Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovered Recently?

What’s better about the nushell? I tried it a couple of years ago but didn’t enjoy using it — probably because I primarily use bash and nushell seems quite different from it.

Would appreciate if you could share some examples from your workflow!

account-53• 1 year ago

I have a feeling you'll not appreciate my answer considering your current workflow.

I don't mind bash and the various cli programs I used to use for the tasks I was doing at the cli. However I was forced years ago to learn powershell. Now syntax aside I was able to use powershells native functionality to do things I'd have to call other programs for, read and process CSV, JSON, XML, etc. Nushell is like powershell but a much better syntax and I prefer the data model and love the output.

My main workflows consist of exploring data, cleaning it, and outputting what I need. Nushell has this covered.

gtirloni• 1 year ago

Serious LLM vibes from the docs. Many paragraphs are repeated and pages amd pages of filler words like telling what you're going to learn over and over.

account-53• 1 year ago

I actually like the docs, never really noticed an llm vibe... I most just search and look at the examples though.

asdefghyk• 1 year ago

ddrescue- media recover software

ummzokbro• 1 year ago

Open WebUI[1] for a ChatGPT type experience locally hosted. Very impressive set of features and development velocity - so much so Qwen team using it now rather than building their own [2]

1. https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

2. https://chat.qwen.ai/

mikewarot• 1 year ago

Now that I have an actually useful 3d printer, I really have gotten into FreeCad. Hopefully in a few more months I'll grok it well enough to gork/rewrite the gear generator tool kit. The rack generator, for example has no notion of where the pitch line is. This makes proper designs with mating gears a matter of trial and error.

palata• 1 year ago

Restic, for backups

Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovered Recently?

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