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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:41AM (#46271500)
That's very cool, I've been looking for a fully offline transcription app for quite a while. Thanks for building this! And thanks so much for providing an "import audio file" function, not just "record from mic" -- transcribing voice notes from various messenger apps is my main use case here.

Do you have an idea about supporting languages other than English?

Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:54PM (#26715832)
Recently I saw "post grayskull" on twitter, that's now my favourite. ;)
Re:I Want to Fix Goodreads on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:57AM (#24458734)
Seconded. The "new releases of authors I've read books from" is one of the things that would give me the most value -- if it actually worked properly, which for me it doesn't, since it only seems to show _some_ random new books from _some_ of "my" authors. Sigh.
Thanks so much, it has been a constant annoyance for me that _sometimes_ Ctrl+F2 just doesn't do anything. It did not occur to me to check if that's a known issue, I just wrote it off as a glitch in the matrix. Your workaround is going to make my daily menu usage go much more smoothly, thanks!
Re:Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation on Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:14AM (#21851080)
I tend to agree, vagrant offers way better configuration possibilities and flexibility. However, there is one significant benefit: on macOS multipass uses hyperkit/xhyve to run the VM, which in my experience performs _much_ better than virtualbox ("docker for mac" also uses hyperkit). I'd love to see a vagrant hyperkit provider (or even a multipass provider! :-), but sadly have found nothing beyond a few alpha-level sketches so far.
Re:WINE 1.9.4 Released on Sunday February 21, 2016 @03:09AM (#11143764)
Kindle for PC, to funnel ebooks through to calibre (http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/). Even though I'm sceptical of the monopoly-like situation, Amazon still often has the widest range and lowest prices on ebooks.
Re:Static Site Generators on Thursday May 15, 2014 @06:29AM (#7748678)
I've been quite happy with https://pypi.python.org/pypi/curator
Re:New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @09:55AM (#6250259)
Here's a general-purpose JS implementation of a progress bar that achieves a similar visual effect: http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/
I've felt that pain too, and heartily recommend rlwrap to lessen it.