HACKER Q&A
📣 jayzalowitz

What open source projects are you grateful for?


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


  👤 aborsy Accepted Answer ✓
Linux, particularly Debian.

👤 mmphosis
GNU Linux BSD

  curl

👤 enz
The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.

👤 bn-l
Git

👤 stop50
Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse

👤 toomuchtodo
Homebrew

👤 chistev
Python

👤 ptidhomme
GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard

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

👤 howToTestFE
Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.

👤 bawis
Ublock, no comparison folks.

👤 anon115
solidjs and vite has been a breeze to prototype with so far i love it

👤 bigwhite
linux, git, vim, golang/go

👤 vismit2000

👤 austin-cheney
Jellyfin, Debian, photoprism, node.js, chart.js, TypeScript, VS Codium, PiHole

👤 karmakaze
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.


👤 journal
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
Linux #1

And recently:

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

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


👤 willswire
Zarf

👤 pavelai
Obviously it's

* Docker

* WASM

* Rustlang

* Web itself


👤 t0duf0du
Most recently, the Zed editor. Also lazydocker and zellij.

👤 vrighter
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)

👤 ensocode
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