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Show HN: Aside – Local meeting capture with vault-native AI distillation

I built aside this weekend because I was tired of pasting meeting transcripts into Claude Code myself to get notes that actually connected to my Obsidian vault. Every tool I tried either required an account, sent my audio to a server, or produced summaries disconnected from where I actually think.aside is a ~5MB Rust binary that records meetings and feeds them into an AI-native transcription-to-vault workflow:1. Record — captures mic + system audio simultaneously (stereo WAV, left=you, right=the

Show HN: Vocova – Paste a link, get a transcript in 100 languages

I built Vocova to solve a workflow I kept running into: you have a YouTube video, a Zoom recording, or a podcast episode, and turning it into accurate, readable text means juggling three different tools – one to download, one to transcribe, one to translate.Vocova lets you paste a link from 1,000+ platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Zoom, Google Meet, etc.) or upload a file, and get back a transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, and optional translation into 145+ languages – all in one step.I treat

Show HN: SmartRuler Pro – ESP32-powered motorized ruler with 0.5mm precision

My dad cuts window profiles in his workshop and I kept watching him measure, mark, and reposition by hand hundreds of times a day. So I built him a motorized ruler that moves to any position you tap on a tablet.It runs on an ESP32-S3 over BLE 5.3, uses hardware-timed stepper pulses (RMT peripheral, no CPU jitter) to hit 0.5mm accuracy, and pairs with a Bosch GLM laser meter - point, measure, and the ruler moves there. No typing, no transcription errors.You can also upload cut lists from a file o

Show HN: Qwen 3.5 running on a $300 Android phone – on-device, open source

Qwen 3.5 Small dropped two days ago. I had it running on a mid-tier Android phone within hours.It's great seeing the on-device AI community light up around this release. Off Grid brings it to Android: phones with 6GB RAM in the $200-300 range, ~8 tok/sec on the 2B model. Fully offline.Text generation, vision AI, image gen, voice transcription, tool calling, document analysis — all on-device, nothing uploaded, ever. Works in airplane mode.780+ GitHub stars. ~2,000 downloads across Andr

Show HN: NoteCat – Record, Transcribe, Summarize Discord Voice Channels

Hi HN, my cofounder and I have found success in the niche of Discord bots, and this is our latest one.When I saw the Parakeet ASR model from NVIDIA, I realized there was an opportunity to operate a Discord bot at scale offering near-realtime transcription. So we built it! Let us know what you think.Paired with a web UI for viewing transcripts, it's surprisingly fun to see summaries of our gaming sessions and of course it's been useful for meetings.

Show HN: ConvertlyAI – Format raw transcripts into 10 social assets

Hey HN,I built ConvertlyAI (https://convertlyai.online) to solve my own post-production bottleneck. As a writer and creator, I found that producing the core content—whether a long-form manuscript or a video—was only half the battle. Chopping that single piece of content up into highly specific formats for Twitter threads, LinkedIn carousels, and newsletters was causing massive burnout.I wanted a system where I could upload a raw YouTube transcript or an MP3, and have an engine strictly

Show HN: I improved my handwritten math OCR (now preserves derivations)

I built this after almost losing a semester’s worth of handwritten math derivations.I was taking a Signals and Systems course and filling notebooks with Laplace transforms and long derivations. Before finals I tried digitizing them so I could search my notes.Everything failed.Most OCR tools can recognize the characters, but they destroy the structure that makes math readable:- aligned equations lose alignment - multi-step derivations collapse into paragraphs - numbered problems merge togethe

Show HN: Voice skill for AI agents – sub-200ms latency via native SIP

Built an open-source voice skill for AI agents with real phone conversations via OpenAI Realtime API + Twilio SIP. Native speech-to-speech, no STT-LLM-TTS chain, sub-200ms latency. Features: inbound/outbound calls, tool calling mid-conversation, recording, transcription, session bridging, health monitoring, metrics, call history API. Use case: missed-call auto-callback for appointment booking ($2,100 avg lost per missed call). Tech: Python + Node.js, 97 tests, MIT licensed, 5-min quickstart

Show HN: Veil – On-device meeting transcription with 100% PII redaction

Solo dev from South Africa. Spent 3 months building this.Every AI meeting tool sends conversations to the cloud. I trained my own PII model - 72M words, 100% catch rate on real meetings. Before anything touches AI, names become aliases, amounts scramble, identifiers vanish.Everything runs on-device. Nothing leaves your machine.Free for now - can't afford Apple's $99 notarization yet. Happy to answer questions about the tech.

Show HN: Utter, a free local dictation and meeting notes app for Mac and iPhone

I use dictation daily for writing and prompting agents. Existing dictation apps worked well for me, but recurring cost and unclear data handling pushed me to build my own: UtterCore idea - Free with local models - Also free with BYOK - Sub-second transcription and post-processing - More than transcription: custom prompt-based post-processing What it does - Dictation with customizable shortcuts, including toggle or hold-to-talk - Modes let you save different model + prompt setups f

Show HN: Almost Entirely Vibe Coded 3D C++ OpenGL Engine

Im a graduate student doing research in the Artifical Intelligence domain at the moment. With this project, wanted to see how far I could push agentic coding assistants and I know 3d rendering is one of the hardest systemic tasks to get right.The result is a sort of first person demo I have that supports save/load "scenes", normal mapping, mesh and texture caching, render-device abstractions and more.I’m releasing this under the MIT License. Given the current Supreme Court discuss

Show HN: Scape – One-click worktrees and orchestrators for Claude Code

Hey HN, we've been using Claude Code daily for months, and built Scape to fix our biggest pain point: managing multiple worktrees quickly & reducing the mental load of switching between them quickly.What we built: Scape is a macOS menu bar app that sits on top of Claude Code and gives you:- One-click worktrees: click a button, get a new git worktree with a Claude session already working on it. Develop in parallel without leaving your current branch. - Toolkit: per-session actions like

Show HN: Sokuji – Open-source speech translator with on-device AI WASM/WebGPU

Hi HN, I built Sokuji, an open-source live speech translation app that runs as both an Electron desktop app and a Chrome/Edge browser extension.The latest release (v0.15) adds Local Inference mode — fully on-device ASR, translation, and TTS using WASM and WebGPU. No API key, no internet, no data leaving your machine. It ships with:- 48 ASR models covering 99+ languages (sherpa-onnx WASM + Whisper WebGPU) - 55+ translation language pairs (Opus-MT) plus multilingual LLMs (Qwen 2.5/3&#x2F

Fly.io deleted my apps and DBs in an unrelated organization without warning

Hi HN,I’m experiencing a destructive and seemingly erratic behavior from Fly.io's automated systems that resulted in a total loss of data across multiple organizations.I have been using Fly.io since July 2023 with two distinct organizations:Org A: Used for some Selenium-based automation experiments in late 2025 and other unrelated private projects through the years.Org B: A long-standing production environment with a Postgres database, active since 2023 with a consistent billing history.The

Gemini-flash-latest silently broke Search grounding for 1 month

On January 21, Google quietly changed the gemini-flash-latest alias to point to gemini-3-flash-preview — a model that does not support Google Search grounding.The API never returned an error. HTTP 200, valid JSON, finish reason: STOP. The only thing missing was groundingMetadata. No warning, no deprecation notice, nothing.I run PartsplanAI, a B2B electronic components marketplace. Grounding is not optional for us — we use it to verify part specs against real datasheets and prevent hallucin

Show HN: Sqry – semantic code search using AST and call graphs

I built sqry, a local code search tool that works at the semantic level rather than the text level.The motivation: ripgrep is great for finding strings, but it can't tell you "who calls this function", "what does this function call", or "find all public async functions that return Result". Those questions require understanding code structure, not just matching patterns.sqry parses your code into an AST using tree-sitter, builds a unified call/ import&#

Show HN: Novel visualizer for translations to/from Basque language

I made an extremely niche tool and wanted to see how fellow language learners, linguists and/or philologists (amateur or otherwise) react to it.I've been preparing for a trip to the Basque Country later this year by learning Euskara (aka Basque). A big part of my learning process is following Euskara-language people on social media, then putting their subtitles into a machine translation service. However, since Euskara grammar is so different from that of English & Spanish, I found

System Design and Machine Learning Interview Material

Hi HN,I created a GitHub repository that explains system design concepts using diagrams and real-world examples (Twitter, Uber, Netflix), as well as machine learning key points.The goal is to make system design and ML easier for engineers preparing for interviews.I would really appreciate feedback or suggestions for new systems to include.GitHub: https://github.com/Ali-Meh619/System_Design_Principles

Show HN: MyChatArchive – bring your full ChatGPT history into Claude via MCP

Switched from ChatGPT to Claude and realized the official migration only transfers what ChatGPT remembers about you, not your actual conversations. Built a local pipeline that imports full exports, generates semantic embeddings on your machine, and serves them via MCP server. Claude Desktop and Cursor can search your entire chat history by meaning during any conversation. No cloud, no API keys for core pipeline. Also supports Claude Code, Cursor, and Grok exports.

Show HN: Paster – A keyboard-first clipboard manager for Vim users

Hi HN, I’ve tried just about every clipboard manager for macOS, but I've always ran into the same two issues: either they were heavy Electron apps that felt sluggish, or they required me to take my hands off the keyboard to find what I needed. Raycast is what I used most of the time, but it's slow in loading screenshots and is search first, meaning I needed to leave the loved home row to scroll down through items.I built Paster because I wanted something that felt like an extension of