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105 points sirbread | 5 comments | 27 Jun 25 06:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.203s | source

i made sink. it's a simple little tool that continuously syncs folders between 2 devices. no cloud, no email, flash drives, no bs.

it just uses your local wifi. run it on your machines, tell them to trust each other, and you're set. and if you manage to edit the same file at once, it handles the conflict and saves both copies.

for anyone who just wants to get files from point a to b without the headache. hope it makes your life a bit less annoying.

github: https://github.com/sirbread/sink binary: https://github.com/sirbread/sink/releases/tag/v0.1

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tomhow ◴[27 Jun 25 13:02 UTC] No.44396481[source]▶
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notpushkin ◴[27 Jun 25 06:40 UTC] No.44394250[source]▶
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skrebbel ◴[27 Jun 25 06:43 UTC] No.44394268[source]▶
FWIW i think you ruined it by editing that “/s” in
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1. notpushkin ◴[27 Jun 25 06:55 UTC] No.44394328[source]▶
I thought about it for a bit, but I’m worried the author might not recognize this copypasta and try to answer it on its face value.

(It is, of course, the famous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224)

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2. Imustaskforhelp ◴[27 Jun 25 07:03 UTC] No.44394372[source]▶
Haha. I guess I had heard the story of dropbox, why not ftp, but I guess this was the story!

I guess it is funny to me that SVN/CVS was there in 2007 since I think git wasn't even invented at the time but now new people won't even know what SVN/CVS are, I only got to know them because I wanted to download a specific folder of github and some stackoverflow comment mentioned svn

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3. notpushkin ◴[27 Jun 25 07:12 UTC] No.44394427[source]▶
Apparently, the first version of Git was released in 2005, but I’m not sure a lot of people have heard about it before GitHub has been launched in 2008.

Wild times! (I was 10, my preferred source control system was “eh I have a backup somewhere I think”.)

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4. fetzu ◴[27 Jun 25 07:28 UTC] No.44394516{3}[source]▶
MyVeryCoolApp_final_FINAL2_fixed.BAS
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5. sirbread ◴[27 Jun 25 07:53 UTC] No.44394694{4}[source]▶
we've all been there