MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Vocova – Paste a link, get a transcript in 100 languages
by jmcraft | 2026-03-03 14:35:25+00:00
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 this product like a piece of craft. Every interaction is intentional – the smoothest possible flow from input to output, the highest transcription success rate I can achieve, and a UI that I'd be proud to put my name on. Small things matter: how naturally speaker labels read, how precisely timestamps align with every word, how a bilingual export looks like a polished document rather than a raw data dump.

A few details:

- Speaker diarization with one-click rename and merge
- Bilingual side-by-side view with inline editing
- Export as PDF, DOCX, SRT, VTT, TXT, CSV
- Shareable transcript links – no sign-up required for viewers

Free to start, no credit card required. I'd love feedback on the transcription quality and the overall experience.
by EvgeniyZh | 2026-03-03 14:35:46+00:00
> Do we have an example of a real quantum computer doing some kind of a computation that is not easily accessible by the regular computer?

Simulations of condensed matter simulations performed on QCs (google's OTOCs, quantinuum's HUbbard model) are not easily accessible by the regular computer. There are people working hard on simulating these results classically so it's quite likely they'll be simulated eventually. We're at point where classical computers are still in the race thanks to immense scale and algorithmic progress, but I think it won't be the case soon.

> something useful in real life?

usefulness is subjective. There are results that are potentially interesting to some people on Earth (as opposed to RCS).
by Aurornis | 2026-03-03 14:35:50+00:00
> The author himself fell on his sword in detail on Bluesky.

Not exactly. He wrote a long excuse blaming being sick, sidestepping the issue that he was using AI tools to write for him and not making an effort to fact check.

Also Bluesky is not Ars Technica. It doesn’t matter what he posts on his own obscure social media page. We’re talking about the journalistic platform where he was given a wide audience.

> Your only real complaint is that their published explanation wasn't subjectively good enough for you and that means it's sad to see them at this level?

Why do you not think that’s a valid complaint? It appears they eventually did part ways, but Ars Technica has also been trying to lay as low as possible and avoid the topic in hopes that it will blow over.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2026-03-03 14:36:08+00:00
Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to set billing caps on the gemini API. Here's what the chatbot said:

Me: Help me cap gemini API request costs ... limit total billing for this project to max $100 a month

GC: Hello! While it's not possible to set a hard spending cap on Gemini API requests, you can set up billing alerts to monitor your costs and avoid surprises.

Me: How to set hard budget limit tied to billing account

GC: Based on your account information, it is not possible to set a hard budget limit that automatically stops charges for a billing account.

Me: How to set quota for gemini api?

GC: Sorry, I'm not able to answer that question.
by lioeters | 2026-03-03 14:36:15+00:00
That's a good example, I learned about the Pilgrim's Way between London and Canterbury. It's about 88km, which someone walked recently in 6 days. In the Canterbury tales, someone rides a horse and does it in 2 days. By train it's an hour and a half, and by plane is 6 minutes.

You're right, "ape-walking" is a rare thing, only a small group of people are motivated enough to walk that distance - for religious, athletic, or recreational purpose. I think this does apply to "ape-coding", it's going to be a niche interest for much fewer people than today.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 14:36:16+00:00
Another comment here but here are all the search engines I looked at:

1. DDG
2. Kagi
3. Brave
4. Ecosia
5. Startpage
6. Marginalia
7. Mojeek
8. Yandex.ru

from 1-5 all referenced .net before .dev and DDG referenced .net before github , marinalia didn't give me either .net, .dev or gh link but rather docker.com or some other tech articles

Mojeek and Yandex.ru DID give me .dev links before .net at the time of writing.

I literally opened these two as a joke especially Mojeek not expecting too much But I just know names of lots of search engines so I tried.

Mojeek and Yandex.ru have surprised me although I think yandex.ru might have referenced the .dev because of https://nanoclaw.dev/ru/ as it points to this.

Mojeek seems interesting now from this observation

I also wanted to try swisscows but looks like they have become 100% premium as I do remember being able to search for free but now a popup comes.

I also tried baidu (chinese search engine) and it gave results in chinese and firefox translate sort of stuttered and didn't work when I tried to translate, I don't know chinese so pasted it in claude and it doesn't link to either .net or .dev but rather chinese links.

Now with all of this observation, I think that we do know one Provider (Mojeek) who won. A lot of these on these lists are actually not independent except Mojeek and brave and probably yandex.ru

SO I guess the main takeaway from this could be that Independent search engines can be interesting. They can still be hit or miss but the more independent search engines the merrier given that some might miss but some will also hit.

My comment definitely feels like a good reputation bonus for mojeek. Well anything for more independent search engines imo. I looked at their about me and it seems that they are a single person (Marc Smith). Fascinating stuff

I know marginalia_nu is on hn so maybe marginalia and mojeek can share some index together. Anyways this was a fun exciting experiment to do. I hope the community tries out other search engines if I may have missed any and share insights if a particular search engine gives interesting results.
by xnx | 2026-03-03 14:36:22+00:00
I was very influenced by Jakob Nielsen's books and writings at useit.com, but he's totally gone off the deep end since selling(?) NNgroup.

He is dearly in need of an editor. There's probably some useful insight in there somewhere, but his writing is way too long and absolutely full of every type of AI generated media (even including cringe music videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDK-YYbLYg).

It's sad to see.
by rayiner | 2026-03-03 14:36:24+00:00
ARM designs are effectively paper launches. You get these press releases saying the new ARM matches Apple and AMD, but its years before you can buy a product with it. Google Pixels that came out in the fall are still on the X4, which was introduced in 2023. At this rate, Pixel 11 will launch with X925, which is an Apple A17/M3 tier core, when Apple is on the A20: https://wccftech.com/apple-a20-and-a20-pro-all-technological.... Outsourcing the core design creates a major lag in product availability.
by madcaptenor | 2026-03-03 14:36:53+00:00
I live in Atlanta (western edge of US Eastern time) and permanent DST sounds horrible - the sun would rise at 8:45 in early January. Honestly I'd prefer we be on permanent standard time. Call it permanent Central Daylight Time if you must.

On the other hand, I used to live in Boston (eastern edge of US Eastern time) and those 4:15 sunsets were pretty depressing. Permanent DST sounds reasonable there.
by nhubbard | 2026-03-03 14:36:57+00:00
I will say that 26.4 beta 2 was the first time I've regretting using betas since Sonoma beta 2. The Sonoma beta ruined the firmware on my machine and Apple had to replace the logic board; the latest Tahoe beta broke all networking on my machine and I had to erase the installation to fix everything. I've since dropped off the beta train for the time being.

I already left the beta train on my iPhone because I had too many issues getting my grocery apps to allow me to place orders without going to my laptop and doing it in a web browser.
by wamatt | 2026-03-03 14:36:59+00:00
>I can't be the only person who reads "reaching desktop performance" and wonders "you mean comparable to the M1, or to the M3 Ultra?"

You're not. IMHO it's a fairly obvious, narrow and uncontroversial observation (and hence why its the top comment). That said, I personally still enjoyed the back and forth as many others one could imagine. There can be value in the counterarguments from multiple other usernames, as this facilitates sharpening reasoning for the conclusion from readers. (even when the original premise stays in tact)

The lack of others agreeing could be the result of many reasons. IMHO, a not insignificant one could be the incentive structure skews heavily towards lurking as HN rightfully disincentives "me too" type replies and not everyone always has something interesting to add

2c not an epistemologist ymmv
by jmcraft | 2026-03-03 14:37:51+00:00
Hey, maker here. Happy to answer any questions.

If you want to try it out: https://vocova.app – paste any YouTube or video link and you'll get a transcript in seconds.

A couple of things I'm particularly proud of:

1. The paste-and-go workflow – no downloading, no file conversion. Just paste a URL.
2. Bilingual export – if you translate, you get a side-by-side document that actually looks good enough to share with a client.

Would love to hear what you think and how you'd use it.
by densh | 2026-03-03 14:37:58+00:00
I might be the only one, but it's still to this date (and dating all the way back to 2014 with the first iMac 5k display) Apple is the only company that truly gets HIDPI desktop displays with high quality gloss and 200+ ppi at screen this large. In the meantime popular and widely sold gaming screens with matte blur filters and mediocre ppi give me headache and eye fatigue after a few hours of use. Prior generation Studio Display is the only external display that truly worked for text heavy work with my eyes (including software engineering), and I'm sure the latest generation is fantastic as well.
by renegat0x0 | 2026-03-03 14:37:59+00:00
- I think I was upset when Google allowed fake ad for VLC to appear high in ranking

- I hate that Google returns content farms instead of product web pages

- I hate that Google provides a page of 10 useful links, later links are just pure garbage. I think that something in Google engine is profoundly broken

- I maintain my own search index, but it requires a lot of effort, and attention. I do insert links if I find them worthy. I think more people should have their personal search indexes. Mine is below. I am quite happy that problems like these do not affect me that much

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
by benj111 | 2026-03-03 14:37:59+00:00
Question

How is this going to work in practice, if I watch a vid that's tagged 'step relative' am I going off the jail and on the register?

Does it have to be in the description?

What if it's just been tagged every which way and does actually appear to portray anything illegal?

What if the tags and titles are removed, and I watch exactly the same videos. Am I committing an offense because in someone's head canon the characters are related?
by always_dead | 2026-03-03 14:38:09+00:00
I've been reflecting on my career recently, and I realized that I've built an identity around my career in software engineering. This was something younger me never wanted to do, but going with the flow brought me here and it took getting a promotion to realize and reflect this. I've been in a loop of thoughts, thinking about switching, but also thinking about the time I've already spent here and wanting to stay.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-03-03 14:38:34+00:00
wow, the prices have come down. I inherited the old Pro XDR display when my father passed away a couple of years ago: I think he paid $6K for the display and another $1K for the stand.

Off topic, but Apple seems to be dropping hardware costs / capability - relying more in subscription, app store, and cloud now? On an impulse buy, I bought the entry level MacBook Air at Best Buy about two months ago because it was $200 off list price. Amazingly capable laptop for $800.
by duncankrebs | 2026-03-03 14:38:36+00:00
1. Moving Beyond the "God Mode" Service Account
Until recently, most developers gave agents a single Service Account with broad permissions.
The Old Way: The agent is a user. If it’s compromised or hallucinates, it has the full run of its permissions.
The Realm Way: The agent has zero inherent permissions. It is a "stateless" reasoning engine that must prove "Human-in-the-Loop" authority for every high-stakes action.

2. Dependency Injection (DI) for Meatspace
Dependency Injection is a decades-old software pattern, but applying it to Human Authority is the novelty. Instead of injecting a DatabaseConnection object, the Realm injects a LegalPermissionToActAsJaneDoe object. This treats "human permission" as just another technical dependency.

3. Solving the "Auditability Gap"
In traditional agent setups, if an agent deletes a file, the logs show "AI_Agent_01 deleted file." This is a nightmare for compliance. Krebs’s pattern ensures the log says: "AI_Agent_01 (on behalf of User: Jane Doe, via Realm: Budget_Approval_2026) deleted file."
Is it "New"?
The individual parts aren't: LDAP, OPA, and DI have existed for years.
The synthesis is: Combining them into a "Policy-Enforcing Container" (the Realm) specifically to solve the unpredictable nature of LLM reasoning is the current "cutting edge" of AI systems architecture.
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by caseyohara | 2026-03-03 14:38:38+00:00
Then, respectfully, what is the point? Does the trillions-of-dollars AI industry exist to support a few hobbyists building niche products to scratch their own itch? I thought the promise here is increased productivity, presumably in the economic sense.

There seems to be a lot of hype, and has been for years, but I’m not seeing it materialize as actual economic output. Surely by now there should be lots of businesses springing up to capture all of this value created by vibecoded software.
by bschwindHN | 2026-03-03 14:38:43+00:00
I'm very into code-based CAD, I actually gave a small talk on it a year or two ago. A longer term goal of mine is to make some sort of hybrid CAD modeling tool which is mostly code-based, but has a GUI for certain things like defining sketches/constraints, and selecting particular geometric features that are hard to describe in code.

Here's a link to the talk if anyone can bear to listen to me for an hour:

https://youtu.be/0wn7vUmWQgg
by Lalabadie | 2026-03-03 14:38:55+00:00
There already are a bunch of task-specific models running on their devices, it makes sense to maintain and build capacity in that area.

I assume they have a moderate bet on on-device SLMs in addition to other ML models, but not much planned for LLMs, which at that scale, might be good as generalists but very poor at guaranteeing success for each specific minute tasks you want done.

In short: 8gb to store tens of very small and fast purpose-specific models is much better than a single 8gb LLM trying to do everything.
Show HN: Open-source digital signage ecosystem to escape vendor lock-in
by sagiadinos | 2026-03-03 14:38:55+00:00
In 2011 I needed a SMIL-compatible CMS to manage hundreds of IAdea players for
a client. Nothing affordable existed, so I built one commercially. Over the years
resellers started building their own proprietary players instead of paying for
certified hardware. Most failed. So in 2017 I built and open-sourced the media player.

An Android launcher, a proxy, and a CMS followed. The goal: a complete, open digital signage
ecosystem that anyone can run, extend, or contribute to.

What's in the stack:
- garlic-hub: self-hosted CMS for device and content management
- garlic-player: SMIL media player for Linux, Android, macOS, Windows
- garlic-launcher: root-free Android kiosk launcher
- garlic-proxy: proxy for restricted network environments

Live demo: https://garlic-hub.com (login: admin / Demo1234!)
GitHub: https://github.com/garlic-signage

PHP 8.4, PHPStan Level 8, 99% test coverage. All AGPL-3.0.

I'm around to answer questions about SMIL, architecture decisions, or
why open standards matter in digital signage.
by boredhedgehog | 2026-03-03 14:39:01+00:00
> The person running nanoclaw[.]net can put anything they want on that page tomorrow. A crypto scam. A phishing page. Malicious download links. They could fork the GitHub repo, inject malicious code, and link to it from the site that Google is telling thousands of people is legitimate.

A lot of handwringing about hypotheticals. The page is up there because it links the official repo. Changing that will quickly tank its search rank.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-03-03 14:39:02+00:00
> we are talking depictions of incest

We aren't talking about depictions of incest either. There is no relation between step-siblings/parents/etc. And in these videos, every single person is unrelated to every other person even in the depictions. The step-child has both a step-mom and step-dad... Where I come from, that would be an adoption? I would guess the next form of these videos will be adoption porn.
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-03-03 14:39:21+00:00
Okay so let’s try simplifying it.

We’ll change the existing murder legislation to “Killing someone is a crime”. It’ll save us thousands of pages.

But does that mean a soldier shooting an enemy is a crime? What about shooting someone who is raping you? What if you shoot someone by mistake, thinking they’re going to kill you? What if you hit them with a car? What if you fail to provide safety equipment which eventually results in their accidental death?

Oopsie woopsie, I guess we need to add another thousand pages of exceptions back to our simplistic laws. It turns out people didn’t just write them for the fun of it.
by koito17 | 2026-03-03 14:39:26+00:00
In my case, the question was "how are you using AI tools?" And trying to see whether you're still in the metaphorical stone age of copy-pasting code into chatgpt.com or making use of (at the time modern) agentic workflows. Not sure how good of an idea this is, but at least it was a question that popped up after passing technical interviews. I want to believe the purpose of this question was to gauge whether applicants were keeping up with dev tooling or potentially stagnating.
by Someone1234 | 2026-03-03 14:39:30+00:00
Apple's AI strategy really kind of threads the needle cleverly.

"AI" (LLMs) may or may not have a bubble-pop moment, but until it does Apple get to ride it on these press releases and claims. But if the big-pop occurs, then Apple winds up with really fantastic hardware that just happens to be good at AI workloads (as well as general computing).

For example, image classification (e.g. face recognition/photo tagging), ASR+vocoders, image enhancement, OCR, et al, were popular before the current boom, and will likely remain popular after. Even if LLM usage dries up/falls out of vogue, this hardware still offers a significant user benefit.
by coldpie | 2026-03-03 14:39:35+00:00
Ads in the AI results, obviously. Google is now the king of the the SEO spam website game: plagiarize the info from others, slap ads on it, and profit. That is the purpose of LLMs: end copyright law, but only for the 5 tech companies wealthy enough to run these massive models. The rest of us still have to follow the law, of course.
by gurachek | 2026-03-03 14:39:48+00:00
Forgot to include: answers not stored.

Here is DB schema(content hash is to save money on requests with the same answer):

| # | column_name | data_type |
|----|--------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | id | bigint(20) unsigned |
| 2 | job_id | char(36) |
| 3 | ip_address | varchar(45) |
| 4 | user_id | bigint(20) unsigned |
| 5 | email | varchar(255) |
| 6 | question | text |
| 7 | answer | text |
| 8 | content_hash | varchar(64) |
| 9 | status | enum('pending','processing','complete','failed') |
| 10 | result | longtext |
| 11 | scores_count | int(10) unsigned |
| 12 | created_at | timestamp |
| 13 | updated_at | timestamp |
by btilly | 2026-03-03 14:39:54+00:00
I have been on a rough flight from Denver to Orange County, CA. Based on that flight, it does not shock me that a plane could be torn apart by turbulence. Instead I'm impressed that so few have been torn apart.

Our technology regularly does ridiculously insane things, and achieves jaw-dropping reliability. So much so, that everyone just expects it to work. And we no longer recognize how amazing it truly is.
by kamranjon | 2026-03-03 14:40:13+00:00
I'm not sure if you're just unaware or purposefully dense. It's absolutely possible to get those numbers for certain models in a m4 max and it's averaged over many tokens, I was just getting 127tok/s for 700 token response on a 24b MoE model yesterday. I tend to use Qwen 3 Coder Next the most which is closer to 65 or 70 tok/s, but absolutely usable for dev work.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle, many people don't realize just how performant (especially with MLX) some of these models have become on Mac hardware, and just how powerful the shared memory architecture they've built is, but also there is a lot of hype and misinformation on performance when compared to dedicated GPU's. It's a tradeoff between available memory and performance, but often it makes sense.
by Noaidi | 2026-03-03 14:40:17+00:00
Well, that's it. I cannot stand HN anymore. Literally my experience is being downvted and no one commenting on why what I said was negative. And just warning people to wait to by the phone is now frowned on? Nothing but a bunch of capitalist suck up fanbois here I guess.

Same thing happened on a quantum science post. If you cannot express why you disagree with me either you are a schill or your thoughts are not solid enough.
by rjpaganini | 2026-03-03 14:40:21+00:00
Location : Los Angeles, CA USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python (FastAPI, Pandas), PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, REST APIs, JSONB, Git & CI/CD, Vector Databases (RAG), Prompt Engineering, Model Eval & Fine-tuning, Whisper, Pyannote (Diarization) Google Cloud (Run, Vertex AI, SQL), AWS (S3, Lambda), Cloudflare Workers, Docker, JSONB, Adobe Premiere & After Effects, DaVinci, ffmpeg

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ujALnZqw1kYzgU-tcRaSRsOFdS2...

Email: rjpaganini@gmail.com

Profile: Creative Technologist and AI Workflow Engineer evolving traditional media pipelines into intelligent, AI-assisted ecosystems. I pivot traditional post-production workflows into structured, metadata-rich systems|focusing on semantic search, automated classification, and the operationalization of AI tools to eliminate workflow friction.
by brookst | 2026-03-03 14:40:27+00:00
Trademarks are IP; I thought we were taking about a generalized IP tax.

But, ok, copyright.

Who exactly is going to do these audits, find comparable works, etc? For every single copyright (500,000-ish registered in the US per year, far more unregistered but real copyrights)?

And you’d need to audit all existing copyrights… that song may have produced very little revenue, but then a big artist covers it, and the composition rights (but not performance rights) are suddenly worth a lot more.

It all seems like an exercise in applying engineering to law, which never goes well.