BlurtBox Sound Off

What it does

BlurtBox Sound Off is a free anonymous community platform for neighborhoods across the US and Canada. Join local chat rooms for your state or province — Illinois, Texas, Ontario, BC, and every state/province has its own room. Post to the community feed anonymously, sound off about local news, and connect with real neighbors without anyone knowing who you are. No real name. No phone number. Just you and your community. Free on web at blurtboxsoundoff.com.

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  Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust2025 · github.com · ▲591

  Hey HN! Braden here, creator of Whispering, an open-source speech-to-text app. I really like dictation. For years, I relied on transcription tools that were almost good, but they were all closed-source. Even a lot of them that claimed to be “local” or “on-device” were still black boxes that left me wondering where my audio really went. So I built Whispering. It’s open-source, local-first, and most importantly, transparent with your data. Your data is stored locally on your device, and your audio goes directly from your machine to a local provider (Whisper C++, Speaches, etc.) or your chosen…

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  Overtalk2024 · ▲286

  A free walkie-talkie for the web

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  RealTalk2016 · ▲201

  A friendly place to exchange anonymous videos with strangers

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  LocalClickyJun 2026 · github.com · ▲127

  Control your Mac with your voice locally

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  Chatparty2020 · ▲160

  A videochat app with a twist —no audio.

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  Streetchat2014 · ▲70

  Anonymous local message boards

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  Browzer▲426

  Put your technical content on autopilot

  Growth · 14d ago · trybrowzer.com

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  AstraPixels▲267

  ​​A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.​

  Growth · 29d ago · astrapixels.com

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  Brila▲1,367

  One-page websites from real Google Maps reviews

  AI · Apr 2026 · brila.ai

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  A game where you build a GPU▲964

  Thought the resources for GPU arch were lacking, so here we are

  Life & fun · Apr 2026 · jaso1024.com

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  I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work▲915

  Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.

  AI · Apr 2026 · github.com

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  Fathom 3.0▲803

  AI meeting notes: now bot-free, in ChatGPT & Claude + more

  AI · Apr 2026 · fathom.ai

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  Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)▲786

  Life & fun · Apr 2026 · sam-burns.com

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  I built a frontpage for personal blogs▲783

  With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

  AI · Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app