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What is/was huntarr? I love posts without any context.
I believe it was supposed to monitor your jellyfin library and look for potential upgrades.
But Sonarr and Radarr already do that.
Not really, it doesn’t fetch missing episodes or old content if you did a custom formats modification afterwards.
I never used Huntarr, only upgradinatorr though.
I guess I’ve never had the need to force a refresh after a format modification.
I’d never heard of it either before deed diving on this, and I’m thankful i hadn’t heard of it. Ugh. Fuck AI.
I don’t run 'arr anything, but that’s pretty wild.
Yeesh, in the hour since this has been posted the developer has:
- Made the /r/huntarr subreddit private
- Wiped and deleted their Reddit account
- Deleted the GitHub repo for Huntarr
Looks like Huntarr’s presence on Github is suddenly gone and their sub went private.
I’m not so much worried about ‘vibe coding’ as long as the dev actually knows the validity of the code presented in the LLM. At that point, the LLM becomes the assistant, not the dev itself. However, if I were to speculate, this dev team didn’t, got called on it, didn’t know how to respond or validate the code, so they closed up shop.
From the original thread, I bring forth this comment from user sdrmme:
Huntarr2
Too good not to share.
Not sure what you mean. I just saw asterisks.
Holy shit you unlocked a hidden memory I forget existed. Thank you.
What do you mean?, I don’t get what he/she is talking about.
I’m desperate for a community driven review system for open source. We’re drowning in vibe-coded slop, and I honestly don’t have the time or a good slop detector to audit every tool I download. I know I should be checking under the hood, but the sheer volume of low-quality projects makes it impossible to keep up
Sounds like the solution would be a public code sharing platform that specifically bans AI generated code. Then, at least, we’re moving in the right direction. Do any alts to GitHub provide such a rule?
It doesn’t need to be perfect nor catch every offender. No need for magic AI-coded detection sauce. If it just detected slop, human or otherwise, and obviously AI-written code, with a reporting mechanism for user-driven monitoring, that could be a good start
But, should we worry about it being a source for AI companies to scrape? How should we deter that?
You’re here, that’s a good start…
I tend to look at a project’s Issues tracker, that gives me a feel for how the author(s) deal with feedback… some projects have hundreds of open tickets with barely any interactions, yet code updates “2 days ago”.
Being here and reading about who’s using what will help remove the major outliers
All opensource needs more eyeballs, which is still the advantage over closed source.
There are projects turning issues to discussions
This is what good distros do, well some of them, I don’t think low touch repos like AUR/Homebrew/PPA’s would catch this, but I doubt huntarr will ever make it to Debian.
Ofc the trend of running upstream unverted containers undermines this.
Sometimes it’s really easy, open a bunch of code files and see if it’s littered witb comments. If it is: likely sloppified
That is some wild shit. Anyways for anyone else somewhat new to all this: when hosting anything, try to stick to reputable projects 1st and be always wary of shady installation tactics (I believe yesterday someone posted about curl bash. This is just a single example). If you want to try something new (as in brand new project), try it isolated 1st on some VM (proxmox helps a lot with this). When you are confident and more people give an approval, then think about putting on the main environment
try to stick to reputable projects 1st and be always wary of shady installation tactics
One of the first things I look for are longevity, last updated/activity, and then I look at the issues posted and responses. I like mature apps because I don’t possess the intelligence to audit code.
The huntarr project released a new docker image 3 times a day…
So that takes care of the ‘last updated/acticity’ portion of the trifecta. How about longevity and issues posted and responses. I really know very little about the project as 'arr apps aren’t my bag.
My point was that the frequency of updates doesn’t correlate with quality at all
curl bash is not as bad as people think. Nobody downloads and reverse engineers binary packages off of these websites before running them with the same permissions.
Exposing any of the Arr stack to the internet is just bad practice in general IMO but bad actors will always be out there so it’s even more of a reason to practice good security.
I used huntarr for a minute and found it utterly useless. Didn’t trigger searches like it said it was doing. Uninstalled it after about 5 minutes.
I can’t believe they banned that user for calling them out.
Thry sound like arrseholes
The fact we need to vet self hosted products from vibe coding is very disappointing. Like isn’t part of the point security through sovereignty?
Wow i literally just setup huntarr last night. Guess ill make sure its only accessible on wireguard.
This developed further. Better be done with it and stay safe. Read the linked reddit thread for info.
How so?
Vibe dev literally deleted the GitHub, the reddit and his accounts after being called out.
