Hacker News: gumboshoes

New comment by gumboshoes in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

gumboshoes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:19:22 +0000

Outstanding. May his fax endure forever.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Americans Are Weird"

gumboshoes — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:02:06 +0000

Your malarkey sounds the same in this language, too.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Computer dramatically plays BBC news music before every meeting"

gumboshoes — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:00:40 +0000

people out here applying their genius with things to with no profit incentive

New comment by gumboshoes in "FreeFlow – seamless speech to text in any app"

gumboshoes — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:17:48 +0000

Here are just a few I found in just a few minutes of looking:

https://github.com/Ljove02/AIT-AiTranscribe-MacOS

https://www.soink.ai/

https://hitoku.me/draft/

https://altic.dev/fluid

https://www.typewhisper.com/

https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

https://github.com/cjpais/handy

https://spokenly.app/

https://www.trykoe.com/

https://saga.deepgram.com/

You can find more here under the "Dictation" tab:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HtJN4oQ6oBDFmFaF4Qeq...

New comment by gumboshoes in "FreeFlow – seamless speech to text in any app"

gumboshoes — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:50:43 +0000

How many times will this particular problem be solved? 500? 2000? 10,000?

New comment by gumboshoes in "I Drove $31M in Bookings as a Consultant. The System Said I Needed Improvement"

gumboshoes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:31:01 +0000

Still sounds bitter even if you were right. I would reconsider this approach.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Chrome Prepares Nudge to 'Move Tabs to the Side' as Vertical Tabs Near Release"

gumboshoes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:13:44 +0000

There goes two decades of muscle memory.

New comment by gumboshoes in "macOS app to copy text from screenshot"

gumboshoes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:30:32 +0000

Aren't there a lot of these? Like a lot a lot?

New comment by gumboshoes in "Girl Scout troop sets up shop at weed dispensary. Cookies are in high demand"

gumboshoes — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:48:42 +0000

Yes, this is common.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

gumboshoes — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:55:47 +0000

Worked for me on Android. Love the simplicity.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

gumboshoes — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:34:01 +0000

Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.

New comment by gumboshoes in "What podcasts are you listening to?"

gumboshoes — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:48:58 +0000

A Way with Words, language and linguistics https://waywordradio.org/

New comment by gumboshoes in "Apple Will Kill iPadOS"

gumboshoes — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:43:12 +0000

Barf. Speculative BS.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Sourdine – open-source macOS app for meeting transcription with 100% local AI"

gumboshoes — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:14:57 +0000

Your comment repeats itself.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Chandra-OCR"

gumboshoes — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:43:39 +0000

As is too often the case, it doesn't follow what I consider to be a fundamental OCR rule: the input document type should also be a possible output document type. So, PDF in should mean that composited PDF output is possible. This is necessary for groundtruthing.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Floating AI microphone types your voice it into any application"

gumboshoes — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:08:21 +0000

There are so many applications that do speech-to-text. How does yours distinguish itself?

New comment by gumboshoes in "She almost let the stranger walk out of her life. Then, a Beefeater intervened"

gumboshoes — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:54:45 +0000

Sweet story. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

gumboshoes — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:45:55 +0000

How is any non-expert supposed to judge the content without some kind of guide like say credentials? Credentials do matter when the author is unknown.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

gumboshoes — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:43:53 +0000

Might be but aren't. They're inevitably someone I've never heard of from no recognizable organization. If they have credentials, they are invisible to me.

New comment by gumboshoes in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

gumboshoes — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:41:57 +0000

I have permanent prompts in Gemini settings to tell it to never include videos in its answers. Never ever for any reason. Yet of course it always does. Even if I trusted any of the video authors or material - and I don't know them so how can I trust them? - I still don't watch a video that could be text I could read in one-tenth of the time. Text is superior to video 99% of the time in my experience.