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Show HN: I am making an app to rival "Everything"
by Drimiteros | 2025-06-10 01:24:00+00:00
Hello folks,

Generally, I never had problems locating, or quick accessing my files using "Everything". It’s fast and does the job well, no complains there.

So… why build something else?

Because I have some minor complains that have inspired me to work on my own custom replacement to it. And because I just want to make a great project to have on my resume . Here are some limitations I ran into: The app fails when I want to locate a file from another drive that I share between PCs and doesn't use the NTFS file format. Another thing it could do better is to feel a bit more system intergraded. Windows treat it like a separate window, like all the others, and Alt + Tabbing through multiple windows, or giving it administrator privileges every time you open it can cause a small chaos and frustration. It also looks kind of outdated. Doesn't have an easy and quick way to list the most frequently or recently used files. Doesn't provide security for sensitive files by locking them behind a password.

If these issues bother you as well, keep reading.

I have made a basic version of my app that is ready for real world use. It does not yet include all the fixes to the issues that I specified earlier, but it's a solid start and free of charge of course. It is called "Da Deep Search". I will walk you through the most important features that "Da Deep Search" has OR will support in the future over "Everything", since this is a project that I have been working on for only ~3 months.

Current features the app has over everything: 1) More flexible. The app has the ability to scan drives that don't use the standard Windows file system (NTFS). This means that it is compatible with nearly every type of external drives and USB drives out of the box, especially if you share them between devices with different OSes that don't support or it's not preferred to use NTFS. 2) Better system integration. The app's UI is more modern, it blends with the Windows OP better and the way it's accessed gives it the illusion of being integrated into Windows itself, rather than feel like a separate application. Also, it does not require annoying administrator privileges to run or perform an action.

Current tradeoffs: 1)Currently Da Deep Search is not as lighting fast as Everything, though still pretty fast. But don't worry, I am currently working over a solution that will make it as fast while keeping the flexibility and compatibility!

Future features (that I am currently working): 1) Lighting fast file search. 2) Local file sharing. This will allow for encrypted file transfers over the local network. 3) File encryption. This will allow the app to make files or entire directories in-accessible by altering the file bytes and essentially locking them behind a password.

My goal is to create a versatile tool that combines fast, flexible file search with secure file transmission and encryption — an all-around solution for everyday file needs. It WILL take time and I need your help to reach this goal by sticking around and providing solid feedback through the website!
by chunkyks | 2025-06-10 01:25:13+00:00
Wake me up when wayland just works for basic things I need and use daily, and I don't have to hear some diatribe about why what I do daily is wrong.

(What I do may be "wrong" in some cosmic technological sense, but it's still "the only thing supported by the software vendor" and also "isn't actually broken" in the sense of "works just fine". Unlike wayland, which "doesn't work just fine")
by TheAlchemist | 2025-06-10 01:26:24+00:00
Yeah, people take democracy for granted.

As a result, we have people like Trump and Musk, both narcissists and sociopaths, at the White House.

Growing up, I dreamed about going to US, but was born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. As I got older and visited the country, it somewhat cooled my dreamed (Europe progressed dramatically in the meantime).

And now I feel a bit nostalgic and disoriented to be honest - what I once regarded as the country with the highest standards of ethics, integrity and rule of law, is unfortunately proving once again that no empire lasts forever. Of course it's a bit too soon as the US is still a superpower, but it definitely feels like the tide turned and really quickly.
by andrewlgood | 2025-06-10 01:26:48+00:00
I think people are missing the actual process used by Finance teams relating to this issue. I am a former CFO and spent a fair amount of time with this issue in my last role. The firm had a significant amount of software engineering expense related to its core operating system that was the backbone of the company.

The FASB accounting rules drive the capitalization of software expenses, not the tax rules. The FASB definition of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principals) for US firms is very specific and requires significant detailed tracking to comply.

As noted in one of the other posts, many companies want to capitalize as much software engineering expense as possible as that leads to higher operating income and net income. Bonuses, option grants and stock prices tend to be tied to those metrics. The argument is that building a piece of software should be treated like purchasing it off the shelf. If a firm pays $1M to implement SAP, it does not have to expense it all in one year, but rather depreciates it over its “expected life.” Since “expected life” is difficult to define for every piece of software, there are default lifetimes (similar to saying motor vehicles default to a 5 year depreciation schedule).

Tax then generally follows the GAAP accounting except when the government intervenes to try and increase capital spending. Periodically the government will allow accelerated depreciation which increases operating expenses for tax purposes only which reduces current period cash taxes. Note total taxes do not change, only when they get paid.

The Section 174 under discussion here is simply the same idea then applied to software development in an effort to juice hiring.

For the people discussing whether the IRS is effectively tracking and enforcing this - the IRS really does not matter. A companies auditors enforce it. Without all of the necessary paperwork/digital audit trail, a firm in not permitted by the auditors to capitalize the expense. The same auditors have to sign off on the tax treatment as well. Finally, with respect to maintenance, the idea is meant to be similar to the treatment for machinery ( i.e. traditional capital expenditures). When a firm puts gas in the company truck or replaces tires or fixes a windshield, they do not capitalize those expenses. The idea is the expense do not fundamentally improve the item or meaningful extend the life beyond the initial expectations. Following that line of thought, maintenance releases are not thought to extend the life of the software while significant improvements to the software do and therefore can be capitalized.

DISCLAIMER - while I was a CFO, I was not a Certified Accountant. What I have described above is what the accountants and my audit firms described to me as I worked through this issue in preparing financial statements.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-06-10 01:27:13+00:00
Read the article. This isn't a climate solution, it's a solution to mitigate the effects of climate change on people, making them even more likely to go on with their wasteful ways.

Don't get me wrong: planting trees is a good thing. But the word "solution" implies a reduced rate of increase of CO2 over time, which this will not do. We have to use far less energy and far less fossil fuels to actually do that, and shift away from consumeristic innovation, which no one will do. Instead, they'll just plant trees to keep them cooler.
by 8note | 2025-06-10 01:27:48+00:00
for the big companies, this makes enough sense, but theres been new businesses opened since 2017, who did not benefit from that tax holiday. why should they be dealimg with this tax hike for everytime they grow their business?

i dont know how this is anti-worker? it's an extra cost to growing the number of people youre hiring, where you need them for 5 years. i guess businesses should start witholding RSUs and starting bonuses until youve been there for 5 years to match your tax ammortization?
by username223 | 2025-06-10 01:28:32+00:00
I never worked for Apple, but I've used mostly Macs since System 6, and am feeling the same frustration with their software. Unfortunately their laptops are way better than anything else out there, so I'm forced to tolerate it. I ran Linux on a PowerBook for awhile, but it was janky, and it seems like that has not changed. OS X is still basically Unix, so I'll go on running the Unix stuff I need, and turn off the lickable distractions to the extent I can.
by shortstuffsushi | 2025-06-10 01:28:39+00:00
This is just fundamentally not the case most of the time. LLMs guess where you're going, but so often what they produce is a "similar looking" non sequitur relative to the lines above it. It guesses, and sometimes that guess is good, but as often, or more, it's not.

The suggestion "think in interfaces" is fine; if you spell out enough context in comments, the LLM may be able to guess more accurately, but in spelling out that much context for it, you've likely already done the mental exercise of the implementation.

Also baffled by "wrong or suboptimal," I don't think I've ever seen an LLM come up with a better solution.
by atmanactive | 2025-06-10 01:28:52+00:00
I must say that recently, playing similar games always resulted in disappointment and frustration due to bugs. From Astroneer, No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous, Conan ... they all start nice, but as the player choices branch out, and the save state swells, after a while it turns into an unplayable bug fest, each and every time. In last few years, the only games I could really enjoy thoroughly turned out to be single-player. It's almost as creating persistent, open-world, multiplayer creative games bug-free seems like an impossible task. What's your approach to this problem?
by sfpotter | 2025-06-10 01:29:04+00:00
Terrible on every front? I'm sorry, but it's hard to take this seriously. I've been daily driving Fedora with Cinnamon for the past 4 years and it works just fine. I use Mac and Windows on a regular basis and both are chock full of AI bloatware and random BS. On the same hardware, Linux absolutely runs circles around Windows 10 and Windows 11. If the application you need to use doesn't run on Linux; well, OK... not much you can do about that. But to promote that grievance to "terrible on every front" is ridiculous.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-10 01:29:26+00:00
> The hard truth here is in accepting that the 20 lines in your head were probably wrong, or suboptimal, and letting go of that urge.

Maybe, but the dogshit that Cursor generates is definitely wrong so frankly if it's gonna be my name on the PR then I want it to me my wrong code not hide behind some automated tool

> Think in interfaces, not implementations

In my experience you likely won't know if you've designed the right interface until you successfully implement the solution. Trying to design the perfect interface upfront is almost guaranteed to take longer than just building the thing
by kcplate | 2025-06-10 01:30:11+00:00
Lied about its efficacy primarily. Both Biden and Fauci are on record as saying basically “if you get the vaccine you won’t get Covid and can’t give Covid to another person”. People got the vaccine, vaccinated people still got Covid, vaccinated people still spread Covid.

Then, even after it was apparent that the vaccine did not have the advertised benefit, they continued to press its use including mandates for federal employees and the military, encouraged censorship of social media conversation about the vaccine and its efficacy, as well as pressed covid vaccination of healthy children (who were among the least likely in the population to either get or spread the disease).
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-10 01:30:47+00:00
> not once have I stopped and thought "huh, this is actually pretty usable and stable".

I think we need to have a specific audience in mind when saying whether or not it's stable. My Arch desktop (user: me) is actually really stable, despite the reputation. I have something that goes sideways maybe once a year or so, and it's a fairly easy fix for me when that does happen. But despite that, I would never give my non-techy parents an Arch desktop. Different users can have different ideas of stable.
by refurb | 2025-06-10 01:31:10+00:00
DOGE absolutely falls under the Dept of Digital Services agency. No different than an office within the CDC like HIV Care Iniative.

“Waste, fraud and abuse” is defined by the OIG well before Trump. Just because you don’t like him means it doesn’t exist or they are “emotional buzzwords”.

https://oig.usaid.gov/node/221

Hence why the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 DOGE can have access - clearly across ideological lines.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-10 01:31:24+00:00
There seems to be some kind of incompatibility between antiglare and oleophobic coatings that may also contribute.

Every single touch screen laptop I’ve seen has huge reflection issues, practically being mirrors. My assumption is that in order for the screen to not get nasty with fingerprints in no time, touchscreen laptops need oleophobic coating, but to add that they have to use no antiglare coating.

Personally I wouldn’t touch my screen often enough to justify having to contend with glare.
by mdp2021 | 2025-06-10 01:31:29+00:00
> AI-first company

Does anybody introduce itself like that?

It's like when your date sends subtle signals, like kicking sleeping tramps in the street and snorting the flour over bread at the restaurant.

(The shocking thing is that the expression would even make sense when taken properly - "we have organized our workflows through AI-intelligent systems" -, while at this time it easily means the opposite.)
by h4kunamata | 2025-06-10 01:31:51+00:00
Without SpaceX, all of us will never leave this planet and will have very restricted access to space exploration.

EU is more dead than alive regarding space exploration; India moves slowly for obvious reasons; CH will never be used for any major western country project; Russia space program is gone;

Yet, America always hated SpaceX!! Elon has his problems but SpaceX is one of the best things that has ever happened, now even CH can return rockets back to Earth.

I am pretty sure Australia would accept SpaceX with open arms. Due to being too close to Trump, Elon burned the bridge with EU and Canada so he will never be able to move his company there. Australia is a very good candidate.
by defrost | 2025-06-10 01:32:34+00:00
CO2 isn't unsanitary, although it is biological waste (some millenia removed from its time of origin) and the first major London Sewerage upgrade was mentioned as an example of building infrastructure at scale not as an example of removing horseshit .. that situation wasn't seen as serious enough to address with a dedicated grand scale service prior to ceasing to be a problem as horses went away.

For many decades the lead additives in petrol met the unsanitary definition (second clause) being "unhealthy and therefore likely to cause disease" withoiut being biological.

It appears, to myself at least, that "exactly" is less clear cut than you make out; no major effort was made to address horse waste (past the daily sit carts and shovels) and petrol, rubber particles, noise, increased speeds, etc come with a new set of problems which have still not been addressed.
by myzie | 2025-06-10 01:32:39+00:00
+1 to the article.

Along these lines, I'm building Dive:

https://github.com/diveagents/dive

When building a SaaS with a Go backend, it's nice to be able to have the option of the agents and workflows being in the same process. And being confident in the ability of that to scale well.

While it's true that Go lacks good ML libraries, for some this isn't too consequential if your app is primarily using Anthropic or OpenAI and a database that offers semantic or hybrid search for RAG. The ML is done elsewhere. Plus it could be that you can leverage MCP servers and at that point you're language agnostic.

Regarding the concurrency model approach with Go and agents, I initially baked a message based approach (a la the Actor model, with one goroutine per agent) into Dive Agents, but eventually found that this would be better implemented as another layer. So currently in Dive it's the user's choice on how to implement concurrency and whether to use messaging. But I anticipate building that back in as an optional layer.
by defrost | 2025-06-10 01:36:42+00:00
We've literally put three tonnes of donkey poop (ok, not horse, but very similar) a year on the garden for the past decade (and longer, but I've not been involved in that prior) and had none of the issues you've raised.

They might track back to your fields of feed origin.

It's been fantastic for moisture retention, breaking down to increase soil complexity, weed suppression, making better figs, tomatoes, potatoes, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, grapes, etc.

( We've also used sheep manure scraped out from under shearing sheds, horse manure, sluiced out pig run waste, etc )

Call it a locale specific outcome perhaps.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-06-10 01:36:58+00:00
We already have "standards" to implement this the web-standards way, but they don't have wide compatibility yet.

1. Use CSS Images Module Level 4's element() function to capture an image of the layer below. (currently only implemented in firefox)

2. Feed that image into an offscreen canvas.

3. Use a shader to distort the image as needed. This can be done in a paint worklet so it doesn't slow down or hold up the main thread.

4. Use CSS Painting API Level 1's paint() function to paint the contents of the canvas onto the background of the button. (currently only implemented in blink based browsers)
Show HN: TG Media Downloader – Telegram Downloader
by qwikhost | 2025-06-10 01:37:04+00:00
Telegram Media Downloader is a powerful Chrome extension that lets you download Telegram photos and videos directly from Telegram Web — fast, easy, and secure. Perfect for content creators, group admins, and everyday users who want to bulk download Telegram media or save specific files without hassle.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-10 01:37:05+00:00
> BSD jails are architected wholly differently from what something like Docker provides. > Jails are first-class citizens that are baked deep into the system.

Both very true statements and worth remembering when considering:

> Additionally, iirc, the logic for FreeBSD jails never made it into the Darwin kernel.

You are quite correct, as Darwin is is based on XNU[0], which itself has roots in the Mach[1] microkernel. Since XNU[0] is an entirely different OS architecture than that of FreeBSD[3], jails[4] do not exist within it.

The XNU source can be found here[2].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

2 - https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

3 - https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/

4 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&apropos=0&sek...
by sammysheep | 2025-06-10 01:37:15+00:00
I watched the video and it seems they are statically linking atop musl to build their lightweight VM layer. I guess the container app itself might use glibc, but will the musl build for the VM itself cause downstream performance issues? I'm no expert in virtualization to be able to understand if this should be a concern or not.

See also:

- https://edu.chainguard.dev/chainguard/chainguard-images/abou...

- https://andygrove.io/2020/05/why-musl-extremely-slow/
by pama | 2025-06-10 01:38:29+00:00
The current version of sglang allows inference with the R1 model at a cost that is very close to the rate that DeekSeep claimed (using H100s, not exactly the DeepSeek compute). Their claim is almost validated by replication at this point so there is nothing left to take with a grain of salt other than the possibility that there exists potentially an even higher margin than what they claimed if one were to optimize for modern NVidia hardware.
Show HN: X Video Downloader – Twitter Video Downloader
by qwikhost | 2025-06-10 01:38:34+00:00
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by readthenotes1 | 2025-06-10 01:39:06+00:00
Surely that's not what the JAG is referring to since the article covered it

"While the Posse Comitatus Act refers only to the Army and Air Force, a different statute extends the same rule to the Navy and Marine Corps. The Coast Guard, though part of the federal armed forces, has express statutory authority to perform law enforcement and is not bound by the Posse Comitatus Act."
Show HN: FB Group Extractor
by qwikhost | 2025-06-10 01:39:42+00:00
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by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-10 01:41:37+00:00
To claim that an LLM is equivalent to a PID loop is utterly ridiculous. By that logic a 747 is "basically a glorified lawn mower".

> It isn’t thinking about your conversation while you go take a poo.

The commercial offerings for "reasoning" models can easily run for 10 to 15 minutes before spitting out an answer. As to whether or not what it's doing counts as "thinking" ...

> the definition doesn’t exclude pure mechanical devices since that’s exactly what a computer is.

By the same logic a songbird or even a human is also a mechanical device. What's your point?

I never said anything about excluding mechanical devices. I referred to "mechanical clockwork" meaning a mechanical pocket watch or similar. If the claim is that autopilot qualifies as AI then I want to know how that gets squared with a literal pocket watch not being AI.
by pama | 2025-06-10 01:42:46+00:00
Please read their report. There is no bragging. It just tries to document performance and clarify a misconception. The concept that LLM inference may not be profitable or may be energy inefficient has been a constant song of misinformation for reasons that I dont understand. DeepSeek does indeed pretend to be of similar quality to others, but the work of their relatively small team is truly outstanding. As per a parallel thread, their result has by now been almost replicated by the sglang team. Link here: https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/
by poglet | 2025-06-10 01:42:47+00:00
Try the Brave browser for YouTube. I used Jellyfin for my media library and that seemed to work fine for tv and movies.

I just got a Macbook and haven't touched my iPad Pro since, I would think I could make a change faster on a Macbook then iPad if they were both in my bag. Although I do miss the cellular data that the iPad has.