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

32 points by jayzalowitz 1y ago

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

mmphosis 1y ago
GNU Linux BSD curl
aborsy 1y ago
Linux, particularly Debian.
enz 1y ago
The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.
arresin 1y ago
Git
chistev 1y ago
Python
stop50 1y ago
Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse
toomuchtodo 1y ago
Homebrew
- pavelai 1y ago
  Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list
ptidhomme 1y ago
GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
lemonwaterlime 1y ago
coreutils, nix, vim, Haskell (ghc), postgresql, latex
howToTestFE 1y ago
Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.
anon115 1y ago
solidjs and vite has been a breeze to prototype with so far i love it
bigwhite 1y ago
linux, git, vim, golang/go
bawis 1y ago
Ublock, no comparison folks.
vismit2000 1y ago
marisa-trie: https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie
austin-cheney 1y ago
Jellyfin, Debian, photoprism, node.js, chart.js, TypeScript, VS Codium, PiHole
journal 1y ago
https://github.com/ShawInnes/SshKeyGenerator 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 1y ago
Linux #1 And recently: Bluesky Social - https://github.com/bluesky-social https://github.com/bluesky-social AT Protocol - https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto
- pavelai 1y 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 1y 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 1y ago
Zarf
pavelai 1y ago
Obviously it's * Docker * WASM * Rustlang * Web itself
t0duf0du 1y ago
Most recently, the Zed editor. Also lazydocker and zellij.
ensocode 1y ago
Home Assistant
vrighter 1y 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 1y 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 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 https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2025.html
helij 1y ago
Linux & LibreOffice. At the end of the day I'm grateful to all people who work on open source and free software.
nrhrjrjrjtntbt 1y ago
Envoy, Kuvernetes, Terraform
maouida 1y ago
nvim, yt-dlp, gnome I'm sure there are many more I don't recall right now
letmetweakit 1y 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.
frankhsu 1y ago
[dead]
KomoD 1y ago
curl, atuin, zed
tekichan 1y ago
linux, ffmpeg, vim, lazygit
firefax 1y ago
Surprised we made it this far with no love for Firebird... err... Firefox. (It's got tabs!)
farseer 1y ago
Linux, VS Code, Electron, Ghidra, Sqlite
auxym 1y ago
Scoop (https://scoop.sh/ 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 11mo ago
IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world
gradschool 11mo 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/ https://freetubeapp.io/ [2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Breza 11mo 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 11mo ago
Perhaps a little old fashioned, but Spring for java and others.
michalu 11mo ago
Open Source Seeds.
czue 11mo ago
Django! Literally owe my career to it and still enjoy using it daily.
- rasulkireev 11mo ago
  Django is a life-changer
hevisko 11mo ago
(Open)SSH Caddy PostgreSQL Linux - KVM/Qemu GCC/LLVM
designthinks 11mo ago
[dead]
drpython 11mo ago
python, perl, LLVM, rust, Go, k8s
- opyate 11mo ago
  Seconding Python
coldtrait 11mo ago
Discourse
akbarnama 11mo ago
I am grateful for Django, Python, Rust, Zig, PostgreSQL.
le-hu 11mo ago
Ruby :) on Rails
Curiositry 11mo ago
FZF, Ripgrep, Fish, fd-find, Helix, Lazygit, ripgrep-all, ffmpeg, and pandoc are the ones that spring to mind.
aydin4ik 11mo ago
PHP, Symphony, Laravel And all the Linux ecosystem like the drivers, plugins and UI
tbking 11mo ago
git, nodejs I owe my career to them.
pluggedpotato 11mo ago
Jellyfin. Always Jellyfin <3
mstruebing 11mo ago
A lot of things are already said so I go with Linkding.

32 points by jayzalowitz 1y ago

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

mmphosis 1y ago

GNU Linux BSD curl

aborsy 1y ago

Linux, particularly Debian.

enz 1y ago

The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.

arresin 1y ago

Git

chistev 1y ago

Python

stop50 1y ago

Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse

toomuchtodo 1y ago

Homebrew

pavelai 1y ago
Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list

ptidhomme 1y ago

GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard

deleted 1y ago
[deleted]

lemonwaterlime 1y ago

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

howToTestFE 1y ago

Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.

anon115 1y ago

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

bigwhite 1y ago

linux, git, vim, golang/go

bawis 1y ago

Ublock, no comparison folks.

vismit2000 1y ago

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

austin-cheney 1y ago

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

journal 1y ago

https://github.com/ShawInnes/SshKeyGenerator 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 1y ago

Linux #1 And recently: Bluesky Social - https://github.com/bluesky-social https://github.com/bluesky-social AT Protocol - https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

pavelai 1y 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 1y 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 1y ago

Zarf

pavelai 1y ago

Obviously it's * Docker * WASM * Rustlang * Web itself

t0duf0du 1y ago

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

ensocode 1y ago

Home Assistant

vrighter 1y 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 1y 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 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 https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2025.html

helij 1y ago

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

nrhrjrjrjtntbt 1y ago

Envoy, Kuvernetes, Terraform

maouida 1y ago

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

letmetweakit 1y 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.

frankhsu 1y ago

[dead]

KomoD 1y ago

curl, atuin, zed

tekichan 1y ago

linux, ffmpeg, vim, lazygit

firefax 1y ago

Surprised we made it this far with no love for Firebird... err... Firefox. (It's got tabs!)

farseer 1y ago

Linux, VS Code, Electron, Ghidra, Sqlite

auxym 1y ago

Scoop (https://scoop.sh/ 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 11mo ago

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

gradschool 11mo 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/ https://freetubeapp.io/ [2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Breza 11mo 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 11mo ago

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

michalu 11mo ago

Open Source Seeds.

czue 11mo ago

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