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Yousif Astarabadi, founder @ TalkTastic.com Email: yousif at talktastic.com
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yousifa··on Show HN: Delete yourself from data brokers without a subscription
How does this differ from the paid services? What do you do that they don’t do? What do they do that this does?
yousifa··on Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon
This is super cool, will definitely try it out! Nice work
yousifa··on ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16
On the coreml side this is likely because the neural engine supports fp16 and offloading some/all layers to ANE significantly increases inference time and power usage when running models. You can inspect in the Xcode profiler to see what is running on each part of the device at what precision.
yousifa··on Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?
create whatsapp / signal group for each city and drop a user into it when they sign up
yousifa··on Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company
that already exists, its the microphone button
yousifa··on Kevin Mitnick has died
RIP legend. Not sure that I would be where I am today without Kevin being an inspiration and hero to me growing up.
yousifa··on Ask HN: Paychecks from a failed startup?
If the startup has failed, it is highly unlikely that you would be able to get any $ from them. Even if you go after the founders personally, they likely don't have any cash and it will be a waste of time. If the company is still operating and has cash in the bank, 1000% you should go after them -- payroll is the first thing on the preference stack that gets paid when shutting down.
yousifa··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn't do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things.

As the Quran says: "Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn piety and righteousness" [Quran 2:183]

yousifa··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
Eid mubarak!
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
thank you for your support!
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
Yes we are adding support for multi-language on the input and output sides. ASR will be switched to whisper later this week!
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
Thanks for the feedback. The next update of the app (tomorrow) will have many less outputs selected by default, thus less credits used. We definitely need an onboarding as well. Any suggestions on how we can introduce users to the experience?
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
We’ll make it happen!
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
might be something coming there soon ;)
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
TBD, but we may have something within a couple weeks. We're also working on a webapp.
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
Hey! We're thinking about adding a CarPlay app where you can just tap record on the screen (and tell siri to start a recording). Would that be helpful? Also, >10m recording length coming soon!
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
YES!!! This is what I want most too! We will be adding this soon.
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
Thats a great suggestion. We are changing the speech-to-text model we use later this week, so it should produce much better results for you. We will also be adding a feature where you can edit the transcript before submitting. Would that be helpful?
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
We don't have a sort order on that list right now, but it will be there within a couple days! We will also sort by your most used outputs.
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
You can already do that! Just deselect all the outputs on the main view (it will just give you a transcript in the history). Then in the history section, after you select the recording, you can click "Add Output" (or Add Response depending on the version of the app you have).
yousifa··on Show HN: GPT–LLM native macOS app with time travel, versioning, search
- nicely designed app, great work! - sliders on the right side are very difficult to use, instead of hover to select it would be better as click to select - have some sort of onboarding that lets me know I need to put in my api key
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
glad you're finding it useful! How can we make it even better for you?
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
we're currently using gpt-3.5 and gpt-4 for the LLMs. We'll be adding support for more models under the hood in the future depending on the prompt / use cases.

We’re experimenting and trying to do everything with the cheapest, smallest models we can, because ultimately we want to do it all on device

yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
thanks for being a beta user! Where do you find yourself using Oasis most -- at your desk, on the go, etc? What subjects to you mainly use it for?
yousifa··on Show HN: Oasis AI – Craft Emails, Essays and Notes, Just by Talking
Thanks for trying it! Are there any outputs that you found to be particularly useful (or not useful)?
yousifa··on Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro/Air users, how is it going?
I highly recommend spending a couple hundred extra bucks and getting the macbook pro instead of the Air.

The Air has no fans and will throttle cpu extensively under medium - heavy usage. You will feel this and it is quite frustrating.

I also recommend you get at least 16GB RAM. I own a 2019 Mac Pro and my M1 16" MBP blows it out of this universe on every metric.

Docker runs fine, but you will need to add --Platform flag on some images to set the build platform as it will attempt to build for ARM if available. Other than that, it shouldn't require anything different.

yousifa··on Show HN: I used DallE to create default avatars on my Creator community website
Very cool use case! They all seem to be paintings / cartoons. Have you tried creating realistic human avatars?

It would also be cool to have an api where apps could use this to create default avatars for their users.

yousifa··on OBS – Open Broadcaster Software
Blackhole lets you route audio.

https://existential.audio/blackhole/

yousifa··on Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine
Initial feedback:

1) Simplify the UI. Center the typing area and make it auto selected so I can type without having to click on it. 2) There is too much text. Just let me type without reading. 3) It seems like it requires full length questions to get good results. Focus on getting the same results with just a few words by inferring the question.

yousifa··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
We’ve used Peter and he & his team are GREAT!

Background: They worked on an O-1 for one of our employees.

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