Ask HN: Which companies do you admire and why?

Posted by yhavin |3 hours ago |5 comments

mna_ 3 minutes ago

The ones that pay their taxes fully.

SillyUsername 2 hours ago

Alibaba. Reason: Qwen, open source work.

Meta. Reason: open source work (although this is love/hate due to privacy etc etc)

Google. Reason: Free services, open source work, creation of modern AI (including Transformers).

OpenAI. Reason: Chat GPT 4o, driving the industry forward (less so now)

BBC. For doing us proud.

Raspberry PI Holdings. Reason: Progressing education, affordable SBCs, following a proud tradition (Acorn, ARM, Sinclair)

Espressif. Reason: ESP series products (cheap, easy to use, feature Laden)

LONGi & Trina Solar: Reason: Perovskite solar panel innovations

Runners up (publicly funded so not companies as such):

CERN: Reason: Research and open source work.

NASA: Reason: Research.

fsflover an hour ago

Purism, because they created a usable GNU/Linux phone and offer Linux laptops. They also wrote a lot of dedicated free software for them.

Pine64, because they offer various Linux-first hardware and a cheap GNU/Linux phone.

System76 for their Linux laptops and Cosmic desktop environment.