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134 titles from 113 authors in the last 30 days, with 125 distinct links and 39 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Babytalk: Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32 · score 8.3

  BabyTalk enables offline, general-purpose English speech-to-text and text-to-speech directly on ESP32-S3/P4 microcontrollers, using quantized neural models stored in flash and run with tight RAM budgets. It stands out by bringing cloud-free, command-free voice interaction to embedded devices like LoRa radios and screenless nodes, with bindings for C, MicroPython, and Erlang/Elixir.

• Show HN: Glimpse – Find any screenshot on Windows by its text or how it looks · score 7.5

  Glimpse is a Windows desktop tool that indexes screenshots and images locally, allowing users to search by OCR text, visual similarity (CLIP), or semantic meaning (EmbeddingGemma). It combines fast SQLite FTS5, GPU-accelerated embeddings, and hybrid ranking to deliver millisecond-level search across thousands of images, all offline and private.

• Show HN: PDFkind – a PDF editor that edits the existing text, in the browser · score 7.3

  PDFkind is a browser-based PDF editor that uniquely edits existing text in-place while preserving font, size, and color, with automatic line reflow. It also offers a full suite of tools like redaction, form filling, signatures, and annotations, making it a comprehensive free alternative to desktop PDF editors.

• Show HN: Let Claude Code answer with a diagram page instead of a wall of text · score 7.3

  An agent skill that converts Claude Code's text answers into self-contained HTML diagram pages via a Markdown-to-HTML CLI, cutting model output tokens by ~8x. It targets the common pain of reading long terminal explanations, and ships with benchmark data, multi-agent install support, and an explainer video mode.

Recent titles

1. Show HN: 2D world SIM where each creature runs a text classifier in the browser
   2026-11-01 · id-le.com · HN discussion
2. Renderpdf.js – PDFs from browser-laid-out HTML with selectable text
   2026-11-01 · npmjs.com · HN discussion
3. AI text watermarking and quality loss
   2026-10-31 · blog.keyvan.net · HN discussion
4. I built an Android app that translates text and turns it into MP3 audio
   2026-10-31 · play.google.com · HN discussion
5. Non-autoregressive NC LLM spits tokens 21x faster than text diffusion
   2026-10-31 · hazyresearch.stanford.edu · HN discussion
6. Kayls -TUI lightweight text editor using rust
   2026-10-31 · HN discussion
7. Show HN: NKTg AI – An LLM that decodes text before generating
   2026-10-30 · nktg.org · HN discussion
8. Agent Memory Challenge Cycle 2 Closes in 2 Days:Text, Code and Multimodal Tracks
   2026-10-30 · x.com · HN discussion
9. Show HN: Anime Text Datasets for LLMs Training
   2026-10-30 · github.com · HN discussion
10. Show HN: I created a spreadsheet in a plain text file
    2026-10-30 · app.ordinate.dev · HN discussion
11. Show HN: Decode.bg Simple Image to Text Extractor
    2026-10-29 · decode.bg · HN discussion
12. Five Principles for Generating Readable AI Text in Bulk
    2026-10-29 · fsdatalab.github.io · HN discussion
13. Parakeet v3 on a desktop CPU: speech to text at 20× real time
    2026-10-29 · talkhawk.app · HN discussion
14. NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto
    2026-10-29 · mastodon.sdf.org · HN discussion
15. Rustext: A native GUI/TUI text editor in pure Rust with zero dependencies
    2026-10-28 · github.com · HN discussion
16. You can now text your dots (iMessage)
    2026-10-28 · twitter.com · HN discussion
17. Tailpaste: Share clipboard text between devices over Tailscale
    2026-10-28 · github.com · HN discussion
18. Text-First: If It Can Be Text, It Should Be Text
    2026-10-28 · martinbosslet.dev · HN discussion
19. Tessera – Open-source, self-hosted file and text sharing
    2026-10-28 · github.com · HN discussion
20. Hy-Nomas, Tencent's new open-source world model you can steer with text
    2026-10-27 · huggingface.co · HN discussion
21. Show HN: Break the Wall – take a wall of text apart into parts you can test
    2026-10-27 · github.com · HN discussion
22. Valen – Open multimodal decision models for text, images and video
    2026-10-27 · valen-team.github.io · HN discussion
23. KWin-Type Introduced to Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap for Auto-Typing Text
    2026-10-26 · phoronix.com · HN discussion
24. Why AI-generated text is harder to understand than you think
    2026-10-26 · unite.ai · HN discussion
25. Show HN: Rewrite, a free editor that rewrites text and edits Word, LaTeX and PDF
    2026-10-26 · samratduttaofficial.github.io · HN discussion
26. Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
    2026-10-26 · titleart.dvy.io · HN discussion
27. DetectorScope: AI text detectors that show their work
    2026-10-24 · github.com · HN discussion
28. Show HN: BulkTextKit – 15 free text tools that run entirely in your browser
    2026-10-24 · bulktextkit.gt.tc · HN discussion
29. Show HN: AI text detector that never sees your text (runs 100% in-browser)
    2026-10-24 · kouh.me · HN discussion
30. Show HN: AiSniff, underline the phrases in a text that read like AI wrote them
    2026-10-23 · github.com · HN discussion

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