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New comment by MaxwellJensen in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

MaxwellJensen — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:05:41 +0000

Have you heard of the Patriot Act?

New comment by MaxwellJensen in "Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?"

MaxwellJensen — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:26:24 +0000

This is an excellent idea. I would be most interested in viewing repositories that are just gaining momentum, because they often mean software that might be niche and solve unusual problems. Sometimes they plateau at a 50 star count on GitHub, too, but that doesn't mean they aren't tremendously useful.

New comment by MaxwellJensen in "Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?"

MaxwellJensen — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:28:02 +0000

I actually did take a look at this before, but I assumed it was for already-pro and already-popular projects. However, after taking a look again and after having exhausted all the options, I can see there's a few projects there that have only a handful stars on GitHub. Maybe I should try submitting my project to the admin.

New comment by MaxwellJensen in "Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?"

MaxwellJensen — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:06:16 +0000

Of course. Like most people, I am inclined to first look through GitHub or other places to see if someone already has a solution for the problem I am trying to solve. I am not too keen on reinventing the wheel. The stuff that I am talking about is indeed something that nobody has made before, at least publicly and as free software. And, to be clear, stuff that is more complicated than stitching three existing programs together with a 12-line Bash script.

This is a cool website, though. I bookmarked it, although I haven't encountered a situation yet where I felt like I could make a PR within my technical skill that meaningfully improves the free software on my computer for everyone.

Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?

MaxwellJensen — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:36:33 +0000

Hello.

As in the title, how do you show your free (as in freedom) software projects to the world? I like creating useful niche tools for my personal workflow in Linux, but often these things scale to something more than just simple things for my use. Adding sophisticated interfaces to CLI tools through relatively simple means, like cobra in Go, is a compelling idea. There are many frameworks to make fully-featured CLI tools easily and quickly. I feel like these tools could be beneficial and interesting to the public, but these tools have to be visible first to be tried.

However, the websites for discussing software seem to be pretty much just Hacker News and Reddit. Subreddits have a blanket ban on self-promotion, even if it is free software. Show HN looked like an option, but apparently new accounts cannot post on it.

I have heard some suggestions like Dev.to, a very dead website, and afterwards even more dead websites.

Is there anything left?

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New comment by MaxwellJensen in "Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money?"

MaxwellJensen — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:24:23 +0000

New users cannot post in Show HN, at least when I tried to post.

New comment by MaxwellJensen in "Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money?"

MaxwellJensen — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:23:06 +0000

I wanted to share a free software project (licensed under EUPL-1.2), but unfortunately I cannot, because my account is brand new.