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Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glimpsh – exploring gaze input inside the terminal

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•4m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
1•subdomain•4m ago•0 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•5m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•5m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•8m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•8m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•10m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
2•CurtHagenlocher•12m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•13m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•13m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•15m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•16m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•18m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•23m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•24m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•28m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•30m ago•1 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•31m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•38m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•39m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•44m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
10•mooreds•45m ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•47m ago•1 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•52m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•54m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
3•saikatsg•54m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ubuntu Pro subscription – should you pay to use Linux?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/ubuntu-pro-subscription-pay-for-linux/
15•ottoke•1w ago

Comments

pjmlp•1w ago
Contrary to Betteridge's law of headlines, I would assert yes, and that is also the answer on the article for the TL;DR; folks out there.

Otherwise don't whine when projects die.

pestatije•1w ago
id pay for rhel
breezykoi•1w ago
Paying makes sense when you actually need/use those services. Paying "because you can" feels wrong to me. If the goal is to support FOSS, there are many more ways to contribute than subscribing to a service you don't use.
ForHackernews•1w ago
Without commenting on Ubuntu Pro specifically, the whole point of a Linux distribution is that users don't need to know or care what specific services they use. I'd happily pay $50/year to use "Debian" and trust that the Debian Foundation figures out how to feed that money back to the appropriate upstream projects.

Please don't try and make me give $0.05/week to dbus maintainers or whoever.

willtemperley•1w ago
I would happily pay for Linux if it came pre-installed on a machine it's guaranteed to work with. I mean flawlessly - I really don't want to configure a driver ever again.

Please someone create a linux laptop that:

1. Just works out of the box.

2. Has really good keychain management.

3. Comes with no bundled AI.

4. Good clipboard managment (like Handoff).

5. Excellent graphics APIs and an good UI framework.

Apple and Microsoft have lost the plot and there's a gaping wide space to fill here.

adithyassekhar•1w ago
Sadly people can't do much with an OS that doesn't run the applications they want. Until that becomes a reality no one is paying for Linux.
willtemperley•1w ago
Gaming works well on Linux, probably because people pay for games.

There's already tons of power software for Linux (e.g. Blender) but it's not always easy to use.

I don't see why the App Store model wouldn't work on Linux too.

dm319•1w ago
Given how well windows games now run on linux through proton, it just made me think - surely, Outlook/Word etc should run easily?

That would be strange firing up Word from Steam though.

Companies seem completely dependent on the Word/Outlook ecosystem. I hope this will change in the future, and not just for some other US tech oligopoly.

Spivak•1w ago
Which is crazy because Outlook the actual application has got to be one of the worst email clients in existence. The only email client that I've dealt with that had more problems was the one guy who insisted on still using pine.
krater23•1w ago
M$ is doing all to press them into cloud services and browser based usage of this tools. So, just wait some years and this is not a issue anymore.
SahAssar•1w ago
I think for most people the apps either have equivalent web versions (because they are already electron/similar on OSX/Win) or have linux native versions (basically all software engineering tools like IDE:s, compilers).

Sure, there are professions where that is not true (adobe, xcode, etc.), but I think most people on this forum could switch to linux without problems.

rjh29•1w ago
Great now multiply that bullet point list by 1000, because everyone wants different things and has different hardware, and you'll see that even the current state of Linux is a miracle. We're at the point where 90% of the time you can install a modern Gnome distro on a laptop and it'll work. Completely for free.
willtemperley•1w ago
> everyone wants different things and has different hardware

Did you read my post?

> Please someone create a linux laptop

That means the hardware is alreaty there. I'm talking about the macOS model for Linux.

What would be top of your 5000 bullet point list?

utopiah•1w ago
SteamDeck, System76, Pine64, Slimbook, Tuxedo, etc there are PLENTY of Linux devices to buy in all form factors.

Source : I'm using at least 2 of these and use Linux on my desktop daily, for years. Spent maximum 15min total caring about drivers and yes I do also game.

estimator7292•1w ago
Lenovo will sell you a Thinkpad today bundled with Linux
Spivak•1w ago
I can't speak to the default install but Thinkpads have what I would consider perfect hardware support. Absolutely everything works, fingerprint reader, tpm, nvidia card, and all.
JohnFen•1w ago
For me, the immediate question isn't "should I pay to use Linux" (I already do).

This is a nonstarter for me simply because I don't do software subscriptions, and especially not for operating systems. However, this appears to be aimed at enterprise usage rather than personal anyway.

egorfine•1w ago
Paying to have rust slop and systemd-something shoved down my throat? No way.
rpigab•1w ago
IMO, paying is the best alternative to getting ads everywhere or losing future support because the people making updates lose interest or go out of business.
estimator7292•1w ago
Pay for linux, possibly. Pay Canonical for Linux, absolutely not. They're on my list of enshittifiers, who by definition should never be given any money in any form.
dm319•1w ago
That seems unfair to me.
Grisu_FTP•1w ago
Well, i also would rather use Windows 11 than ubuntu. (I probably would also rather pay for Windows than ubuntu) Every time i tried to use ubuntu it was the worst OS/Linux experience i ever had. A friend wanted to try linux once, picked ubuntu because its a "noob friendly" distro, and i had a "critical system error" pop up before even booting up once. And this is by far the most stable experience i had with ubuntu.

Also ubuntu is ugly and slow (In my experience, In my opinion).

jdboyd•1w ago
It looks like the desktop/workstation price is $25/yr, which seems pretty reasonable. For personal users, it is free for 5 concurrent machines. Unfortunately the per server price is $500/yr, which maybe competitive with some of the competition, but still seems steep to me. But then, while I run Ubuntu VMs or containers, I'm not really using it for bare metal servers any more.

For some comparisons, Proxmox is €370/yr/socket. RHEL Workstation is $196.90/yr, while server is $383.90/yr, and Oracle Linux is reportedly $1,199/socketpair/yr.

Given the free distro, subscription support model that tends to prevail, a pay once price with either no free, or on top of the free option might be a hard sell.