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…with LLMs bridging the gap between mass and targeted surveillance, I don't want any of this. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/ffd0519676019a0... [1] https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

comment by m132 · 2026-04-09 · in LittleSnitch for Linux

…the calculator crashing lol. During this I also found out that Microsoft Calculator is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by fkyoureadthedoc · 2025-08-20 · in FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

Calculator is C# as well (though apparently that's somewhat recent: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/1598 ).

comment by jamesfinlayson · 2025-07-31 · in .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

> Won't fix: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/148 I don't see how one can expect them to take a report worded this way seriously. Perhaps if they actually reported the crash without the tantrum the team would fix it.

comment by trinix912 · 2025-02-16 · in “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

…if telemetry fails, calc.exe will silently explode. Therefore no, anyone cannot make it. Won't fix: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/148

comment by 1970-01-01 · 2025-02-16 · in “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

…be doing to warrant such a long load time? Currently, telemetry [1]. Soon, "AI" probably. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

comment by like_any_other · 2025-01-15 · in Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th

File Manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile Calculator (the horrible UWP one, unfortunately): https://github.com/microsoft/calculator As for that FAT driver, it was traditional to include in the SDK/DDK sources of some of the actual…

comment by userbinator · 2024-08-24 · in Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

…can try to glean how people use it. The calculator app is open source so you can see the code here: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by spartanatreyu · 2024-06-24 · in My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

…(addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) so that calculations never lose precision” ( https://github.com/microsoft/calculator )

comment by Someone · 2024-01-02 · in Calculating Logarithms by Hand (2010) [pdf]

…23MB of RAM which is rather low for a modern application. Calculator is also fully open source now. https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by benbristow · 2023-09-18 · in Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support

Because it makes the things they use better mostly, they are => https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/graphs/contributors

comment by dagaci · 2023-09-18 · in Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support

…it so slow if you want, and contribute fixes if you have the skills to do the fixing. MIT license. https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/

comment by naikrovek · 2023-09-18 · in Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support

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I fixed a 3 year old bug in windows calculator

story by Dhikshith12 · 2023-08-07 · 0 comments

Yep. https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/057401f5f2b4bb1...

comment by starik36 · 2023-05-17 · in I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)

…Win 3.1 calculator is a binary blob, Win 10 calculator is open source MIT licensed on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator

comment by jodrellblank · 2022-12-13 · in My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs

Nope, that is the UWP security container most likely. https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by pjmlp · 2022-12-13 · in Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them

https://github.com/DuendeSoftware/IdentityServer https://github.com/microsoft/calculator if you go on github you can browse C# repositories, there are good examples there https://github.com/topics/csharp

comment by pancholopez · 2022-10-25 · in Ask HN: Examples of Top C# Code?

…yet (I usually use Linux. Windows 11 changes make it unlikely I'll 'upgrade' a VM). Is it this one? https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator

comment by yyyk · 2022-09-30 · in Why modern software is slow

For that particular case, the source is available: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/148 Aside from that, amen . " Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte " is a breath of fresh air compared to MS documentation. The…

comment by georgia_peach · 2022-08-16 · in Ask HN: What are some unpopular opinions here that should not be?

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Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows

story by axiomdata316 · 2022-05-12 · 0 comments

> From windows 8 the calculator has a bloated feeling Also it spies on you: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/e9a974d1dd4333f...

comment by Lammy · 2022-04-30 · in Projects for Old Versions of OS X

…impression, obviously. For >20 year old code, Calc.exe is just one example off the top of my head - https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator The majority of the products I've personally worked on over my 15 year career in software…

comment by astura · 2022-01-17 · in How and why the Relational Model works for databases

…uses XAML views. I think Caret Browsing is a UWP feature, not necessarily an EdgeHTML thing. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc...

comment by Kwpolska · 2021-08-29 · in A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI

…sourced the Windows calculator in 2019. Ratpak[0] is their infinite precision math library. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc...

comment by fsflyer · 2021-08-08 · in 9,999,999,999,999,978 and 1 – 2 incorrect on iOS Calculator

Here is the repository for the Microsoft calculator: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator An application universally ridiculed for it's inclusion of in-depth telemetry. It's time to challenge your preconceptions: find the roadmap items,…

comment by stefan_ · 2021-07-06 · in Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

There's a calculator discussion now that calc is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/209 All other UWP apps that do not get GitHub attention are 100x worse. Microsoft Photos, for instance...

comment by siproprio · 2021-06-22 · in Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?

…You can only compile to windows as of now though [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by augusto-moura · 2021-04-20 · in Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar

…where a proprietary software product was open sourced, and a 20 year old set of bugs fixed: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/297 To the author, your want of the world to be flat, does not make it so.

comment by indymike · 2021-03-25 · in Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?

Open sourcing it seems to be working. Several of the open pull requests fix bad math: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pulls

comment by tyingq · 2021-03-25 · in Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)

…source (anymore) [4]. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/License/ [2] https://opensource.org/osd [3] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/ [4] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js [5] https://theia-ide.org/

comment by jraph · 2021-01-14 · in Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

Isn't it all MIT license OpenSource: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator Can't we just strip all the BS from it, and make our own version?

comment by grovellogic · 2020-11-03 · in Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating system

…number library used in the Microsoft Calculator. It is called “RatPak” and it is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...

comment by MarkSweep · 2020-10-06 · in Toward an API for the Real Numbers

…sure if it is what you are looking for, but the calculator is now open source under the MIT license https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator As a recall, making notepad is like a homework assignment for a visual basic class. You just drag…

comment by osamagirl69 · 2020-09-25 · in Windows XP source code has leaked

That stacktrace... https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/1063#issuecom...

comment by haolez · 2020-05-18 · in Rust/WinRT Brings Microsoft Closer to Adopting Rust Internally

https://github.com/microsoft/calculator :) Not sure if that's RT though. There are so many Windows frameworks.

comment by vbezhenar · 2020-05-17 · in Rust/WinRT Brings Microsoft Closer to Adopting Rust Internally

…are from community contributions. Anyway, for instance, you could see that RPN is on the radar: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/128

comment by WorldMaker · 2020-02-25 · in Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft

Feel free to try contributing if you think it that trivial to add "much needed features": https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by WorldMaker · 2020-02-25 · in Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft

…has a GitHub discussion issue open tracking launch performance investigations if you're interested: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/209

comment by contextfree · 2019-12-19 · in The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity

…compilers now do. See VSCode, the .NET Core compiler and even the Windows 10 calculator [0]. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

comment by Nextgrid · 2019-11-26 · in Eternal Terminal

Initial commit in this source tree is from January: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/commit/ac14e2df10de7... The major code dump followed alongside the open source announcement: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/commit/c13b8a09…

comment by WorldMaker · 2019-08-14 · in Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code

Impressively, they did actually merge the fix: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553 It's good to see that Microsoft's "open source" programs aren't just code-dumps

comment by _bxg1 · 2019-06-19 · in Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

…little confusing. The page you linked indicates that a bot will comment on the PR. I am looking at https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553 , but I do not see any bot-generated comments, other than the "All CLA requirements met."…

comment by CaliforniaKarl · 2019-06-19 · in Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

…checks tab at the top of the issue. There[0] you'll find thatall unittests were successfull. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553/checks

comment by iruoy · 2019-06-19 · in Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

…and if you click "View Details" you see: > license/cla All CLA requirements met. Also mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/blob/master/CONTRIBU...

comment by lwf · 2019-06-19 · in Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

It's also open source https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

comment by byte1918 · 2019-06-19 · in Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

It was merged "yesterday", some 28 hours ago, ref https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553 .

comment by elygre · 2019-06-19 · in Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug

…executable, in contrast to their open-sourced and significantly less efficient UWP calculator: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator I believe the old leaked Win2k source has much of the explorer.exe source, if you're really curious.

comment by userbinator · 2019-06-08 · in Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be

…I would stick to Ungoogled/Chromium, Safari or Firefox thanks. [0] https://git.io/fj4Wl [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148

comment by kgraves · 2019-05-21 · in Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS

…Fortunately MS have released the source, so you can see for yourself just how much bloat there is: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator To compare, you can also see the source of the old "classic" calculator from Windows 2000 here:…

comment by userbinator · 2019-05-10 · in Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps

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Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows

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