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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:35PM (#48535438)
A few tools to de-enshittify/enhance specific websites.

I don't have to tell the Hacker News crowd how junked up the web has become.

* Bookmarklet to cleanly extract lyrics from Genius.com. * Firefox add-on to cleanly display lead sheets and guitar tabs on UltimateGuitar.com * Firefox add-on to show Distance From City on TrustedHousesitters.com. https://versastudio.com/projects

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Re:Social Media Dashboard/Aggregator? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @07:02PM (#42786883)
Sorry, I mean I want to view my soc media feeds in this dashboard. I'm familiar with those tools - they are for mass posting of content.

Social Media Dashboard/Aggregator?

Has anyone built a dashboard/aggregator, that logs into various sites on your behalf and assembles all the desired content? I would love to have filtered content from Reddit, Next Door, and the dumpster fire that is Facebook assembled all in one place, without having to visit the sites individually.

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Re:Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Headshot Generator on Thursday January 18, 2024 @03:55PM (#39047574)
Worth clarifying what 1 credit gets you. "100 credits per month" is meaningless unless it's clear what that buys.
Yeah, this can work. Also, hunter.io.
LinkedIn won't provide contact emails.

How do you reach management/decision makers at companies that hide 'em?

It's well known by now that many companies have outsourced their entire support/customer service apparatus, allowing only live chat, email, and ticketing systems, while providing no phone support whatsoever - even for urgent matters. These overworked agents mainly parrot information from companies' knowledge base, while possessing little agency to make any kind of decision.Perhaps you have...

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Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:53PM (#31535368)
It's called 'State Street Dodge'. You play a bicycle messenger in 1990s downtown Madison, Wisconsin, rushing important legal documents across the isthmus. You ride a super sweet freestyle BMX bike, and you rack up points for doing tricks, jumping beer truck ramps, riding up walls, and dodging the ever shifting throngs of college students, hayseed tourists, and harried bureaucrats. Bonus levels let you switch to skateboard, Rollerblades, and fixie. Soundtrack is awesome. Lots of Easter eggs.
Re:I need to find an apartment on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:59PM (#30970916)
It's sad that this process is so broken that it takes a skilled coder to roll their own, just to get good, organized information.

We were promised jetpacks!

In many cases, I believe it is. Consider Tim Ferriss' book 'The 4 hour work week' for example. It had lots of creative ideas, and many folks used them successfully. But by the time the book was published, the market had changed. Google Adwords used to be Hella cheap, which is part of what enabled methods described in the book. But they're not anymore, and there's too much of everything.
OP here. Great comments and ideas, all. A few notes: * Talon is pretty great * I think the market for text to speech and voice control is huge, and maybe Dragon/Nuance rules it because of their patents, but oh, does it suck. Like being stuck on Windows 95 or something. * Voice Recognition is in fact currently good enough to get real work done efficiently * Serious RSI can't be fixed with ergonomics or better devices * If there were a modern alternative to Dragon, it would solve a chunk of the problem

It's true that computer control currently requires a lot of customization, but I see no practical reason why we can't at least make simple commands fast and accurate, i.e., 'create new html document in VS Code'.

Ask HN: Why is there no high quality method for voice control of a PC?

Like many people who have spent decades behind a keyboard, RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) prevents me from writing code and doing graphic design through the usual keyboard and mouse inputs.So I have turned to a complex and highly unreliable software stack that provides both voice-to-text, and clumsy but limited control of Microsoft Windows, Chrome, etc. This includes Dragon Voice-to-text, Voice...

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What is the best deepfake audio software/lab?

Who is recognized as having the best deepfake audio software, or the most sophisticated research lab for this?I'm thinking of material on the level of the Tom Cruise videos like this one: https://www.tiktok.com/@deeptomcruise?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

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Dragon Pro, voice recognition software. Awful UI, known bugs that never get fixed, incompatible with critical applications like web browsers. Why? It's my understanding that they have no real competition. If you need to "drive" your computer with your voice, Dragon is all there is. In fact, it is pretty limited without the addition of Voice Computer, which allows you to command Windows to do certain things, like switch programs, etc.

Dragon is so important to my workflow, while so shitty a program, that I would pay three or four times its cost for a competing product that actually worked well.

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We are a group of over 100 doctors, engineers, web developers, artists, project managers, and software programmers in 6 countries, all working together remotely. We will talk about where we were when the pandemic started, how we found each other, how we came together to design a ventilator, what skills we are using, and how we are collaborating with so many people around the world.

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Re:Universal speech-to-text for Windows OS? on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:11PM (#22679628)
Note to other readers - Windows' speech to text, while function, has inferior voice recognition to The Goog.
Re:Universal speech-to-text for Windows OS? on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:51AM (#22628606)
Whoa. How did I miss that? Thanks!

Are there any add ons or widgets that enhance it?

Universal speech-to-text for Windows OS?

I'm tired of typing, and it's really getting to my wrists. Yes, I have a fully ergonomic setup.Speech-to-Text works pretty well via Google's API, for example, I can use this https://dictation.io/speech But this requires a lot of copypasta.But what I'd really like is a little prompt [] where I can talk and have it insert text wherever the cursor is, in any program - web browser form fields, MS...

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Re:Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not? on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:49PM (#17684947)
Thanks everyone - good feedback.
Re:Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not? on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:49PM (#17684945)
This is truly horrible. These kinds of looping gifs have all the appeal of watching 4-year-old pick her nose.

Is anyone doing “Tinder, but with video”? Why not?

Certainly it will require some deep thought and lots of coding, but the concept is easy to understand - like Tinder, but with video which users upload right from their devices.Has anyone built this, and if not, why? It seems like something that should already exist and be in common use, like Tinder, Bumble, etc.

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