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Show HN: I analyzed 1,300 Google searches – Reddit appeared in 83%

https://mentioned.to/research

Built a scraper over a few days, spent a few hundred dollars on API costs. Queried 1,300 keywords across 26 industries against Google and several AI search platforms. Google Search results: - Reddit in 83% of product-related queries - 62% of those in positions 1-3 - Commercial intent queries ("best X", "X vs Y"): 93.6% AI Search was more interesting: - ChatGPT: ~20% Reddit...

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Ask HN: Best back end to run models on Google TPU?

So, I got Pixel 10 Pro, and I'd like to run parakeet (or whisper) model on it for voice to text. I'm building an ai dictation app (aidictation.com). I'm struggling to find a way to run this model on device. I have to reserve to use groq API, which is suboptimal.Any recommendations?

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Show HN: AIDictation – zero data retention dictation app

https://aidictation.com

Hi HN,I built AIDictation.com, a voice to text app written in Swift. It sends audio to my own backend, runs it through a Whisper-based pipeline, and returns a transcription you can then send straight into an AI chat like ChatGPT or Claude.I’ve been building full‑stack apps for ~20 years, but this is my first Swift application. I leaned heavily on AI coding tools to get from zero Swift to a...

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Congratulations on the release; that's a really good job.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:00AM (#45873192)
https://voicesinmyhead.co/ - AI-powered voice dictation. 5x faster than typing.
Re:Ask HN: How would u setup a child's first Linux computer? on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:52AM (#45866419)
This is such a weird thing to read. You try to project your ideas on the kids, thinking that is the best thing to do. Let them be.

I learned Linux when I was like 13 or 14 and not because my father told me. He didn't know much about computers in early 2000/late 90ties.

The curiosity, the desire to learn, the need to set up my own isp, the need to start to make money, the curiosity of how html, php and other stuff worked let me to Linux.

Teach them how to be curious and feed that curiosity, the rest will happen.

And if they choose Mac over Linux, just get of their way, otherwise they will rebel.

Rolling your own generally has mainly downsides in the context they are in. 1. This is clearly a small team with very little spend 2. Tomorrow someone leaves and next engineer will have to manage all of this. 3. I don't think they realize that they actually increased cost of this service not decreased it. Now they need to manage their own Kafka monthly. Engineering time is expensive.

Show HN: Open-Source H-Index

https://www.getprog.ai/open-source-h-index

Have you heard of Hirsch index for academic researchers and publications?We adapted the algorithm for open source contributors. Fun project!Open Source Hirsch Index is equal to N if a developer has at least N projects, each with at least N commits from the developer, and each project has at least N stars.Hirsch ≥ 27 is like winning a Nobel Prize—only a few hundred people reach this...

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I do. I use assistants as containers for different conversations for my GTM work: An assistant for marketing and copywriting An assistant for customer support An assistant sales conversations.

These agents aren't super smart: just few PDFs for context plus a few sentences system prompts.

I do get what I want in 80% of use cases (not measured, just a feeling).

Re:Claude 3 model family on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:30PM (#39599123)
This is a weird demand to have in my opinion. You have plenty of applications on your computer and they only do what they were designed for. You can't ask a note taking app (even if it's open soured) to do video editing, unless you modify the code.
Re:Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:03AM (#39536805)
Thanks for sharing ChatbotUI. While I'm not an author, I use it extensively and contribute to it. Thanks to the permissive license, I could offer ChatbotUI as a hosted solution with our API keys. https://labs.writingmate.ai.
Re:Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:54AM (#39416844)
This is very well written and entertaining post. I enjoyed reading it.

Selfishly, would you mind sharing literature or blog posts that led you to this level of understanding of LLMs? I'm trying hard to understand the inner workings via experiments but definitely far behind your expertise.

Thanks

Re:Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video] on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:24PM (#38779083)
I'm surprised that only 3 people reported the error.

While problem is not trivial, my initial reaction was "it can't be 3, it's too obvious". And it seems that a lot of people in the comments here do get to the right answer on their own.

So, why not hundreds of reports?

Re:Ask HN: What are you grateful for? on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:39PM (#38759481)
I'm grateful to have parents who in their age, have energy, health and financial freedom to join us for celebrations from overseas. I'm grateful for my parents to be friends to me and all my friends.

As someone said here, I'm extremely grateful for free quality higher education I have received in my home country. And I'm saddened that many are in student debts for decades.

I'm grateful to be in the best health I've been in last 10 years.

I'm grateful to myself for quitting alcohol more than a year ago and sticking with it.

I'm grateful, for the first time, to feel financially stable for many years to come.

I'm grateful to United States of America for being our home and safe harbor for the past 10 years, especially last 3, given the global instability.

Re:Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:41PM (#38311583)
Hey folks, I'm a free customer here and a big-big fan of their project. I've been using narrative.bi for my project and sharing the results on Twitter [1] lately.

How I'm using narrative.bi: - A high-level report of WoW, and MoM changes on our website traffic that land in my email. - Alternative to GA4 UI, which drives me nuts.

What I don't get yet and I want to see implemented (I'll definitely pay for this): - Dimensional analysis: Which dimensions contribute to the topline change the most. I.e. Say unique users increased by 30% WoW, what top 5 dimensions have contributed to this change? Country? Device? Etc - Global event correlation: are there any global events that influence the metrics change? Maybe a holiday in the Country?

[1] https://twitter.com/avysotsky/status/1723403222906286185

An interview about challenges and learnings of building chrome extensions.
Re:AI Incident Database on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:15PM (#35631431)
I'd like to see the same website for classic software incidents. Especially harmful ones. That will feel up quickly
Use GPT-4, buy subscribing to OpenAI platform. You'll see stark differences. Also mandatory to watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
Not related to the content, the amount of ads in this website makes the article barely readable, especially on mobile.
Re:Introducing ChatGPT Plus on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:42PM (#34616425)
You can downvote me here for a promo, but by using gpt3 directly you can bypass all the restrictions. Thats one of the reasons we built writingmate.ai (often outages of GPT3 being the second reason)

Show HN: Ask Lethain – GPT-3 model trained on Will Larson’s blog posts

https://huggingface.co/spaces/avysotsky/asklethain

Ask Lethain is a chat bot trained on the blog posts from the popular "Irrational exuberance" [1] blog by Will Larson. It has the ability to answer questions about software engineering and engineering leadership.I'm looking for feedback so I can make it even better, so if you have the time to check it out I'd really appreciate the help! Thanks in advance![1] https://lethain.com/

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Re:Post-mortem of our first YC startup: a Reverse ETL on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:54PM (#34484907)
Can't reply I'm the original thread (why?) So I'll post it here. Somebody mentioned that large language models is potentially a great solution to bridge the gap of data literacy. I love this idea.
Re:Show HN: Plus – Self Updating Screenshots on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @06:11PM (#34420852)
Take a look at Grammarly. A decacorn chrome extension
Re:Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022 on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:44PM (#34279888)
You have my attention. Can you please give more details about tax savings?
Re:Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:03PM (#33042722)
Thanks. Some very deep insights and market knowledge. Impressive.
Kubernetes cluster on a bunch of old smartphones.

Weird idea, but I can't stop thinking about it work on a project from time to time.

Eventually, I want a random person be able to "lease" their old phone compute to my cluster for reward.

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