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The other thing to point out is that, once you have set them up, they will chug along fine for years with near zero input. Here is the stack I recommend: * Radarr (movies) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (shows) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (anime), separate instance to have control over quality settings * Prowlarr (tracker/indexer management) * SABnzbd (Usenet", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent downloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 767757013, "item_id": 47984813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984813", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate.", "excerpt": "AI helped me escape from my Spotify kidnap. The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate. And Strawberry for playlists/playback. 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I think that's all of them.", "context": "self-hoster", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?"}, {"id": 734018454, "item_id": 45876153, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876153", "by": "stonecharioteer", "date": "2025-11-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run openwrt, adguard, unbound, proxmox, jellyfin, samba, qbittorrent and syncthing", "excerpt": "Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes, any timezone will do. Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Rust (5 years), Python (12 years), PostgreSQL (7 years), Distributed Systems (5 years), Linux (19 years and counting as my daily driver) and I can learn anything I put my mind to. Email: You'll find it on my about page, along with a meeting link. I build a lot of my own tools using Rust and Python, I'd love to talk abo", "context": "homelabber", "use_case": "homelab torrenting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"}, {"id": 766248098, "item_id": 47890506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890506", "by": "majora2007", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Kavita (note: I'm the developer), FMD2, qBittorrent, VLC, Firefox", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are your top open source apps/software?"}]}, {"label": "Transmission replacement", "summary": "Users switched from Transmission, citing better handling of very large torrents and extra features.", "quotes": [{"id": 787833920, "item_id": 49239620, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239620", "by": "ahartmetz", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.", "excerpt": "Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.", "context": "", "use_case": "torrenting large torrents", "switched_from": "Transmission", "story": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\""}, {"id": 787803568, "item_id": 49237723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237723", "by": "dawidpotocki", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission", "excerpt": "As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "Transmission", "story": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\""}]}, {"label": "Client/daemon design", "summary": "Cited as an example of a clean client/daemon split that rtorrent lacks.", "quotes": [{"id": 788404451, "item_id": 49275278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275278", "by": "BoingBoomTschak", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "still no clean client/daemon, like Qb", "excerpt": "As someone following its development closely, Transmission botched its v3 -> v4 transition by underestimating the difficulty of keeping regressions under control when doing a simultaneous C -> C++ rewrite and adding features. 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Yeah it totally is and I explained why. >Who cares if they keep working A lot of people. >if the only way to get dark mode is to custom render the whole UI yourself Most the apps I use support dark mode: Chrome, FF, Notepad++, Jellyfin, Qbittorrent, SumatraPDF, Signal, Wiztree, WinSCP, and others I'm forgetting. Seems like it's not an impossible task for the developers. And on G", "context": "Windows user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"}]}, {"label": "Linux install", "summary": "Installed via Flatpak on a fresh Linux Mint setup.", "quotes": [{"id": 745263699, "item_id": 46578981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578981", "by": "raziel2701", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "with flatpack I installed vlc, qbittorrent and obsidian", "excerpt": "I bought a thinkpad X1 carbon refurbished for about ~$300. I wanted to travel abroad with a laptop I wouldn't mind getting stolen if it happened. During the installation of Win11 it asked me to create a microsoft account, fuck that. I installed linux mint. Very nice experience overall, so nice to not get assaulted by ads in the start menu. Pleased to see the nightlight functionality (I googled f.lux for linux and tha", "context": "", "use_case": "torrenting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Remote clients", "summary": "A recent switcher from Transmission noted the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.", "quotes": [{"id": 787803568, "item_id": 49237723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237723", "by": "dawidpotocki", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission", "excerpt": "As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "Transmission", "story": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\""}]}], "who": [{"by": "KomoD", "context": "self-hoster", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748253", "date": "2026-09-17"}, {"by": "h4kunamata", "context": "homelab hobbyist", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772767", "date": "2026-01-26"}, {"by": "jack_tripper", "context": "Windows user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913686", "date": "2025-11-13"}, {"by": "stonecharioteer", "context": "homelabber", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876153", "date": "2025-11-10"}], "tags": ["for *arr media stacks", "for homelabs", "self-hostable", "for Linux users", "for Windows users"], "use_cases": ["torrent client", "torrent downloads", "bittorrent client", "torrenting large torrents", "torrent downloading", "torrenting"], "compared": [{"slug": "jellyfin", "name": "Jellyfin", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "docker", "name": "Docker", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "radarr", "name": "Radarr", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "proxmox", "name": "Proxmox", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "spotify", "name": "Spotify", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vlc", "name": "VLC", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234137", "title": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\"", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715", "title": "What I self-host", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746527", "title": "Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976856", "title": "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890253", "title": "Ask HN: What are your top open source apps/software?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553910", "title": "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 2}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801778372, "item_id": 50111148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111148", "by": "Cyph0n", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Here is the stack I recommend:", "excerpt": "Indeed. The other thing to point out is that, once you have set them up, they will chug along fine for years with near zero input. Here is the stack I recommend: * Radarr (movies) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (shows) with optional second instance for 4K versions * Sonarr (anime), separate instance to have control over quality settings * Prowlarr (tracker/indexer management) * SABnzbd (Usenet", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent downloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "What I self-host"}, {"id": 795972052, "item_id": 49748253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748253", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Authelia, Immich, Jellyfin, Fusion, qBittorrent, Memos and Gitea.", "excerpt": "Authelia, Immich, Jellyfin, Fusion, qBittorrent, Memos and Gitea. I think that's all of them.", "context": "self-hoster", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?"}, {"id": 788404451, "item_id": 49275278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275278", "by": "BoingBoomTschak", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "still no clean client/daemon, like Qb", "excerpt": "As someone following its development closely, Transmission botched its v3 -> v4 transition by underestimating the difficulty of keeping regressions under control when doing a simultaneous C -> C++ rewrite and adding features. My advice? Continue to use Tr3 via https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/transmission-og with spoofed PeerID and keep an eye open on the other clients. PS: not convinced by rtorrent's \"recent\" revi", "context": "", "use_case": "BitTorrent client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\""}, {"id": 787833920, "item_id": 49239620, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239620", "by": "ahartmetz", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.", "excerpt": "Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.", "context": "", "use_case": "torrenting large torrents", "switched_from": "Transmission", "story": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\""}, {"id": 787803568, "item_id": 49237723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237723", "by": "dawidpotocki", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission", "excerpt": "As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "Transmission", "story": "Transmission has been forked as \"ReTransmission\""}, {"id": 767757013, "item_id": 47984813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984813", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate.", "excerpt": "AI helped me escape from my Spotify kidnap. The stack I use now: Docker, Lidarr, slskd, Tubifarry, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Blissful and Soulmate. And Strawberry for playlists/playback. Shoutout to MusicBrainz. Very happy to be rebuilding my music library. And this time no song will ever become unavailable out of the blue again. I'm never going to repeat the mistake of migrating to streaming.", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent downloading", "switched_from": "Spotify", "story": "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"}, {"id": 766248098, "item_id": 47890506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890506", "by": "majora2007", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Kavita (note: I'm the developer), FMD2, qBittorrent, VLC, Firefox", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are your top open source apps/software?"}, {"id": 761297798, "item_id": 47581112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581112", "by": "h4kunamata", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have setup a LXC container running Radarr, qBittorrent, Sonarr, Jackett", "excerpt": ">A lot of our week is made up of the same kinds of small tasks: provision a VM, tweak storage settings, pass through a device, replicate a dataset, share a file, test an image, throw the machine away, do it again. None of that is exciting. All I read is that they are still doing ClickOPS over DevSecOps!! At no moment I heard automation, if you aren't using automation in 2026, your future in IT is cooked. I run Proxmo", "context": "", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "", "story": "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab"}, {"id": 748364279, "item_id": 46772767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772767", "by": "h4kunamata", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "3) qBitorrent: which receives the torrent files automatically from Radarr", "excerpt": "AI can be good under the right circumstances but only if reviewed 100% of the time by a human. Homelab is my hobby where I run Proxmox, Debian VM, DNS, K8s, etc, all managed via Ansible. For what it is worth, I hate docker :) I wanted to setup a private tracker torrent that should include: 1) Jackett: For the authentication 2) Radarr: The inhouse browser 3) qBitorrent: which receives the torrent files automatically f", "context": "homelab hobbyist", "use_case": "torrent client", "switched_from": "", "story": "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"}, {"id": 745263699, "item_id": 46578981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578981", "by": "raziel2701", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "with flatpack I installed vlc, qbittorrent and obsidian", "excerpt": "I bought a thinkpad X1 carbon refurbished for about ~$300. I wanted to travel abroad with a laptop I wouldn't mind getting stolen if it happened. During the installation of Win11 it asked me to create a microsoft account, fuck that. I installed linux mint. Very nice experience overall, so nice to not get assaulted by ads in the start menu. Pleased to see the nightlight functionality (I googled f.lux for linux and tha", "context": "", "use_case": "torrenting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 734618978, "item_id": 45913686, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913686", "by": "jack_tripper", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Most the apps I use support dark mode: Chrome, FF, Notepad++, Jellyfin, Qbittorrent, SumatraPDF, Signal, Wiztree, WinSCP", "excerpt": ">It's not wrong nor misleading at all. Yeah it totally is and I explained why. >Who cares if they keep working A lot of people. >if the only way to get dark mode is to custom render the whole UI yourself Most the apps I use support dark mode: Chrome, FF, Notepad++, Jellyfin, Qbittorrent, SumatraPDF, Signal, Wiztree, WinSCP, and others I'm forgetting. Seems like it's not an impossible task for the developers. And on G", "context": "Windows user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"}, {"id": 734018454, "item_id": 45876153, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876153", "by": "stonecharioteer", "date": "2025-11-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run openwrt, adguard, unbound, proxmox, jellyfin, samba, qbittorrent and syncthing", "excerpt": "Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes, any timezone will do. Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Rust (5 years), Python (12 years), PostgreSQL (7 years), Distributed Systems (5 years), Linux (19 years and counting as my daily driver) and I can learn anything I put my mind to. Email: You'll find it on my about page, along with a meeting link. I build a lot of my own tools using Rust and Python, I'd love to talk abo", "context": "homelabber", "use_case": "homelab torrenting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"}]}