Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
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19 hours ago
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This thanksgiving let's give thanks to those that give back. Yall rock!
vrighter
3 hours ago
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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)
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journal
10 hours ago
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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.
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ptidhomme
15 hours ago
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GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard
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stonking
10 hours ago
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Linux #1

And recently:

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

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

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pavelai
5 hours ago
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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?

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karmakaze
10 hours ago
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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.

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t0duf0du
4 hours ago
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Most recently, the Zed editor. Also lazydocker and zellij.
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aborsy
18 hours ago
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Linux, particularly Debian.
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stop50
15 hours ago
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Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse
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austin-cheney
11 hours ago
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Jellyfin, Debian, photoprism, node.js, chart.js, TypeScript, VS Codium, PiHole
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ensocode
3 hours ago
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Home Assistant
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vismit2000
13 hours ago
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pavelai
5 hours ago
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Obviously it's

* Docker

* WASM

* Rustlang

* Web itself

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bawis
13 hours ago
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Ublock, no comparison folks.
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anon115
14 hours ago
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solidjs and vite has been a breeze to prototype with so far i love it
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toomuchtodo
15 hours ago
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Homebrew
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pavelai
5 hours ago
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Yep, this is one is a real hero in this list
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enz
18 hours ago
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The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.
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lemonwaterlime
14 hours ago
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coreutils, nix, vim, Haskell (ghc), postgresql, latex
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mmphosis
18 hours ago
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GNU Linux BSD

  curl
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willswire
10 hours ago
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Zarf
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bigwhite
14 hours ago
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linux, git, vim, golang/go
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chistev
15 hours ago
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Python
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bn-l
16 hours ago
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Git
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howToTestFE
14 hours ago
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Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.
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