
I think rather Qbs (the build system that was supposed to replace qmake) was deprecated, in favor of either cmake or qmake (both of which are still actively developed and supported).
vhantz•3mo ago
Qbs is deprecated. Building with qmake is still supported for end users of the Qt framework. For building Qt itself, since Qt6, the build system was moved to CMake.
LorenDB•3mo ago
Qt Creator is the only IDE I'll use for C++, and I only wish that it had the incredibly in-depth language support for other languages (I'm a D fan and would love an actually good IDE for it).
delduca•3mo ago
For non Qt projects, but CMake (Conan) based, it is good?
72deluxe•3mo ago
Yes. I use it with wxWidgets and other C++ projects, never touching Qt at all. The performance analysis tools on Linux have been useful to me, and the text editor is lovely to use instead of fuzzy-font-land like Visual Studio Code.
ckocagil•3mo ago
That's how I always used it. CMake and non-Qt. Very solid IDE.
neobrain•3mo ago
Honestly the name is doing Qt Creator a bit of a disservice, given how fantastic an IDE for any C++ codebase it is, Qt or not.

Yes - it's good for this use case! It even has built-in support for fetching dependencies declared in project conanfiles.

mkipper•3mo ago
I haven't used it in a few years, but I always found it to be very flexible and useful for non-Qt projects.

I last used it for an embedded project, which are sometimes a pain to set up in an IDE (cross-compiler, sysroot, debug server, etc.), and I was shocked by how easy it was to get going and how smooth it felt compared to most IDEs.

spacechild1•3mo ago
Yes! I use it for all my C and C++ projects. Only very few of them use Qt. CMake integration is seemless.
albertzeyer•3mo ago
QtCreator was a bit like the lightweight version of KDevelop for me. I didn't really needed any of the Qt features, just the C++ editor. And the C++ support was really good.
nurettin•3mo ago
For me it had the best debugger integration and visualizers back in mid 2000s. In fact that's how I learned about .gdbinit and macros.
HarHarVeryFunny•3mo ago
Anyone else here old enough to have used the similar UIM/X for Motif ?!
kaveh808•3mo ago
I worked at that company: Visual Edge, in Montreal.
max002•3mo ago
Everyone writes about ide, but its great framework, used in past for many GuI projects :) greeat for any gui xD
jlpcsl•3mo ago
Great IDE, my second favourite for C++ coding, right after KDevelop
GnarfGnarf•3mo ago
Qt has many good features, but it is not as robust as Visual Studio. It can lock up while debugging. <F2> will take you to the extern in the same module, not the actual definition. Variable expansion during debugging is slow. You can’t display a.b.c, you have to expand all of ‘a’, then all of ‘a.b’