I did the math based on our data from customers in https://whispermemos.com/ and it seems to be $0.12 per hour of input audio, with our average tokens/sec.

Scribe is $0.22.

If the accuracy is close to Scribe, I think it's a good deal.

Interesting, that doesn't line up with the input/output costs listed on Artificial Analysis?

VAT?

I think the $34/GB figure might be inclusive of VAT and the $4560 not, which would be $28.5 otherwise. Not sure.

Oops sorry its just typo. Its 5460 not 4560.

AFAIK UK VAT is 20% and it's 27% higher price. Its just what you get for living in UK I guess.

I tried making a Things clone yesterday.

Spent maybe 7 hours of promoting with Fable.

I wanted to get drag and drop right, and I wanted good code architecture to start with.

It’s using TinyBase for data storage.

Here’s how far I got in 7 hours: https://focuslist.app

Yes, much faster than writing all of that by hand.

But prompting quality software into existence? No way. It would take at least another full time week to finish that app with all the detail I desire.

A week is fast, no? Would it be faster by hand?

50 hours of work seems like a tiny investment.

Yeah, but I was reacting to idea of "frontend developer career coming to an end".

I guess kinda - the job will change from "frontend developer" to "UI inventor"..

I'm using an app called Focusmate (no affiliation) on a daily basis - scheduling 5-6 hour sessions per day.

You talk to a stranger for a few seconds, say what you're working on, and after 50 minutes you say goodbye. They stay on the video throughout the session, but muted.

It helps me focus because I always think "it's only 50 minutes".

Also, I recently deleted Instagram and it made a huge impact.

Yeah I’ve done nearly 3000 sessions on there and it’s been a life saver.

Not sure why you got downvoted. This works for a lot of people. Doesn’t work for me because I find the video aspect to be awkward, but the concept of ‘body doubling’ as a way of enabling focus is well established.

[Editing to note that perhaps you were downvoted because OP lives in a place with internet issues and couldn’t use Discord to cowork with friends, so the video and bandwidth heavy approach of Focusmate isn’t a viable recommendation]

I the past month or so, I added 2 models to my app Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com):

- Cohere Transcribe (self hosted)

- Grok Speech To Text (they provide an API, only $0.10/hr!)

They are both excellent. I'm not sure about this one. Would you like to see it in a consumer speech to text app?

I've had good experiences with the Mistral Voxtral models (I've used the API, but some of the model-variants are open weight)

Does Cohere work with longer transcripts? Do you have to do some magic to merge recordings over 35 seconds long?

Have you tried qwen?

Any non-Musk alternatives that are comparable in quality and cost?

Voxtral competes on price ($0.003/min) and quality. Speechmatics has best in class accuracy but is a bit more expensive ($0.004/min)

Our default is still OpenAI Whisper. Grok is just a choice for users who might prefer it.

Just today I shipped support for this in Whisper Memos: https://whispermemos.com/changelog/2026-04-cohere-transcribe

Accurate and fast model, very happy with it so far!

According to Polymarket, there's a 16% chance US will confirm aliens exist: https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-us-confirm-that-aliens...

Someone with the ability to register .gov domains is trying to make a sneaky buck.

It used to be anyone with a fax machine could register any .gov but they fixed that when there was a news report about it.

I was curious about this, so for anyone else who’s interested, here’s a KrebsOnSecurity article from 2019 about how easy it was to fraudulently register a .gov domain:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-...

I haven’t seen any follow-up reporting, but it looks like the process now requires some semblance of identity verification:

https://get.gov/domains/before/

It's because of the time value of money. Buying no is much like buying a bond.

It doesn't mean there's a 16% chance.

It's probably more attractive to gamblers when presented like this.

That's just gambling without any basis for reality though. Not sure if you're actually attributing any weight to random gamblers lol.

Taking the opposite side of this bet feels like a free 19% return on your money.

It's based on what Donald Trump (or any other US president, should it come to that) says, not on any evidence or ground truth beyond that.

The are motives for lying on this - for a start, if a president knows definitively they're going to say it, it's a free 81% return. Secondly, it's a pretty big dead cat to throw on the table to distract from any scandal and/or to keep themselves in the news cycle on a different topic.

Ah, the wisdom of the crowds (of gamblers.)

I mean, fair, but who says he'll be appraised and knowing about it at all?

Are we gonna talk about that cookie banner? https://cleanshot.com/share/cDQ5RMkP

Looks like a reasonable cookie banner to me: Deny (all), Custom selection and Accept all.

It even works perfectly with Consent-O-Matic extension.

It's a perfectly not reasonable cookie banner. If you click on Details, you can see that they're not using marketing, statistics, or any other kind of cookies apart from the technically necessary. Which is great, but also means that they don't even need a banner. It could just go away.

what about it?

This just makes me want to play tennis right now. Such an addictive sports.

Not free, but Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com/) is about half the price