{"slug": "moonshine", "name": "Moonshine", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 3.522, "rising": 1.67, "first": "2026-02-24", "latest": "2026-10-08", "why": "I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 2, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.", "icon": true, "domain": "moonshine.ai", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://moonshine.ai", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Moonshine"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 796970800, "item_id": 49810675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810675", "by": "monneyboi", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moonshine.ai", "excerpt": "Moonshine.ai I've put it in a simple android app https://github.com/resolveworks/scribe if you're interested", "context": "", "use_case": "non-cloud speech to text", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?"}, {"id": 791693232, "item_id": 49480827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480827", "by": "prios8", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Might actually try building something small on top of it.", "excerpt": "oh cool! hadn't seen moonshine. Might actually try building something small on top of it. Thanks!", "context": "", "use_case": "Spanish speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?"}, {"id": 791553552, "item_id": 49472097, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472097", "by": "monneyboi", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I know Moonshine has released a model for this recently", "excerpt": "I know Moonshine has released a model for this recently, https://huggingface.co/moonshine-ai/moonshine-es. They have lot's of examples. Maybe an evening with an coding agent will get you there.", "context": "", "use_case": "Spanish speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?"}, {"id": 783588624, "item_id": 48974289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974289", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.", "excerpt": "From the features section: > Isolated streaming sessions: Each stream runs in its own compositor, completely separate from your desktop environment. So yes, a compositor per session. I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.", "context": "", "use_case": "game streaming with isolated sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["spanish speech transcription", "embedded speech-to-text", "non-cloud speech to text", "game streaming", "game streaming with isolated sessions", "speech-to-text"], "compared": [{"slug": "sunshine", "name": "Sunshine", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "parakeet", "name": "Parakeet", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 783628624, "item_id": 48976789, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976789", "by": "hgaiser", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hi, creator of Moonshine here.", "excerpt": "Ah so this is where the influx of activity comes from.. Hi, creator of Moonshine here. I'll try to answer some common questions here instead of replying the same thing everywhere: What is it? At it's core it's similar to Sunshine but with one important difference: Moonshine creates its own compositor and does not rely on an existing desktop environment. The benefits: - You do not need a running desktop environment: i", "context": "creator of Moonshine", "use_case": "game streaming from Linux PC", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972970", "title": "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471989", "title": "Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427", "title": "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809670", "title": "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143755", "title": "Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models \u2013 higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"compare": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"compare": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 800162658, "item_id": 50010166, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010166", "by": "theturtletalks", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "compare", "quote": "models like moonshine and this one allow you to just embed it into your application simply. It might not be as good as parakeet, but it gets you 80% of the way there.", "excerpt": "Parakeet is the gold standard. With models like moonshine and koroko (TTS model), it\u2019s more about embedding the model in the application itself. If you\u2019re using Parakeet, embedding it in the application is not feasible. I use parakeet with superwhisper, and I\u2019m making another app that has SST and TTS built in, and I want to use my downloaded parakeet model, but it seems there\u2019s so many different implementations from ", "context": "", "use_case": "embedded speech-to-text", "switched_from": "", "story": "Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB"}, {"id": 796970800, "item_id": 49810675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810675", "by": "monneyboi", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moonshine.ai", "excerpt": "Moonshine.ai I've put it in a simple android app https://github.com/resolveworks/scribe if you're interested", "context": "", "use_case": "non-cloud speech to text", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?"}, {"id": 791693232, "item_id": 49480827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480827", "by": "prios8", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Might actually try building something small on top of it.", "excerpt": "oh cool! hadn't seen moonshine. Might actually try building something small on top of it. Thanks!", "context": "", "use_case": "Spanish speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?"}, {"id": 791553552, "item_id": 49472097, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472097", "by": "monneyboi", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I know Moonshine has released a model for this recently", "excerpt": "I know Moonshine has released a model for this recently, https://huggingface.co/moonshine-ai/moonshine-es. They have lot's of examples. Maybe an evening with an coding agent will get you there.", "context": "", "use_case": "Spanish speech transcription", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?"}, {"id": 783660786, "item_id": 48978799, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978799", "by": "mr_sturd", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I much prefer the idea of this where I don't have to worry about resizing the existing screen.", "excerpt": "Willing to give this a try as the latest Bazzite image wrecked my Sunshine configuration - I wasted last night trying to re-install via FlatPak. With access to kscreen-doctor blocked, and anything else useful on the system, I never got it working. I much prefer the idea of this where I don't have to worry about resizing the existing screen.", "context": "", "use_case": "game streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"}, {"id": 783588624, "item_id": 48974289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974289", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.", "excerpt": "From the features section: > Isolated streaming sessions: Each stream runs in its own compositor, completely separate from your desktop environment. So yes, a compositor per session. I love the idea of a gaming box that can host multiple instances; that would be very very good.", "context": "", "use_case": "game streaming with isolated sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"}, {"id": 754325139, "item_id": 47145321, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145321", "by": "Karrot_Kream", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Parakeet V2/V3 and Canary-Qwen (a Qwen finetune) handily beat Moonshine.", "excerpt": "According to the OpenASR Leaderboard [1], looks like Parakeet V2/V3 and Canary-Qwen (a Qwen finetune) handily beat Moonshine. All 3 models are open, but Parakeet is the smallest of the 3. I use Parakeet V3 with Handy and it works great locally for me. 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