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Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by shp0ngle »

KomoD wrote: post #118
sanjai0pi wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? Can you please explain more or raise a GH issue?

A regular HTTP request with protobuf as the body, load a .proto file, select a message and enter the values

isn't that just grpc?

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by mdaniel »

nairboon wrote: post #30

Orange Data Mining: https://orangedatamining.com/ A visual programming tool for machine learning and data visualization. It has great potential for teaching these concepts in the classroom.

GPLv3 https://github.com/biolab/orange3/blob/3.36.2/LICENSE but other parts are AGPLv3 https://github.com/biolab/orange3-text/blob/1.15.0/LICENSE

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by mdaniel »

buildfocus wrote: post #41

https://httptoolkit.com - HTTP debugging proxy with really easy one-click launch to intercept android devices/browsers/docker containers/etc.

> docker containers

heh, that's neat: https://github.com/httptoolkit/docker-registry-facade (Apache 2) although the rest of their stuff seems to be AGPLv3 https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-android/blob/v1.3...

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by mdaniel »

alok-g wrote: post #85

FreeFileSync https://freefilesync.org/ I have been a happy user for years and have made a donation too.

It imposes limitations on how one can use it https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#commercial which I don't believe squares up with its GPLv3 license. Between that, and there being no obvious response to any of the submitted patches or bug reports in the forum, I'd guess this is "fork-only open source" ala sqlite

  $ curl -fsSLO https://freefilesync.org/download/FreeFileSync_13.4_Source.zip
  $ unzip -qc FreeFileSync_13.4_Source.zip License.txt | head
  A.                  GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                         Version 3, 29 June 2007

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by mdaniel »

tetris11 wrote: post #82

xmllint, for parsing any XML/HTML file using XPaths all from the commandline

Also, don't overlook xmlstarlet (MIT https://sourceforge.net/p/xmlstar/code/ci/1.6.1/tree/Copyrig...) which I love bunches because one can execute super complicated XSLT things, then tack the -C on the front of the invocation and it'll cheerfully emit the XSLT syntax for what you just did https://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/ch04.html#idm47989546...> It has a ton of other fun tricks, too: https://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/overview.php

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by mdaniel »

c0mbonat0r wrote: post #104

theres a github repo somewhere of open source equivalents to paid software - anyone know what im talking about? i havent been able to find it since i saw it

I see that you said github repo, but my life experience has been that those "awesome" style repos are committed to once and then ignore all pull requests or issues going forward. Thus, I think the audience would be better served by AlternativeTo or one of its ilk, which offers a licensing filter on their lists (e.g. https://alternativeto.net/software/github/?license=opensourc... )

But, a quick search for alternative coughed up a few results, which exhibit the behavior I described https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives#awes... https://github.com/btw-so/open-source-alternatives?tab=readm...

One may also find more via topic exploration, e.g. https://github.com/topics/alternatives

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by mdaniel »

em-bee wrote: post #116
redder23 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you think this does not get enough attention, but you keep it secret? Makes zero sense.

if you are interested, you can contact me. otherwise i'd like to avoid de-anonymizing my hackernews account.

I hear you, but for your consideration people create throwaway HN accounts all the time for commenting on sensitive topics, and thus one created to submit a link to GitLab for sure wouldn't stand out as belonging to you
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