Since this project does not publish its source-code, or publish its binaries on an official store-front, I feel the need to call out to be aware of malicious code.
This has to be the most useless GitHub link someone has shared on HN. The repo doesn't have any source code, just some JPG, a readme, a Google Drive link for people to download from. The title makes grand claims without any way to verify them and no way to check if has a virus or something. People should be careful before downloading this.
No, that ship sailed long ago. “App” has universally been a synonym for “application”, “program”, etc. for quite a number of years now. Even Windows 10 called them “apps” in the settings screen.
On my personal computer running macOS, I have this program called "App Store". And on my GNU/Linux machine, I have all of these weird programs distributed as something called "AppImage". And on my Windows machine, the Microsoft Store has a tagline which says, "Microsoft Store - Download apps, games & more".
There is not a desktop/mobile distinction in terminology other than the one you're attempting to enforce.
Yep, as much as I wish there were a distinction, I think there pretty clearly is not anymore. In related news, I hate that restaurants are now calling "Appetizers" "apps" because it massively confuses me for several seconds. IRL really needs namespacing
I'd like to share Aivition, a native AI image processing tool I built. It is a 1.8MB executable, written entirely from scratch in C++ without using any third-party or open-source libraries.
It is powered by three self-built, lightweight libraries:
A UI library implemented directly against the pure Win32 API.
A computer vision library that handles image decoding, encoding, and processing (like OpenCV).
An AI inference library that runs neural networks locally (like PyTorch).
I use it daily and hope it might be useful for others.
I'd be grateful for any feedback on performance, compatibility, or your general experience with it.
You may find you get more value out of this project if you publish the source code - even if you do so not under an open source license.
Asking people to download and run an untrusted Windows executable is a major barrier to demonstrating your skills. I don't even have a Windows machine to hand to try it out on!
Showing the source code would give people a much better idea of what you can do.
If you're not willing to publish the source code (and that's a perfectly reasonable decision, it's your work!) I suggest creating a video that demonstrates the project.
