Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#31

Post by mcknco » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 9:30 PM UTC

OpenBSD, of course :)

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#32

Post by ccajas » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 10:57 PM UTC

Blender

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#33

Post by fosco » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

reddit_clone wrote: post #15

iammiles wrote: post #4

All the free editors (e.g. VS Code, Emacs, Vim) and especially their respective plugins. I'm always amazed at the breadth and quality among them.

Emacs especially with likes of Magit, Orgmode etc.

I just started using org-mode and I wish I started years ago. Inspirational, motivational, customizable and extremely efficient.

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#34

Post by nextos » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:17 AM UTC

NixOS, XMonad, Emacs and Firefox.

Actually, that's my whole environment discounting libraries and utilities which include Julia, Scheme and C++.

On Emacs, I adore org, magit, notmuch, eshell, calc and dired.

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#35

Post by stellajohn » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 12:28 PM UTC

This helps me, but free only for 30 days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16800756

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#36

Post by kenjikato » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 5:53 AM UTC

The software you are probably using right now to view and/or edit this post. The web browser.

It's the most amazing piece of free software that we all use almost every day, regardless of the platform or browser you use. Web browsers across the board are an amazing piece of software that's been in development in one way, shape, or form since the early '90s. Thousands of people have worked on them or contributed code, and they provide access to the bounty of the internet for nothing. Show me something more inspiring than that.

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#37

Post by jfolkins » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:33 AM UTC

jimmies wrote: post #19

herogreen wrote: post #11

TeamViewer because it is cross plateform, super simple to use and works very well. I wish there was a good open-source competitor¹ because I feel ill at ease giving a private company root access to my computers. ¹ it should be able to traverse NATs. I could deal with having to set up a main server. edit: typos

try nomachine. coupled with wireguard for vpn to a middleman broker computer, it works very well for me.

Can you explain in detail how you set this up? Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#38

Post by jimmies » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC

jfolkins wrote: post #37

jimmies wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

try nomachine. coupled with wireguard for vpn to a middleman broker computer, it works very well for me.

Can you explain in detail how you set this up? Thanks!

Yep. Here: http://www.tnhh.net/posts/wireguard-router-firewalled-comput...

Re: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

#39

Post by farseer » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:02 AM UTC

SQLite