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

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Post by arwalk »

JeremyNT wrote: post #84

Nebula, originally from Slack [0]. Wireguard rightly gets a lot of attention, but Nebula is a really simple and easy to deploy overlay network that is often overlooked. It does lack a management GUI and that stuff is very much DIY. [0] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

I've been looking for a long time for a VPN solution that i can use without having to rely on third-party services for my home lab, and this is absolutely excellent. Sure it has no GUI but if you're already self-hosting stuff this is among the easiest thing i ever had to configure. Thanks!

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

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Post by em-bee »

mdaniel wrote: post #130
em-bee wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

yes, i could have done that. but to late now.

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

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Post by manx »

saghm wrote: post #32
jasonpeacock wrote: post #11

Everyone hand-rolls their own dotfile management system, but YADM already does everything you need: https://yadm.io/

I've never doubted that there are existing solutions for dot files that do everything I need, but I've yet to find one that doesn't take more work for me to swap to than continuing to just clone a git repo an symlink maybe half a dozen things the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine.

You can just use git directly, no symlinking required. The home folder doesn't become a git repo itself, the dotfiles are just a checkout from a bare repo: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

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

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Post by pimterry »

mdaniel wrote: post #125
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...

I'm the maintainer of HTTP Toolkit.

In general the source for core components that can't really be used for anything else is AGPL, but all the generally reusable libraries are Apache 2 or similar. The goal is to share as much as possible, and let everybody access the source for everything, and fork for their own use or submit modifications or whatever, but without the risk that a proprietary product runs off with the core product in a different direction. Seems to be working reasonably so far!

Regarding Docker, you might also be interested in https://github.com/httptoolkit/docker-socks-tunnel (1MB Docker container that runs a socks proxy, for tunnelling traffic between networks) and this detailed breakdown of how the whole Docker interception setup works under the hood: https://httptoolkit.com/docs/guides/docker/#the-technical-de...

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

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Post by ei23 »

em-bee wrote: post #105
ei23 wrote: post #99

I have a full list: https://ei23.com/opensource So many great projects!

which of these are underrated and deserve more recognition?

I think only some are underrated, such as PiperTTS, Immich, HeidiSQL, and ShotCut. Also small tools like rsync are widely used, but their maintainers often don't receive much appreciation, as these tools are as common as hammers and screwdrivers. They need some love, thats why i have this list.

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

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Post by sandreas »

ei23 wrote: post #101
jdoss wrote: post #51

This has been posted a few times already, but I cannot tell you how life changing Paperless NGX is for organizing PDFs. As someone who wrangles all of the insurance and bills for my house, this open source software is so damn good. https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ I maintain Bash script to quickly set it up locally on Linux with Podman. Give it a spin if you want to kick the tires. https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx

my script also has paperless-ngx included https://github.com/ei23com/diy-smart-home

pretty neat stack... I chose other projects in some cases (e.g. ntfy vs gotify) but all in all it's pretty complete. Thanks.

Did you consider watchtower to keep the dockers up to date?

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

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Post by ei23 »

sandreas wrote: post #138
ei23 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my script also has paperless-ngx included https://github.com/ei23com/diy-smart-home

pretty neat stack... I chose other projects in some cases (e.g. ntfy vs gotify) but all in all it's pretty complete. Thanks. Did you consider watchtower to keep the dockers up to date?

thanks for the tip! Not tried watchtower yet since i just have to click an update button and a background task in "screen" will be start a docker pull of the full stack and also clean up. Also have that for the host. I don't now what watchtower is doing better, but since some project come with breaking changes i need to decide when to update... Anyway update notifications are nice to have.

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

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Post by theedwood »

Fizzadar wrote: post #62
rdtsc wrote: post #19

I like https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra . "pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python" Only played with it for a little but it seems well designed an simpler alternative to ansible, chef and other such things.

Thank you for posting this! Happy to answer any questions anyone has :)

I’ve used several different IaC tools; Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and Polumi to name a few.

What would you say are key differentiators of PyInfra from these existing projects?

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