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Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 13 comments · first 2019-01-17 · latest 2025-07-29

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  1. …with any third-party clients -- the history of issues for the past decade speaks for itself. [1]: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/1786
    comment by cyphar · 2025-07-29 · in Why not Matrix (2023)
  2. …timing attacks against TLS were impossible too, until someone bothered to attack them). [1]: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/1786 [2]: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/08/libolm-deprecation/ [3]:…
    comment by cyphar · 2025-06-27 · in Matrix v1.15
  3. SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: Nheko Nheko is a C++/Qt/QML Matrix client. https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
    comment by LorenDB · 2024-02-01 · in Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
  4. Nheko has been around for a number of years. Never used it myself though. https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
    comment by dpatterbee · 2023-01-01 · in This Year in Matrix
  5. …(but rarely enough to lull you into a false sense of complacency), resulting in segfaults like https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/656 (workaround at https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/commit/570d00b000bd558... , I didn't look…
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-03-21 · in Using files with browsers, in reality
  6. …anything and mutate data behind your back, and C++ turns it into use-after-free UB and crashing ( https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/656 , https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/commit/570d00b000bd558... ). I find Rust code easier…
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-01-01 · in A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
  7. …https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion Hydrogen: https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web Nheko: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
    comment by gpanders · 2021-05-19 · in Leaving Freenode for a new network
  8. …) or NeoChat ( https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat ) or Nheko ( https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko ). Or on the mobile side, FluffyChat ( https://fluffychat.im/ ) and Nio ( https://nio.chat/ ) are both solid alternative
    comment by callahad · 2021-04-13 · in Update on beta testing payments in Signal
  9. …Mirage: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage/issues/32 (no support for cross-signing) Nheko: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/70 (automatically accepts keys as far as I understand) gomuks: https://github.com/tulir/gomuks/pull/154…
    comment by throwaway525142 · 2020-08-22 · in Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication
  10. nheko is pretty similar to TG and is reborn and evolving well after a hiatus a few years back: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
    comment by Arathorn · 2020-05-08 · in Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
  11. There are a bunch of very promising native desktop Matrix clients in progress: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko as a Qt telegram-like https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion as a Qt xchat-like https://github.com/manuroe/messagerie…
    comment by Arathorn · 2019-12-19 · in Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
  12. …that domain - e.g. https://neilalexander.dev/seaglass and https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal and https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko and https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion . Riot/iOS might expand into Riot/macOS though in…
    comment by Arathorn · 2019-05-13 · in A free XMPP server powered with green energy
  13. There's a fork of nheko that's under active development: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko I'll reach out to the matrix folks and ask about getting the website updated.
    comment by redsky17 · 2019-02-05 · in Matrix at FOSDEM 2019