Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025(xania.org)
356 points by vismit2000 | 62 comments
Matt Godbolt announces the Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025, a daily blog post and video series in December covering C and C++ compiler optimisations.
#c-plus-plus on Hacker News
11 stories tagged c-plus-plus, newest first.
John Carmack on mutable variables(twitter.com)
447 points by azhenley | 523 comments
A tweet by John Carmack advocating single assignment and avoiding variable reassignment, noting that in C/C++ making variables const by default is good practice.
QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system(github.com)
545 points by rcarmo | 120 comments
GitHub repository for QGIS, a free, open-source, cross-platform geographical information system for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++(collabora.com)
565 points by LorenDB | 532 comments
Collabora blog post by Gustavo Noronha explaining how Matt Godbolt's talk on C++ pitfalls convinced him of Rust's advantages for correct API design.
John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)
528 points by bpierre | 363 comments
Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.
LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime(github.com)
609 points by rrampage | 134 comments
GitHub repository for LibreCUDA, an MIT-licensed project to launch CUDA kernels on Nvidia GPUs without using the proprietary CUDA runtime.
Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers(github.com)
573 points by wsc981 | 111 comments
GitHub repository for ImHex, an open-source cross-platform hex editor aimed at reverse engineers and programmers.
Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time(github.com)
684 points by tosh | 157 comments
GitHub repository for Stellarium, a free GPL planetarium application that renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL on Linux, Windows and macOS.
Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser(dillo-browser.github.io)
546 points by rodarima | 162 comments
The new homepage of the Dillo web browser, a fast lightweight graphical browser written in C/C++ with FLTK, revived under a GitHub organization.
SumatraPDF Reader(github.com)
475 points by quyleanh | 224 comments
GitHub repository for SumatraPDF, an open-source GPL-licensed PDF and document reader for Windows written in C/C++.
Source code for Quake 2 rerelease(github.com)
517 points by steveklabnik | 203 comments
GitHub repository from id Software containing the game DLL source code for the Quake 2 rerelease, licensed under GPL-2.0.