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Re:What happened to pocketpod podcast app on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:07PM (#44182274)
Wondering if the pocketpod team is here and see it. I loved their personal podcast but seems they have pivoted to build the studio for creaters. Wonder if they can share their learnings and reasoning behind the pivot. Also if anyone has suggestion on alternative of it which can be used for personal news podcast, please share.

Ask HN: Open-Source TTS for Indian Lanaguage

Posted by swapsmagic on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Are there any good open source TTS available for indian languages that can be easily run locally or on huggingface. Tried looking around and found one promising on Indic-TTS (https://github.com/AI4Bharat/Indic-TTS) from AI4Bharat but having lot of dependency issues and not able to run locally. Any recommendation is appreciated. Also checked MeloTTS but it has only single voice support which...

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Re: on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:27PM (#37665381)
Google podcast is going away next year. :(((
Re:Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:41PM (#22495923)
it's not that difficult and no need to use pestisides. As long as you grew healthy plant in good soil, they can resist pests. And yes, some times you do get failure, but if you grow enough stuff, some failures won't be noticable given you have other stuff growing. And gardening is also a skill, the more you do, the better you get at it.
Re:Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:39PM (#22495891)
Pretty much every vegetable seeds bought from store are viable, it just for some vegetables (i.e. bottle guard, okra), store bought vegetables aren't ripe enough and so those seeds won't able to germinate. To germinte the seeds of any vegetables, the fruits has to be matures (some times on the plant, sometimes on the shelf) before seeds become viable to germinate. I don't know a single vegetable that will be sterlite. I know some Mangoes (coming outside of US) do get sterlite and so their seeds won't produce plant even if the seeds are mature.
Re:Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:37PM (#22495859)
that's how exactly it works. We got one Italian Tomato (heirloom, indeterminate) from a neighbor and grew it. It grew 10-12 ft tall and bushy. My wife loved it so much, she saved seeds from couple of tomatoes and next year, we grew only that Tomatoes along with other vegetables. And we grew enough to store for the entire year. We are still eating those tomatoes (Frozen) and hope it will last till our this season tomatoes will start coming.
Re:Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:35PM (#22488906)
When we bought home, we got it with bunch of fruit tress (cherry, peach, orange, strawberry guava, lemons). And our previous owner grow 3 tomato plants for us before they left. It was a big yard with lot of fruit trees and plenty of empty space. In few years, we started growing some vegetables starting tomoato, okra, egg plant. And now in few more years we stop buying tomatos from grocery. we build bunch of raised beds and started growing more and more food and got bunch of okra and bottle guard. This year we build more raised bed by replacing/transplanting existing flowering plants and put raised bed there. And almost all the work done by us. You never believed but when you cook food from home grown vegetables, it tastes a whole different than the bought one. Give it a try and you can feel the difference. As long as you enjoy doing it, you won't feel all the pain that it comes with (i.e. hard work). Start small and as you go ahead, you will add more and more as you find it more manageable. But worth trying as long as you have space in your home (you will find time)
Re:California to Introduce 'Right to Repair' Bill on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:55PM (#16547557)
We just upgraded our Apple 6 to Pixel 2, due to it having some Network Not Found issues. Tried all tricks available on internet, but none worked. Eventually asked Apple and they aggreed to replace it with similar phone given we pay $300. I said, why buy again the same phone which probably have some hardware issue which apple is not agree to resolve. As ppl know, they are having the same issue with higher version. I asked the customer representative, and they mentione, hold the phone. If they get enough complaints, they might look into it and offer a free repair. I think most of the users of old phone might have upgraded to new one and so i am guessing not enough ppl will compain and all those phones will go to waste.

Ask HN: Facebook feed removing Ads after loading

Posted by swapsmagic on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello,I have been noticing for some time my facebook feed when i load, it shows me some ads in the feed and within a second they disappers. It looks like some hack done by facebook. Anyone else noticed it and know why it is behaving that way? Or is it my adblocker which is removing ads from facebook feed?

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Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression,... on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:31PM (#16226517)
I forgot to mention, Turmeric is a natural antiseptic. Can be applied to small cut wounds and protects from infection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92752/
Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression,... on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:24PM (#16226463)
Try mixing it with honey and have it, it will be much better.
Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression,... on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:24PM (#16226453)
Instead of taking tablets, try adding as an ingredient into your daily food. I think that will make it much easier to eat. Try cooking any Indian curries and turmeric is 90% of time default spice.
Re:Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression,... on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:49PM (#16226166)
For bad throat, I usually had it in night, raw (if you can) (1/3 tbsp) and in the morning you will see the difference. Most of the time, my bad throat gets much better in morning, which usually opposite if i didn't take it.
Re:AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice ... on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:18PM (#15856575)
It's so easy to identify those fake comments by just looking at few. I figure this is one of the comments that seems fake. Why is it taking long to identify there are lot of fake comments in it?

'The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and restore the bipartisan light-touch regulatory consensus that enabled the internet to flourish for more than 20 years. The plan currently under consideration at the FCC to repeal Obama's Title II power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone.'

Re:Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:00PM (#15848374)
Allowing duplicate podcast episode in the list. Looks like bug.
Re:India is rolling out trains with solar-powered coaches on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:02PM (#14805292)
One more thing to consider is: Stones or other obstacles thrown on the train (which happens sometime due to protest and theft attempt) and can damage those panels. I don't see that being handles in any way.
Re:Mobile App to listen to emails on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:29PM (#9937568)
Hello, is anyone aware of such app?

Mobile App to listen to emails

Posted by swapsmagic on Saturday July 11, 2015 @02:14AM
from the self-post dept.

Hello,I am thinking on working on some personal project to build a mobile app to listen to your emails. Not sure if there are similar app available in the market. I know one of them is swipeapp which is no longer available. And another one is Text'n'drive but haven't tried either.I just want to make sure that nothing similar already available before proceeding.

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Re:Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India? on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @04:19PM (#5821876)
One question: How can we get age from the railway ticket number? I don't think indian railway discloses passenger age on their website.
Re:Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India? on Sunday June 02, 2013 @06:30PM (#5810367)
Thanks for the details. Will contact them for the advertisement.
Re:Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India? on Sunday June 02, 2013 @12:58AM (#5807376)
I think, i didn't provide much information in the question. We have a website where user subscribe with their Mobile No. and Indian Railway PNR. We send them their PNR status updates via bulk SMS package which we have bought from some third party service. Now each SMS cost us money, but we didn't figure out how we can make money by sending SMS to thouse users. (i.e. putting advertisement in SMS, but didn't find any Ad network provide such feature for SMS).
Re:Hacker News Second Page (Just Noticed) on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:45AM (#4160333)
Is it just an experiment or what, as this url is only for second page. Starting 3rd page its normal url.
Re:Facebook IPO Livestream on Friday May 18, 2012 @09:41AM (#3991734)
is it right that they are opening at 11 et?
Re:Z Kombinator on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:47PM (#3961591)
what the ....
Re:ASK HN: Facebook Trending Articles shows article read by self on Friday May 11, 2012 @10:05AM (#3959213)
One thing i notice it, it shared the news read by me to myself. Is it a good or unnecessary feature? I know by trending article means, it shares all the articles which are in trend independent of whether you have read it or not, but still i feel it should not share the same article to me.
Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @05:42PM (#3945915)
Search as a service, awesome.

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