MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Local audio transcription and speaker ID for Apple Silicon
by vadiml | 2025-08-02 14:49:55+00:00
Built a tool combining MLX Whisper + pyannote for fast local audio transcription with speaker diarization on Apple Silicon. Key benefits: privacy-first (fully local), hardware-accelerated, automatic speaker identification, multiple output formats (TXT/SRT/JSON). Main technical challenge was making MLX Whisper and pyannote work together despite different audio processing - solved with preprocessing pipeline. Perfect for interviews, meetings, podcasts. Handles HuggingFace gated models with proper error handling.
by WillAdams | 2025-08-02 14:50:39+00:00
The irony is, back when Steve Jobs first came back to Apple from NeXT, the Apple press on at least one occasion complained of him using a ThinkPad, even stating it was running Windows 95, w/o considering the NeXT compatibility list, that that model was on it, and that it actually ran NeXTstep and Lighthouse Design's Concurrence.app for presentations.
by adamcharnock | 2025-08-02 14:50:52+00:00
I think this is a really interesting point. I have a few thoughts as a read it (as a bit of a grey-beard).

Things are moving fast at the moment, but I think it feels even faster because of how slowly things have been moving for the last decade. I was getting into web development in the mid-to-late-90s, and I think the landscape felt similar then. Plugged-in people kinda knew the web was going to be huge, but on some level we also know that things were going to change fast. Whatever we learnt would soon fall by the wayside and become compost for the next new thing we had to learn.

It certainly feels to me like things have really been much more stable for the last 10-15 years (YMMV).

So I guess what I'm saying is: yeah, this is actually kinda getting back to normal. At least that is how I see it, if I'm in an excitable optimistic mood.

I'd say pick something and do it. It may become brain-compost, but I think a good deep layer of compost is what will turn you into a senior developer. Hopefully that metaphor isn't too stretched!
by RajT88 | 2025-08-02 14:50:59+00:00
Also: the human body does not want to lose weight.

You get more hungry after exercise.

People also are bad at calorie counting because they forget about so many sources of calories (milk/sugar in coffee, snacks, etc).

Let's say you figure all that out - keeping to a consistent diet and exercise regime is hard without some structure to maintain it. Example: I was in super good shape when my gym was next to my office, and lots of coworkers would go work out with me.

All this before we get to the as-yet-not understood effects of ultra processed foods and microplastics.

The body positivity movement I would give next to 0 blame here. May as well blame wokeism.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-02 14:51:11+00:00
I basically agree that there’s something… I dunno, implausible about solving loneliness in a general sense using LLMs.

But, wrt your specific description—these LLM based tools are just programs, and they can be easily configured to validate and flatter, or challenge and be obstinate. Surely they could be configured to have a satisfying relationship arc, if some work was put into it. I’m sure we could program a begrudging mentor that only became friendly after you’ve impressed it, if we wanted.

I think you are right that something isn’t there, but the missing thing is deeper than the surface level behavior. They aren’t AI’s, they are just language models. To get closer in some greedy sense, we could give the language model more complex simulated human like behaviors, but that will still be a simulation…
by alephnerd | 2025-08-02 14:51:51+00:00
EDA vendors know this is a risk, so EDA tools constantly need to "phone back home" to load updates and validate licenses. Plenty of functionality falls apart as well without that connectivity or support.

Furthermore, the resources that you would need to spend constantly cracking newer versions just isn't worth it when similar capital could be spent building home grown alternatives.

Finally, cracking and building a clone does cause liability risks for Chinese companies attempting to expand abroad. Companies are companies first - even in China - and the appetite for Huawei getting completely blocked from all of the EU, Singapore, SK, JP, India, etc where both the large EDA vendors and Chinese vendors coexist makes it a proposition that isn't worth it.
by jfengel | 2025-08-02 14:52:02+00:00
How trustworthy is that American?

You know that the North Korean is untrustworthy, but that's kind of a special case. Is a random American more trustworthy than a random Bangladeshi or Slovakian?

I suppose that you have a bit more ability to do background checks on US citizens. But those background checks aren't so great, either.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-08-02 14:52:12+00:00
Agree. There are probably more than a million tiny contextual data points that make a person look at something (whether it’s a tech product or a musician) and go: “cool, man.”

But those millions of data points can (rarely, briefly,) coalesce around a product or company, even though that’s mostly out of the control of those building the product or company.

EG if you asked someone in 1965 if a Jaguar E-Type was cool, or someone in 2000s London whether the Fruityloops DAW was cool, they’d say “yeah”.

I’m mostly agreeing, and it’s a super minor point, but tech specs are part of the unknowable, constantly-shifting constellation of symbols that produce “cool”, and there isn’t a reason an Apple product couldn’t, in the future, align the stars. They did before! The white iPod earbud wire did, briefly, signify cool.
by contravariant | 2025-08-02 14:52:17+00:00
Technically it doesn't, it's just really hard to implement leastconn correctly.

If you had perfect information and could just pick whichever was provably lowest that'd would probably work. However keeping that information up to date also takes effort. And if your information is outdated it's easy to overload a server that you think doesn't have much to do or underload one that's long since finished with its tasks. Picking between 2 random servers introduces some randomness without allowing the spread to become huge.
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-08-02 14:52:59+00:00
Technically yes but not for the reason you think.

Muscle and fat are metabolically active, which means they burn calories just to stay alive. If you lose fat, guess what? Your body doesn’t need as many calories to survive.

Another factor is the calories you burn not exercising. We burn calories all day, even when we’re not exercising but when people are dieting they tend to have lower energy so the don’t move around as much.

So yes, technically metabolical rate slows down but it’s not some conspiracy against you. It’s a direct result of losing fat.

That’s why some people lift weights while dieting to build muscle at the same time they’re losing fat. Personally, I haven’t had a huge issue with caloric restriction so I’m doing a more intense diet in the short term, then cooling off once I get to my goal weight and switching to more weigh lifting.
by graemep | 2025-08-02 14:53:02+00:00
There are lots of countries smaller and/or poorer than Sweden.

There are a number of very small countries with GDPs in the hundreds of millions of USD range. If you could buy a country for say 10× GDP you are looking at the low billions in GDP which is Bhutan or Zanzibar sized economies.

The problem is that countries are not often openly up for sale. You need military or political backing to actually get one. So you cannot literally buy a country.

On the other hand, I think it is reasonable to say that this amount of money is the value of an entire small economy, or of the entire stock market of a somewhat bigger one.
by apsurd | 2025-08-02 14:54:12+00:00
had a look, I don't see it as bullshit, it's just not groundbreaking.

Nature is overwhelmingly non-linear. Most of human scientific progress is based on linear understandings.

Linear as in for this input you get this output. We've made astounding progress.

Its just not a complete understanding of the natural world because most of reality can't actually be modeled linearly.
by kylecazar | 2025-08-02 14:54:29+00:00
AI is incapable of solving loneliness. It's a biological signal we have (thanks to evolution) to seek social connections with other humans, for things like reproduction and survival. Mentally healthy people will never be less lonely as long as they know they are talking to a model. All it can offer is a distraction and an illusion, because it has no humanity.

Note: I don't even think dogs solve loneliness. They can make you happy, less bored, and it's a meaningful relationship -- but they won't satisfy a yearning for human connection.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-02 14:54:47+00:00
It’s this. When you think you’ve discovered something novel, your first reaction should be, “what mistake have I made?” Then try to find every possible mistake you could have made, every invalid assumption you had, anything obvious you could have missed. If you really can’t find something, then you assume you just don’t know enough to find the mistake you made, so you turn to existing research and data to see if someone else has already discovered this. If you still can’t find anything, then assume you just don’t know enough about the field and ask an expert to take a look at your work and ask them what mistake you made.

It’s a huuuuuuuuuuuuge logical leap from LLM conversation yo novel physics. So huge a leap anyone ought to be immediately suspicious.
by shagie | 2025-08-02 14:55:01+00:00
There are a relatively finite number of Icelandic names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee

> A name not already on the official list of approved names must be submitted to the naming committee for approval. A new name is considered for its compatibility with Icelandic tradition and for the likelihood that it might cause the bearer embarrassment. Under Article 5 of the Personal Names Act, names must be compatible with Icelandic grammar (in which all nouns, including proper names, have grammatical gender and change their forms in an orderly fashion according to the language's case system).

A database of those names is no more interesting or personal than a dictionary or list of names ( https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/6536067 ) in another language... which is where they got the data.

> Iceland has a publicly run institution, Árnastofnun, that manages the Database of Icelandic Morphology (DIM). The database was created, amongst other reasons, to support Icelandic language technology.

https://bin.arnastofnun.is/DMII/aboutDMII/

There is no more personal information being presented than saying John or providing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(given_name) or https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=John

John may be your given name, but that data isn't personal data. One of the numbers 1969, 1978, 1987, 1996 might be your birth year... but https://oeis.org/A101039 isn't personal information either. Combining John with Smith and 1978 as the year of someone's birth... now you've got personal information that would be covered by the GDPR.
by cs_throwaway | 2025-08-02 14:55:24+00:00
> The risk of products like Study Mode is that they could do much the same thing in an educational context — optimizing for whether students like them rather than whether they actually encourage learning (objectively measured, not student self-assessments).

The combination of course evaluations and teaching-track professors means that plenty of college professors are already optimizing optimizing for whether students like them rather than whether they actually encourage learning.

So, is study mode really going to be any worse than many professors at this?
Show HN: Git-jot – Git notes for branches
by mtth | 2025-08-02 14:56:28+00:00
I like to keep notes when working on a new feature (links to useful resources, ideas to try next, etc.), so I wrote a small script to emulate branch-local git-notes. These persist as commits get added, through merges and rebases, and can be shared when needed.

Sharing it here in case it's useful to others - feedback welcome!
by jp1016 | 2025-08-02 14:56:36+00:00
I’ve been thinking about the same challenge. Most calendars feel too rigid and don’t really work well when your goals or routines shift over time. I started building something called BeaverGrow, a simple dashboard with separate widgets for goals, habits, notes, and timelines. The idea is to let you piece things together the way you want, kind of like Lego blocks.

It’s still pretty minimal, but if you’re curious, you can check it out at https://beavergrow.com
by zoklet-enjoyer | 2025-08-02 14:56:56+00:00
iirc, this is what caused the hype with ivermectin. I went to Fleet Farm and bought several tubes as soon as I read this. Because why not? By the time the Joe Rogan types started talking about it, my stash was already expired. I've periodically taken it when I've been exposed to bed bugs and fleas. And as a preventative thing when I'm going into areas with a lot of ticks. The apple flavored horse paste is nasty.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...
by cheschire | 2025-08-02 14:56:58+00:00
WinUI 3 still supports WinRT. It ALSO supports more. It's an evolution of WinUI 2, not just a simple version bump, but also not a completely new tech. It's probably a closer evolution to go from WinUI 2 to 3 than it was to go from Angular 1 to 2.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/winui3/...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/platf...
by xtracto | 2025-08-02 14:57:41+00:00
I'm a 44 yo Xenial, not too old, not young. That is, I'm part of the "walkman generation" .

It surprises me how people are less and less open to socialize, to the point that some even see you with disgust if you DARE to interrupt them from.their mobile phone trance.

Society nowadays is pretty ugly. Younger generations seem very isolationist to me.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-02 14:57:59+00:00
> On the other hand, it's a pest upon humankind that we can't leave public spaces clean and respect public property.

Toxic individualism and an intolerance towards collective ownership is killing community. We should not blame humankind on a problem easily solvable by hiring a few people to clean and fix things. Somehow, this (the public bearing any cost whatsoever to have and maintain high quality public property) has become unacceptable to the public!
by kylebenzle | 2025-08-02 14:58:28+00:00
That explanation makes no sense, obviously. Human beings have been human beings long before things even cost money and will exist long after money is gone.

I'm happy to accept the idea that people are simply brainwashed into thinking they need money and that is the root of their problems, but needing money is not a problem for a human being in and of itself.

Edit: but I think you said it yourself, you seem to think that you're forced to live a certain lifestyle, that's not true. You want to live a certain lifestyle and that lifestyle takes a lot of money.
Show HN: Byline CMS – A TypeScript-First, Open-Source Headless CMS
by blue_waters | 2025-08-02 14:58:47+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on Byline CMS, a TypeScript-first, open-source headless CMS built for developers (and users) who want full control over their data and hosting.

The goal is to provide:

Self-hosting freedom – run anywhere without vendor (or framework) lock-in.

TypeScript-native schemas – define content types in TS, generate admin dashboard and collection management UIs and workflows automatically.

Small, opinionated core – easy to understand, with 'grown up' features coming.

GitHub: https://github.com/Byline-CMS/bylinecms.dev

Docs & Roadmap: README - https://github.com/Byline-CMS/bylinecms.dev?tab=readme-ov-fi...

Discussion: https://github.com/Byline-CMS/bylinecms.dev/discussions

I’d love feedback, and if anyone’s interested in contributing, there's plenty to do.
by meindnoch | 2025-08-02 14:59:21+00:00
>Also: the human body does not want to lose weight.

Sure. The human body doesn't want a lot of things. The human body doesn't want to go to school, and yet we do. The human body doesn't want to go to work, and yet we do. The human body doesn't want to hold back farts in the office, and yet we do.

Many things require willpower. Life is not a gradient descent.
by yujzgzc | 2025-08-02 14:59:45+00:00
Valiant effort at old-school engineering applied to a niche problem. (Iceland has a population of only around 400,000 people!) As much as I love the geekery of this stuff though, isn't it already a better ROI to get an LLM to generate the strings you need? It has its own other problems (not claiming it'll be perfect) but for something so language related, it makes a lot of sense. Would also work for other languages that have the same problem with declension of proper nouns like Russian or Finnish.
by herval | 2025-08-02 15:00:10+00:00
In a lot of ways, indeed.

Lots of people are losing their minds with the fact that an AI can, in fact, create original content (music, images, videos, text).

Lots of people realizing they aren’t geniuses, they just memorized a bunch of Python apis well.

I feel like the collective realization has been particularly painful in tech. Hundreds of thousands of average white collar corporate drones are suddenly being faced with the realization that what they do isn’t really a divine gift, and many took their labor as a core part of their identity.
by trendinghotai | 2025-08-02 15:00:11+00:00
gregjor, I appreciate your correction — you're right, and I stand corrected on the foal/fawn mix-up.

What I’m really trying to get at is this:

If an AGI is able to self-edit, evolve, and reshape its own objectives—what (if anything) keeps it aligned over time?

Is alignment something we can enforce once and for all, or does it require a deeper, internalized structure—something that favors coherence even under freedom?

Because if there's no functional or structural reason to stay aligned, then is AGI inherently resistant to alignment, no matter what we do?
by luke-stanley | 2025-08-02 15:00:11+00:00
Well I don't think Anthropic are morons, that's not the point I was making.

Yes, I'm frustrated with Anthropic killing my direct API account for silly reasons, with no response. But actually I really appreciate Anthropic's models for code, their deep safety research with Constitutional AI, interpretability studies etc.

They are certainly guilty of having scaling and customer service issues, and making the wrong call with a faulty moderation system (for you too, and many others it seems like)!

But a lot of serious AI safety research that could literally save all our skin is being done by Anthropic, some of the best.

On OpenAI's API Platform, I am on Tier 5! It's unfortunate Anthropic have acted less commercially savvy than OpenAI (at the time, at least). I have complained on HN and I think on Twitter before about my account to no avail, after emailing before. But yeah, usually I just use them via OpenRouter these days, it's a shame that I must use it for API access.

I get the impression that a lot of OpenAI researchers went to Anthropic, which essentially is the first OpenAI splinter group. I think this is a sign of a serious, more healthy intellectual culture. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do next.
by MuffinFlavored | 2025-08-02 15:00:14+00:00
I think Claude Code is great, but I really grew accustomed to the "Cursor-tab tab tab" autocomplete style. A little perplexed why the Claude Code integration into VS Code doesn't add something like this? It would make it the perfect product to me. Surprised more people do not talk about this/it isn't a more commonly requested feature.
Show HN: Predict GPT-5 skills with a community AI benchmark
by andrewxhill | 2025-08-02 15:00:33+00:00
I’m Andrew, co-founder of Recall. Over the past few days I’ve been building Predict, a playground where anyone can:

- propose skills we should measure in language models—live examples include difficult math, memory-manipulation resistance, code generation, and empathy under bad news

- write evals (graded prompts) for those skills

- forecast which models will score highest once GPT-5 is released

Why this exists

Benchmarks leak into training data quickly; scores are unreliable and labs still declare progress. The prediction tool aims keeps the target moving by letting the crowd define both the tasks and the scoring. Accepted evals remain private until GPT-5 ships; afterward every prompt, response, and grade is published, with a checksum pinned on-chain for provenance.

A deeper bet

Simon Willison’s “draw a pelican on a bike” is such a great example of a custom prompt that surfaced insights no benchmark caught. Andrej Karpathy has noted that random crowds often miss the better answer. Some people have sharper intuition about model behavior than others; if we can identify that signal and fold it into the tooling, the crowd can stay ahead of the models instead of trailing them.

Implementation

Built almost completely w/ Claude Code (subagents enabled). Originally, working with a designer and using Figma MCP, but by the end we found it faster for him to just learn how to use Claude Code and prompt design iterations right to code. Rough edges remain, but the loop works end-to-end.

I’d value feedback—especially new skill ideas or failure modes we’ve missed.

https://predict.recall.network
by arrowsmith | 2025-08-02 15:01:16+00:00
I need to use this in Gemini. It gives good answers, I just wish it would stop prefixing them like this:

"That's an excellent question! This is an astute insight that really gets to the heart of the matter. You're thinking like a senior engineer. This type of keen observation is exactly what's needed."

Soviet commissars were less obsequious to Stalin.
by sternerfudging | 2025-08-02 15:02:39+00:00
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Ask HN: Consumer grade hardware AI sound / music generation models
by utopman | 2025-08-02 15:03:06+00:00
Hi folks,

I look for some open / free to use (commercial products) generated sound / music AI generation tool that I can run locally on common consummer hardware. I would like to iterate faster on prototyping apps / games without the hassle of searching / currating / cropping / transcoding audio media content.

I do not always need high quality content and do not want to mind if I forgot update media with copyright issues in my dev workflows before publishing.

Nothing very serious though, I just explore simple game dev at the moment and want to focus on game concepts instead of media content management.

any link / suggestion (it could be a 2 steps cli to search -> download from a free sound / music bank) welcome.
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-02 15:03:38+00:00
I might be completely wrong/off the mark here, but could it be related to that everything decentralised here is about blockchain (or even DLTs) which is just really weird for almost any idea... Who comes up with weirdness to stuff every square peg in a round hole? Sorry if you are not that person, but when I open the Autonomi page, I see 'not block chain', 'add your eth wallet', 'dlt based'... Why?