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Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by oulipo on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:19PM (#43658094)
I quite like VoiceInk, an open-source voice input app for Mac https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by schappim on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:31PM (#43658196)
This is awesome
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by schappim on Friday April 11, 2025 @03:48PM (#43657754)
For me it was the open source e-ink display TRMNL[2] which I learned about via ATP and Snazzy labs[1].

1. https://youtu.be/eIcZZX10pa4?si=deMGwccwwO4wJdBe

2. https://usetrmnl.com

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by sekLabs on Friday April 11, 2025 @03:54PM (#43657826)
postgrest
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by bookwormtrixie on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:44PM (#43658339)
* info (GNU textinfo) - an alternative TUI interface manpages

* KHelpCenter - KDE GUI alternative interface for manpages

* Hotspot - GUI for perf profiler - https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by ferfumarma on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:53PM (#43659049)
I really liked bropages, but it is defunct

I think tldr is similar though

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by account-5 on Friday April 11, 2025 @06:37PM (#43659450)
Best thing I've found recently is nushell[0], paired with jc [1] it's pretty much the best shell I've ever used.

[0] https://www.nushell.sh/ [1] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by adityamwagh on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:08PM (#43660992)
What’s better about the nushell? I tried it a couple of years ago but didn’t enjoy using it — probably because I primarily use bash and nushell seems quite different from it.

Would appreciate if you could share some examples from your workflow!

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by account-5 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:56AM (#43661724)
I have a feeling you'll not appreciate my answer considering your current workflow.

I don't mind bash and the various cli programs I used to use for the tasks I was doing at the cli. However I was forced years ago to learn powershell. Now syntax aside I was able to use powershells native functionality to do things I'd have to call other programs for, read and process CSV, JSON, XML, etc. Nushell is like powershell but a much better syntax and I prefer the data model and love the output.

My main workflows consist of exploring data, cleaning it, and outputting what I need. Nushell has this covered.

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by adityamwagh on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:58AM (#43690142)
Oh I see. Makes sense for your use case. Especially since you’ve been using powershell since a long time.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by gtirloni on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:22AM (#43661331)
Serious LLM vibes from the docs. Many paragraphs are repeated and pages amd pages of filler words like telling what you're going to learn over and over.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by account-5 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:49AM (#43661695)
I actually like the docs, never really noticed an llm vibe... I most just search and look at the examples though.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by asdefghyk on Friday April 11, 2025 @08:17PM (#43660121)
ddrescue- media recover software
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by ummzokbro on Friday April 11, 2025 @08:38PM (#43660245)
Open WebUI[1] for a ChatGPT type experience locally hosted. Very impressive set of features and development velocity - so much so Qwen team using it now rather than building their own [2]

1. https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

2. https://chat.qwen.ai/

Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by mikewarot on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:15AM (#43661310)
Now that I have an actually useful 3d printer, I really have gotten into FreeCad. Hopefully in a few more months I'll grok it well enough to gork/rewrite the gear generator tool kit. The rack generator, for example has no notion of where the pitch line is.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by palata on Saturday April 12, 2025 @03:51PM (#43667435)
Restic, for backups