Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

#101

Post by M95D » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:42 AM UTC

Every month: EFF, FSFE (FSF Europe), Internet Archive, Gentoo, Ladybird.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by dijit » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:44 AM UTC

I’ve sent money to openbsd.

They might not be popular to use, but the absolute freedom of the software along with how simple it is written makes it an incredible “good” for studying OS design.

I have also donated to the FSFE (European FSF) and the Linux foundation, but we don’t get tax incentives for donating to charity in most european countries. So it’s quite costly.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by flashblaze » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC

ashton314 wrote: post #35

- Signal - Wikipedia - MyNoise.net - various Emacs package maintainers - Internet Archive If you’ve never seen https://mynoise.net you should check it out. It’s a beautiful collection of exceptionally high-quality recordings that you can tune to create the perfect soundscape for whatever your mood moves you to.

You weren't kidding! https://mynoise.net/ is really good

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by pjmlp » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:49 AM UTC

Directly, occasionally to Ubuntu, Notepad++, JAlbum, Eclipse, Netbeans.

Indirectly, buying ebooks from people on most programming languages ecosystems, graphics, cloud tooling, across all well known vendors.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

#105

Post by giorgioz » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:49 AM UTC

webpack and babel

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

#106

Post by baxtr » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:51 AM UTC

This is a bit of a different area: but since the last elections, I have subscribed to the New York Times.

I don’t always agree with them, but I feel like I’m strengthening the counter-side.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by silversmith » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:52 AM UTC

xyzal wrote: post #54

More for the preservation of physical freedom than digital, so maybe unrelated, but anyway ... Drones for Ukraine https://www.dronynemesis.cz/en

I'll share the one I contribute to - https://stopify.org.ua/

I like the subscription concept here - monthly donations, set to stop the moment Ukraine wins. Because they need our help continuously, not just after a particularly bloody episode makes the news.

It's ran by ziedot.lv - the organisation that handles most of charitable donations in Latvia.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL » Tue, May 27, 2025, 7:54 AM UTC

Logseq, although at times I regret it since the improvements haven't been as big as I expected in 3 years.

Still love the software, though

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by tomaytotomato » Tue, May 27, 2025, 8:01 AM UTC

baxtr wrote: post #106

This is a bit of a different area: but since the last elections, I have subscribed to the New York Times. I don’t always agree with them, but I feel like I’m strengthening the counter-side.

I enjoy articles from the NYT, but like any media outlet that caters to A1 groups of people, it is a bit snooty and full of out of touch opinion pieces.

IMHO your money is better spent elsewhere if you want to counter the current political atmosphere. Grassroots organisations and your local political parties are more worthy of your money than some big media outlets that are for the most part "bought" by the big fish.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by mkbkn » Tue, May 27, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

Every month I donate a set percentage of my monthly income to some of these organizations:

Anki/AnkiDroid Firefox Futo keyboard Espanso Expandroid Tubular NewPipe SponsorBlock Zen browser Freetube Linux Mint VLC LibreOffice