MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Anyone here has a usecase for Opern router but for TTS?
by akshat77 | 2026-01-20 10:36:24+00:00
Instantly swap between models (hard to keep up with the rapidly growing TTS ecosystem)

Easily switch to faster, cheaper, or more reliable models

Test models easily without paying multiple providers; run A/B tests in production without redeploying

Track usage, latency, errors, and spend in one place

Compare new models and test them side by side in an arena
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-20 10:36:33+00:00
Is this the same with everything? In the past, a hard drive, a mouse, or a web camera was a dumb piece of hardware and a driver that ran on your PC. Now, IIUC, each of those has it's own computer (SoC) running an entire OS. Your phone probably has ~20+ SoC. One for USB, one for Wifi, One for Bluetooth, one for each of the 4 cameras, one for lidar, one for SSD, one for cellular, one for the secure enclave, one for audio, Each of them is an entire computer, more powerful than most 1980s general purpose computers, running an entire OS with multiple abstractions internally and all of that to make that device appear as yet another abstraction.

Am I wrong?
by themafia | 2026-01-20 10:37:10+00:00
> Electric motors are essentially maintenance free

They require maintenance, although less than an ICE, but drive train repairs are not as uncommon as you might think. Manufacturers are always going to pinch pennies.

> That cuts out a large chunk of the automotive industry in general.

Hardly. You've removed the engine, fuel and exhaust system. You still need literally everything else. Windows and motors, doors and locks, wheels and hubs, seats and accessories, gauge clusters and radios, environmental controls, differentials and oil changes, the list goes on and on.

You deliver them the same way, you sell them the same way, you license them into the system the same way.

> US/EU/JP manufacturers are having to handle a major market disruption

That was called COVID. They all handled it badly save Toyota. The oil companies have far more to worry about.
by thewhitetulip | 2026-01-20 10:37:37+00:00
I use cursor on a daily basis. It is good for a certain use cases. Horribly bad for some other. Read the below one by keeping that in mind! I am not an LLM skeptic.

It is wild that people are ao confident with AI that they're not testing the code at all?

What are we doing as a programmer? Reducing the typing + testing time? Because we have to write the prompt in English and do software design otherwise AI systems write a billion lines of code just to add two numbers.

This hype machine should show tangible outputs, and before anyone says they're entitled to not share their hidden talents then they should stop publishing articles as well.

You can't have your cake and have it too!
by defrost | 2026-01-20 10:37:49+00:00
I first heard the term in the mid 1970s in Australia.

After WWII it referred to the establishment of the UN charter

The rules-based international order as we know it today is predicated on a system of laws, rules, and norms, and it has underpinned international interactions since its formal establishment in 1945. Whether its overall influence is positive or negative continues to be predicated on the actions of the members of the international community, but one cannot influence what one does not fully understand.

~ https://www.parleypolicy.com/post/the-rules-based-internatio...

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_international_order
by lelanthran | 2026-01-20 10:38:00+00:00
> Tells you all you need to know around how extremely weak a C executable like QuickJS is for LLMs to exploit. (If you as an infosec researcher prompt them correctly to find and exploit vulnerabilities).

Wouldn't GP's approach work with any other executable using libc? Python, Node, Rust, etc?

I fail to see what is specific to either C or QuickJS in the GP's approach.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-01-20 10:38:07+00:00
Strongly disagree. If you look into the details, you'll find he never actually intentionally hurt Russia.

>Javelins in his first term, I believe that was the time the us supplied military weapons to Ukraine.

Trump was always reluctant about it and actually got himself into yet another impeachment inquiry for withholding part of this congressional aid package, because Zelenskyy did not want to investigate Hunter Biden. He wasn't able to overcome congress, but he did manage to limit Javelin use for western Ukraine only, were Russia was not active back then.

>Tried to get Europe off of Russia gas

That goes into the aforementioned category of things he said but never acted on. Russia caused Europe to actually move away from Russian gas in the end.

>Tried to get Europe to invest heavily in thru military

Same category and same answer. Could also be seen as his start of dismantling NATO from the inside, which seems to have been his (and ofc. Putin's) ultimate goal from the very beginning - which in turn dates back all the way to the 1980s, when Trump bought anti-NATO advertising in the New York Times after visiting Russia. So it's not even that far fetched to accuse him (or his handlers) of long term schemes.

>Syria

The US had troops there for a veeeery long time, but rarely threw hands with the regime under any US admin. After all, this was mostly about curbing IS. Putin apparently never really cared about Syria in the end either. They were just an alternate location for a warm water Navy port to them, which became obsolete once they took over Crimea. Assad got to feel that pretty hard.

>Iran

They were allied, but Iran actually started going against Russia in 2023 because Putin supported the UAE claim on the Strait of Hormuz. It's all been downhill since then and the eventual US military strike was definitely pro-Israel, not anti-Russia.

>and Venezuela

They literally halted the immediate seizure after one of those "shadow fleet" ships suddenly displayed a Russian Flag. This was always more about hurting Venezuela and they explicitly tried to handle Russia with appeasement.

>Sanctions

Not sure what you mean here. Safe for one pointless act on oil companies that were already heavily sanctioned, all relevant sanctions came under the Biden admin. He famously did not put tariffs on Russia, despite putting them on basically every other country in the world (allied or not).
by our79511 | 2026-01-20 10:39:49+00:00
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by harmonics | 2026-01-20 10:40:38+00:00
I know developed countries have a very different understanding of the word "clean", but in my city -- which is stuck in the 18th century -- the difference between winter and summer months is extreme. 500-1000 µg/m³ of PM2.5 in winter is the usual deal. 1500-2000 µg/m³ are not unheard of. Yet in summer it's often only 5-10 µg/m³, with spikes of no more than 50 µg/m³ in the evenings due to -- again -- coal burning.

And we have a lot of traffic, regular traffic jams. The average age of a typical car is older than 10 years, according to government data. Most of them are used cars with 100k miles (or more) on them imported from western Europe or the US.

Still, the difference in particulates in summer vs winter is literally hundreds of times.
by dgb23 | 2026-01-20 10:41:22+00:00
You're right that later in his life he spread antisemitism and other terrible opinions as he was extremely elitist towards the peasantry. Definitely not a fan of that sort of thing.

But I didn't want to make a value judgement about Martin Luther's ideological legacy, but wanted to introduce some nuance into the narrative about disruptive innovation.
I built a typing practice tool because typing tests never helped me improve
by amitgajbhare | 2026-01-20 10:41:49+00:00
I type all day — code, emails, docs, messages.
For years I used typing test websites. They’d tell me my speed, maybe my accuracy… and that was it. I never actually felt like my typing was getting better.
At some point it clicked:
most typing tools are great at measuring, but not very good at training.
So I started building something for myself.
The idea was simple: instead of showing random text every time, what if practice focused on the keys, words, and patterns I personally struggle with?
That experiment slowly turned into TypeSpeedAI.
Right now it does a few things:
Tracks mistakes in real time (not just final score)
Identifies weak keys and patterns
Adjusts practice based on those weaknesses
Has different modes depending on how you type:
Clean (accuracy-focused)
Standard (balanced)
Programmer (code-heavy text)
Shows progress over time, not just one-off tests
I built this under my company Hackersway, and it’s still very much evolving. Some parts are polished, some parts are rough, and I’m actively changing things based on how people use it.
I’m sharing it here because I’d genuinely like feedback from people who type a lot:
Do you care more about speed or accuracy?
Have you ever stuck with a typing tool long-term?
What would make you actually use one daily?
You can try it here:
https://typespeedai.com
Happy to answer questions about how it’s built, what’s working, and what’s not.
Thanks for reading.
by Doxin | 2026-01-20 10:42:01+00:00
It should be mentioned that as far as I can tell pretty much no one is selling pure PLA filament. They all have additives, so who knows what the actual glass transition temperature is for any random given filament. This has been true for a while too. Pure PLA has some properly awful properties, among which is it having pretty much no elastic deformation. Any amount of force will introduce microscopic cracks. The various additives reduce these kinds of issues and are therefore not really optional.
by gustavorg | 2026-01-20 10:42:10+00:00
As I was reading this text, my hands started sweating, my head began to ache, and I felt the anguish and terror of reliving a traumatic experience all over again. I can’t even count how many times I’ve been stuck in a project that’s already behind schedule, where the client (I’m a freelancer, working directly with the person who has the requirement) throws in a ‘simple’ request like: change the style of that radio button so it matches this other one.
The problem isn’t that—because of reasons like the ones explained in the article—I end up spending hours and hours on what looks like a trivial task. The real nightmare is when the client asks me: ‘Why are you taking so long to do something so dumb?’
It’s a nightmare. That’s why I ran away from React, because of this and countless similar situations, and went back to WordPress, where the world is so much simpler, the clients are happy, and so am I.
by atomtamadas | 2026-01-20 10:42:59+00:00
Humans have strong self preservation instincts so at some point they'll start to ignore the free internet content or treat it as no more than fiction. There might come the time when people will demand personal meetings for everything, kind of a return to nature because they won't trust anything that can be machine generated. In way that's positive as current trends of weakening deeper human connections will be reversed thanks to AI :)
by funkyfiddler69 | 2026-01-20 10:43:56+00:00
> It’s not just “user error”

It's a (enough) users don't care enough to spend time engineering.

Humanity had the same problem since the industrialization. Quick money! Quick fame! Quick status! Quick likes!

Critical thinkers always said: we can do this better. We already have an outline and need a few months longer to engineer a better solution that will create more jobs and opportunities to expand the industry which will likely give rise to the potential of sparking entire new industries.

Pseudo-capitalist (portfolio communist): No, poison it all, level the ecosystem, erradicate however many species you have to, and make sure the people feel the urgency and talk less about that better solution. It's not trendy, the world is moving fast and throw some new designer roofies on the market. And amphetamines, and more cocaine, call it the new golden era and make sure the old and new Germans get really into it once again!
by KurSix | 2026-01-20 10:44:21+00:00
Honestly stories like yours are the best part of this whole AI revolution. It’s genuinely cool that the technical barrier is no longer killing creative ideas. You’ve essentially skipped the "coder" stage and jumped straight to orchestrator (Product Owner + QA rolled into one), with AI acting as the diligent junior dev. That is a totally valid model

The only downside is that sooner or later, you hit the scaling trap. When a project grows from a silly website into a real product with users, not understanding how exactly the AI stitched those code blocks together becomes a critical risk. AI is great at putting up walls and painting facades, but the foundation (architecture and security) still needs human verification, especially once other people's data gets involved
by Antibabelic | 2026-01-20 10:44:29+00:00
This is my problem with people claiming that LLMs "understand". What we usually call "meaning" in intricately related to an encyclopedic knowledge of the world around us. How does this kind of knowledge not get into the same kind of loop you've just described? It is ultimately founded on our direct experience of the world, on sense data. It is ultimately embodied knowledge.
by n4r9 | 2026-01-20 10:44:56+00:00
According to their own blog [0], Opera implemented tabs in 2000. The earliest version of what became Firefox was released as "Phoenix" in 2002 [1]. Phoenix was renamed to Firebird in 2003 and again to Firefox in 2004 [2], in both cases due to name clashes.

[0] https://blogs.opera.com/news/2026/01/opera-one-r3-new-browse...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History
by mcny | 2026-01-20 10:45:04+00:00
Practically, my biggest concern is deliver ability

> The Zen Way: "I am <327c1b2f87c9353e01769b01090b18f2>. Wherever I am, my peers can reach me".

> When links are intermittent and latency is measured in minutes or hours, "real-time" is an illusion. Reticulum doesn't encourage Store and Forward as a mere fallback, but as a primary mode of existence. You write a message, it propagates when it can, and it arrives when it arrives.

Let's say A and B are talking.

A sends message A1.

B receives message A1.

B sends message B1.

A receives message B1.

A sends message A2.

Something happens and B doesn't receive it.

A sends A3.

B receives A3.

Later, B receives A2.

Now what does B do with this information? Does the envelope contain all the metadata about when A sent it so B client software can order the messages properly?
Show HN: Gemini-live-react – Real-time voice AI that works in the browser
by loffloff | 2026-01-20 10:45:14+00:00
Gemini Live offers real-time bidirectional voice AI, but using it in the browser is rough:
- 16kHz in, 24kHz out, browser wants 44.1/48kHz
- PCM16 endianness issues
- buffering vs latency tradeoffs
- playback gaps when chunks arrive mid-stream

I built gemini-live-react, a React hook that fixes the audio DX and adds features I needed to build real AI agents:

• Session recording – record transcripts, audio metadata, tool calls, browser actions, and DOM snapshots into a single JSON for debugging/replay
• Workflow builder – define multi-step browser automations as a simple state machine (branching + error handling)
• Smart element detection – auto-detect clickable elements so agents don’t rely on brittle selectors

Used for voice-driven web agents where the loop is:
AI sees UI → decides → clicks/types → repeat

Tech:
React hook (~2k LOC), AudioWorklet, WS proxy (Deno/Supabase), TypeScript

GitHub: https://github.com/loffloff/gemini-live-react
npm: npm install gemini-live-react

Looking for feedback on the workflow abstraction — state machines felt right, but curious what others use.
by cess11 | 2026-01-20 10:46:44+00:00
It's not a "a job". As an institution police spend a lot of effort and resources to make sure that the stuff they do is perceived as a kind of calling and very special, which is important to foster loyalty between cops and helps them psychologically endure exposing vulnerable people to violence and incapacitation.

Legally they're in a protected category and 'above the law' in many ways. They get to break into other people's homes, dig through their stuff, spy on and hurt them. Commonly they're told that these actions are what keeps society from hurtling into barbarism.

Being told you are superior to others is not psychologically innocent.
by azan_ | 2026-01-20 10:47:47+00:00
> Because that's exactly what they are. An LLM is just a big optimization function with the objective "return the most probabilistically plausible sequence of words in a given context".
> There is no higher thinking. They were literally built as a mimicry of intelligence.

Maybe real intelligence also is a big optimization function? Brain isn't magical, there are rules that govern our intelligence and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if our intelligence in fact turned out to be kind of returning the most plausible thoughs. Might as well be something else of course - my point is that "it's not intelligence, it's just predicting next token" doesn't make sense to me - it could be both!
by techpression | 2026-01-20 10:49:01+00:00
A lot of frontend developers today (my experience) does't even know where to look for CSS updates or what vast amount of HTML element exists, they just know to look for frameworks and that's how they see the world.
Like <input> is foreign to them, they only know of <FrameworkTextComponent>.

Sometimes you do need a framework, but the question is being asked way too seldom.
by trueno | 2026-01-20 10:49:20+00:00
my brain for whatever reason won't accept react it's just instant ejection. i was there in the before times all the way up till jquery became uncool and i just tuned out of front end entirely once react and all the stuff driven by facebook became so ubiquitous, my soul just does not want to dabble in any of it.
i think im mostly just appalled at what feels like over complexity that might've made sense over a decade ago but perhaps im waiting for a more satisfying paradigm to come along. i dunno. i had some sparks of joy tinkering with golang to build ssr stuff, i dont keep up with wasm at all but i hope its cruising along.

i wonder if what im after is like some kinda dead simple easy to use declarative front end api that can be built from a backend, something like streamlit or nicegui that has great ergonomics and is easy to maintain but scales better and has better state mgmt than streamlit & puts all the power of a general purpose programming language right there with it. i love compiled things i hate setting up environments with runtimes and stuff.
by metalman | 2026-01-20 10:49:39+00:00
it is about etymology and how tech companys continiously hijack words, definitions, and whole concepts along with the worlds money, power, and authority, the whole move fast and break stuff thing now running up against people who are objecting,pointedly, increasingly with sticks, and perhaps more tellingly, with genuine befuddled disapointment to find the grasping grinding overreach happening in every last tiny purely intelectual nook and crany.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-20 10:49:59+00:00
A html forms based radio button is worse than a complex - but standard - shadcn radio button many ways that matter in the real world.

Why does no one do the simpler thing? Because there’s no extra value to it, and it in fact has negative value because then the team has to write and understand it and the rationale for the departure from just using the same component library everywhere.

“Only a few kb of javascript” may as well ZERO javascript, and because of that it’s not even close to the top thing to optimize on your favorite site.

So, you engineered a non-standard radio button that is different to the rest which all use shading?? Why weren’t you building features that you know.. make money?
by ColonelPhantom | 2026-01-20 10:50:21+00:00
> Meanwhile, European makers are stuck not knowing what to do, make Americans happy or compete with the Chinese.

Huh? This comment sounds extremely America-centric to me. Porsche sells more cars into Europe than North America, despite taking a bigger there (-13-16% vs 0%)!

In general I don't think Porsche is representative of the car market as a whole, given their cars are all premium sports cars to at least some degree.

If you want more representative numbers look at more mass-market manufacturers. Notably, the Volkswagen group has a huge 20%+ market share in the EU, while it is below 5% in the USA. Renault is another example of a strong EU-centric brand and manufacturer with over 10% market share, even over 25% at home in France. Ford is a good example of the opposite, having 13% market share in the USA and only 2-3% here. Stellantis is strong in both markets, but has significant differentiation, even having different brands in both markets.
by gostsamo | 2026-01-20 10:50:25+00:00
And what are we if not a bunch of interconnected atoms? Smash a person to paste and you will not have any deep meaning in them, no life, nor sublime substance making them different from the dust they were made of. What is special in humans? Aren't we just an especially complex hydrocarbon mass that receives external stimuli and remaps them to a physical output? What makes you think that there is something more inside?
by willis936 | 2026-01-20 10:50:30+00:00
I was in university around the same time. While there I saw a concerted effort to push online courses. Professors would survey students fishing for interest. It was unpopular. To me the motivation seemed clear: charge the same or more for tuition, but reduce opex. Maybe even admit more students to just have then be remote. It watered down the value of the degree while working towards a worse product. Why would a nonprofit public university be working on maximizing profit?
Show HN: NetNerve AI-powered packet analysis that analyses.cap files
by bhatshubham | 2026-01-20 10:50:38+00:00
Hi HN — I’m the developer behind NetNerve.
I originally shared an early prototype here months ago; since then the system has been significantly rebuilt, especially around privacy and forensic depth.
Try it
https://netnerve.online
(Free tier supports PCAP/PCAP up to 2MB; larger files + deeper forensics are optional)
Any feedback is appreciated, thank you