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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
5
observed span
2018–2021
peak thread · 87 comments
327 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-09-12
180 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I have a personal list of macOS apps I use that is similar & goes in detail in how I use the apps. https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os Karabiner specifically is life changing software. At this point ALL keys on my keyboard are custom modifier keys. It's wild. https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karab...

nikivi·327-point thread·

There is nothing FOSS about macOS that I personally find appealing. The future of macOS is strictly into direction of further closing and limiting. SIP is monstrosity, Brew is hell under Catalina. There are awesome people who basically hack and find a way to port things, but comparing this with true FOSS OS is naive. Pinch of salt is not needed, the golden days when we had real MacOS are long gone. Someone asked strange question: Does an app being…

nbzso·180-point thread·

Interesting how many open source apps I'm using are missing: VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html Brackets http://brackets.io/ Gimp https://www.gimp.org/ ResolutionMenu https://github.com/robbertkl/ResolutionMenu Geany https://geany.org/ NVAlt http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ Does mention FSNotes though, I need to check it out.

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Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
615

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Total comments
171

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-04-20Awesome list of open source apps for macbevenky20
2018-05-02Awesome list of open source applications for macOSmpweiher10
2018-07-01Awesome macOS open source applicationsFirst breakoutmiles10519
2019-10-07List of open source applications for macOSBest threadrayascott32787
2021-09-12Open source applications for macOSLatest 20+ point returnyesenadam18065