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hamza_q_
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Comment #49233738
NVIDIA Parakeet running locally in the browser. Implemented in raw WebGPU compute shaders & SIMD WebAssembly audio frontend: https://parakeet.narcotic.sh The aim is for it to be a …
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Comment #49213472
High-performance inference of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 English transcription model, in the browser. A fully custom, dependancy-free implementation with raw WebGPU compute shad…
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Comment #48937006
Yeah that's what I do (STT -> LLM -> timestamps to block), but if you did that for every episode download, due to location-targeted dynamic ads, your LLM API bill would run up very…
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Comment #48910206
Yep, agreed, streaming would be great to have. Although via pipes I think is better suited for a macOS. Since FluidAudio has to support both macOS and iOS, I think using Swift conc…
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Comment #48909962
Yep it's something I wanted for a while too; there were existing apps that did this, but had two issues: they were paid, and the UI was subpar. So for mine, I made sure it's fully …
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Comment #48903758
Investigated this and it turned out to be an amusing bug: audio decoding was happening three times instead of just once lol. I've put up a PR to remove the wasteful redundant decod…
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Comment #48900392
Recently contributed a patch to FluidAudio that sped up Parakeet V2 and V3 to 320x and 282x faster than real time, respectively: https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio/pull/5…
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Comment #48825944
https://www.pangram.com/history/54e401e8-30b0-41f4-96a7-a976... haha
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Comment #48704288
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Comment #48704281
np cheers mate
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Comment #48704074
Indeed. Thanks!
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Comment #48704071
Was referring to the *afinil specifically
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Comment #48703191
This works great. Only downside is display doesn't turn off when you close the lid. Made a little status bar utility to wrap the disablesleep command and address that downside: htt…
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Comment #48703063
I'll take credit for starting this trend :P https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil
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Comment #48288272
You gotta tap the ad finding button to find the ads, it won't automatically do so. The button beside the download button.
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Comment #48238493
Explained how it works in a Reddit comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1thruvh/listen... It's a full separate podcast app, so yes, you listen to the podcasts thr…
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Comment #48231612
Thanks! Wrote about it across a few comments on Reddit lol: https://old.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1thruvh/listen... https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/1tgsnbk/liste…
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Show HN: I made the first free ad blocker for podcasts
Always been annoyed by podcast ads. Searched and found a few apps that can detect and skip them, but they were all paid. So I made a free one. To my knowledge this is the first pod…
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Show HN: drea – podcast ad blocker
Always been annoyed by podcast ads. Searched and found a few apps that can detect and skip them, but they were all paid. So I made a free one. To my knowledge this is the first pod…
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Comment #48143330
Made a menu bar app you may find useful for MacBook sleep prevention, even when the lid is closed: https://github.com/narcotic-sh/modafinil
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Comment #48086605
https://x.com/chr1sa/status/2052423749778239678 Exactly what motivated me hahah