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Thanks for pointing it out, README is outdated, .rapel-state.json is not being used anymore, as the current state is now calculated from the chunk files downloaded. It doesn't detect remote file changes.
I tried using existing solutions like aria2, but rapel is built to work on constrained machines with limited storage, like a raspberry pi running 24/7. You can use the post-part argument so that after downloading a chunk, you can do something with it (eg. upload it) and remove it afterward. Then, on another bigger machine, download the chunks and merge them
Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Friday May 22, 2026 @09:50AM (#48235854)
This is similar to what happened with smartphones and the people going back to cellphones without touchscreen.

AI coding hurts your ego. People keep forgetting this is just a tool that accelerate what you want to do. If you leave decisions to the AI you'll be probably disappointed or surprised.

Re:Bloom Filters by Example on Saturday July 12, 2025 @11:00AM (#44542532)
just asked chatgpt to write one in python, and used md5 digest slicing, what might be a common approach to simulate several hashes just from the base md5 digest. I guess fine for not critical use cases
Re:Bloom Filters by Example on Saturday July 12, 2025 @10:53AM (#44542483)
same!
Re:Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:47PM (#40949274)
also reminds me about https://puckeditor.com
Re:Pikimov: Online motion design and video editor on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:25PM (#40859686)
hey, this should reach more visibility, great work

Ask HN: Free Website Builders in 2023?

Nothing is free, however, in YouTube you can host gigabytes of video for free, we take that for granted, that's crazy. A personal website doesn't take any space in the web, and builders like Wix, Squarespace, Cargo charges several dollars per month from the moment you want to connect your domain or remove their ads. I know that Youtube contains ads, and your videos are inside their platform,...

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Re:Writing Python like it's Rust on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:00AM (#36080152)
A nice library to handle results like Rust is https://github.com/rustedpy/result
Re:Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:34PM (#35836445)
https://orbita.terrestre.ar

That's a site I've made to track satellites. Yet another one! It's a 2D map, where you choose / fast-forward time, see the ground track prediction, and horizon radius.

this! I was thinking the same
Re:Photography for Geeks on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:12PM (#33836208)
I've been reading this forum since years, and generally its perception of photography is rather technical and very proud to achieve perfect photos with the right color balance and all that. Sure it's nice to know all those technical concepts, so you can be conscious when destroying them, and have fun.

Concerning photography tech, it's great to talk about sensors, how mobile camera is being achieved nowadays, like explained in those Pixel blog posts, or even about analog photo development works.

Hey HN, enjoy bad photos, take pictures with the worst camera you can find. I've read in some comments here that you need to take at least 10k photos first until you get better, this is not a sport

Re:Ask HN: How did you stop drinking? on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:32PM (#33211471)
Why stop?
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:41PM (#32965458)
I'd like to know how a newcomer would feel after reading the tutorial of the monster you created, React.

Take React hooks at its purest for example. I can't imagine the WTF feeling in a newcomer's mind, when the useState(<default-value>) helper function returns the "reactive" variable and a function you have to use to update it (!) do you realize how tricky you end up with your technical DOM optimizations?

Same with useEffect(), where you probably will have your whole function defined right into the first argument, and a list in the second one, very lost in your IDE. Who would expect that an empty array of dependencies would trigger it once? Why we should track all those dependencies at first place?

When recommending a frontend framework, I found Vue to be more dev friendly. However, it's currently in a long migration crisis, because documentation shows the 2 different APIs you can choose. I know that the differences are well explained (although they don't even say that's to be retrocompatible with Vue2 mindset), but for a newcomer's mind, it's like asking: which pill do you want to take? red or green? Choose your own adventure!

I'm in favor of privacy and dns over HTTPs/TLS, but here, plain text dns queries have been useful to see how Signal went up (not surprised though). I wonder how Telegram being a Russian product is playing in this war
Re:Show HN: Install GitHub release binaries from the CLI on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:08PM (#28960514)
nice! looks good, didn't know about it. I'll try it by installing it with my tool ;)

binenv supports versioning which is nice, and reads from a maintained list (https://github.com/devops-works/binenv/blob/develop/distribu...). mine is just simpler, a single script, and accepts any user/repo

Re:Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month? on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:28PM (#28334121)
Argentina
Another thing about this is that artists permit themselves to not fully understand the technology of things, so they just use it, in a way that maybe the ones who understand how it works doesn't because they are already fascinated with how it works
in fact, for urls you can also use resolve() helper
Re:The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:40PM (#27478188)
It's even freaking funny that "SEO" appears as a Related search at the bottom of that search url. It has nothing to do other than a lot of people (we) come from a SEO article
Re:Learn How to Tie Knots on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:14AM (#26514241)
totally agree on that. the site is great, but use cases are more important
Re:Charts.css on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:24PM (#26509042)
I also recommend `pypyp` python package. You can pipe to python like,

  $ seq 1 10 | pyp "sum(map(int, lines))" 
55

or along with `jq` and `pup` (html parser)

  $ curl https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/username.wordpress.com/posts | jq -r ".posts.content" | pyp "html.unescape(x)" | pup a attr{href}
Thanks! I'll look for it. Infographics in between would be helpful!

Ask HN: What are good resources to learn how a computer boots?

I have a basic understanding on how boot works, but I'm interested in having a better landscape about BIOS, ACPI, drivers, and OS (Linux preferably) boot up process.I found myself debugging on dmesg, ie. why my battery drains more than usual on S3 sleep state, and I realize I don't know what's the actual flow and responsibilities of each piece.

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