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synergy20on CUI – Native UI components for C

this is actually pretty neat, probably can replace lvgl or wayland-based GUIs, it's not mission critical, as long as it works I'm fine with vibe coding.

synergy20on Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

is there nest alternative somewhere that does not need cloud

synergy20on A Modern Web App in C

I just use lighttpd

synergy20on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

one more reason back to Debian

synergy20on Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

maybe gtk4 gui first then ask llm to recreate them natively on windows and macos

synergy20on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

wow, what about electron.js the bloated cross-desktop GUI, can LLM either totally modernize wxWidgets(to avoid Qt's license mess), or create some light-weight cross platform GUI widgets to make GUI easy on windows/macos/linux that is not resource heavy?

synergy20on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

observing changes is slow and very subjective. i ask ai itself to update skill once a while

synergy20on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

claudism really sucks, Gemini and codex output so much better, way more like a real human being.

synergy20on Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

dumb question,why this and even gerrit? github or gitea PR seems much simpler and get the job done well these days

synergy20on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

indeed, I'm switching from claude to codex

synergy20on Qwen 3.8 27B

I wish this can run directly on my RTX 4090, seems like 30B is the sweet spot for dense model to run locally, sadly RTX 5090 is very expensive and I need a new PC and new power supply(and UPS) to run that, adding a second RTX 4090 is another option, but not sure if my PC can do that yet.

synergy20on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

i am switching to codex, opus 5 failed me

synergy20on Flutter 3.47

great for mobile apps, fine for desktops, basically unusable for browsers unless you do wasm, if web can be revamped/improved it can be the best option for cross platform GUI

synergy20on Grok 4.6

define criminal activities, is censorship criminal here,are you doing it

synergy20on llama.cpp

true, switched from ollama to llama.cpp these days and it's good. wonder if this is also the best option for edge ai deployment(currently use it on desktop)

synergy20on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

all my LLM coding is in go these days

synergy20on Nvidia's Risky Business

that undercuts their core business, so it will be a defensive play at most to fend off mac and amd's local inference offerings

synergy20on What's the best programming language for coding agents?

anecdotal: golang, with c or simplified modern c++

synergy20on A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

unsloth for small use cases, tinker for enterprise level use cases?

synergy20on A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

what are those cheap fine-tuning services these days?

synergy20on Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

    V4L2 (MJPG) -> cap.read() -> CLAHE(night) -> imencode -> _current_frame (web MJPEG)
                              -> resize .25 -> gray -> blur -> absdiff -> contours -> motion?
                              -> motion? VideoWriter.write() : pre_buffer.append(jpeg)
                              -> on stop: ffmpeg remux fps fix -> Telegram/email

a mjpeg system basically, all in python but does need opencv

synergy20on Qwen 3.8

you probably are overly sensitive and biased, do not forget transformer is the only 'original' for AI so far, the 'original aspirations' nowadays are just incremental improvements. human rights are not rubbish by the way, you might earn high salary now, dare to criticize Mr.Xi at all? you could be in jail and lose everything overnight. without human rights, tech is fragile and mostly harmful in the end.

synergy20on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month

morningstar said the fair price is $62

synergy20on SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

it's widespread in rewriting CLI tools, so it's terminal

synergy20on Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

The "Rust Evangelism Strike Force" is so annoying and it becomes the major reason I don't want to have anything to do with the language, yes I know it's strange.

Almost all HN software related discussion will have some Rust folks saying 'yeah I have a rust project for that', or 'just write this in rust and it will be better', so annoying after seeing those each time, it's like the house-window sales guy keeps knocking my door every day and never goes away.

synergy20on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

there are quite a few companies are developing 'proctoring' system to defeat the cheat so you can take self-exam in realtime and everything will be recorded and anything suspicious will be reported, that should be a must-have these days unless something better come out? or current products are not doing their jobs well?

synergy20on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

but, it's $160/month(unless you buy a one-year plan that gets cheaper), not too far from $200/month from claude and codex? why should I switch?

synergy20on You already have a Git server

or use git-shell so users do not need a full ssh account on the server due to security concerns:

    which git-shell
    sudo echo "/usr/bin/git-shell" >> /etc/shells
    sudo useradd -m -s /usr/bin/git-shell git
    cat my_pub_key.pub >> /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
    git clone ssh://git@server/home/git/myrepo.git

synergy20on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

hold on, are you saying graphenos has no ads everywhere? I need swap it in then