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TuxWhisper

Offline push-to-talk dictation for Linux, works on Wayland

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points · traction gained Oct 13, 17:00 UTC → Oct 14, 14:36 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+

Traction frozen — tracking ended at 162h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.

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listed Oct 7, 20:53 UTC

Traction (points) over time

6 readings (one per daily ingest run). Dots are recorded values; lines just connect them — nothing in between is measured.

Key statistics

Traction: 3points
Comments: 0
Rank in DEVT this week: —not listed in the last 7 days
Rank overall this week: —
Sector hit rate: 10.6%17/161 · 7D
Traction line: Below10+ points
First reading: 3Oct 10, 11:16 UTC
Last reading: 3Oct 14, 14:36 UTC
Readings: 6over 162h

Launch-day race · #44 of 160 Show HN launches on 2026-10-07

#42Zero dependency cross-language background job queue server4 points
#43Railcode3 points
#44TuxWhisper3 points
#45Lessong3 points
#46TraceUX3 points

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