Https://hn.algolia.com/?q=open+source+alternative I have some personal hypotheses on why this is a common pattern, but I am mostly wondering whether any of these have really succeeded as projects / businesses. Are there any examples of these "open source alternative"-type products really taking off? - Source: Hacker News / 19 minutes ago

Here are 14 years of HN discussions/criticisms of R: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=R%20language&sort=byPopularity&type=story "Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective, depending on whether the user's use-case is statistical/life-sciences vs more general purpose coding and relying on many packages; whether the user uses base-R, or... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

Love these reflections from Gian-Carlo Rota In the past, similar discussions have occured: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Gian-Carlo+Rota. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Yeah it sounds unbelievable but there really are. Maybe not many that think they never write bugs, but plenty that think they very rarely make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. If you search for "don't write bugs" on HN there are hundreds of results where someone has effectively claimed that.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

Are you any different from https://finmark.com/ in the last YC class? - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago