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I was frustated by having to draw system design diagrams by hand when discussing it with my team mates or in an interview. So I thought &quot;Wouldn&#x27;t it be great if someone draws it for me, while I think out loud?&quot;.That is when I came up with VoiceDraw. You can just think out loud or discuss your system architecture with a friend&#x2F;interviewer, the diagrams are automatically drawn along with your reasoning, open questions and tradeoffs beautifully written on to the side.Demo Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;36PgHKSuccE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;36PgHKSuccE</a>

Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves

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Sabela is a reactive notebook for Haskell. The name is the Ndebele word for &quot;to respond.&quot; Cells respond to each other on change. Initially it was meant as a tool for working with data but it has turned out to have a lot of pedagogical value outside of data analysis work.There is a gallery to read through on the website and a number of examples in the repo showcasing things like:* Python interop
* Widgets and animation
* Exploratory data analysisIf you find any of this interesting please try it out. Any feedback is welcome.

Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell

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Claude and ChatGPT have thinking efforts where you can tune the amount of thinking allowed.Like low, medium, high, xhigh and so on.But are they different models underneath? Or same model with different parameter?The reason I ask is because, if I change the effort param mid conversation in Claude code, I get a warning suggesting I’m breaking the cache.I don’t think this happens in Codex because when I change the effort, the responses are still quick.

Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?

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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2603.23928" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2603.23928</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AxiomMath&#x2F;lattice-triangle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AxiomMath&#x2F;lattice-triangle</a>

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I&#x27;m the developer of Trace, a non-intrusive, shortcut-driven Mac app that records and transcribes your meetings on-device. I know, another meeting transcription app. Please bear with me though, I&#x27;m confident that this is at least a little novel.I primarily built Trace for myself. I&#x27;d been using MacWhisper, but there was enough fiddling before each call that I&#x27;d forget to start it and walk out of an hour-long meeting with nothing written down. So the things I cared about most were that it&#x27;s quick to activate and stays out of the way. You activate Trace by pressing a global shortcut (configurable), which reveals a small bar at the bottom of your screen (there&#x27;s also a keystroke and&#x2F;or option to hide it entirely if you&#x27;d rather not see it at all).As I was building it I wanted to bake in a couple of workflows I&#x27;d wished for in other transcription apps.1. Mid-meeting you can press another global shortcut to mark a &quot;key moment&quot; and type a note. The note shows up in the resulting transcript inline at that timestamp. I wanted to add this because I kept catching myself thinking &quot;wait, that bit matters&quot; in meetings and reaching to jot it down in a separate app like Obsidian, which I then needed to add context to, which took me out of the meeting. I use it all the time. If I paste the transcript into an LLM afterwards (which I find myself doing more and more these days) the important moments are flagged so it doesn&#x27;t gloss over them. This is more noticeable in longer meetings with lots of topics.
2. With another keyboard shortcut you can summon a rough live recap (subtitles, basically) to quickly recap what&#x27;s just been said.Trace uses standard macOS microphone and system recording APIs to capture both sides of the conversation as two separate tracks and then runs the system side through on-device diarization to identify speakers. Right now we only label them as &quot;Speaker 1&quot;, &quot;Speaker 2&quot;, etc but there are plans for speaker labelling in the future. You can also show a &quot;live recap&quot; as the call is happening to review what someone just said.All transcription models run on your machine. To be clear though, Trace doesn&#x27;t do any of the summarising itself, it just produces a markdown transcript, so if you want summaries then you need to pass the output to an AI.The app is sandboxed and your audio&#x2F;transcripts are never uploaded anywhere - they just exist as audio files and markdown on disk. The only network call Trace is required to make is on the first run to download the speech and speaker models (around 500MB) from Hugging Face, and after that it can be used fully offline. If enabled, a Google Calendar integration can auto-name sessions but that needs a network connection.The app is £9.99 on the macOS App Store. I&#x27;ve been using it every day for months now and I&#x27;m super happy with how it&#x27;s improved my workflow. Feedback very welcome.

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (&amp; Ubuntu) VMs.You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. VMs stay on unless switched-off (with 99.99% uptime), they have static IPs and HTTPS endpoints, 1-60 vCPU, up to 240GB RAM and optionally GPUs. The CLI provides commands to manage lifecycle, snapshots and also provision the VMs using Nix flakes or Ansible playbooks. VMs are priced by the minute of usage.What makes machine0 unique is that it has first class support for NixOS! In a nutshell, NixOS lets you define your entire OS as code (think Terraform but for your Linux). A flake declares your system state (packages, services, firewall rules, users...) and pins all dependencies via a lockfile. Given the same flake.nix and flake.lock, `nixos-rebuild switch` always produces the exact same system.The NixOS ecosystem is mature, and flakes are expressive: at the system level you can define packages, what&#x27;s in &#x2F;etc, firewall rules, users &amp; groups etc. At the user level, you can define your shell, aliases, tmux and vim config. Having your entire environment defined as code makes it easy to audit what&#x27;s installed and how things are set up. You can rollback by reverting the last commit. And agents can write the code for you and test it against disposable machine0 VMs.If you&#x27;d like to dive right in, these commands will get you started:<pre><code> npm install -g @machine0&#x2F;cli
 machine0 new my-vm --image nixos-25-11 # create a new nixos VM
 machine0 provision my-vm .&#x2F;flake#my-profile # provision it using a nix flake
 machine0 ssh my-vm # ssh in
 machine0 stop my-vm # stop the VM
 machine0 images new my-vm my-snapshot # create a snapshot
 machine0 new my-clone --image my-snapshot # create a new VM from the snapshot
</code></pre>
- Demo of installation + NixOS provisioning via Claude Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RT8N0_e3Vfg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RT8N0_e3Vfg</a>- Documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.machine0.io&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;overview">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.machine0.io&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;overview</a>- machine0 NixOS flakes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fdmtl&#x2F;machine0-nixos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fdmtl&#x2F;machine0-nixos</a>If you&#x27;re in the habit of using VMs, or want to know what the NixOS fuss is about, would love for you to give machine0 a try!

Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI