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

32 points by jayzalowitz 10mo ago

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

pavelai 10mo ago
Obviously it's * Docker * WASM * Rustlang * Web itself
mmphosis 10mo ago
GNU Linux BSD curl
aborsy 10mo ago
Linux, particularly Debian.
enz 10mo ago
The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.
arresin 10mo ago
Git
tekichan 10mo ago
linux, ffmpeg, vim, lazygit
chistev 10mo ago
Python
stop50 10mo ago
Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse
toomuchtodo 10mo ago
Homebrew
- pavelai 10mo ago
  Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list
ptidhomme 10mo ago
GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard
- deleted 10mo ago
  [deleted]
lemonwaterlime 10mo ago
coreutils, nix, vim, Haskell (ghc), postgresql, latex
howToTestFE 10mo ago
Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.
anon115 10mo ago
solidjs and vite has been a breeze to prototype with so far i love it
bigwhite 10mo ago
linux, git, vim, golang/go
bawis 10mo ago
Ublock, no comparison folks.
vismit2000 10mo ago
marisa-trie: https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie
austin-cheney 10mo ago
Jellyfin, Debian, photoprism, node.js, chart.js, TypeScript, VS Codium, PiHole
journal 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo ago
Zarf
t0duf0du 10mo ago
Most recently, the Zed editor. Also lazydocker and zellij.
ensocode 10mo ago
Home Assistant
vrighter 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo ago
Linux & LibreOffice. At the end of the day I'm grateful to all people who work on open source and free software.
nrhrjrjrjtntbt 10mo ago
Envoy, Kuvernetes, Terraform
maouida 10mo ago
nvim, yt-dlp, gnome I'm sure there are many more I don't recall right now
letmetweakit 10mo 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 10mo ago
[dead]
KomoD 10mo ago
curl, atuin, zed
firefax 10mo ago
Surprised we made it this far with no love for Firebird... err... Firefox. (It's got tabs!)
farseer 10mo ago
Linux, VS Code, Electron, Ghidra, Sqlite
auxym 10mo 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 10mo ago
IMO gamescope is the #1 most underrated project in the Linux gaming world
gradschool 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo ago
Perhaps a little old fashioned, but Spring for java and others.
michalu 10mo ago
Open Source Seeds.
czue 10mo ago
Django! Literally owe my career to it and still enjoy using it daily.
- rasulkireev 9mo ago
  Django is a life-changer
hevisko 10mo ago
(Open)SSH Caddy PostgreSQL Linux - KVM/Qemu GCC/LLVM
designthinks 10mo ago
[dead]
drpython 10mo ago
python, perl, LLVM, rust, Go, k8s
- opyate 9mo ago
  Seconding Python
coldtrait 10mo ago
Discourse
akbarnama 9mo ago
I am grateful for Django, Python, Rust, Zig, PostgreSQL.
le-hu 9mo ago
Ruby :) on Rails
Curiositry 9mo ago
FZF, Ripgrep, Fish, fd-find, Helix, Lazygit, ripgrep-all, ffmpeg, and pandoc are the ones that spring to mind.
aydin4ik 9mo ago
PHP, Symphony, Laravel And all the Linux ecosystem like the drivers, plugins and UI
tbking 9mo ago
git, nodejs I owe my career to them.
pluggedpotato 9mo ago
Jellyfin. Always Jellyfin <3
mstruebing 9mo ago
A lot of things are already said so I go with Linkding.

32 points by jayzalowitz 10mo ago

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

pavelai 10mo ago

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

mmphosis 10mo ago

GNU Linux BSD curl

aborsy 10mo ago

Linux, particularly Debian.

enz 10mo ago

The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.

arresin 10mo ago

Git

tekichan 10mo ago

linux, ffmpeg, vim, lazygit

chistev 10mo ago

Python

stop50 10mo ago

Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse

toomuchtodo 10mo ago

Homebrew

pavelai 10mo ago
Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list

ptidhomme 10mo ago

GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard

deleted 10mo ago
[deleted]

lemonwaterlime 10mo ago

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

howToTestFE 10mo ago

Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.

anon115 10mo ago

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

bigwhite 10mo ago

linux, git, vim, golang/go

bawis 10mo ago

Ublock, no comparison folks.

vismit2000 10mo ago

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

austin-cheney 10mo ago

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

journal 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo ago

Zarf

t0duf0du 10mo ago

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

ensocode 10mo ago

Home Assistant

vrighter 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo ago

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

nrhrjrjrjtntbt 10mo ago

Envoy, Kuvernetes, Terraform

maouida 10mo ago

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

letmetweakit 10mo 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 10mo ago

[dead]

KomoD 10mo ago

curl, atuin, zed

firefax 10mo ago

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

farseer 10mo ago

Linux, VS Code, Electron, Ghidra, Sqlite

auxym 10mo 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 10mo ago

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

gradschool 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo ago

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

michalu 10mo ago

Open Source Seeds.

czue 10mo ago

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