ScanRead.ai
Free OCR for images, PDFs, screenshots, and notes
What it does
ScanRead.ai turns screenshots, scans, PDFs, receipts, and handwritten notes into editable text in seconds. It works in the browser, supports 100+ languages, and has a free no-signup flow for quick one-off jobs.
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The app store for voice native apps that lives in your notch
Work · 28d ago · voiceos.com


Mac-native app for screenshots, recordings and collaboration
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Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons
Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai


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Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com
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Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com