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New comment by meetingthrower in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

meetingthrower — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:48:46 +0000

Recommendations? I have an openrouter account. Just don't know what might be good.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

meetingthrower — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:48:15 +0000

I scrape them from their crappy VOIP system as WAV files, then send them through the API....

New comment by meetingthrower in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

meetingthrower — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:07:13 +0000

I built a small little app for a company which transcribes all their customer service calls, does an AI review, makes a podcast of the most problematic ones (they LOVE this.) Probably 20 hours a day of transcription.

What are people using for cheap hosted models for this? (I don't want to run my own infrastructure.)

I'm currently using Gemini Flash Lite. I don't need real time, it's all batched, clear english... still costs some small $ a month. Figured it should be able to be reduced if there are cheaper models out there....

New comment by meetingthrower in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"

meetingthrower — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:09:29 +0000

Nobody understands Bayesian approach. Look at Covid -- people FREAKED out when we updated guidance based on learning new information.

New comment by meetingthrower in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

meetingthrower — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:29:58 +0000

Nice writing man.

New comment by meetingthrower in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

meetingthrower — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:28:14 +0000

What's the best harness to use with it?

New comment by meetingthrower in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

meetingthrower — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:15:01 +0000

Honestly the "charge by data" is probably missing some things. We have quite a few users on the free tier. I found out my ops guys were optimizing the data to keep on the free tier because it would jump from zero to [something still reasonable] but would be a multiple of seats. They would pay you SOMETHING but the big jump to MORE seemed too much for them lol.

They are on Grist by my recommendation after searching for tools. I just checked in on it after 6 months and they have built their entire manufacturing process management on it... Good stuff.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

meetingthrower — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:12:37 +0000

Second Grist it is very cool we use a lot of it. You can run python as a column/ cell and it doesn't have a lot of the limitations of Airtable. Usage tiers are ridiculously large. Free api. I am almost hoping they charge more so they stay in business.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Samsung reveals Galaxy Z Fold 8 that will compete with the iPhone Ultra"

meetingthrower — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:51:58 +0000

I wonder if it will work well as a "travel" computer? I could see leaving my laptop at home and taking this and a keyboard? Also it looks like it would be fabulous as an e-reader too, so I can drop Kindle and replace with keyboard in the bag.

That said I don't want to carry it or use it as my daily driver phone as I try not to use a phone in general...

New comment by meetingthrower in "The Chuwi MiniBook X N150, One Year Later"

meetingthrower — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:07:03 +0000

I have one and gave to my teenager. Unbelievable abuse for 3 years before it gave up the ghost after being dropped one too many times.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

meetingthrower — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:58:21 +0000

OMG coming from bigtime consulting this is...AMAZING. Thank you!

New comment by meetingthrower in "What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?"

meetingthrower — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:39:51 +0000

The Dartmouth analytics say that is true. The top 1% is taking from the top 10% in admissions.

That said, your view that they need "trauma" to get in is very wrong. You need to find a hook. The hook should be positive and not negative. (Why should they let you in to the private club?)

Source: I've gotten my kids into 6 Ivies. Non-athletes, white, public schools, and I am not a doner.

New comment by meetingthrower in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

meetingthrower — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:04:18 +0000

That's a great way to put it: functional slop. That's what I mean tho - as long as it is minimally functional it does its job.

I totally get the shade thrown at ycombinator. But I guess my perception is that it has never been about the tech for them and more about getting quick hacks to get to market quickly. So it feels on brand?

New comment by meetingthrower in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

meetingthrower — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:23:31 +0000

Correct. It's "good enough" for now and if it needs to be industrialized you can do that later. If it is brand new and has no traffic and is not exposing user data or opening up your keys to someone.... who cares how perfect the code is if it mostly works? Users don't have to use it...

New comment by meetingthrower in "The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies"

meetingthrower — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:33:34 +0000

I like the idea of getting a slice of the action for the country. I mean, to have a nice slice of profits or something would be really nice. You know the equity is nice in that only pays off if there are profits. What would be even nicer is just a nice permanent claim on profits, like 20% or something like that....don't we call that a tax rate? /s

New comment by meetingthrower in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

meetingthrower — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:37:23 +0000

Right. You hire the developer when you want a developer. But if I am building simple agentic workflows -- glorified automations with a small bit of structured "thinking" - I will sure use the cheapest API that can deliver that task at the speed I want.

I wonder where the market sizes will shake out for these different types of use cases? I am guessing right now 1 is bigger than 2 but not for long (by token volume)?

New comment by meetingthrower in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

meetingthrower — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:50:58 +0000

To the others on this reply, I take 1/4 dose of the "clinical dose" and it has been life changing. I've lost 30 lbs. I've done that in the past, but for me that was harder than ranger school in the army.

I LOVE food. Eating out and family dinner were always important to me. I was very worried that I would lose my pleasure in this.

I haven't.

But now I can just eat 1/2 slice of pie. Or 1 scoop of ice cream, etc etc. I don't have the crazy urge to EAT IT ALL.

Also I loved drinking. I actually still love drinking. But I get done at 2.5 drinks. And once a week.

It adds up. Makes you wonder what free will is.Variance in GLPs are naturally occuring. I find the people who say "I forgot to eat" relatable now. Our bodies were not designed for abundance. At least not mine.

New comment by meetingthrower in "Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs"

meetingthrower — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:13:37 +0000

The tfa says that almost all of this went to big public automakers. Enraging. I initially thought that this was going to some small biz thing that at least would slosh the money around through the owners. But nope - corp welfare!

New comment by meetingthrower in "AgentKits – 60 production-ready AI agent blueprints with guardrails"

meetingthrower — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:44:32 +0000

Interesting - if you're the author, I couldn't see quickly what data sources I would need to plug into it to make it work well (e.g, with the marketing agents doing account reviews etc?)

New comment by meetingthrower in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

meetingthrower — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:06:08 +0000

Right? Runaway Bunny, Goodnight Moon? Probably 1K times between my two kids.