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Show HN: Yapyap – a simple and fast dictation for Linux using whisper.cpp

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7 points·by lxe·10 माह पहले·0 comments

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lxe
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
Scientists are the ones with real agency and leverage. The change has to come from the grassroots.
lxe
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
Careful with this philosophy. It does work well for the short term. At some point of constant following of 'disagree and commit' mantra, you'll end up in a world where you have zero agency and zero energy to constantly do the work you hate.
lxe
·15 दिन पहले·discuss
The system is fine. The culture is broken. Scientific publishing isn't forced on the community by regulation or necessity. You can publish papers in infinite number of ways online. Unlike something like healthcare or housing, where there are no alternatives, there are plenty of alternatives when it comes to media publishing.
lxe
·16 दिन पहले·discuss
Genuinely interesting, thank you.
lxe
·पिछला माह·discuss
Have you tried setting up a bot for something like WhatsApp? I'd much rather use a KGB spy platform with actual user ergonomics.
lxe
·पिछला माह·discuss
This is pretty awesome. I work with editors and monaco-like things a ton, and I review (look at) very large PRs very often. Having this speedy optimized interface is a delight. Check out their trees lib as well.
lxe
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Did they even ask their customer base before approving the design? I don't care about Ferrari, but people who do care about Ferrari will not like this.
lxe
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Bold of you to assume that lawmakers have any common sense when it comes to technology legislation. It could have taken 3 interns 3 hours at each browser company to implement a cookie consent standard 15 years ago, yet here we are in cookie banner hell.
lxe
·2 माह पहले·discuss
They were crazy overzealous about not allowing these technologies for a long time. I'm pretty sure I had many posts about this complaining over the years.
lxe
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Woah this is a MASSIVE deviation from FF's previous philosophy on allowing WebSerial. This is a GOOD thing!
lxe
·2 माह पहले·discuss
What I don't quite understand is why would one of the most advanced AI labs use rudimentary broken text match heuristics to track and detect abuse. Why not run simple inference on actual turns out of band, and if abuse is detected, adjust the quotas semi-retroactively.
lxe
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Yall remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation? Back in 2004-ish era, there was an explosion of very creative interaction methods due to flash and browser performance improvements, and general hardware improvements which led to "mystery meat navigation" and the community's pushback.

Since then, the "idiomatic design" seems to have been completely lost.
lxe
·3 माह पहले·discuss
hahaha I’m glad I’m just a procedurally generated NPC

I built one for cross platform — using parakeet mlx or faster whisper. :)
lxe
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> I know that there's a deceptively high amount of engineering required for these kinds of things

I think there's a deceptively low amount of engineering required for most medical and medical-adjacent tech. The high costs are rooted in pervasive industry-wide centuries-long FUD campaigns.
lxe
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> ChatGPT, read this article and turn it into a AGENTS.md
lxe
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Distinguished staff level trolling
lxe
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Honestly, I found that the best way to use these CLIs is exactly how the CLI creators have intended.
lxe
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Yeah, that's exactly what I started to do with mine. It runs local Whisper on a CUDA, on a graphics card. Whisper is actually better than any other model that I've seen, even things like Parakeet. It can do language detection. It automatically removes all the ahs and all the ohms unless I specifically enter them in my speech. I think this whole paragraph is going to take maybe half a second to process and paste without any issues.

(and it did it perfectly without any edits required for me at all.)
lxe
·5 माह पहले·discuss
I built something similar for Linux (yapyap — push-to-talk with whisper.cpp). The "local is too slow" argument doesn't hold up anymore if you have any GPU at all. whisper large-v3-turbo with CUDA on an RTX card transcribes a full paragraph in under a second. Even on CPU, parakeet is near-instant for short utterances.The "deep context" feature is clever, but screenshotting and sending to a cloud LLM feels like massive overkill for fixing name spelling. The accessibility API approach someone mentioned upthread is the right call — grab the focused field's content, nearby labels, window title. That's a tiny text prompt a 3B local model handles in milliseconds. No screenshots, no cloud, no latency.The real question with Groq-dependent tools: what happens when the free tier goes away? We've seen this movie before. Building on local models is slower today but doesn't have a rug-pull failure mode.
lxe
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Thanks for surfacing this. If you click to "tools" button to the left of "compile", you'll see a list of comments, and you can resolve them from there. We'll keep improving and fixing things that might be rough around the edges.

EDIT: Fixed :)