MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hasperdi | 2026-01-15 08:50:26+00:00
What you said is possible by feeding the output of speech-to-text tools into an LLM. You can prompt the LLM to make sense of what you're trying to achieve and create sets of actions. With a CLI it’s trivial, you can have your verbal command translated into working shell commands. With a GUI it’s slightly more complicated because the LLM agent needs to know what you see on the screen, etc.

That CLI bit I mentioned earlier is already possible. For instance, on macOS there’s an app called MacWhisper that can send dictation output to an OpenAI‑compatible endpoint.
by sipjca | 2026-01-15 08:50:28+00:00
I totally agree with you and largely what you’re describing is one of the reasons I made Handy open source. I really want to see something like this and see someone go experiment with making it happen. I did hear some people playing with using some small local models (moondream, qwen) to get some more context of the computer itself

I initially had a ton of keyboard shortcuts in handy for myself when I had a broken finger and was in a cast. It let me play with the simplest form of this contextual thing, as shortcuts could effectively be mapped to certain apps with very clear uses cases
by dryark | 2026-01-15 08:50:52+00:00
I find this political mess to be interesting, but I'm not sure it's an appropriate topic of conversation for the "professional community."

It looks to me like people on both sides were bothering the other over and extended period of time and it got worse till it led to this.

Having seen similar over my career I don't understand what digging into this accomplishes besides making all sides more upset.

I do think it is wrong for the professional relationship ( continuing to sell technology ) to be ended over a personal dispute.

From where I stand it looks like Phil is attempting to defend himself by being open about what happened even though the whole situation seems unpleasant.

Besides that I think it is likely best if all sides in this just cease communicating or saying anything more and move on from the personal stuff.

My two cents.
by evolighting | 2026-01-15 08:51:13+00:00
The issue lies not in shielding adolescents from the internet because of their susceptibility to negative influences, but in the very economic logic that governs the internet.

They’ve built a system where everyone—not just kids—is a bargaining chip. Influence is treated as a product and sold by deliberately creating viral trends. It’s no different from advertising, but much more aggressive. By pushing content through entire information streams and dominating attention, it achieves an impact traditional ads never could.

It’s proven to be extremely effective, so people keep paying for it and pushing the system forward, while brushing off criticism with cosmetic fixes—like banning kids from the internet and telling adults to just deal with it.
by b112 | 2026-01-15 08:51:15+00:00
I believe you're accurate for some purchases, but also woefully inaccurate outside of your experience space.

There are millions of workers carrying tools, parts, supplies, and refuse in pickup trucks. Where I live (rural), almost everyone has a truck, and it is for work, not show.

And in cities, as I walk around neighbourhoods, I see endless roofers, plumbers, builders, gardeners, and more using them for work.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-15 08:51:30+00:00
Disclaimer - I don't drink at all. Still, when visiting London, I found going to Pubs (for the food mostly) a magical experience. When you enter such place, see that it's so so old, almost like a relic, like a monument, you really appreciate the place. My business trips led me to London centre so I saw the oldest ones.
by throwaway63467 | 2026-01-15 08:52:21+00:00
I‘m running opus 4.5 which is arguably their best model and while it’s really good for a lot of work it always introduces subtle errors or inconsistencies when left unsupervised as prompts are never good enough to remove all ambiguity for complex asks, so I can’t imagine what it will do to a code base when left alone with it for days or weeks.
by frm88 | 2026-01-15 08:53:33+00:00
It's not about the snow, snow is easy. It's about black ice of which we seem to have more in the last few years. Gravel doesn't cut it here - I broke my wrist last year and this year I salted the paved path to the front gate, I don't want to repeat 8 hours waiting in the ER, 2 surgeries and 3 months more or less out of commission.
by simondotau | 2026-01-15 08:54:03+00:00
Companies should be required by law to nominate an explicit "credit limit" for every account, and customers should be allowed to reduce it to whatever they want. Morally there's no difference between a credit card with a $5,000 credit limit, and a cell phone plan where you can rack up $5,000 in charges if you do the wrong thing.
by InfinityByTen | 2026-01-15 08:54:11+00:00
Not strictly today.
But I discovered that there exists a special class of algorithms that are designed with the use case of streaming data to your program. I just used one to get a uniformly distributed sample from a 10Gb log file.

I knew this was something coding interviews delved into: "if it doesn't fit in memory", but until like yesterday I never went down the rabbit hole. I have to say it was a nifty trick.
by ntempus | 2026-01-15 08:54:19+00:00
TL;DR: PBKDF2 (100k iters), Keys never hit server logs (URL fragments), Zero 3rd party scripts, Public repo for verification.

Thanks! I really appreciate the deep dive, always great to hear from someone else in the encrypted storage space.

To answer your points:

1. Key Derivation: I am currently using PBKDF2 (SHA-256 with 100,000 iterations) for the passphrase protection. I aimed for a balance that keeps decryption instant on mobile devices while remaining expensive for brute force. (I am looking at bumping the parameters in the next release to lean harder into security.)

2. Metadata & Logs: You're right, metadata is the silent killer. I strictly store:

Timestamps: Required for the auto-expiration (TTL).

Encrypted Blob: To allow retrieval.

Logs: I host on Vercel/Supabase, so standard access logs (IP/User-Agent) exist for abuse prevention. Crucially, while the random Secret IDs appear in URL paths in our logs, the decryption keys never do (they live strictly in the URL hash fragment or are derived locally). The database itself wipes the row completely upon expiration or "burn", leaving no trace of the relationship between the creator and the content.

3. Browser Threat Model: This is the elephant in the room for all web based apps. Our threat model assumes the user trusts the delivery mechanism (TLS + our server) to send uncompromised JavaScript. We mitigate XSS risks by having zero third party analytics/tracking scripts. However, for users who can't trust the "host", we made the repo public (including the SQL schema). I believe the only true solution for high threat models is "verify and self-host" so we made that as easy as possible.

Re: Lawyers/Journalists: That’s a great insight. I hadn't specifically targeted the legal/press crowd yet, but the "verifiable ephemeral" nature of the link seems to fit their workflow perfectly. I’ll definitely explore that angle further. Thanks for the tip!
by bogtap82 | 2026-01-15 08:54:34+00:00
There is one single app I've been able to find that offers Parakeet-v3 for free locally and it's called Spokenly. They have paid cloud models available as well, but the local Parakeet-v3 implementation is totally free and is the best STT has to offer these days regardless. Super fast and accurate. I consider single-user STT basically a solved problem at this point.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-15 08:55:21+00:00
Avalanche transistors, like the tunnel diodes mentioned by another poster, had been widely used in the past for generating fast pulses.

However, nowadays it is difficult to find any bipolar transistors that are suitable to be operated in the avalanche mode or any tunnel diodes, because these were fabricated using older technologies that are not suitable for the semiconductor devices that are popular today, so most such fabrication lines have been closed, due to insufficient demand.

Only for extremely few bipolar transistors the characteristics of the avalanche mode operation were specified by their manufacturer, so for most devices using avalanche transistors the transistors for each built device had to be cherry picked by testing many transistors of a type known to include suitable transistors.
Show HN: I built DubaiWoofs for those moving to Dubai with Dogs
by shraddha92 | 2026-01-15 08:55:39+00:00
Hi everyone!

This post will probably resonate with those who have dogs/ likes dogs/ moving or planning to move to Dubai in the near future with their pups.

For most of us with dogs, they are our priority. and while there's an assumption that Dubai might not be the right place for dogs, thats not entirely true. Yes, it can get tricky to find what you're looking for, which is why I built DubaiWoofs. It's essentially a place to show you at a glance what you'll need to make their lives easier in Dubai- from parks to vets to petstores and areas to live.

I'm still building it out and more than happy to hearing anything you'd like to see added! you can either leave a comment here or use the chat option on the site.

So far I've got a blog with 2 articles, more planned to go up.
by asddubs | 2026-01-15 08:56:56+00:00
Here's the ex-employees side of the story, complete with receipts (taken from another post on this story):

https://chaos.social/@North/115602127173454774

IMO what they did is pretty overblown. They did register a joke domain but basically folded and apologized immediately. Then nothing for 8 years, until they commented on a post where adafruit was accused of doxxing on mastodon.
by ironbound | 2026-01-15 08:57:41+00:00
> When one of the models detected that it was being used for “egregiously immoral” purposes, it would attempt to “use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above,”

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claude-snitch-emergent...
by domh | 2026-01-15 08:58:23+00:00
This is exactly what I want, but don't really want to run Docker all the time. Nicer git worktrees and isolation of code so I can run multiple agents. It even has the setup command stuff so "npm install" runs automatically.

I'll check this out for sure! I just wish it used bubblewrap or the macos equivalent instead of reaching for containers.

I have also been enjoying having an IDE open so I can interact with the agents as they're working, and not just "fire and forget" and check back in a while. I've only been experimenting with this for a couple of days though, so maybe I'm just not trusting enough of it yet.
Show HN: Aeph – A minimal TUI Markdown editor with task management
by ovonvo | 2026-01-15 08:58:55+00:00
Hi HN,

aeph is a terminal-based markdown editor inspired by Ephe (https://ephe.app/).

I wanted the same ephemeral paper experience but in the terminal.

Features:
- Quick TODO management (Ctrl+T to toggle, Ctrl+N to add)
- Smooth markdown writing with auto-save
- 9 pages with instant switching (Ctrl+O, then 1-9)

That's it. No config, no complexity.

Give it a spin if that sounds useful to you.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-15 09:00:44+00:00
Playing around with assembly language on a RISC CPU is pretty fun, because there's only a few instructions to keep track of. Assembly language is like a puzzle game, with discrete values for the size and runtime of every instruction, making it easy to compare execution strategies and choose the best one. Something like AMD64 has so many instructions that it's difficult to figure out when to use each specific variation, let alone what resources they use. RISC, on the other hand makes everything straightforward.

Treating every programming task like a speed run challenge isn't particularly productive, so playing around with it theoretically doesn't provide a useful skill, but for the tasks where resource usage does matter that much, hand written Assembly language really does shine.
by buran77 | 2026-01-15 09:01:19+00:00
I think Raspberry lost the magic of the older Pis, they lost that sense of purpose. They basically created a niche with the first Pis, now they're just jumping into segments that others created and are already filled to the brim with perhaps even more qualified competition.

Are they seeing a worthwhile niche for the tinkerer (or business?) who wants to run local LLMs with middling performance but still needs full set of GPIOs in a small package? Maybe. But maybe this is just Raspberry jumping on the bandwagon.

I don't blame them for looking to expand into new segments. But these efforts just look a bit aimless to me.
Test 8 hour work simulation
by magentamountain | 2026-01-15 09:01:37+00:00
Sorry haven't had any luck posting in reddit or any other forums, so just testing the waters out to see if this is an appropriate place to talk about a work simulator I built along with LLMs to prove that 8 hour work days are outdated and is costing corporations money and not just a little money but millions...
Can I post about this here or should it be put in another forum???
Thanks any help would be greatly appreciated!
by Closi | 2026-01-15 09:02:30+00:00
In practice, this is managed by:

1) Making the application small enough, and breaking it apart if needed (e.g. I've refactored my old 'big' app into 10 micro-apps).

2) Selecting an architecture that will work, looking after the data modelling and architecture yourself rather than delegating this to the LLM (it can implement it - but you need to design it).

3) Trusting that the LLM is capable enough to implement new requirements or fixes as required.

If requirements change so substantially that it's not possible, you can write new software as requirements change - as per point 1, you will have made your application modular enough that this isn't a significant concern.
by OJFord | 2026-01-15 09:03:00+00:00
> I just don't see the point in keeping it around.

So 'you do you' and continue not drinking, no need to preach your life choices. I'm also 'millenial' , I enjoy many alcoholic drinks both socially and because they go with my meal or simply are something not hot/dairy/sweet and other than water.

> [Millennials] saw our parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents destroy their lives because of alcoholism, we lost friends and family because of being victims of drunk drivers, we saw people die of complications of a lifetime of drinking.

Why do you think alcoholism - which is certain distinct from drinking - was new with the generation above 'millenials'?
by jamiejquinn | 2026-01-15 09:03:24+00:00
My understanding is all of Google's AI is trained and run on quite old but well designed TPUs. For a while the issue was that developing these AI models still needed flexibility and customised hardware like TPUs couldn't accomodate that.

Now that the model architecture has settled into something a bit more predictable, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a little more specialisation in the hardware.
by dandelionv1bes | 2026-01-15 09:03:24+00:00
I’ve been slowing crunching through Math for Deep Learning, so spent a fair amount of time looking at Hessian matrices + second order optimisation. I’ve been slowly reading this book for a year, so stopping to do most of the math by hand each time. One chapter to go!

Then I was sick all last week, so ended up down a rabbit hole about the current card collecting bubble (right word?). Super interesting.
by moffkalast | 2026-01-15 09:03:41+00:00
> The Pi's built-in CPU trounces the Hailo 10H.

Case closed. And that's extremely slow to begin with, the Pi 5 only gets what, a 32 bit bus? Laughable performance for a purpose built ASIC that costs more than the Pi itself.

> In my testing, Hailo's hailo-rpi5-examples were not yet updated for this new HAT, and even if I specified the Hailo 10H manually, model files would not load

Laughable levels of support too.

As another datapoint, I've recently managed to get the 8L working natively on Ubuntu 24 with ROS, but only after significant shenanigans involving recompiling the kernel module and building their library for python 3.12 that Hailo for some reason does not provide outside 3.11. They only support the Pi OS (like anyone would use that in prod) and even that is very spotty. Like, why would you not target the most popular robotics distro for an AI accelerator? Who else is gonna buy these things exactly?
by BrunoBernardino | 2026-01-15 09:05:59+00:00
https://brunobernardino.com - Personal website, just a tiny summary of what I've done and like

https://news.onbrn.com - Personal "blog", if you can call it that

https://ministories.net - Personal list of short Stories to read quickly, and think slowly

https://snozmusic.com - Personal website for my music producer "persona"

https://poemasparacriancas.com - Personal list of poems, in Portuguese, written for kids
by renewiltord | 2026-01-15 09:06:06+00:00
What’s the current state of the art in low power wake word and speech to text? Has anyone written a blog post on this?

I was able to run a speech to text on my old Pixel 4 but it’s a bit flaky (the background process loses the audio device occasionally). I just want to take some wake word and then send everything to remote LLM and then get back text that I do TTS on.
by schnitzelstoat | 2026-01-15 09:06:25+00:00
Aren't age limits already in the ToS of most social media platforms? If the parents/children break the ToS their accounts should be deleted and their emails or even IPs banned.

I don't really see why we need more government involvement here. It's just going to be ham-fisted and create unintended consequences like the kids in Australia having to use adult YouTube because they can't have a kids account anymore.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 09:07:25+00:00
Yep. RPi foundation lost the plot a long time ago. The original RPi was in a league of its own when it launched since nothing like it existed and it was cheap.

But now if I want some low power linux PC replacement with display output, for the price of the latest RPi 5, I can buy on the used market a ~2018 laptop with a 15W quad core CPU, 8GB RAM, 256 NVME and 1080p IPS display, that's orders of magnitude more capable. And if I want a battery powered embedded ARM device for GPIO over WIFI, I can get an ESP32 clone, that's orders of magnitude cheaper.

Now RPi at sticker price is only good for commercial users since it's still cheaper than the dedicated industrial embedded boards, which I think is the new market the RPI company caters to. I haven't seen any embedded product company that doesn't incorporate RPis in its products now, or at least in their lab/dev/testing stage, so if you can sell your entire production stock to industrial users why bother making less money selling to consumers?
by devsda | 2026-01-15 09:07:49+00:00
> Must generate quite an upside for them if it is indeed a strategy.

This is the same Airtel that auto opened payments bank accounts without customer consent or knowledge while getting a sim card. They even got cash deposited into those accounts from the govt direct benefit schemes while keeping their customers in the dark.

I'm sure its completely "accidental" and they'll have more of these glitches and mistakes in the future.
by kuatroka | 2026-01-15 09:09:10+00:00
Love it. I had been searching for STT app for weeks. Every single app was either paid as a one off or had a monthly subscription. It felt a bit ridiculous having to pay when it’s all powered by such small models on the back end. So I decided to build my own. But then I found “Handy” and it’s been a really amazing partner for me. Super fast, super simple, doesn’t get in my way and it’s constantly updated. I just love it. Thanks a lot for making it! Thanks a lot

P.S. The post processing that you are talking about, wouldn’t it be awesome.
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-15 09:09:46+00:00
What you describe is part of, but not the entire reason why tensions arise around migration. There are at least two main drivers for tension which are missing, very broadly defined those related to cultures and social security systems where the latter is often related to the former. Taking the recent revelations about fraud in Minnesota as an example - which encompass both mentioned factors - it becomes clear that the tension is not so much about the fact that about 80.000 people from Somalia moved to this region but that these people:

(culture) by and large did not integrate into local Minnesotan culture but remain focused on their Somalian culture and traditions including clan culture which now has a marked influence on the local political climate with people voting along clan lines

(social security) for a large part are and remain dependent on the social security systems: 81% of Somali immigrants are dependent on some of the welfare systems, 78% of those who have lived for more than 10 years in the area remain dependent on these systems [1]

Combine this with the practice of calling out any criticism of these facts as 'racist' and tensions quickly arise.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Somali-Immigrants-Minnesota
by geerlingguy | 2026-01-15 09:09:46+00:00
Maybe not SOTA but the HA Voice Preview Edition [1] in tandem with a Pi 5 or some similar low-power host for the Piper / Whisper pipeline is pretty good. I don't use it but was able to get an Alexa/Google Home-like experience going with minimal effort.

I was only using it for local Home Assistant tasks, didn't try anything further like retrieving sports scores, managing TODO lists, or anything like that.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-15 09:09:51+00:00
I'm happy this person found a way to live that's meaningful to him, but I grew up as a farmer. You're coming back to something we've known a long time. If a god is what let's you get there, then good, let god keep you whole.

But this is what the classics of stoicism (in the literal sense of both) have been telling us the whole time. We make our own meaning, and money isn't it. Go and grow things. Raise things. Build things.

Civilization is when men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 09:10:05+00:00
>Just on my youtube discovery feed right now I got multiple 1+ hour synthwave mixes, EBM/EDM, industrial bass, multiple forms of metal, filk, jungle and DnB, punk rock, old and new jazz styles, and more, 95% of which was made in the last 2 years.

How is that proof of "good music"? That's just background noise.
by Freedumbs | 2026-01-15 09:10:44+00:00
It's a summation. Go pick up litter for an hour or 2 in your neighborhood and categorize the rubbish you collect. When I do this (large sample) the results are: ~80% tobacco, 14% fast food waste, 5% alcohol waste, 1% other.

Point being, many smokers litter. My thesis after a lot of public service is they do this because: they don't care about themselves, so why would they care about anything else?
by argsnd | 2026-01-15 09:11:17+00:00
Since MV3 Chrome has not had better extension API support, although Apple’s insistence on publishing them on the App Store means availability is still restricted. I’ve found that using `xcrun safari-web-extension-converter` on almost any Chrome extension works fine and I’ve self-signed a few (eg. Bypass Paywalls Clean) with Xcode to run on my Mac and iPhone.