Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

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by jayzalowitz • 8 months ago

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This thanksgiving let's give thanks to those that give back. Yall rock!

mmphosis• 8 months ago

GNU Linux BSD

  curl

aborsy• 8 months ago

Linux, particularly Debian.

enz• 8 months ago

The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.

arresin• 8 months ago

Git

chistev• 8 months ago

Python

stop50• 8 months ago

Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse

toomuchtodo• 8 months ago

Homebrew

pavelai3• 8 months ago

Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list

ptidhomme• 8 months ago

GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard

lemonwaterlime• 8 months ago

coreutils, nix, vim, Haskell (ghc), postgresql, latex

howToTestFE• 8 months ago

Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.

anon115• 8 months ago

solidjs and vite has been a breeze to prototype with so far i love it

bigwhite• 8 months ago

linux, git, vim, golang/go

bawis• 8 months ago

Ublock, no comparison folks.

vismit2000• 8 months ago

marisa-trie: https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie

austin-cheney• 8 months ago

Jellyfin, Debian, photoprism, node.js, chart.js, TypeScript, VS Codium, PiHole

journal• 8 months ago

https://github.com/ShawInnes/SshKeyGenerator change your life. this saves me so many clicks of what would otherwise be a really stupid alternative method of automation regarding these deployments i have to do. i couldn't prompt chatgpt for this code if my life depended on it.

stonking• 8 months ago

Linux #1

And recently:

Bluesky Social - https://github.com/bluesky-social

AT Protocol - https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

pavelai3• 8 months ago

AtProto is a very unexpected choice to see here. Not because it's not good, but it's just very young.

Why did you chose AtProto?

karmakaze• 8 months ago

Entire development/software stack: Linux+gnu/Debian, gcc/llvm, PostgreSQL/MySQL, git, Kotlin/Java/jvm, TypeScipt/js, maven, frameworks (currently Javalin+Vue.js).

And Firefox. And open-weights LLMs we can run locally/privately.

willswire• 8 months ago

Zarf

pavelai3• 8 months ago

Obviously it's

* Docker

* WASM

* Rustlang

* Web itself

t0duf0du• 8 months ago

Most recently, the Zed editor. Also lazydocker and zellij.

ensocode• 8 months ago

Home Assistant

vrighter• 8 months ago

A lot of them. They might not always look nice, unfortunately, but there sure are a ton of tools that equal or rival professional stuff (and professional stuff often uses a bunch of them anyway nowadays)

brynet• 8 months ago

With my OpenBSD developer hat on, I'll say we're grateful for hardware donations (from new laptops, to esoteric networking gear, etc.)

https://www.openbsd.org/want.html

Also the OpenBSD foundation is ~5% away from its fundraising goal for 2025! :-)

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2025.html

helij• 8 months ago

Linux & LibreOffice. At the end of the day I'm grateful to all people who work on open source and free software.

nrhrjrjrjtntbt• 8 months ago

Envoy, Kuvernetes, Terraform

maouida• 8 months ago

nvim, yt-dlp, gnome I'm sure there are many more I don't recall right now

letmetweakit• 8 months ago

I think Linux is one of the great accomplishments of modern human society, together with Wikipedia. OpenSSL and the other Open Source cryptographic libraries for providing a safety net when our politicians decide to tighten their grip on privacy and secure communications. At least we as developers can still fall back on all the OpenSSL cloned repos and see from there.

KomoD• 8 months ago

curl, atuin, zed

tekichan• 8 months ago

linux, ffmpeg, vim, lazygit

firefax• 8 months ago

Surprised we made it this far with no love for Firebird... err... Firefox.

(It's got tabs!)

farseer• 8 months ago

Linux, VS Code, Electron, Ghidra, Sqlite

auxym• 8 months ago

Scoop (https://scoop.sh/), a package manager for windows that is essential to make Windows usable for me.

Sourcegit is my new favorite git client. Git in general, of course.

Linux and also the people behind RT_PREEMPT, I am excited to see it merged into mainline this year.

KDE has been my favorite DE for years and I use many of their apps too, such as Kate. Thanks to everyone contributing to the KDE project.

The entire python "data science" stack, numpy/scipy/matplotlib/pandas/plotly/polars/pyarrow/jupyter, which is essential to my work. Tiny projects too, like nptdms.

The raspberry pi foundation, in particular for the pico, rp2040 and rp2350. Joy to work with, great documentation, super cheap and available, perfect for one-off projects, prototypes and hobby stuff, which is pretty much always neglected by the big silicon vendors.

I set up my own NAS this year, running many self-hosted apps. I am grateful for Truenas, Jellyfin and pihole.

So many cli apps that I use daily:

- starship prompt - fd - ripgrep - fzf - lazygit - yazi

Firefox gets sometimes deserved criticism, but I have been using it continuously since Firebird 0.7 and I believe it contributes to keeping the web open.

petabyt• 8 months ago

IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world

gradschool• 8 months ago

FreeTube [1], and yt-dlp [2], especially in combination with a ready supply of VPNs. Switching them around to avoid being blocked by Google reminds me of adjusting the tuner for better reception on an old analog tv. Infant me might have imagined a malevolent being who inhabits the airwaves deliberately causing interference, and in the world we've created since then that's not far from the truth. Many thanks to the developers tirelessly compensating for Google's frequent deliberate breakage.

[1] https://freetubeapp.io/

[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Breza• 8 months ago

R! If you're a data person and you've never used R, give it a shot. It's a lovely language for cleaning and analyzing data, and the core development team keeps making improvements.

rmoskal• 8 months ago

Perhaps a little old fashioned, but Spring for java and others.

michalu• 8 months ago

Open Source Seeds.

czue• 8 months ago

Django! Literally owe my career to it and still enjoy using it daily.

rasulkireev• 8 months ago

Django is a life-changer

hevisko• 8 months ago

(Open)SSH Caddy PostgreSQL Linux - KVM/Qemu GCC/LLVM

drpython• 8 months ago

python, perl, LLVM, rust, Go, k8s

opyate• 8 months ago

Seconding Python

coldtrait• 8 months ago

Discourse

akbarnama• 8 months ago

I am grateful for Django, Python, Rust, Zig, PostgreSQL.

le-hu• 8 months ago

Ruby :) on Rails

Curiositry• 8 months ago

FZF, Ripgrep, Fish, fd-find, Helix, Lazygit, ripgrep-all, ffmpeg, and pandoc are the ones that spring to mind.

aydin4ik• 8 months ago

PHP, Symphony, Laravel And all the Linux ecosystem like the drivers, plugins and UI

tbking• 8 months ago

git, nodejs

I owe my career to them.

pluggedpotato• 8 months ago

Jellyfin. Always Jellyfin <3

mstruebing• 7 months ago

A lot of things are already said so I go with Linkding.

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