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New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:20:24 +0000

fair, it isn't fully native. The dictation helper is the only native piece, the UI is a local web page. That was a deliberate tradeoff to get Qwen3-ASR running through MLX on macOS 14+ rather than wait on a Swift port. Better Voice looks good. Worth noting it's closed source and needs macOS 26, where mine is Apache-2.0 and runs on 14. Different bets.

New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:17:20 +0000

it's just GitHub interpreting the Co-Authored-By lines in the commits. I used Claude Code quite heavily while building this, so it shows up as @claude in the contributor list — it wasn’t an independent contributor that discovered the repo and submitted a PR :)

New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:41:42 +0000

good point. I haven’t tested MacPorts, but the app currently looks for ffmpeg on PATH, and the Finder launcher doesn’t include MacPorts usual /opt/local/bin. So it may not detect it at the moment. will look into adding proper MacPorts support.

New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:56:44 +0000

At least English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and Spanish. You can either select them right in the app or let it auto-detect (which it does pretty well). I think more languages are supported, though, just did not try them.

New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:53:29 +0000

Well, at least one of us respects it :)

New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:05:51 +0000

Handy is honestly more mature than mine — cross platform, MIT, and you can pick between Whisper and Parakeet. The real difference is just the model family. I run Qwen3-ASR through MLX instead of Whisper/Parakeet. In my own use it holds up way better with background noise and it punctuate noticeably more naturally, Take that as impression and not a measurement. Qwen3-ASR also accept vocabulary hints, which helps a lot with names and jargon. And mine does files and video with SRT export, not only dictation. Downside: Apple Silicon only. Wispr Flow is a different category — it's paid and your audio goes to their cloud. The text formatting is nicer than mine. Mine is local only and Apache-2.0, which for me is the entire point.

New comment by sidclaw in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:03:30 +0000

way better from my point of view. I frequently have recordings made in noisy environments. Whisper does not do the job well under such conditions. Also, Qwen respects gramma a lot and splits sentences properly.

Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

sidclaw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:47:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/VladUZH/qwen-scribe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098260

Points: 92

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Show HN: Harken – self-hosted social listening (HN, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky)

sidclaw — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/VladUZH/harken

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007217

Points: 3

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SidClaw – The approval layer for AI agents (open-source)

sidclaw — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:26:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sidclawhq/platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528290

Points: 3

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