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Re:Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:37AM (#49093783)
I ended up building my own take that doesn't have an annoying UI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091894
Re:Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:36AM (#49093777)
I decided I needed to make my own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091894

Show HN: Local meeting notes transcriber, but linuxy

https://github.com/tomelliot/all-ears

Granola started clamping down on downloading your notes without paying for a subscription, and I got sick of all the barely maintained GUIs on top of various local models (MacWhisper ).All-Ears is a set of composable tools to transcribe and summarise meetings. - A daemon that records audio sources - `transcribe` to transcribe the audio (with diarisation) - `cleanup` to clean the transcription,...

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Re:Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? on Friday July 17, 2026 @02:38PM (#48950778)
interesting - I'll keep an eye out for that and see if I can identify it too
Re:Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:48PM (#48941316)
thanks - I've also bought macwhisper. I'm looking for less GUI and more daemon (also it's been super buggy - hopefully their recent update helps)
I can't login is it a fake door test?

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Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS?

Granola are cracking down on their auth and I can no longer pull my meeting notes out and put them in Obsidian (my plugin is gonna have to be deprecated: https://github.com/tomelliot/obsidian-granola-sync/).That means I'm gonna need a different meeting transcription/summary pipeline. There's a cambrian explosion of meeting transcription tools...

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can you share your prompt? i love the combination of digital + offworld vibes with the brushstrokes, i'd love to iterate on it.

also, such a smart idea to build the excel runtime alternative. remember us when you get snapped up by a lab for a training environment.

Show HN: Meeting notes and transcripts straight into Obsidian

https://obsidian.md/plugins?search=granola

Over 550 installs! I didn't expect other folks to use it, but it turns out other people also wanted to have their Granola notes + transcripts in Obsidian.It's my first open source project, so it's cool to have some people using it, and even submitting issues and PRs.If you use Obsidian + Granola, and have suggestions for how to make it even better, I'd love to hear it.

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Re:TLDR: Official MCP Registry on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:34AM (#43925972)
The official "meta registry" for MCP servers is out in the light of day:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/

The full details on how they're thinking about this ecosystem:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/discussions...

Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of MCP? on Friday April 04, 2025 @05:37AM (#43579996)
Mm I hadn't thought about the stateful part - so the server is running the whole time the MCP client is active? Rather than being spun up as needed to make a tool call?
Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of MCP? on Friday April 04, 2025 @05:36AM (#43579993)
Yeah definitely an ecosystem play
Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of MCP? on Friday April 04, 2025 @05:35AM (#43579990)
Yeah that seems to be how it is today. I'm just curious if there's something I'm missing with MCP, or if they want to make some changes down the road that will improve it in this way.

Ask HN: What's the Point of MCP?

I’ve been messing around with MCP servers to get a feel for the ecosystem. I’m seeing a real issue, and I’m not sure what solutions are possible with the architecture - am I missing something?The LLM always sits in the middle of any pipeline. That means you’ll always have potentially messy and lossy translation in between every tool call (not to mention incredibly slow/wasteful compared to...

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Re:Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:44AM (#31177381)
Looks cool!

Do you support using a different no code front end?

Cool tool, thanks for sharing!

I did the same thing with building something in excel - I didn't think as hard about the retirement portion though and just matched it to my previous pension contributions from when I was employed, so that's a great addition.

One thing I have in my sheet that I find helpful: A comparison with an equivalent annual salary at an employer. For example I have a day rate that is a rough approximation to match the annual salary I'd like to have if I were employed by someone - taking into account that the day rate needs to include sick days, holidays, the employer's share of insurance and pension contributions that I now pay etc.