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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year55 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-04-08 16:54:49 UTC to 2026-08-16 08:59:42 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 1 submissions, 16 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17116
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321

What Hacker News says

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ezekg·Sep 10, 2024
I'm not sure I personally agree with this, and I'm not 100% sure the developer community at-large does either... Let's take a few examples, which I've shared elsewhere in similar discussions: - GitLab: Open Source or Open Core? Most would say open source, but (I assume) you would argue open core [0]. - Plausible: Open Source or Open Core? They say open source, but it's actually open core [1]. - Cal.com: Open Source or Open Core? They say open source, but once again, open core [2]. - Posthog: Open Source or Open Core? They say open source, but actually open core [3]. - Sidekiq: Open Source or Open Core? Open... core [4]. Yet, every dev I know would consider these projects Open Source... and yet also Open Core. So there's a disconnect somewhere. Under this mindset, very few open source startups are actually open source, yet everybody says t
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hey are? I'm not trying to argue either way; I'm trying to point out a real disconnect. Is everybody just open-washing? Why's that allowed? [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/ee/LICENS... [1]: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/2dd2f058d1dcae6f... [2]: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/blob/main/packages/feature... [3]: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/ee/LICENSE [4]: https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/COMM-LICENSE.tx...
In Going open-source as a VC-Backed company
pentacent_hq·May 14, 2024
I’m building an Open Source multi-tenant email newsletter tool [1] and the project is entirely AGPLv3 licensed. I have automatic builds from the `main` branch that I deploy to the SaaS version while public Docker images are available only for tagged releases. There is currently no difference between the self-hosted and the SaaS version, but I am planning two things: 1) An env variable `IS_SELF_HOSTED` which, when set to `false`, toggles certain features like billing (currently enabled via a separate env variable and theoretically available to self-hosters) and includes hard-coded stuff like a footer with links to the official project website and our ToS. 2) Add a registration feature for self-hosters who make a donation. I haven’t fully planned out this feature, but if a self-hosted instance is registered by a paid supporter, it will most
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likely remove a call for becoming a supporter (that is yet to be added) or give them a supporter badge. Choosing the AGPLv3 has been partially inspired by Plausible’s very successful model [2]. They’re also using a `SELFHOST` env variable to differentiate between their "Enterprise Edition" and the "Community Edition" [3]. [1] https://www.keila.io [2] https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses [3] https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/baa99652f612f50b...
In Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?

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