From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet
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From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 6, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 61 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #3 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 03:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 08:52 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
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Things were build by passionate people, who had the skills and the means to do it. I feel that modern tech first took away the passion, by making everything a product, than took away the means by making everything cloud, and now kills the skills by eutrophizing our brains with AI. There is no cabal of evil tech that…
While a lot of this involved volunteers and people taking initiative, a lot of this is also people working and being paid to do so. Linus Torvalds was getting paid to work on the Linux kernel from pretty early on, for example. And a lot of contributions made to Linux are done by software engineers working for a very…
This has happened with most of the fields - volunteers do a lot of work, make their fields/areas good, raise interest, bring ppl into it which usually brings money then which usually brings money chasers who then usually "optimize" the hell out of every metric for maximum gains. Great OS volunteers still exist today,…
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Is From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 7, 08:52 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet reached?
#3 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 03:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 6, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (61 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
313 points and 120 comments; submitted by jonbaer on Nov 6, 2026.