Show HN Daily Selection (2025-09-23)
- Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally
- Software Freelancers Contract Template
- Minecraft Villager Sounds for Terminal Errors
- Grow and Monitor Your AI Search Traffic
- Coding Agents swarming your codebase
- Zenode – an AI-powered electronic component search engine
- Technical Interview for an Open Source Team (Grove Engineering)
- Chat with Any YouTube Video
- Lindra – generate browser agents to automate any website
Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally [Audio]
28 points, 15 comments
Python Audio Transcription: Convert speech to text locally using Python.
- Local processing (no cloud dependency)
- Python-based solution
- Supports speech-to-text conversion
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Software Freelancers Contract Template [Business]
126 points, 47 comments
A free, open-source contract template and web generator for software freelancers in Finland, designed to simplify and streamline contract creation.
- Developed in collaboration with a law firm for legal accuracy
- Web generator minimizes boilerplate work and reduces user errors
- Open-source and free, addressing the lack of affordable options
- Finnish jurisdiction-focused but useful as a reference for other regions
- Browser-based drafting for immediate use
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Minecraft Villager Sounds for Terminal Errors [Entertainment]
19 points, 0 comments
Minecraft Villager sounds for terminal errors.
- Replaces terminal error sounds with Minecraft Villager noises
- Adds humor to debugging sessions
- Lightweight and easy to implement
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Grow and Monitor Your AI Search Traffic [Marketing]
6 points, 0 comments
Spiderseek is a lightweight platform for tracking and growing website visibility in AI-powered search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT.
- AI Research: Explore domains and keywords to uncover new opportunities
- AI Analytics: Track traffic, crawl activity, and page metrics with AI insights
- Content Submission: Get content indexed instantly in major AI agents
- Rankings: View top 1000 domains by citations and sources
- Affordable pricing: $1/month during early development
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Coding Agents swarming your codebase [Developer Tools]
8 points, 7 comments
AI-powered coding agents automate multi-repository changes by creating parallel pull requests with minimal input.
- Automates repetitive coding tasks across multiple repositories
- Operates in parallel to handle changes efficiently
- Includes documentation reading and PR description generation
- Features a dashboard for monitoring and managing changes
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Zenode – an AI-powered electronic component search engine [Developer Tools]
16 points, 32 comments
AI-powered electronic component search engine for PCB designers with a vast catalog and AI-driven datasheet analysis.
- Largest and deepest part catalog with 40M+ components from multiple sources
- Natural language search and modern parametric filters for efficient discovery
- AI-powered interactive document analysis with highlighted source references
- Deep Dive feature for cross-part comparisons and queries
- Fast processing of lengthy datasheets (e.g., 1,000 pages in seconds)
- Currently lacks real-time pricing/availability and requires accuracy tuning
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Technical Interview for an Open Source Team (Grove Engineering) [Developer Tools]
3 points, 0 comments
Technical interview assessing candidates by setting up a local development environment for an open-source team.
- Evaluates practical skills by spinning up a local dev environment
- Bidirectional approach to assess technical fit
- Focuses on real-world open-source collaboration
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Chat with Any YouTube Video [Video]
3 points, 0 comments
A Chrome extension that enables interactive chat with YouTube video transcripts for instant answers and summaries.
- Extracts and summarizes video transcripts for quick information retrieval
- Allows real-time interaction with video content via chat
- Offers both chat mode and auto-generated summaries
- Saves time by pinpointing specific information without watching entire videos
- Useful for studying or evaluating video relevance before watching
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Lindra – generate browser agents to automate any website [Developer Tools]
3 points, 0 comments
Lindra is a platform that generates adaptive browser-agent scripts to automate workflows across websites.
- Automates actions on single domains with multi-page flow support coming soon
- Generates agents that adapt to DOM changes for reliability
- Provides a clean API for integrating scraped data into CRMs, Google Apps, or custom code
- Built with Astro, Playwright, and Supabase