Nuklear

Hello HN. I made this Windows desktop app that allows using voice activation with games or apps that only support push-to-talk. The initial version was written years ago, without any UI or configuration options. It was just for my personal use. I had told a few friends about it, though, and then one of them asked if he could get a copy to use with Discord priority speaker, since for years, it has only worked with push-to-talk. So I spent some time making a more user-friendly version. It's written almost exclusively in C and uses Nuklear [1] for the UI. It has an auto updater. The releases are hashed with BLAKE3 and signed with ECC. I also recently made an open source USB device [2] that the app can use to send input from a "real" keyboard because, it turns out, there are some games (CSGO) that ignore simulated input for activating the mic

Hello HN, author here. I wrote a command line version of this app several years ago but it was only recently that I decided to make a more user-friendly version when a friend grumbled about how the priority speaker function in Discord would be really useful if it supported voice activation. So I said I could probably help with that, and a few weekends later, this was the result. It's written in C11 with just a sprinkle of C++. The UI uses Nuklear [1] with a DirectX 11 renderer. [1] https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

Everyone is in the mood to write about text rendering today for some reason, love it. Great to see so many points paralleled like this article talking [1] about sub-pixel offsets being a challange and Nuklear's Wiki article talking [2] about snapping glyphs to an interger offset. [1] https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/#subpixel-offse... [2] https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/wiki/Complete-f...