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

GNU Linux BSD

  curl

Linux, particularly Debian.

The Linux kernel and (neo)vim.

Git

Python

Linux Debian OpenBSD Lineageos Mastodon + the fediverse

Homebrew

GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard

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

Vite. Vitest. Storybook. React.

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

linux, git, vim, golang/go

Ublock, no comparison folks.

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

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

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.

Linux #1

And recently:

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

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

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.

Zarf

Obviously it's

* Docker

* WASM

* Rustlang

* Web itself

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

Home Assistant

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)

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

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