Best of 2019

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2019. 250 posts.

Open Source
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Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 2.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, used by thousands of teams as an alternative to Slack, HipChat, Mattermost and IRC. Zulip’s unique topic-based threading combines the …

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Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)

In this regularly but rarely updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions' problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and shortcomings (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should…