What are your favorite tools?
10 points by d675 15 hours ago
I’m really liking:<p>Hex: voice to text locally. Better than Handy<p>Paper2audio.com : TTS on cloud for books and very generous free tier. Synchronized across web and app too
Comments are read-only. Visit Hacker News to participate in the discussion.
phillennium 10 hours ago | 0 points
Terminal part: Ghostty + tmux + different CLI apps such as vim and glow (the latter is for reading Markdown in terminal in a pretty way, since everything is Markdown now).<p>Voice to text: currently Handy, but you got me curious enough to try Hex.<p>AI agent harness: Happy (disclaimer: I'm affiliated). Open source, and it's letting me use subs I already had + local models a bit.
benrutter 10 hours ago | 0 points
Ah, I can't resist these!<p>I work a lot in the terminal:
- Alacritty
- zellij
- helix
- fish-shell<p>Non terminal stuff (do operating systems count):
- Zen browser
- /e/os
- elementary OS<p>I've had a lot of fun playing around with pi and ollama recently too.
slipwalker 9 hours ago | 0 points
a shovel, sometimes a hatchet :>
defrost 8 hours ago | 0 points
Is that yourself there then Eric?<p><i>The Testing of Eric Olthwaite</i> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes</a> - <a href="https://youtu.be/_zrmMD5H6zA?t=216" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/_zrmMD5H6zA?t=216</a>
brysonnylander 11 hours ago | 0 points
Tessera Keyboard: I can never use a qwerty keyboard on Android ever again after trying this out
kingkongjaffa 6 hours ago | 0 points
Impact Drivers are far superior to drills for driving bolts and screws. Couldn't imagine not using them now.
kingkongjaffa 6 hours ago | 0 points
why is hex better than Handy? I feel like you need to give an explanation there.<p>Handy running Parakeet is fine for my use.
d675 30 minutes ago | 0 points
Used handy all year, felt slow, didn’t catch ums or trailing words. Uses CoreML and apple neural engine, it’s lightweight, less errors, faster,
jesterson 13 hours ago | 0 points
VoiceInk for voice2text<p>DEVONThink to organise/protect data