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wdpatti

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    Show HN: SpeakCamera – a surprisingly useful iPhone Shortcut to read text aloud

    I made these two extremely simple shortcuts a while back to quickly translate and read aloud into earphones info presented in a French art museum. It allowed my family and me to lo…

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    Comment #46064570

    It already does that for about 10 of the 26 letters in the alphabet that have Cyrillic clones

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    Comment #46064559

    Looks like someone finally got it!

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    Comment #46064558

    Thanks for all the compliments! In all reality I spent like 30 minutes on this one Sunday afternoon when every model failed nearly 100% of the time - now it's more like 95% but abo…

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    Comment #46064534

    Stuff other than AI starts to break if you try to copy/paste that much text in one go - I put a soft limit at 500 so people wouldn't go paste in their PhD dissertation and watch Wo…

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    Comment #46038049

    See the bottom of the website for some examples - most small models can't process the text at all.

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    Comment #46038022

    I actually made this back in August but never posted it until now. I agree with your point; many of the comments say that simple regex filtering can solve it, but they seem to igno…

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    Comment #46034019

    When you click the “Gibbberify” button it copies it to your clipboard automatically.

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    Comment #46034017

    Many of these characters actually have genuine uses in non-English languages, so it would be hard to just blindly remove all of the characters from every prompt without breaking ot…

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    Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters

    I made a free tool that stuns LLMs with invisible Unicode characters. *Use cases:* Anti-plagiarism, text obfuscation against LLM scrapers, or just for fun! Even just one word's wor…