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Show HN: I Built Presync.io – A macOS Music Production Tools AppStore
Hey HN,

I built Presync.io to simplify plugin management for music producers on macOS. Presync lets you easily discover, install, and manage music production plugins. Read it as "Steam for music production software".

What it has now:

- One-Click Installation

- 110+ Free Plugins

- Video Reviews and Tutorials for plugins (in progress)

- Management Stuff: delete for any plugin in your system, MVP of updates (very early stage)

Backstory:
I love music production and development. This past spring, I started Presync to move away from the endless methods of reading/writing PDFs and Excel files. Initially, I didn't have much time to dedicate to it. This spring, I burned out on my main job (Excel and PDFs are now my child trauma) and decided to focus on Presync. I found a guy to help with content (which I dislike doing), and we've been making great progress.

Thank God I'm a fullstack guy so I can do everything myself. I'm using:

- Backend: Django (planning to switch to TS + tRPC + Prisma)

- Electron (maybe tauri later, not sure)

- React + TS + Tailwind on the frontend

Plans:

- Community features: comments, reviews, and ratings

- More plugins and software

- Presets

- Skins?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences to help make Presync better. Try it out and let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.

Best,
Max
There is going to be no small PHEVs because it is cheaper to build small BEVs. Case example in Finland:

Cheapest new BEVs start at 25.000€ (Citroen e-c3, Nissan Leaf)

Cheapest PHEV Start at 33.000€ (Kia CEED, Renault captur)

People think PHEV makes things cheaper than BEV. But really mixing two powertrains is expensive and complex, and can only be fit in big cars. Plug-in hybrid is a luxury feature that allows you not worry about charging on the road.
Or a PHP application returning an array as a JSON object
Shared PHP hosting is a managed service, a VPS is not. Not everyone has the skill set to bridge the gap, and it’s not really economical to hire to fill the gap to support a single site (but it is to support hundreds of sites in a shared hosting environment).
But uh, how do you undo the styling from the keyboard? Does Backspace turn "italic" into "*italic"?
For images, nothing. They’re just using an off the shelf model and using their LLM to prompt it.
Of course, I have a bunch of new features in mind to make it different from Diep.io when initially playing.
> Surely the crawling is the easiest part? The AI goldrush has seen dozens of new players gobbling up the entire internet.

The AI goldrush also has sites scrambling to block any crawlers other than a short list of approved search engines. Even before this mess Googlebot running on Google IPs often received special treatment.

Search itself is still a hard problem but one that can be solved independently. Crawling on the other hand requires websites to cooperate and due to Google's size enough won't care to bother with anyone else.
You know how it is. You search someone's home, you set aside the evidence, and you promptly forget about it for 12 years. I dislike Kim Dotcom as much as the next gal or guy, maybe even more, but this is weird.
They've been selling them since 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid
> Maybe I don’t know much about Markdown, but my understanding is that the whole point of it is to provide a syntax where the most common HTML tags for prose can be replaced by simple punctuation characters that are meant to be visible to the writer.

Cracking up at this quote
I'm scratching my head trying to think of something Google does that should be a public institution. Can you give an example? YouTube is the closest thing I can think of, but it is tightly bound to advertising.

Wikipedia, archive.org are two examples of non-Google projects that come to mind when I think of internet "public-good". They seem to be doing fine without advertising dollars (although perhaps they are only hobbling along, I don't know — but I would rather they get "public institution" treatment before Google franchises).
What exactly has Mega done that Dropbox hasn't? In my eyes they're basically the same product, the only difference being Mega's edgier tone.
I think that this is correct. Also, we really shouldn’t forget that Markdown is meant to generate HTML, and that HTML blocks are valid Markdown: a system which does not permit it isn’t really using Markdown.
It is so easy to switch away from Google I just can't take any break up attempt seriously.

ATT WAS phone service in the U.S. 90% of the U.S used ATT when it was broken up, and much of that 90% had no alternative.

With Google if another better search engine did appear you could switch in minutes.

And if you consider Android a monopoly then you'd have to consider iOS one too, and that's one much more obvious in it's user impact with a 30% cut being taken on the only app store you can install apps from.

If you don't like default X being purchased, pass a law. Otherwise we'll just be back here in a few years later if some other company becomes unpopular.
> Ads and search are the two businesses that most directly collude and which could both survive and thrive independently.

I'm skeptical that search is viable as an independent business at scale. I know DDG is making a go of it, but the business only has to pay a single salary.
Truly no ads

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
I think lack of union/sum types, i.e. lack of compiler exhaustivity checks on cases is pretty relevant here. For security applications the goal is maximum stringency w.r.t. correctness so I think “huge advantage “ isn’t an exaggeration regarding sum types. It’s not like “have you checked all cases” is an unimportant question when trying to prove correctness.
Yep, fully EV for 99.99% of trips but functions exactly as an ICE car for edge cases is a no-brainer purchase. I don't really care about servicing the batteries more often because there's fewer of them and the ICE engine is likely to get 1/10th the miles of the car overall so it probably won't be the source of problems.
I don't think it's abuse, but just server degradation from 50 players playing for hours. I restarted the server and it's better, I'll fix the degradation later today.
For some people it's not all about the money.
This is super fun, but I hope the content creators are being compensated. Content creators work hard to produce this content under the assumption they will be paid for it (in one of many different potential channels but the HOW is less relevant).
It cannot sustain itself on its ad revenue?
Wouldn’t just a simple case of bad code generation render little compiler into a toy one?

Repeating others, today’s compilers are really just “optimizing compilers”, there is no room for toying in production environments.
The author apparently does not fully understand the concept of PMF. I mean, I understand that we don’t necessarily have discrete events, but the pursuit is very clear. The article starts off wrong when it says that Marc created the concept. Steve Blank talked about PMF a bit earlier in The Four Steps to the Epiphany.
You can switch your search to bing in less time then it took to write this message.

Your 500 mile analogy simply does not apply.
Ask HN: Would You Recommend GrapheneOS
I'm thinking of installing GrapheneOS on a Pixel, for using as my daily phone, migrating away from the stock Android experience and Google Play store.

The apps I care most about:

- email (could use the browser too)
- Firefox
- Google Maps (alternatives more than welcome)
- Web banking apps (but could use Firefox instead)
- Spotify

People using it as daily driver, what are the issues you experienced?

I care most about battery life, privacy life, security and UX.
To exist on the internet you need to pay Google. Google is essentially the government of the open web. The problem is that government like monopolies do arise especially when there are network effects.

We need to regulate search and app stores like it is a public utility. Pricing should be dutch auction or something provably fair. 20-30% for in-app purchases is obviously insane when credit cards do 1.5-3.5%.

I worry that the government will not do sensible regulations and instead play investment banker and try to create spin off companies.
…and people will buy imported tech and use foreign software because it works better than what is legally mandated here.

The idea that the government has to force people to buy things they don’t want never ends well.
MegaUpload was primarily funded by ads displayed on download pages, not the small number of people paying for storage.
Im not denying that demand for trucks/SUVs is probably has the largest demand of any segment.

I guess im more just wondering if the lack of demand for small cars is just that after being absent from the market and seeing the least innovation over the last X years, whether there is some sort of collective amnesia that such a segment exists.

Car companies know what they're doing, so im probably just coping. I should stop wishing the free market to do what's right rather than profitable :P
Pedantically: MEGA runs today as a Dropbox-alike, and has very little to do with Kim Dotcom beyond his being involved at the very beginning and then departing quickly.

You're referring to Megaupload, which is entirely different despite the name similarity.
But those Japanese vehicle owners are unknowingly risking their safety by driving them. The government is actually doing them a favor by banning them. /s
https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine...
Damn, I was so excited to see Monaspace, but they used Krypton instead of Xenon.
Fair enough, I haven't had that experience, it was a fun read in any case.
The challenge is ensuring that any changes foster genuine competition and innovation rather than just shifting the monopoly around.
Toyota has been building plug-in hybrids for about a quarter century. Their evolution is slow but steady. They are made to be maintained easily—far more than any other modern car. After all this time there is no evidence that the hybrid batteries are wear out particularly fast AFAIK. In fact, older Prius models hold up incredibly well.
I disagree with this. Capitalism may be a problem, but Google's specific technology and size, enabling them to reach people at high-speed, is also a problem. The fact is, capitalism on a small scale (trade with money in local communities) is much less damaging than on a global scale due to the anonymizing effects of scale and the economies of scale being much more efficient at effecting tragedy of the commons.

Yes, capitalism is a problem, but it's also true that Google is a problem because Google's scale makes a poor combination with capitalism. Which is worse, the match or the gasoline? Both, if they are used to cause a devastating fire.
Why do people who oppose the war in Ukraine feel it's Ukraine's responsibility to roll over and die, instead of Russia's responsibility to turn around and go home?
I predict that Toyota is likely to get steamrolled by BYD, who already employs twice as many workers as Toyota. China already produces enough battery cells to put a 50kw pack in every vehicle built, and manufacturing capacity continues to increase.

https://electrek.co/2024/07/30/toyota-sales-slide-byds-aggre...

https://electrek.co/2024/07/16/byd-breaks-toyota-dominated-j...
They can try. But in a world full of free on-line stuff, the public may think the "you'll go bust if you try" counter-argument is obviously correct.
Search needs to be a utility.

Browsers need to be a utility.

Email needs to at least have an option that is a utility.

Arguably operating systems need to be a utility.

Adtech needs to either go back to what it was when Google started out (simple contextual ads, no targeting, no data collection, no flashing or popups or video or or or or...), or just die.[0]

The reason these things have all been operated entirely by for-profit entities up to this point is because they're too new for government to have caught up. All the parts of Google that I've named above as needing to be utilities are fundamental, necessary parts of the modern internet, and are basic requirements for the average person to operate in Western society.

> How would spinning off an individual business like Chrome, Android, or AdWords reduce their respective dominance?

As for this question, Google uses the profit from its dominance in adtech to fund its dominance in other businesses. That's the textbook definition of an abusive monopoly. Take away the ad money from the other parts of Google, and they'll no longer have an unfair advantage over potential competitors.

[0] Yes, this would mean that large parts of the internet that have been free-at-the-point-of-service will have to find new business models or dry up and blow away. No, I don't have a silver bullet solution to this. No, I'm not advocating for nuking adtech from orbit overnight with no replacement.
Mozilla is a bit of a stretch for sure, but I could see Chromium and maybe Android moved off onto their own independent organizations so they are not beholden to Google/Alphabet's whims. I am imagining something like the Linux Foundation.

Chromium especially is so core to being a building block for applications and the modern Internet nowadays, it does seem like this core infrastructure piece should be more collectively owned.
> layer-2 logs on our phones are constant.

Huh?
So I signed up for Kagi a while back.

I'll be candid, it's good ... it's a hair less annoying than google, the results are just as hit or miss.

Here is the thing, if I need to BUY something Kagi falls flat on its face.

I find myself going back to google to shop, and to be candid it has drawn a contrast for me on spending. The "extra step" to buy has slowed me down.

I dont think breaking up google changes consumer behavior. It creates a hydra out of a snake.
IMHO the Maverick hybrid is a phenomenal vehicle. I've averaged 460+ miles per tank of gas (13.8 gal and I don't run it to E). The 2025 looks better all around except IMHO the bigger screen.
I downvoted it because it's untrue. As the article says, his coconspirators got 30 and 31 months respectively, which is much lower than New Zealand's mandatory minimum of 120 months for murder. (I would have responded directly, but in my experience commenters who start talking about things like "powerful people getting more power" aren't generally interested in a discussion about whether the claims they make are true.)
He didn't move to new zealand from the US so I struggle to see how that is relevant, it's not HK or Germany looking to extradite him.
Utilities are monopolies because it makes no sense to spend tons of resources running extra pipes and wires to each and every house. It’s called a structural monopoly.
uses https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

> Coordination-less globally unique addressing and identification

> Fully self-configuring multi-hop routing

> Unforgeable packet delivery confirmations

> Initiator anonymity

So the noisiest protocol ever with zero flood protection? Anyone knows better than my superficial hot take? But I doubt they solved those problems for real, that would be real news and academic progress.
In particular, abuse of Galois Theory makes it possible to reconcile Spinoza with Aquinas.
put a "Show Markdown / Show Result" toggle button at the top of the textbox that contains the editable field

save the current setting to a cookie

some people who stay on the rendered side sometimes forget the syntax, and use the Show Markdown button to check how something was created
From a security perspective, not being able “paste into chat” is a fundamental feature of passkeys. The whole point is to prevent a static secret which can easily be copied by an attacker, memorized, phished, or re-used across sites.
Japan has invested heavily in hydrogen energy, across multiple sectors. It makes sense for a Japanese automotive manufacturer to research hydrogen-powered vehicles. They probably received a lot of government research money to do so.

Though people may not be familiar with it, Toyota does have a commercial truck division. Hydrogen power makes a lot of sense in that market. Whenever you hear about Toyota making improvements in hydrogen engines - think commercial trucks and industrial engines such as bulldozers, end loaders, etc.

The bottom line is personal transportation is being electrified, but that's not "settled science" in the commercial and industrial sectors.
GP specified Tacoma
It doesn't require a conspiracy to be the case, simply a bit of "safety" lobbying by domestic manufacturers. Lobbying for regulations that favor and protect market incumbents happens all the time. I'd go as far to say that it's the primary source of regulations.
I'm not so sure. You sound like you're describing the older generations and their tech swoon. What I am hearing lately, and from coming-up generations, is very much anti-tech.

I think HN is more the bellwether.
> Hurting those owners, who didn't have any say in the bad decisions

Why do you think this? Executives have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, so if these actions are more profitable, they are legally required to perform them. Moreover, the primary beneficiaries are the owners.

Indeed, if you harm the shareholders by reducing the price of shares, you are harming them in the most fair way possible: In proportion with their share of the responsibility.
> Google Search has competitors and is not even selling its search product.

The product is not search, it’s ad placements.
> The Chocolate Factory has appealed the Epic verdict and also plans to challenge the DoJ's victory.

Is "Chocolate Factory" a typo?
The base game is inspired from Diep.io with extensive features already to differentiate it, but you're right the base game is still essentially Diep.io. The game is still relatively new and I haven't implemented all my ideas yet, but when I'm done the base game mechanics will be completely different.
Chicken Tax makes that impossible
My senior mother needs this. She doesn't use a computer, but does have a TV a firestick. I've tried showing her how to use the search of youtube but she is too use to how tv use to work and wants to channels to find something.

If this could be made into a firestick app or something and come with a recommendation system, allow some customization using topics instead of channel names and have them be editable and customized to different youtube interests - I would buy it
I'm not a Toyota fan by any stretch, the last Toyota I owned was over 20 years ago. We've been ride or die Honda vehicle appliances since then as an entire family. But Honda's offerings just aren't doing it for us anymore. It seems like the entire industry is moving past them with the company being dragged along with:

- very subpar offerings in the EV space (I mean the Honda e, really?)

- almost no plug-in hybrids

- hybrid tech that hasn't really advanced in a decade

- a bunch of effort spent farting around with LPG and hydrogen vehicles which are going to go approximately nowhere as a market

- a completely empty small vehicle category (in the U.S.), I'd even be compelled to maybe buy an iCE fit/jazz just for the convenience for the semi-urban area I live in

We can't figure them out as a company anymore and they seem to have no strategy.

At the moment, if we had to go buy a car today, I'd hit the Toyota dealerships for a Prius Prime, and if they were out of stock probably go hit the Hyundai dealerships for a hybrid or an EV. If Hyundai ever tops Toyota for general reliability, I'm going there first, that's a company attacking on all fronts.
Well, just a data point: I'll probably need to get a new car in the next 2 years, I've been looking at EVs and PHEVs and they simply don't make sense for my usage.

Maybe Toyota is trying to sell to me not to you...
It’s odd how this is lost on people. Want to develop a game for PlayStation, Sony will need to approve. Want to develop a Facebook app, FB will gatekeep. If you wanted to make apps for the Danger Hiptop, you published through Danger. iOS is Apple’s consolized OS for their own hardware. It’s not a PC platform that anyone can put on whatever device they want. For better or worse.
That's awesome. Can you package it into a Google TV app?
What about "de-DoubleClicking" Google, iow, separating the ad business from the rest of Google/Alphabet? I'm not sure how that would work, but IMO what reduces the quality of Google products and noticeably makes them worse for consumers is that the products either improve ad dollars or they get cut/receive no funding.
Generally agree with your points, just not your conclusion that "we should just wait".
It works very well for me and thousands of other Go developers. That's why I chose this approach.
I've seen editors do it that way, and if you know what it looks like in your head, it works quite well, IMO.

I can't imagine how it works for people who aren't pretty good at the syntax.
Just following this thought then the remedy will be forcing Apple to allow alternative OS and firmware on their devices, allowing consumers to choose what they do with the device hardware they purchased?
Sorry, the game server degraded overnight. I've restarted the server as a temporary fix and will investigate today.
Wasn't the allegation that Mega uploaded copywritten content to themselves to kick things off with something people wanted?
The funny thing about what you just said is that it has nothing to do with the parent comment. He's talking about BS extradition charges due to global political influence, and your response is: RUN CHARACTER_ASSASSINATION.EXE

I must say, your statement was so profound and effective that you've totally convinced me. Assange is a piece of shit and therefore we should do away with all laws and cater to the whim of your tribe.

...Sigh...
> But really mixing two powertrains is expensive and complex, and can only be fit in big cars.

So "big, expensive, and complex", that Toyota's only been doing it since 2003. (Or 1997, in Japan).

Yes, it's a luxury to have both drivetrains and a sizable battery. But it's not a huge one. (using USA MSRP pricing, a Nissan Leaf starts at $30k, a Toyota Prius Prime PHEV starts at $34k).
This is about Megaupload, completely different business.
I think a clientside fingerprint implementation I made was faulty, I'll rework it. Sorry.
Genuine question, is shared hosting still the go-to option for many HN readers when setting up a personal site?
Chrome being made by the same company running the websites (search/docs/etc.) is still going to provide bad incentives even if with ads & youtube seperated out the worst ones would be gone.
Hostly, most cryptographic vulnerability today are because things are stuck in the NIST and FIPS regulation. Most vulnerable building blocks are still shipped to have their certification to begin with. Why there's still excitement to their work?
> and shifted heavily to B2B

Azure, VS code, Github, CoPilot... the emergence of teams...

> I wish Microsoft owned

A large chunk of the engineering stack?
You’ve simply got it backwards. More massive trucks with higher top speeds are more dangerous. An F-150 at 30mph is more dangerous than a Honda Fit at 30 mph.
Motorbikes as a category includes scooters/mopeds which are utility and commuting vehicles anywhere from Italy to Indonesia.
Thanks, you’re right — MEGA was the relaunch.
Do the search results have document page numbers?
Yes, comuters including computers in varying enclosures.
> And horse riding on the road - it’s still legal.

I take it you've never lived around Amish or Mennonite communities?

(Although to be fair, they have been required to put reflectors and sometimes turn signals on their buggies...)
If you properly punish the shareholders, then it doesn't matter if they stop or don't. If they stop, the bad behaviour stops; if they continue, the onerous penalties continue. Anybody who wants to sponsor bad behaviour with their AUM can pay the appropriate fee.
OCaml is one of the most used languages for compiler design

A good engineer should be able to use the right tool for the job