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hi@sarav.xyz

https://carelesswhisper.app https://voicebraindump.com

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Tsarp··on Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM
Docker can be small too. In this example I was able to compile a full server (rust binary) and package it in a docker (scratch image base) and the total was < 5MB.

https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod/pkgs/container/kurpod-server

wasm version compiles to under a MB though!

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Markdown based voice note taking

https://voicebraindump.com

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://carelesswhisper.app
Tsarp··on Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
Hmm, hoping this isn't a generic LLM generated response.

Skills have the scripts folder and you can precisely describe when and when not to use a script. This can end up directly wrapping API(s), CLIs, generic scripts or even other MCP servers.

CC and codex both have the skill creator and you can have them build the skill for you.

Havent run into any scenarios where skills were missing tools. 1-2 iterations and its usually taken care off quite quickly.

Tsarp··on Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
Doesn't Skills solve all of this?

OpenClaw, Hermes and other agents have already made skill adoption mainstream?

Are you guys still seeing a future where people are dumping entire MCP tool defs into context?

Tsarp··on Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection
I indulge in coffee quite a bit too.

But the funding chain here is -

Major coffee companies illy | JDE Peet's | Lavazza | Paulig | Tchibo

        ↓
Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC)

        ↓
UCC/APC Microbiome Ireland study

        ↓
UCC press release → ScienceDaily article
Tsarp··on Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
RNNoise has a VAD inbuilt that works much better than silero.

https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
https://voicebraindump.com
Tsarp··on App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
One negative side to this is the time taken to review apps has gone up drastically.
Tsarp··on Veracrypt project update
Its not just a web interface. It creates a storage container that can grow and be compacted on the fly is fully portable.
Tsarp··on Veracrypt project update
For folks looking for a much simpler single binary alternative.

https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod

Tsarp··on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://carelesswhisper.app
Tsarp··on Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
ASR has already proved its usefulness. Dictation tools are a prime example. Ever since whisper came out, usefulness for AST models running locally suddenly became a thing. Opened up soo many variants

https://superwhisper.com

https://carelesswhisper.app

https://macwhisper.com

Tsarp··on Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium
lanceDB and underlying lance works well as append only right? Wont you have to do index maintenance often for a chat access pattern?
Tsarp··on Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust
Not sure how that was the take away from both the posts above.

I read the blog post and your website but unfortunately didnt help change my perspective.

Thanks for the share

Tsarp··on Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust
"LLMs themselves are a graph database with probabilistic edge traversal" whaat?

Do you have any good demos to showcase where graph DBs clearly have an advantage? Its mostly just toy made demos.

vector embeddings on the other hand no matter how limited clearly have proven themselves useful beyond youtube/linkedin thought leader demos.

Tsarp··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
Did it start around the covid/ WFH time? There are a few theories

1. Airpods or ANC

2. WFH ->. Less movement -> stiff muscles around neck and head -> head trasnfer frequencies changing

3. Covid vaccine

Tsarp··on Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
what does this have to do with Thinking Machines? Just clickbait?
Tsarp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Making local running dictations transcribe faster than cloud tools even for longer dictations. <2.0 seconds for any length of dictation.

https://carelesswhisper.app

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
Voice interfaces. Currently this dictation app https://carelesswhisper.app

Managed to make long dictations even >10mins appear in < 2seconds by pushing what is possible with current STT models.

All processing done locally with 0 network calls.

Tsarp··on Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
If you were to classify how you landed the 170+ clients into a few buckets what would the top channels be?
Tsarp··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Making local running dictations transcribe faster than cloud tools even for longer dictations. Yes its possible.

https://carelesswhisper.app/blog/latency-demo

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Building Arivu: CLI/library that normalizes fetch/search across a bunch of sources (arXiv, PubMed, HN, GitHub, Reddit, YouTube transcripts, RSS, web pages…).

I use it as a context fetcher i.e grab an abstract/transcript/thread as clean text/JSON, pipe it into summaries or scripts.

Also runs as an MCP server (experimental), so tools like Claude Desktop or CLI assistants can call the connectors directly.

  arivu fetch hn:38500000
  arivu fetch PMID:12345678
  arivu fetch https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07041
https://github.com/srv1n/arivu
Tsarp··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
If we are already comfortable with our enterprise chatgpt subscription, how might this be of value. Given that it does RAG, tool calling, has all the SSO stuff/collab? Or are we not the target customer.

Just curious. Especially with both OpenAI and Anthropic really also outpacing startups in release cadence unlike previous cycles.

Guessing your selling point is any model no locking (Assuming we are happy with the privacy SOC 2 etc guarantees on enterprise contracts here)

Tsarp··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
What is the use case for a desktop app? Just local storage or using local compute for RAG? or perhaps privacy?
Tsarp··on Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
I built a prototype using native messaging (the same way apps password managers interact with browsers and drive actions with pure js).

I have a lot of actions done but not full there yet. Essentially the goal is to use a cli or an external desktop app to drive your already logged‑in Chrome profile without navigator.webdriver, or enabling --remote‑debugging‑port. In all my testing never got flagged with captcha/bot protect. The cli can interact with LLMs, local file system(despite opfs this is easier).

CLI(host app) <-> Native messaging daemon <-> Chrome extension

Extenion just executes pure js for extraction, navigation. Ive gotten basic google searching, image downloading working. Looking at complex form interactions.

Tsarp··on Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
Wouldnt having chrome.debugger=true also flag your requests?
Tsarp··on Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI
Im using LanceDB (and pretty happy with it so far). I am looking at the chroma docs and have a few questions

1. I see the core is OSS, any chance of it being pushed up on crates.io(i see you already have a placeholder)

2. Is it embeddable or only as a Axum server?

Do you see all providers converging on similar alpha i.e cheap object storage, nvme drives,ssd cache to solve this?

Cheers and congrats on the launch

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod

Lets you hide 1000s of images, pdfs, videos, secrets, keys into a single portable innocent file like "Vacation_Summer_2024.mp4".

Tsarp··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
https://voicebraindump.com

Low friction Markdown based voice journaling.

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