Hacker News: mrkn1

New comment by mrkn1 in "What even is an OS now?"

mrkn1 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:28:42 +0000

While reading your post, I kept thinking of K&R, and the beards of the 70s. Isn't this a return to early Unix? Users writing their own small tools in C, the system shipping building blocks... walls between users rather than programs?

New comment by mrkn1 in "Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops"

mrkn1 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:44:42 +0000

I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, and I'm probably just missing it, but what happened with the supergravity one?

And how many runs did it take before this one? They say "in one shot" with nothing more than "keep going." But we only see the successful run, reported by the people who ran it.

New comment by mrkn1 in "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?"

mrkn1 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:07:31 +0000

https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap free cpu first and open source

OpenPrinter [video]

mrkn1 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSV5XT4sl2A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787195

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Yapsnap – transcribe anything with audio, no GPU, no language flag

mrkn1 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:50:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715297

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkn1 in "What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?"

mrkn1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:52:57 +0000

fwiw kimchi-derived probiotic bacterium (Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656) was shown to bind nanoplastics and help mice excrete more of them. But it’s not yet proven that eating kimchi removes microplastics from humans

New comment by mrkn1 in "Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM"

mrkn1 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:00:46 +0000

Has anyone tried the others listed? Any feedback?

Self-proclaimed King of Switzerland uses loophole to build his empire for free

mrkn1 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:37:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260510-how-switzerland-self-proclaimed-king-built-a-land-empire-that-riling-local-authorities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699658

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Self-proclaimed King of Switzerland uses loophole to build his empire for free

mrkn1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260510-how-switzerland-self-proclaimed-king-built-a-land-empire-that-riling-local-authorities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684299

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkn1 in "Mistral OCR 4"

mrkn1 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:06:36 +0000

This runs for free on CPU https://github.com/kouhxp/textsnap

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call"

mrkn1 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:52:45 +0000

The key moments feat is neat. Been working on a free opensource offline transcriber that runs fast on CPU and does diarization too

https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap

Show HN: Recreate Thinking Machines 276B voice demo with duct tape and 8B model

mrkn1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:16:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/cheap-im

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501334

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Realtime voice agent that sees, hears, and interrupts – on a CPU laptop

mrkn1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:08:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/cheap-im

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488780

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: A CLI that fact-checks text using a 500MB local model and web search

mrkn1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477524

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Free summary, fact check, ELI5 of any text on CPU

mrkn1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:44:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469778

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: fftext - quick summary, fact check, ELI5 on CPU

mrkn1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:12:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459506

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Fact check, summarize, explain any article or webpage on local CPU

mrkn1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/fftext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433619

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:48:04 +0000

No rigorous eval, and I love Tesseract. Here's the example that motivated me to build textsnap (which is in the github's README), parsed with Tesseract:

https://imgur.com/a/i2eQra8

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:42:15 +0000

No reason other than their Q4 model working reasonably well and fast on my CPU laptop. Should work with any ONNX VLM model

New comment by mrkn1 in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

mrkn1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:41:06 +0000

109 languages, including other alphabets.