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arachon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

https://uselinea.com - A reading app with a harness or a harness with reading app. Can turn any highlight/page/section into audio with your favority TTS engine, including Kokoro if you like

I initially built it to help me read AI papers before discovering AlphaXiv but then I just kept building it for the love of the game

Might have some rough edges but one feature I'm excited about is a more personalized notebook LM style audio generation capability for any readable material

(Another reason to build this was to kick the tires on a framework I've been building to power my own apps - https://hudsonkit.com - helps me ship iOS, macOS and web apps with shared primitives)

arachon Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?

I think we're close to the point where local models can make this economically viable as an alternative to hands off XAI/OAI/ANT

You need rapid good enough rapid turn response + rapid good enough TTS in order to make it economically for someone who's not blending it into a more compute heavy pricing model

Have you looked into it? Are you familiar with Pipecat https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat - they put out interesting demos frequently

arachon Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS

the loop is going to be interesting as we produce orders of magnitude low signal code, how do Labs comb through everything to train on the true contributions since last training run?

I wonder if one way to monetize certified "skill" will be to syndicate / license your provably well software engineered / tasteful AI engineered code back to the Labs for a fee

arachon Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS

there's one of these just about every other week since early this year

i think it's incredible because however saturated I feel this space has become, highly likely the vast majority of the world has no idea how good models have become, let alone local models

I've added local voice support for all apps/webapps I've built this year

Local TTS is on the cusp of a breakout too, basically a year behind ASR imo in terms of adoption, understanding, size and quality

arachon AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

I send all these stories to my chief of staff agent to "immigrant parent" them into becoming an overachiever

arachon How to read more books

I've been building a little app on the side that allows me to primarily read my books in epub, mobi or pdf -> text format but generate readouts on demand for only the bits I want (highlight, paragraph, page, chapter) so that I can continue while I'm on the go, without having to bifurcate between apps - this might already exist but I made mine

Naturally, I also added the ability to highlight, leave notes and ... ask questions (via API)

Even with incredible models, it's a decent amount of work to get this to work nicely

arachon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

https://openscout.app - a local first communication tool, for agent to agent communication and user to agent communication too

arachon Show HN: 17MB pronunciation scorer beats human experts at phoneme level

Error Error: No API found

but i love the idea

arachon Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

I bought it when it came out and enjoy using it. I have a STT keyboard powered by Parakeet that has a minimized mode ideal for phone terminals

https://x.com/usetalkieapp/status/2024342996322283734/photo/...

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

Combine this with a nice shortcut keyboard and then you're really flying - my favorites are XP Pen and DOIO 16

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

Ack for dictations but Gemini voice is fun for interactive voice experiments -> https://hud.arach.dev/ honestly blown away by how much Gemini could assist with with basically no dev effort

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr have you tried this? I have a nice 64GB new linux machine waiting to be set up for me to kick the tires on this

pretty sure it's awesome - sorry OP about mentioning another project, we're all learning here :)

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

Hex is great and not trying to pull you away from them - would love to get your pov when you give these a spin next time. email or DM me

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

My M1 16GB Mini and M2 16GB Air both deliver insane local transcription performance without eating up much memory - I think the M line + Parakeet delivers insane local performance and you get privacy for free

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

I initially built Talkie to talk to it like a crazy person when I was on long runs and ideas would pop into my head haha

Been a power user of SuperWhisper and Wispr Flow for a long time and eventually decided to unify those flows - memos & dictations, everything is a file and local first, BYOK

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

https://x.com/usetalkieapp/status/2022341320090775647/photo/...

native app uses Parakeet (v2 or V3) on iOS

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

Handy's great! I find the latency to be just a bit too much for my taste. Like half the people on this thread, built my own but with a bit more emphasis on speed

https://usetalkie.com

arachon Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

https://usetalkie.com - Parakeet and incredibly fast and made for devs

arachon HUD - Voice Assisted Canvas with heads up display style nav

An exploration of infinite canvas, and voice assisted navigation

arachon My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

thanks man! I've actually gone a bit further with hooks and speech synthesis

https://hooked.arach.dev/ and https://speakeasy.arach.dev/ - it's a fun setup

arachon My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

nice, next step is to write a custom function that derives a useful but repeatable message from the hooks and put a little cache in front the Eleven Labs message gen. For example: "In {Project}, Claude needs your permission to run {command}"

That way you can stay comfortably in the free plan with awesome voice messages

I have a different voice for my laptop compared to my main computer and can also pick per project

arachon My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

> My personal favorite hooks though are these:

  "Stop": [
  {
    "hooks": [
      {
        "type": "command",
        "command": "afplay -v 0.40 /System/Library/Sounds/Morse.aiff"
      }]}],
  "Notification": [
  {
    "hooks": [
      {
        "type": "command",
        "command": "afplay -v 0.35 /System/Library/Sounds/Ping.aiff"
      }]}]

These are nice but it's even nicer when Claude is talking when it needs your attention

Easy to implement -> can talk to ElevenLabs or OpenAI and it's a pretty delightful experience

arachon Elevated errors across many models

Same as you and I was glad to see the status page - hit subscribe on updates

Claude user base believes in Sunday PM work sessions

arachon Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

this probably levels the playing field for a while, and then dramatically raises the bar over a longer period of time

as better engineers and better designers get more leverage with lower nuisance in the form of meetings and other people, they will be able to build better software with a level of taste and sophistication that wouldn't make sense if you had to hand type everything

arachon Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

this feels like language from another era

arachon Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name

is yo taken?

arachon Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation

that's a nice idea. i wonder if applying a bit of ai summarization / grouping logic could help present changes in logical sequences regardless of time or file proximity

would probably also make sense to add quick review actions in place - like ask a question to the gitlogue tool or the author during the playback

arachon Gemini 3

thanks for sharing, very interesting example

arachon Claude Code weekly rate limits

in other words, these limits will help introduce Enterprise (premium) plans?