2023-05-21 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. The end of the accounting search Total comment counts : 30 Summary: LWN.net has announced that it will no longer be using the proprietary accounting system QuickBooks, which has been in use since the organization was founded in 1997. Despite the system being familiar, it was unreliable and demonstrated the sort of behaviors endemic to proprietary systems, such as frequent crashes, arbitrary upgrade limits forcing users towards more expensive versions, and an enforced need for regular updates....