Why “Snap” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Especially now when you can snap your fingers and get a semi responsible codified version. Heck just do what you want to them ask the LLM to port your work to something marginal…
by jauntywundrkind · Oct 15, 2026
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Im low key of the opinion that these tools enhance existing attributes while displacing the advantages of unearned social or financial power. So in…
by Quarrelsome · Oct 15, 2026
Not really, you can't opt out of apt without changing distros, or opt out of systemd without changing distros. So why does snap in particular elicit this reaction. Like every di…
by queenkjuul · Oct 15, 2026
OK. But as you can see Snap is breaking abstractions that have worked for decades ... And these are just the basics of running applications.
by amelius · Oct 15, 2026
I've been using Ubuntu for years and admin a whole bunch of Ubuntu servers for work - I originally chose it due to it having more recent packages than Debian and it's relatively…
by ndsipa_pomu · Oct 15, 2026
There is a flag to install a snap in classic mode, which I think would allow it more access, but I've not seen more fine-grained control than that. Perhaps it exists, I have not…
by yxhuvud · Oct 15, 2026
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