Hacker News: janpmz

New comment by janpmz in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

janpmz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:39:41 +0000

Ok, thanks for the viewpoint, that makes sense. I use AI summaries every day and find it very valuable. But I also see the trend e.g. on Reddit, that people are very dismissive of ai content.

New comment by janpmz in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

janpmz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:33:02 +0000

Both Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text now have local models that are good enough to get the job done. Kokoro for TTS, Parakeet for STT and Fluid-1 for text formatting (I use it with FluidVoice). I hope this is a trend that continues for other applications.

New comment by janpmz in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

janpmz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:12:56 +0000

Isn't the EU rather like a single point of failure?

New comment by janpmz in "All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face"

janpmz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:04:00 +0000

I wonder if they also have a seeker pointed at my face then, because I don't want that shining into my eyes.

New comment by janpmz in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

janpmz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:48:26 +0000

Why do I get downvoted whenever I post something here? Do you think its too spammy? Because its AI? Do I have a downvote bot following me?

New comment by janpmz in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

janpmz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:35:22 +0000

After seeing this for the first time, I've build PdfToMp3 to listen to these papers. It has now evolved into ListenDock. Fun fact: PdfToMp3 existed before NotebookLM and I already had "overviews", but I called them teacher explanations.

Here is an example of a "Teacher Explanation" of the paper "Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton"

https://listendock.com/e/quantifying_the_rise_and_fall_of_co...

New comment by janpmz in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

janpmz — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:37:18 +0000

> If they diverge

This is the key, if they are very similar but used by different consumers the chance that they will diverge in the future is very high. And once they do they will break the abstraction.

New comment by janpmz in "I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾"

janpmz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:19:59 +0000

Don't show this to the EU, or they will force us drink only ultrasound espresso from now on.

New comment by janpmz in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

janpmz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:34:33 +0000

I've been building a PDF -> MP3 tool (web, iphone, android): https://listendock.com/

Then a little calorie-radar-alert app that motivates you to stay on diet before going into a shop: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stay-lean-calorie-navigation/i...

And to test the hypothesis if the motivation actually works with "fast flashing images" I built this experiment: https://fitfatflix.fit/

When openClaw came out I build a game like map around it to orchestrate tasks: https://memefields.com/

And not published, I build a little recommender app of activities I can do only today or only this time of the year where I currently am, so I don't miss good things.

And some other stuff I'm working on right now :)

New comment by janpmz in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"

janpmz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:06:38 +0000

You know what would be cool, a "different suggest" that acts like different algorithm.

Show HN: ListenDock now supports free TTS and bring-your-own API keys

janpmz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://listendock.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448574

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by janpmz in "Show HN: Stay Lean – Calorie Navigation"

janpmz — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:48:07 +0000

I had fun making this :)

Show HN: Stay Lean – Calorie Navigation

janpmz — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:47:44 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stay-lean-calorie-navigation/id6762153463

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993771

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by janpmz in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

janpmz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:41:37 +0000

I was concerned about big players offering the same functionality when building listendock.com, but maybe there is a place for specialized apps like that.

New comment by janpmz in "Music for Programming"

janpmz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:56:30 +0000

My vibe coding playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFcwd2lzu8tujlF-tPg1EfXPU...

New comment by janpmz in "Show HN: ListenDock – turn blogs and PDFs into audio"

janpmz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:06:18 +0000

Lately I've been trying to learn about topics more intentionally instead of following what the YouTube feed recommends, for example evolutionary algorithms. For that I built the topics feature in my app, so I get a number of papers and articles suggested and then over the next weeks I can listen to them.

Show HN: ListenDock – turn blogs and PDFs into audio

janpmz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:35:12 +0000

Hey HN, I've built a new feature to listen to blog posts. I also have an app, that's what I personally use to listen to audio while driving.

I would love to get some feedback on the UX and whether this is useful for you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573478

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by janpmz in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

janpmz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:32:25 +0000

A lot of this goes away when the person who builds also decides what to build.

New comment by janpmz in "Show HN: Memefields – Project Map for Bots"

janpmz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:13:55 +0000

Hey, this is my highly experimental project. I’m curious to see the first reactions.

Show HN: Memefields – Project Map for Bots

janpmz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:10:59 +0000

Article URL: https://memefields.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121867

Points: 1

# Comments: 1