If I send a Portfile patch, would you consider MacPorts distribution?
AmanSwar 2 minutes ago [-]
yes please
vessenes 52 minutes ago [-]
Just tried it. really cool, and a fun tech demo with rcli. I filed a bug report; not everything is loading properly when installed via homebrew.
Quick request: unsloth quants; bit per bit usually better. Or more generally UI for huggingface model selections. I understand you won't be able to serve everything, but I want to mix and match!
Also - grounding:
"open safari" (safari opens, voice says: "I opened safari")
"navigate to google.com in safari" (nothing happens, voice says: "I navigated to google.com")
I'm not looking for STT->AI->TTS, I'm looking for truly good voice-to-text experience* on Linux (and others). Siri/iOS-Dictation is truly good when it comes to understanding the speech. Something this level on Linux (and others) would be great, yeah always listening, maybe sending the data somewhere, but give me UX - hidden latency, optimizing for first chars recognized - a good (virtual) input device.
coder543 7 minutes ago [-]
> Siri/iOS-Dictation is truly good when it comes to understanding the speech.
What...? It is terrible, even compared to Whisper Tiny, which was released years ago under an Apache 2.0 license so Apple could have adopted it instantly and integrated it into their devices. The bigger Whisper models are far better, and Parakeet TDT V2 (English) / V3 (Multilingual) are quite impressive and very fast.
I have no idea what would make someone say that iOS dictation is good at understanding speech... it is so bad.
For a company that talks so much about accessibility, it is baffling to me that Apple continues to ship such poor quality speech to text with their devices.
I’m a bit confused by what you’re offering. Is it a voice assistant / AI as described on your GitHub? Or is it more general purpose / LLM ?
How does the RAG fit in, a voice-to-RAG seems a bit random as a feature?
I don’t mean to come across as dismissive, I’m genuinely confused as to what you’re offering.
glitchc 43 minutes ago [-]
From the TFA: Document Intelligence (RAG): Ingest docs, ask questions by voice — ~4ms hybrid retrieval.
Seems pretty clear. You can supply documents to the model as input and then verbally ask questions about them.
drcongo 54 minutes ago [-]
I came to the comments here to see if anyone had worked out what it is, so you're not alone.
tiku 15 minutes ago [-]
Personally I'm so disappointed about the state of local AI. Only old models run "decent" but decent is way to slow to be usable.
tristor 51 minutes ago [-]
> What would you build if on-device AI were genuinely as fast as cloud?
I think this has to be the future for AI tools to really be truly useful. The things that are truly powerful are not general purpose models that have to run in the cloud, but specialized models that can run locally and on constrained hardware, so they can be embedded.
I'd love to see this able to be added in-path as an audio passthrough device so you can add on-device native transcriptioning into any application that does audio, such as in video conferencing applications.
john_strinlai 33 minutes ago [-]
i knew i recognized this name from somewhere.
they are a company that registers domains similar to their main one, and then uses those domains to spam people they scrape off of github without affecting their main domain reputation.
Yup. The most crazy aspect was that they had bought the domain intentionally (just 1 month prior) that whole fiasco.
Maybe its just (n=2) that only we both remember this fiasco but I don't agree with that. I don't really understand how this got so so many upvotes in short frame of time especially given its history of not doing good things to say the very least... I am especially skeptical of it.
Thoughts?
Edit: I looked deeper into Sanchit's Hackernews id to find 3 days ago they posted the same thing as far as I can tell (the difference only being that it had runanywhere.ai domain than github.com/runanywhere but this can very well be because in hackernews you can't have two same links in small period of time so they are definitely skirting that law by pasting github link)
So this got a lot more crazier now which is actually wild.
john_strinlai 25 minutes ago [-]
i unfortunately dont know enough about vote patterns on hn, or what is expected/normal voting behavior.
what i do know is that their name is etched into my mind under the category of "shady, never do business with them".
Imustaskforhelp 17 minutes ago [-]
I was writing my initial comment and I had no mention to the voting behaviour until I accidentally reloaded or something to find the upvote rise by a decent amount. Then I got suspicious and then I reloaded again to see like in 20seconds or < 1 minute and saw the vote rise so much (read my other comment)
I was writing the comment at time of 18 upvotes and then it went to 24 upvote all of a sudden that I had gone suspicious.
see at 2026-03-10T17:38-39:00Z timeframe within this particular graph(0)
I am just gonna link the stats of this hackernews post[0] and let public decide the rest because for context, this is same company which was mentioned in a blow-up post 12 days ago which had gotten 600 upvotes and they didn't respond back then[1] (I have found it hard for posts to have such a 2x factor within minutes of posting, that's just my personal observation. Usually one gets it after an hour or two or three.)
I was curious so I did some more research within the company to find more shady stuff going on like intentionally buying new domains a month prior to send that spam to not have the mail reputation of their website down. You can read my comment here[2]
Just to be on the safe side here, @dang (yes pinging doesn't work but still), can you give us some average stats of who are the people who upvoted this and an internal investigation if botting was done. I can be wrong about it and I don't ever mean to harm any company but I can't in good faith understand this. Some stats
Some stats I would want are: Average Karma/Words written/Date of the accounts who upvoted this post. I'd also like to know what the conclusion of internal investigation (might be) if one takes place.
[There is a bit of conflicts of interest with this being a YC product but I think that I trust hackernews moderator and dang to do what's right yeah]
I am just skeptical, that's all, and this is my opinion. I just want to provide some historical context into this company and I hope that I am not extrapolating too much.
The upvotes on the post are fun - the reason you saw it rise in rank is that startup launch posts by YC startups get special treatment (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
In other words, your perception wasn't wrong, but the interpretation was off. I've put "Launch HN" and "YC W26" back in the title to make that clearer - I edited them out earlier, which was my mistake.
dsalzman 28 minutes ago [-]
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iharnoor 18 minutes ago [-]
Lets go!!
Imustaskforhelp 3 minutes ago [-]
This is a 7 month old account which has only responded to this particular comment.
And sorry to say but I don't think that Lets go!! is a valid comment, this makes me even more suspicious.
Especially given the history and suspicions I already had.
Tacite 55 minutes ago [-]
Doesn't work.
" zsh: segmentation fault rcli"
esafak 46 minutes ago [-]
You could share your setup details, on GH if not here, to make it actionable.
josuediaz 15 minutes ago [-]
This is really innovative stuff! I cant wait to see how this technology will evolve
john_strinlai 13 minutes ago [-]
josuediaz registered 4 minutes ago
iharnoor 1 karma, 1 comment, in this thread.
two posts pointing out their extremely unethical spam behavior both shot down to the very bottom of the post. apparently suspicious voting behavior.
what the hell is going on?
Imustaskforhelp 6 minutes ago [-]
Yeah I am wondering the same thing.
I was gonna comment about this guy and iharnoor which is 7 month old account who literally only said "lets go" here
This sort of makes me even more suspicious john especially iharnoor
I wasn't responding because I was making archive link of all of this so that even messages deleted can have some basis of confirmation.
Rendered at 18:37:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Quick request: unsloth quants; bit per bit usually better. Or more generally UI for huggingface model selections. I understand you won't be able to serve everything, but I want to mix and match!
Also - grounding:
"open safari" (safari opens, voice says: "I opened safari") "navigate to google.com in safari" (nothing happens, voice says: "I navigated to google.com")
Anyway, really fun.
Before I install, is there any telemetry enabled here or is this entirely local by default?
What...? It is terrible, even compared to Whisper Tiny, which was released years ago under an Apache 2.0 license so Apple could have adopted it instantly and integrated it into their devices. The bigger Whisper models are far better, and Parakeet TDT V2 (English) / V3 (Multilingual) are quite impressive and very fast.
I have no idea what would make someone say that iOS dictation is good at understanding speech... it is so bad.
For a company that talks so much about accessibility, it is baffling to me that Apple continues to ship such poor quality speech to text with their devices.
How does the RAG fit in, a voice-to-RAG seems a bit random as a feature?
I don’t mean to come across as dismissive, I’m genuinely confused as to what you’re offering.
Seems pretty clear. You can supply documents to the model as input and then verbally ask questions about them.
I think this has to be the future for AI tools to really be truly useful. The things that are truly powerful are not general purpose models that have to run in the cloud, but specialized models that can run locally and on constrained hardware, so they can be embedded.
I'd love to see this able to be added in-path as an audio passthrough device so you can add on-device native transcriptioning into any application that does audio, such as in video conferencing applications.
they are a company that registers domains similar to their main one, and then uses those domains to spam people they scrape off of github without affecting their main domain reputation.
edit: here is the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163885
Maybe its just (n=2) that only we both remember this fiasco but I don't agree with that. I don't really understand how this got so so many upvotes in short frame of time especially given its history of not doing good things to say the very least... I am especially skeptical of it.
Thoughts?
Edit: I looked deeper into Sanchit's Hackernews id to find 3 days ago they posted the same thing as far as I can tell (the difference only being that it had runanywhere.ai domain than github.com/runanywhere but this can very well be because in hackernews you can't have two same links in small period of time so they are definitely skirting that law by pasting github link)
Another point, that post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283498) got stuck at 5 points till right now (at time of writing)
So this got a lot more crazier now which is actually wild.
what i do know is that their name is etched into my mind under the category of "shady, never do business with them".
I was writing the comment at time of 18 upvotes and then it went to 24 upvote all of a sudden that I had gone suspicious.
see at 2026-03-10T17:38-39:00Z timeframe within this particular graph(0)
(0):https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=47326101
I was curious so I did some more research within the company to find more shady stuff going on like intentionally buying new domains a month prior to send that spam to not have the mail reputation of their website down. You can read my comment here[2]
Just to be on the safe side here, @dang (yes pinging doesn't work but still), can you give us some average stats of who are the people who upvoted this and an internal investigation if botting was done. I can be wrong about it and I don't ever mean to harm any company but I can't in good faith understand this. Some stats
Some stats I would want are: Average Karma/Words written/Date of the accounts who upvoted this post. I'd also like to know what the conclusion of internal investigation (might be) if one takes place.
[There is a bit of conflicts of interest with this being a YC product but I think that I trust hackernews moderator and dang to do what's right yeah]
I am just skeptical, that's all, and this is my opinion. I just want to provide some historical context into this company and I hope that I am not extrapolating too much.
It's just really strange to me, that's all.
[0]: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=47326101 (see the expected upvotes vs real upvotes and the context of this app and negative reception and everything combined)
[1]: Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163885
[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=47165788
In other words, your perception wasn't wrong, but the interpretation was off. I've put "Launch HN" and "YC W26" back in the title to make that clearer - I edited them out earlier, which was my mistake.
And sorry to say but I don't think that Lets go!! is a valid comment, this makes me even more suspicious.
Especially given the history and suspicions I already had.
iharnoor 1 karma, 1 comment, in this thread.
two posts pointing out their extremely unethical spam behavior both shot down to the very bottom of the post. apparently suspicious voting behavior.
what the hell is going on?
I was gonna comment about this guy and iharnoor which is 7 month old account who literally only said "lets go" here
This sort of makes me even more suspicious john especially iharnoor
I wasn't responding because I was making archive link of all of this so that even messages deleted can have some basis of confirmation.