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hamza_q_

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About 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 #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