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Synergy
Company blog · symless.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
Synergy is the company blog at symless.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2016, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 67 times, most often “synergy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Synergy, Symless's keyboard and mouse sharing software, as a way to use one keyboard and mouse across several computers. The linked pages are product and feature pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Synergy is software that shares one mouse and keyboard between computers. Symless is being renamed to match our product name, Synergy.
Most-linked posts?
- synergy39 people · 42 mentions · first linked 2017-04-04
- An open letter about the Synergy team from the CEO5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-16
- /synergy/purchase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-17
What Hacker News says?
You should probably be able to use Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy )
Comment linking /synergy
on “Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC”Submitted We're choosing Rust, and not Go, C++, or Node.js as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSynergy [1] https://symless.com/synergy [2] https://github.com/symless/synergy-core
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on “Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js”Submitted We're choosing Rust, and not Go, C++, or Node.js (Feb 2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMostly finished. However, these software take advantage of the accessibility features of each OS to emulate mouse and keyboard input. Clipboard access is also required. So as each OS changes the requirements to access those features, someone has to keep updating the software for that. Synergy doesn't work on Wayland, so I can't use it on Fedora anymore (unless I switch it back to X). There's always new feature reque…
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on “DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching”Submitted An open letter about the Synergy team from the CEO as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI use a software called Synergy. https://symless.com/synergy I have one keyboard and mouse connected to one "host" machine, and two machines connected as clients. Sometimes if the host machine bogs a bit (like running a build or something) then the clients will have some latency but I've used this setup for gaming and work for two years and it's been pretty good. My only complaint (about my personal setup, not the s…
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on “DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching”Submitted On charging for FOSS – The Synergy Story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI’ve been using a software solution for this for over a decade. It’s called Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ) and it is fast - switches instantly over wifi and also works across Windows/Mac/Linux.
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on “DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching”Submitted Synergy 3 Beta is finally here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSynergy works well for this purely in software. Unfortunately it's not free or open source, but it's relatively inexpensive. https://symless.com/synergy
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on “DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching”Submitted Apple copied us, and that's a good thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Morally, the only fault I can say on the maintainer's behavior is a lack of transparency. Totally agree with that. The maintainer seems to have made very little effort to get compensated for his work. It would surely be nice if some company stepped-up and offered to sponsor the development of the project. But it's also kind of childish to scheme and hold grudges for not getting something you never bothered asking…
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on “FUSE for macOS is no longer open source”Submitted My C++ journey and how I found Synergy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionProbably the wrong person to ask :). The first time I heard the word "synergy" was downloading https://symless.com/synergy , which was an incredibly useful piece of software and absolutely did tickle my inner engineer (trying to figure out how it worked).
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on “Effective Engineer – Notes”Submitted Synergy 1.10.2 Finally Released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJust use Synergy, the OG "soft KVM": https://symless.com/synergy
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on “Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices”Submitted An open letter about the Synergy team from the CEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, thanks, edited. For cross-device control, there's ... Synergy, I think: https://symless.com/synergy There's an Android client (I've no experience with it): https://sourceforge.net/projects/synergyandroid/ On the Android, there's Termux which offers a clipboard interface -- termux-clipboard-get and termux-clipboard-set which I've aliased as "xp" and "xc" respectively. (I have similar aliases for Linux and MacOS'…
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on “Google backtracks on search results design”Submitted synergy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI continue to use Notepad++ despite having tried every other editor and IDE under the sun. This, of course, drives every person completely insane when I explain that my "IDE" is: - Notepad++ for editing, pretty much stock, no plugins - command line for git and grep (Console2 or Git Bash) - File Explorer alongside Everything [0] for navigating files - Beyond Compare [1] for visual diff/merge - WinSCP/PuTTY for SFTP/S…
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on “Notepad++ is 21 years old”Submitted Synergy 3 Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt says it's a fork of Synergy[0]. So the idea is you have PC A + Monitor A, and PC B + Monitor B. You install the software on both machines (they talk over a local network), and configure PC A to be left of PC B, and PC B to be right of PC A. Attach a keyboard+mouse to one machine. When your mouse goes 'off screen right' on PC A, it knows that PC B is over there, so it redirects keyboard/mouse input to PC B. I used…
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on “How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors”Submitted An open letter about the Synergy team from the CEO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is indeed cool. A lazier and less efficient solution for those that don't want to take apart the computer is synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy and https://github.com/symless/synergy-core ) which lets you share keyboard/mouse and clipboard over multiple computers.
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on “How to convert your old laptop screen into an external monitor”It's not like this would work for project like Krita, but there are free and open source projects that sell binaries and updates. E.g Synergy: https://symless.com/synergy
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on “Krita Foundation: Update”> Logitechs Flow software How does it compare to Synergy or Mouse without borders? https://symless.com/synergy https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/mouse-wi...
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on “Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard”Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ) is something that I've been searching for a good, Wayland-compatible, replacement for. It's simple, but I've gotten very accustomed to the ability to plop down a laptop (Mac, Linux, whatever) next to my desktop and instantly have another screen-worth of real estate to work with. Wayland, by all accounts I've seen to date, just doesn't have the hooks to allow a tool like Synerg…
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on “Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly””Synergy does this really well https://symless.com/synergy
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on “Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?”Same setup, except three laptops: personal, company-provided, client/project-provided. You would think it would be unmanageable and you'd be right we're it not for Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ). I've got two laptops docked and connected to external monitors. Synergy lets me use just one keyboard and mouse for all three at the same time. Makes it feel like they're just three adjacent screens on one PC. But…
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on “I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users”
