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Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:44PM (#50277729)
is it just me or a lot of Apple's copies these days seem too LLM generated?
Hi thanks for trying it out.

The sync is built on top of iroh (https://docs.iroh.computer/what-is-iroh#how-iroh-works).

There is also docs here outlining what Set is doing on top of iroh: https://github.com/rootstring/set/blob/main/docs/sync.md

But yes, I should explain more (or least link to this doc) on the welcome pages. I intend to write a blog post soon as well about how the sync works.

For the current version, the UX is inconvenient, you have to manually paste the pairing code between the devices. I'll add at least discovery soon, where you can automatically discover devices.

thanks for trying it out!

Show HN: Set, offline Markdown note-taking app with device-to-device sync

https://app.writewithset.com

Hi HN. I am an avid user of Notion (https://notion.so) and really like the ergonomics of its block-based editor, but with how the product is evolving I felt I was missing a simple "single-player" experience of just taking notes and jotting down my thoughts. Hence, Set exists. It's in beta and all feedback is appreciated.You can use the app in the browser but notes are saved only to that browser...

( Read More... | 4 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:47AM (#49564616)
There's a typo on your link to the two stars image.

It should be `/img/two-stars.png` instead it's right now `/img/two-starts.pgn`.

For those interested in the image itself: https://jestoph.com/img/two-stars.png

I think Zig being a new and a low-resource language (not enough training data) is also one of the reasons Bun decided to use Rust as large language models will simply not be as good no matter how good the model is.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:12PM (#46875735)
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Only within Germany

Technologies: Golang, Rust, Typescript/Javascript, Python | Distributed Backend Systems | AWS, GCP| Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Github Actions | PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://aavash.com/resume.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Github: https://github.com/aavshr

Personal Site: https://aavash.com

I was the first hire at a Berlin based startup which unfortunately had to shut down after 6+ years. I took full ownership of backend systems and infra, maintained on call responsibility and worked across the board with growth, product and frontend work as needed.

Looking for a similar opportunity at an early stage company where I can provide high impact while taking ownership.

Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:14AM (#45968164)
> In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.

From the CTO, Source: https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646

Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:14PM (#45931630)
just curious, why not the sonnet models? In my personal experience, Anthropic's Sonnet models are the best when it comes to things like this!
yes, had to use reader mode.
Ah that might be a bug sorry, the sample notes should also have the html extension. The notes themselves are currently stored as html (because of the metadata and the state in notes mainly, you can still export to markdown).

We need to do some work before we can also just store them simply as markdown files.

Thank you.

Yes, we support any endpoint that supports the completions API. And yes, Ollama might be the easiest to setup. The images should also work with qwen3-vl.

But if you run into any issues, please feel free to submit a bug report https://deta.surf/issues

Re:14 Killed in protests in Nepal over social media ban on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:46PM (#45172172)
Please make yourself aware of all the facts before posting ignorant comments like this. Children died, shot while protesting against blatant corruption and lack of accountability that's going on for decades. The social media ban was just the final straw.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/six-killed-in-nepal-...

Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:35PM (#44119867)
Great work, I can imagine how interesting the migration went. Why are you using Redis if I may ask? Was something like sqlite not enough? What are your biggest challenges with Tauri?

I also work with an Electron app and we also do local embeddings and most of the CPU intensive work happens in nodejs addons written in Rust and using Neon (https://neon-rs.dev very grateful for this lib). This is a nice balance for us.

Sad to see, Outer Wilds is probably the best game I've ever played. But I'm sure the staff will continue doing great work in whatever they decide to do next.
Re:AI Integration Is Coming to Firefox on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:47AM (#40946654)
just curious, why is this the case?
Re:Berlin Flat Quest on Thursday June 20, 2024 @09:18AM (#40738450)
this is brilliant, the questions are hilarious, didn't beat the game yet
Re:Show HN: Gpl2 2d web paddle game on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:23AM (#40606506)
this is absolutely great, multiplayer version?
Re:Veo on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @06:56AM (#40365229)
I would imagine and hope for interfaces to exist where the natural language prompt is the initial seed and then you'd still be able to manipulate visual elements through other ways.
Re:Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:58AM (#39992182)
The link I just clicked on to reply to your comment was `https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39991931&goto=item%3Fi...` but thankfully it just said 'reply' in the UI.
Re:Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:13AM (#39991630)
Yes, only the text gets replaced but not the underlying link.

Once you navigate to the link it will be the actual link in the URL bar however.

But this is an easy miss for people after they have already navigated to the link from twitter thinking it's a legitimate link.

You can checkout Deta (I work for Deta).

Free, the job timeout is 10s but can be extended if needed, and minimum resolution is run every minute.

https://docs.deta.sh/docs/tutorials/cron-guide https://docs.deta.sh/docs/micros/cron

Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:03AM (#30021460)
it makes sense to compare WASM to Docker or other container runtimes but not Kubernetes.
Re:Show HN: My personal website is a shell on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:02PM (#26704691)
this look super nice! Great colors and much more informative than my website!
Re:Show HN: My personal website is a shell on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:45PM (#26704455)
thank you, yeah we are really excited about our product at work, Deta also gifted me this domain which led me to create this website.
Re:Show HN: My personal website is a shell on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:16PM (#26704086)
looks neat! Do you have the code open sourced?
Re:Show HN: My personal website is a shell on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:08PM (#26703981)
hi thanks for the input, yes it is very early and I just posted this mainly for validation; I wanted to know if only I thought this was cool or if others also saw it as something fun. I did not anticipate so many people using this. I plan to implement most of the expected shell features soon.

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