Hacker News: arach

New comment by arach in "Ask HN: Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?"

arach — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:32:18 +0000

what kind of workloads are we talking about?

New comment by arach in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

arach — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:32:10 +0000

https://uselinea.com - A reading app with a harness or a harness with reading app. Can turn any highlight/page/section into audio with your favority TTS engine, including Kokoro if you like

I initially built it to help me read AI papers before discovering AlphaXiv but then I just kept building it for the love of the game

Might have some rough edges but one feature I'm excited about is a more personalized notebook LM style audio generation capability for any readable material

(Another reason to build this was to kick the tires on a framework I've been building to power my own apps - https://hudsonkit.com - helps me ship iOS, macOS and web apps with shared primitives)

New comment by arach in "Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?"

arach — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:31:36 +0000

I think we're close to the point where local models can make this economically viable as an alternative to hands off XAI/OAI/ANT

You need rapid good enough rapid turn response + rapid good enough TTS in order to make it economically for someone who's not blending it into a more compute heavy pricing model

Have you looked into it? Are you familiar with Pipecat https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat - they put out interesting demos frequently

New comment by arach in "Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS"

arach — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:45:46 +0000

the loop is going to be interesting as we produce orders of magnitude low signal code, how do Labs comb through everything to train on the true contributions since last training run?

I wonder if one way to monetize certified "skill" will be to syndicate / license your provably well software engineered / tasteful AI engineered code back to the Labs for a fee

New comment by arach in "Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS"

arach — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:41:36 +0000

there's one of these just about every other week since early this year

i think it's incredible because however saturated I feel this space has become, highly likely the vast majority of the world has no idea how good models have become, let alone local models

I've added local voice support for all apps/webapps I've built this year

Local TTS is on the cusp of a breakout too, basically a year behind ASR imo in terms of adoption, understanding, size and quality

New comment by arach in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

arach — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:08:32 +0000

I send all these stories to my chief of staff agent to "immigrant parent" them into becoming an overachiever

New comment by arach in "How to read more books"

arach — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:25:40 +0000

I've been building a little app on the side that allows me to primarily read my books in epub, mobi or pdf -> text format but generate readouts on demand for only the bits I want (highlight, paragraph, page, chapter) so that I can continue while I'm on the go, without having to bifurcate between apps - this might already exist but I made mine

Naturally, I also added the ability to highlight, leave notes and ... ask questions (via API)

Even with incredible models, it's a decent amount of work to get this to work nicely

New comment by arach in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

arach — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:13:23 +0000

https://openscout.app - a local first communication tool, for agent to agent communication and user to agent communication too

New comment by arach in "Show HN: 17MB pronunciation scorer beats human experts at phoneme level"

arach — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:25:46 +0000

Error Error: No API found

but i love the idea

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

arach — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:41:23 +0000

I bought it when it came out and enjoy using it. I have a STT keyboard powered by Parakeet that has a minimized mode ideal for phone terminals

https://x.com/usetalkieapp/status/2024342996322283734/photo/...

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:43:29 +0000

Combine this with a nice shortcut keyboard and then you're really flying - my favorites are XP Pen and DOIO 16

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:42:11 +0000

Ack for dictations but Gemini voice is fun for interactive voice experiments -> https://hud.arach.dev/ honestly blown away by how much Gemini could assist with with basically no dev effort

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:51:37 +0000

https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr have you tried this? I have a nice 64GB new linux machine waiting to be set up for me to kick the tires on this

pretty sure it's awesome - sorry OP about mentioning another project, we're all learning here :)

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:20:00 +0000

Hex is great and not trying to pull you away from them - would love to get your pov when you give these a spin next time. email or DM me

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:47:37 +0000

My M1 16GB Mini and M2 16GB Air both deliver insane local transcription performance without eating up much memory - I think the M line + Parakeet delivers insane local performance and you get privacy for free

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:03:21 +0000

I initially built Talkie to talk to it like a crazy person when I was on long runs and ideas would pop into my head haha

Been a power user of SuperWhisper and Wispr Flow for a long time and eventually decided to unify those flows - memos & dictations, everything is a file and local first, BYOK

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:57:04 +0000

https://x.com/usetalkieapp/status/2022341320090775647/photo/...

native app uses Parakeet (v2 or V3) on iOS

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:49:07 +0000

Handy's great! I find the latency to be just a bit too much for my taste. Like half the people on this thread, built my own but with a bit more emphasis on speed

https://usetalkie.com

New comment by arach in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arach — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:46:13 +0000

https://usetalkie.com - Parakeet and incredibly fast and made for devs

New comment by arach in "HUD - Voice Assisted Canvas with heads up display style nav"

arach — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:21:11 +0000

An exploration of infinite canvas, and voice assisted navigation