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rift-transcription reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI
  234 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2026
• Show HN: FreeFlow – Open-Source Wispr Flow
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2026

  I would delay polishing until right before delivery.

  Eventually, I will add a polishing step to my own https://rift-transcription.vercel.app.

  Right now, you can experience what true realtime streaming transcription feels like.

  I plan to add two "levels" of polishing:

  - Simple deterministic text replacements will be applied to both interim and final text.

  - LLM polishing will only be applied right before delivery.

  - It will be possible to undo one or both polishing steps. (Actually even more fine-grained undo: at the replacement rule level).

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
  176 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2026

  # My over-engineered console.log replacement is API/feature-stable: https://github.com/Leftium/gg

  - Named `gg` for grep-ibility and ease of typing.

  - However Claude has been inserting most calls for me (and can now read back the client-side results without any dev interaction!)

  - Here is how Claude used gg to fix a layout bug in itself (gg ships with an optional dev console): https://github.com/Leftium/gg/blob/main/references/gg-consol...

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  # I've been prototyping realtime streaming transcription UX: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app

  - Really want to use dictation app in addition to typing on a daily basis, but the current UX of all apps I've tried are insufficient.

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  # https://veneer.leftium.com is a thin layer over Google forms + sheets

  - If you can use Google forms, you can publish a nice looking web site with an optional form

  - Example: https://www.vivimil.com

  - Example: https://veneer.leftium.com/s.1RoVLit_cAJPZBeFYzSwHc7vADV_fYL...

  - DEMO (feel free to try the sign up feature): https://veneer.leftium.com/g.chwbD7sLmAoLe65Z8

• Show HN: Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2026

  Yeah, I will add post-processing to my prototype, too. I already prepared a detailed spec (prototyping new ways to do this, as well): https://github.com/Leftium/rift-transcription/blob/main/spec...

  One idea I was tossing around was streaming transcription + batch re-transcription:

  - Use streaming transcription, which works most of the time (for example, I've found the Web Speech API pretty good, as well as moonshine)

  - If the streaming transcription was poor, select the bad part and re-transcribe with a more accurate batch transcription model.

• Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2026

  WASM-based port: https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine-js

  I also did a survey of other in-browser transcription solutions: https://github.com/Leftium/rift-transcription/blob/main/refe...

  - Notably, there is an (unrelated?) moonshine demo based on transformers.js (using WebGPU) with WASM fallback.

• Show HN: I got frustrated with macOS transcription apps so I built my own
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2026

  > just a silent failure and your recording (I tend to talk for 5-10mins) is gone

  One of the reasons for my streaming transcription app: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app

  - You see results in less than a second as you talk.

  My app also supports multimodal input: interleave talking with typing. (Click the Replay" button to see a color-coded demo.)

  Supports local models (with a little setup: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app/local-setup)

• Show HN: Keyjump – a keyboard-first new tab for power-users
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2026

  I've been making something similar; this is my new tab page: https://multi-launch.leftium.com

  Special features:

  - similar concept to Keyjump queries: the links change to search templates depending on if the query input has a value

  - it can launch multiple bookmarks/queries at once (the blue category buttons)

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  The next version is based on search bangs: https://zbang.leftium.com

  - Right now it's just a list of search bangs, but this list will be moved to a slash command

  - Then the list will be replaced with your own bookmarks, sorted by "frecency," with favorites pinned to the top.

  - Another tab will list your bookmark (search) history: a sort of "zero effort" journal. (I switched to Kagi, which lacks search history. And browser history is insufficient.)

  - Another tab can contain your notes (like SimpleNote)

  - I may even integrate dictation, so you don't even have to touch the keyboard (https://rift-transcription.vercel.app)

• Show HN: Markdown Prism – A Non-Electron Markdown Editor for macOS
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2026

  Very nice!

  I've been using mdserve. A nice feature is a sidebar that lists all the MD files in a directory. I wish it could also list sub-directories.

  The reason is because I organize related MD files in directories, with sub-directories. Folders without MD files should be filtered out.

  Here is an example project with MD files in both reference and specs (and root) folders. Other folders should be filtered out: https://github.com/Leftium/rift-transcription

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  The brew install did not work; the App source name is wrong: `Error: It seems the App source '/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/markdown-prism/0.2.0/Markdown Prism.app' is not there.`

• Ask HN: Why is Claude so horrible? Are they paying people to glaze it on X?
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2026

  - No, I did not know everything I wanted to cover beforehand. Claude helps me brainstorm, research, and elaborate on my ideas. The spec is a living document, that I occasionally check-in: https://github.com/Leftium/rift-transcription/commits/main/s...

  - It was definitely not one CC session. In fact, this spec is a spin-off of several other specs on several other branches.

  - I've actually experienced quite the opposite: I suggest an idea for the spec and Claude says "great idea!" Then I change my mind and go in the opposite direction: "great idea!" again. Once in a while, I have to argue with Claude to get my idea implemented (like adding dependencies to parse into a proper AST instead of regex.)

  - One tip: it's very useful to explain the "why" to Claude vs the "what." In fact, if you just explain the why/problem without a specific solution, Claude may surprise you with the options they come up with!

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