Hacker News: TachyonicBytes

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?"

TachyonicBytes — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:48:27 +0000

It has the payment button at least

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:07:39 +0000

It seems that both use / leverage pyannote. I wonder if the whisperX pipeline can be combined with DiCoW-v2.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:55:55 +0000

Yes, this is exactly where I am going. The LLM also has an advantage, because you can give it the context of the audio (e.g. "this is an audio transcript from a radio show about etc. etc."). I can foresee this working for a future whisper-like model as well.

There are two ways to parse your first sentence. Are you saying that you used whisperX and it doesn't do well with diarization? Because I am curious of alternative ways of doing that.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:48:49 +0000

It seems to be pre-built on github, in releases.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:47:02 +0000

I use whisperfile[1] directly. The whisper-large-v3 model seems good with non-English transcription, which is my main use-case.

I am also eyeing whisperX[2], because I want to play some more with speaker diarization.

Your use-case seems to be batch transcription, so I'd suggest you go ahead and just use whisperfile, it should work well on an M4 mini, and it also has an HTTP API if you just start it without arguments.

If you want more interactivity, I have been using Vibe[3] as an open-source replacement of SuperWhisper[4], but VoiceInk from a sibling comment seems better.

Aside: It seems that so many of the mentioned projects use whisper at the core, that it would be interesting to explicitly mark the projects that don't use whisper, so we can have a real fundamental comparison.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/whisperfile

[2] https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

[3] https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe/

[4] https://superwhisper.com/

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank"

TachyonicBytes — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:08:47 +0000

There was an article around here about how battery life actually improves if you ultra-fast charge the battery when you make it.

Maybe it will deteriorate it, but it seems that the effect that different charge types have on batteries may not be complete yet.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained"

TachyonicBytes — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:22:12 +0000

I have to add https://nullprogram.com, just because of the care the author took to have it work better in lynx[1]:

    Just in case you haven’t tried it, the blog also works really well with terminal-based browsers, such as Lynx and ELinks. Go ahead and give it a shot. The header that normally appears at the top of the page is actually at the bottom of the HTML document structure. It’s out of the way for browsers that ignore CSS.

[1] https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/09/01/

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:26:28 +0000

Is this a different method from the httptap [1] that was on hackernews a few weeks ago? Somebody in that post seemed to say that it also generates CA certificates on the fly.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919909

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Why blog if nobody reads it?"

TachyonicBytes — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:37:46 +0000

I use Zotero[1] as a personal web archiver. It downloads the page locally, placing most of the resources inside a single html file (pictures become base64 encoded pngs, for example). I find it the best way to have the content available offline and also to be able to reference it easily, seeing as it is a citation manager first.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:21:49 +0000

It can, but that's another type of "shallow", or more exactly "not-deep" cloning, called blobless cloning [1]. There is also treeless cloning, with other tradeoffs, but much to the same effect.

I found this[2] very enlightening.

[1] https://github.blog/open-source/git/get-up-to-speed-with-par...

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-use-git-shallow-clon...

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Composable SQL"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:08:13 +0000

I assume that framework is not open-source or somewhere I can look at it?

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:13:08 +0000

Not the OP, but they are "Headers". Probably coming from the

tag in html. What outsiders probably call "Headlines".

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:10:16 +0000

What libraries have you seen that do this?

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 21:58:57 +0000

You don't need error correction for some crypto primitives. There are QKD networks deployed that don't have that kind of error correction, as far as I know.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:18:37 +0000

With quantum tokens, law enforcement have to crack your physical devices, so they at least have to good-old-fashion bug your devices. With classical schemes, they can intercept on the way.

I wouldn't say that current side-channels, most certainly enabled by hardware, not software, are easier to audit.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network"

TachyonicBytes — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:13:42 +0000

Yes, in theory. In practice, photon generators won't behave perfectly. There are lots of possible attacks, like photon splitting [1].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qute.202300...

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:36:47 +0000

Would you mind giving us the titles of those books?

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:18:56 +0000

You can always try infinitesimal analysis[1]

[1] https://people.math.wisc.edu/~hkeisler/calc.html

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:53:26 +0000

Simulating a quantum system is a hard challenge and it's actually how Feynman proposed the quantum computing paradigm in the first place. It's basically the original motive.

New comment by TachyonicBytes in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

TachyonicBytes — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:19:02 +0000

Link to the actual article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y