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#9Peak rank
2Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 28, 2026First seen
On Hacker News
- Points
- 213
- Comments
- 196
- Submitted by
- bradley_taunt
- Posted
- Oct 28, 2026
- Site
- wiki.alpinebsd.org
Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on wiki.alpinebsd.org.
Trending history
AlpineBSD was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 28, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 84 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #9 of 30, reached on Oct 29, 03:35 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 29, 12:37 UTC.
Rank history
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Last 14 days
Best rank per day (UTC).
13
9
Oct 26today
Metric history
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From the discussion
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Interesting to watch the rapid fragmentation of FOSS into “hard” anti-AI, AI-neutral-to-discouraged, AI-supplemented, and AI-driven camps, akin to the early GPL vs BSD wars. Suddenly I don’t see as many complaints about licensing, and some of the die-hard GPL stans are silently dropping that position as Linux adopts…
> The NetBSD kernel has spotty hardware support, much less so than Linux. On the other hand, it can run on a toaster, a 386, an IBM Workpad laptop…
These types of projects tend to have a flash of appeal, especially to people used to Linux, because it lessens one degree of unfamiliarity, but they don't seem to stick around for to me obvious reasons. It's hard to get involved with something like a BSD project because you have to learn a lot and put in enough…
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Questions
Is AlpineBSD trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 29, 12:37 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank AlpineBSD reached?
#9 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 03:35 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has AlpineBSD been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 28, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (84 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
213 points and 196 comments; submitted by bradley_taunt on Oct 28, 2026.