sandreas

Hey HN, I would like to extract structured information from captured audio on a device that is not too expensive (a small LLM would be an option, I got an old NVidia 1660 Super with 6GB VRAM). OpenAI Whisper could be…

I'm looking for an 80% ISO (big enter key) TKL keyboard compatible with the LOFREE Kailh Ghost Switches (Flow84). Context: I fell in love with the low profile thock of these switches, but hate the layout of lofree. I…

Hey HN, a few years ago I posted an audio cd ripping guide with an optical drive accuracy listing from dbpoweramp. Recently I updated the list with data from 2008 to 2024.…

I would like to write a small App to play audio tracks and control it via touch screen. My goto dev device would be a Raspberry PI with a touch screen, but possibly later also a smaller embedded RISC-V device with a…

Today I released tone 0.1.8 [1] - the new version of my hackable cross platform command line audio tagger. Features: - dump and modify metadata for most common audio formats (mp3, m4a, flac, ape, etc.) - use JSONPath to…

Hey HN, Today I tinkered around with a public API and found a security issue (SQL injection). I don't want to get in trouble and I read about cases where the owner of the site sued the reporter of an issue. I was not…

Hey HN, over the years I tested MANY dedicated audio players[1]. And here is the thing: I'm still using an Apple iPod Nano 7g for music and audio books (m4b), because in my opinion there is nothing that comes close in…

Hey HN, I recently had the problem that none of the existing self-hosted todo apps was simple enough for my purpose, so I thought I'd develop my own (pure todo). https://github.com/sandreas/pure-todo Despite having yet…

Hey HN, this year I earned € 205.11 via Github Sponsors. As promised all the money just has been donated to a charity project called "Welthungerhilfe"[1]. It's not that much but I still think its a big success (at least…

Hey HN, since I'm personally affected by this bug[1] and this scared me somehow, I thought I'd post my research results to have a discussion about the details. I must say I lost a bit of trust in ZFS, since it was…

Found this on youtube. Pretty impressive and may also be useful for other DIY bluetooth projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-igWXH8ZDk

https://thorium.rocks/ https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/ Seems to be an interesting Browser... has a lot of patches[1] and improvements. There is also a Video from Chris Titus[2] going into detail, why this is the…

Hey HN, on macOS systems with audio jack it is possible to use in-ear headsets with a remote to change volume but also use media key codes like play/pause, next, prev, etc. (similar to iPods) On my MacBook Pro 2015 with…

Recently I was experiencing strange file locks on Windows while compiling my tools. Since my company is using anti malware software, my supervisor recommended to use this eicar testfile to check if this might be the…

Hey HN, in the last few years I collected a few dedicated Android music players (also DAP or Hi-Res DAP), because I like enjoying my music and audio books without distraction and these devices are much smaller than most…

In the last months I did some research to replace my good old iPod Nano 7 with a small hackable low power device (non android). It was an interesting journey and on the way I found very interesting things, e.g. the…

Hey HN, I'm looking for a new pair of inear headphones with a cable remote (yes, really!) in the NON-High-End section (about 25 bucks). This is very important to me because I tend to listen to audiobooks when my kids…