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Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free chord tools and tuners. No signup or download.1 minute video demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DtcluMLdSgs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DtcluMLdSgs</a>I would love feedback on how the strumming feels and sounds.

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New Apple TV 4K

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Recreational Programming

Hi HN, I&#x27;m Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine, and the app sends no analytics or crash logs.I felt there are not enough consumer apps that run locally with no calls to the outside world that help us manage sensitive corners of our lives. This app in its local variant only downloads a couple of models and occasional updates, it does not send any analytics nor data.Features-wise, Pulse local is a complete budgeting app that offers an assistant built on top of a fine-tuned model and thousands of rules embedded in the code itself. I&#x27;m sharing it for free with options to help me continue experimenting with fine-tuning and expanding along this direction.How it works: you import a CSV from any bank, in any currency. When you ask a question, a tuned Qwen3 0.6B model reads it into a structured query, and code, not the model, does the money math against the ledger. A 4B checker model double-checks each money answer; when the two readings disagree, the app says it is not sure instead of guessing. That change took wrong answers from about one in five to 5 in 494 questions across our last three tests. The write-up covers how we test, the designs that failed, and the limits of the claim: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pulseos.finance&#x2F;pulse-local&#x2F;writing&#x2F;agree-or-not-sure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pulseos.finance&#x2F;pulse-local&#x2F;writing&#x2F;agree-or-not-sur...</a>The tuned weights are on Hugging Face (PulseOS&#x2F;pulse-local-qwen3-0.6b).Limitations: the first start downloads about 2.9 GB of models. With the checker on, a money answer takes 12 to 14 seconds (you can turn the checker off). Small models can still misread an open-ended question. The app answers in English. Mac only for now; Windows is next.The app is free. An optional Connected mode (Sync Pass, $29&#x2F;year) syncs US banks through Plaid; transactions pass through our server&#x27;s memory and are not stored.Feedback welcome, especially on wrong answers and on questions it should handle but does not.

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About 11 months ago i revived the amazing but unfortunately unmaintained spotify-tui. Since then I have been working on it almost non stop, finding a lot of problems on the way.One of the main issues I ran into were the Spotify web API rate limits. Third party clients like spotatui are dependent on a developer app made in the Spotify developer dashboard, which get rate limited a lot and Spotify has slowly been deprecating endpoints from it. The workaround for this used to be using a shared client id from ncspot but unfortunately that got rate limited too. This is when i started adding other playback sources, including YouTube, Navidrome&#x2F;Subsonic, Internet radio with +- 30.000 stations, local files, Qobuz for lossless audio and Apple Music for macOS only where it controls the music app remotely.I fixed both the deprecated endpoints and the rate limits with one solution. It still uses librespot in the back, my spotatui specific fork, but gets all data from it instead of only playback. The data comes from the internal API of the official clients, that API gives metadata, playlists, the user library, devices, lyrics and audio analysis. For searching it uses Pathfinder, the internal GraphQL API.There are no web API rate limits because there is no shared app quota. Every user uses their own session as if it was the official client. The only potential problem is that Spotify does not document this API so any change on their side would break it. I intend to fix any of those issues as soon as they pop up.It all started as a TUI back in 2019 but since then I&#x27;ve added a GUI to it too. The GUI is still a bit behind the TUI in terms of features, it only ships Spotify for now, but full parity between the TUI and GUI is coming soon. After that full parity with the official client is next. That is also why I made the GUI looks almost the same as the official client. That way its easier for me and users to find missing features.Spotatui also has lua scripting support, a optional Web companion on spotatui.com, and if you have a AI coding agent like ChatGPT codex or Claude Code you can enable the MCP tools, which lets AI become your personal DJ just by talking to it.Its written in Rust, uses ratatui for the terminal UI and Tauri 2 for the GUI. The Rust core starts a small web server with localhost that only your pc can reach which the GUI then serves. Both frontends share the same playback logic, the same login and the same Spotify code. The only difference is how you interact with it.On first launch it opens a web browser where you need to login with your Spotify premium account (premium is not optional), that is the whole setup done. I would love any feedback about bugs you encounter or features you would like to see.
GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LargeModGames&#x2F;spotatui" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LargeModGames&#x2F;spotatui</a>
Releases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LargeModGames&#x2F;spotatui&#x2F;releases&#x2F;latest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LargeModGames&#x2F;spotatui&#x2F;releases&#x2F;latest</a>
Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spotatui.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spotatui.com&#x2F;</a>Thanks to librespot for making this all possible