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autorun··on Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks
Thanks for pointing it out, README is outdated, .rapel-state.json is not being used anymore, as the current state is now calculated from the chunk files downloaded.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.
autorun··on Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks
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
autorun··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
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.

autorun··on Bloom Filters by Example
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
autorun··on Bloom Filters by Example
same!
autorun··on Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app
also reminds me about https://puckeditor.com
autorun··on Pikimov: Online motion design and video editor
hey, this should reach more visibility, great work
autorun··on Writing Python like it's Rust
A nice library to handle results like Rust is https://github.com/rustedpy/result
autorun··on Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
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.

autorun··on Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed
this! I was thinking the same
autorun··on Photography for geeks
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

autorun··on Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
Why stop?
autorun··on React I love you, but you're bringing me down
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!

autorun··on Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
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
autorun··on Show HN: Install GitHub release binaries from the CLI
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

autorun··on Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
Argentina
autorun··on The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
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
autorun··on Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups
in fact, for urls you can also use resolve() helper
autorun··on The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
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
autorun··on Learn How to Tie Knots
totally agree on that. the site is great, but use cases are more important
autorun··on Charts.css
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}
autorun··on Ask HN: What are good resources to learn how a computer boots?
Thanks! I'll look for it. Infographics in between would be helpful!
autorun··on Backblaze S3 API is having some downtime
you just need to update your pixelated loading spinner, everything else is great, thanks for so much, sorry for so little
autorun··on Rediscovering the Small Web
I have friends who ask me to design theirs websites because I'm a web developer, and it's not their fault, but what's explained here. I wish there were more tools on the same page as Frontpage/Dreamweaver, so anyone could make their own website, and publish it with a single click.
autorun··on Hypermodern Python
all should be handled by pip. all efforts should be centralized into pip, maybe using a plugin system, whatever.

I think a language should have its own official tooling that can achieve those without installing any external shit

autorun··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
Back to the ~USSR~ RSS
autorun··on Zeno.fm free radio streaming service
I was about to install Icecast on a cheap VM and came out with this. Does anyone know something about this service? As far as I know it's free without limits (listeners and hosting). Haven't read the terms yet, maybe they own the rights of everything you stream (?)
autorun··on Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
I've tried Pipedream https://pipedream.com and it works great. I have two or three Twitter bots posting kanjis and random stuff per day. It's very easy to build a kind of flow with inputs/outputs and connect to the most popular APIs
autorun··on Linus Torvalds commited in my code
oh, that's older than my repo, and I know that this is possible by design.
autorun··on Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
How would you maintain all those APIs ?
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