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Show HN: Built a Real Time Visual Intelligence
I built a realtime visual intelligence that connects a users phone camera to a multimodal llm. I use the pipecat open source framework, webrtc, and a few other services to connect it all together.

It's similar to chatgpt advanced voice and grounded with google_search for asynch internet searches based on transcripts or frames from the video that run at 1fps to the LLM.

Let me know what you think and if you want to work on some fun scaling problems with me on this project.

www.withsen.com
Before this app-madness, you would usually just check out with your debit card and pay for the time you used (common in Denmark anyway). No need to guess in advance how long you need to park for.
> Our investigation is still in progress with regard to deprecated functionality for Slack features such as workflows, threads, sending messages and API-related features.

I'm not sure what their status page is talking about, is sending messages a deprecated slack feature?
Just because you assumed things you didn't know about without even opening one of the website to know how they're related, it doesn't mean you should have an opinion about it.

The guy here had a meltdown and tried to sink a third party business. This alone is ground for direct litigation.
I think the point being made is more subtle than you're appreciating: it's not just any defense firm, it's a defense firm founded by engineers who have worked on multiple Elon projects. I understand we try to stay away from politics here, but speaking objectively+non-normatively: Elon has been known to greatly favor working with people that have worked at his companies, and he now has immense influence over the contracting processing of the federal government.

In other words: two Cybertruck engineers starting a defense company in February 2025 is naturally going to raise some eyebrows, especially when they're selling a technology that they're counting on other people to invent soon.

More interestingly/generally, your mention of confirmation bias/Bader-Meinhoff raises a question for me: is Y-Combinator really investing more in government and heavy industry as it appears? And it looks like the answer is yes, though it's still a tiny minority compared to general B2B SaaS companies:

https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-last-decade-of-y-combi...

Government is a bigger slicer than it's been since 2017, and similar for industry. More drastically, the pool of companies has greatly constricted in geographic terms, with almost all of the 2024 batch coming from the US. Most importantly--as many of y'all probably already know, but I didn't--they just backed their first pure-defense startup in August, Ares Cruise Missiles.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ares-industries

As far as company mottos go, "Missiles are cool" is a fucking terrifying one... Every day I fear the LessWrong people were less wrong than I thought they were.
use natural language in place of, or combined with, linux commands
considering organic meat substitutes are, they're going to have to spin it pretty hard for some people to NOT think it's 'woke'
If your goal is to enact change, you need the numbers on your side, because ultimately it comes down to polls and votes. If you piss off all the people by sitting in the road blocking traffic, essentially hijacking them and keeping them from getting to work, they will think of your cause and become aggravated, thus reducing the numbers on your side.

If your goal is to just aggravate people to make yourself feel better without enacting change, carry on.

This seems like pretty common sense stuff.

>I'd venture you've never actively participated in such acts...

You're right. The best way to convince someone to a side is to use compelling, rational arguments. Not lying to them, not embellishing, not hyperbole, not using emotional arguments. It's certainly not throwing a temper tantrum like a petulant child and prevent working people, who didn't cause your problem by the way, from getting to their shit job so they can put food on the damn table.

In fact, if you are a protest leader and you tell people to stand in traffic and one of them gets hit, you should be prosecuted for reckless endangerment and thrown into jail.
For the first frame...
Thank you, those are awesome. I'm stuck with freestanding at the moment but may build a house soon and I would for sure get these!
Smart phones are much better than stacks of paper for many purposes I'll agree. However a key is better than a phone for unlocking my door. The switch on the wall next to the door is much better than my phone for turning on the light (note that switch placement matters, if the switch was on the other side of the room it would be worse - but we have figured out where to put switches so this doesn't matter.

Technology should all the advantage of owning a personal slave without all human rights costs.
Not everyone must pick side. You don't even know what Wordpress is, it's best to stay out and save yourself from embarrassment.
Cheap way to power the home directly is to get a generator inlet put in ($500-1000) and connect the vehicle to that. You can then use either a vehicle or a gas generator, which is useful during extended outages when you need to top up the car.

Expensive way is to get some manufacturer specific automatic transfer switch (I got Tesla's put in). The hardware is $2500 and the labor is $4K+.

I did both and used both during a recent week long outage.
Terminal Chat Now Included in GitHub Copilot Free
The interesting thing about mind (as far as I'm concerned) isn't intelligence, but consciousness.

Intelligence isn't well defined. According to our current understanding of physics, everything is cause and effect, which throws free will out the window, so what do we even mean by intelligence? Is it just when chains of cause and effect become so complex we can't understand them any more? And if so, why does consciousness even exist at all?

The only consistent theory of consciousness I'm aware of is panpsychism, which seems very unsatisfying.

I guess the other option is to divorce consciousness from physical master entirely, but then we have kind of opened ourselves up to almost any kind of woo.

It really is a hard problem.
I learned about chess960 the other day. It's a variant Bobby Fisher invented because he was bored with "theory" (ie wrote memorization of openings and positions) and wanted a fresh experience. Its basically just chess but you put the back rank (non-pawns) in random positions. As a result you have to (or get to) reason through things from first principles each game.

I guess this is just the random aspect of a rogue-like, but it struck me as very similar to roguelikes. The fact that the experience is different everytime makes things more playable and sparks a certain sort of joy when the randomness variables compliment eachother in effective ways which you can design a game plan around.

> I think any "well known"/traditional game combined with rougelite elements can be a huge success nowadays

This is basically the entire thesis of slay the spire and why its massively succesful.
In the YouTube comments he stated nonetheless that he still bombed big tech interviews, specifically the technical portion, probably because of some ridiculous LeetCode problem he did not memorize beforehand. It just goes to show how these procedures do not effectively determine who is actually a good engineer or programmer. If this guy can't land a job while achieving this, then something is not quite right with the interview process.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age full circle and the gilded age brings back communism
FWIW I have a Framework 16, and the keyboards run QMK, so are reprogrammable. I have those keys at the top row of my macropad. They don't have labels and are in kind of a weird place, but probably not less weird than an average laptop.
What China's influence over Marvel Rivals reveals about censorship
A good hedge against not being to access petrol is a multi-fuel generator, that can use residential natural gas or propane tanks in addition to liquid fuel.
I believe this is a program to prototype technology that has already been tried/theorized on Earth and needs an evaluation in Space.

The program director has a background in planetary science [1] and I assume they will evaluate proposals.

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/about/people/michael-nayak
> but you will first catch a glimpse of heat death of the universe

That doesn't seem to be possible as information/light from the end of the universe would not be able to reach you.

There's a discussion of it here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82678/does-someo...
My problem is the amount of money I would make in a year selling the software I make for my hobbies would likely be less than one paycheck at a normal job.
Yes sadly the US millionaire positions will be filled by cut price immigrant millionaires.
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185446
No worries, as someone without a car who only uses public transport and walks daily to work, there aren't really many people with less CO2 consumption then me. In fact, I find your call for resistnce pretty hilarious.

That doesn't change my original argument. Calling for the rich to vote with their wallet doesn't make a difference when it comes to daily consumables. What the poor and middle class is able and willing to afford makes the difference. Missing infrastructure is also an important factor. You can call for more public transport and bicycle use as much as you want... Those outside of cities are pretty much stuck with what they have. And if they aren't wealthy, they can't by an EV either.

All in all, I am fed up with this hypocritical high-nose sort-of advice. It shows a general disregard for the day-to-day problems of most people.
I mean yeah but if you clean it, they won't think that. And if you mention you cleaned it, they'd be more inclined to do it in the future.

And, worse case scenario, you spend like 5 minutes occasionally doing it and now have access to a clean microwave, without needing to buy more e-waste and encouraging the production of cheap, stupid things like a water bottle with a heater in it.
Yes but who am I talking about? I just know them as idiots blocking traffic; I have no idea what their cause is. If they were environmentalists, that's doubly stupid because they're causing cars to idle and barf more carbon monoxide in the air because of their actions.

If you care about a cause, you should try to convince people not to do that. It's counterproductive on at least 2 levels.
Why/when does someone want to use this?
I've noticed that instacart (and by extension, Costco same day shopping) has integrated an LLM into their search. It's awesome to be able to search for "ingredients for a chicken and vegetable roast" and have all the separate ingredients you need be returned. You can also search for things like "healthy snack" or "easy party appetizers".

I think this is a great use case for LLM search since I am able to directly input my intent, and the LLM knows what's in stock at the store I am searching.
7 Day cycles are not an abstract invention but a fact of biology.

Link to research:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27830946/

Link to full PDF:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309898157_Seven-day...
It's standard terminology. I'm not going to waste time arguing about it.
Check out https://exa.ai/ - iirc they use a link-prediction transformer

https://websets.exa.ai/cm7m8a1ip006rdzzzgxsalirs
We see people replacing UIs and using browser-use to fill out the real UI. So there could be a world where everyone has their own UI, and you could have that filter option.

Furthermore, valid point: if Pepsi spends $1M on ads, why don't you get a piece of it if they pitch to you?
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If that's the extent of your knowledge, you probably haven't understood enough of the issue, and why so many people are freaking about it.

The deeper issue is that people thought it was (Matt Mullenweg is to WordPress) as (Linus is to Linux). But Matt is going around screaming that it's actually (Matt Mullenweg is to WordPress) as (Oracle is to Java). That is to say, he considers everything remotely related to WordPress to be his personal property and he has full authority to prevent anybody from doing anything related to WordPress that he doesn't like. Despite WordPress being open-source software.
Funny story. On YouTube someone posted the following verse in response to current events.

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them."

Leviticus 19:33... So I of course responded that there are a lot of verses that they don't agree with in chapters 18-20 related to the death penalty.

YouTube subsequently shadow banned me.
If you're not a developer then you're not the target audience for this.
Well, currently the CEO is not only not doing his job at Testla, but actually doing his best to drive away Tesla's customers. And it's working, at least in Europe: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo
I can't access the desktop or web versions but my phone app still seems to be working, at least intermittently.
One interesting note with voice AI is that you can shove static datasets into the long context windows of these newer models like 2.0-flash-lite. It creates a Model Assisted Generation(MAG) and returns super low latency and 99% relevant information to the bot. Theres a good example in the foundational example of the pipecat github.
Those are configured on the client so luckily you get to keep them. Extensions in VS Code are a bit different because some (many?) run on the host and as a result devcontainers wipe them out.

I do agree though, I think devcontainers are in an awkward spot where they're cattle but my IDE/environment is typically a pet...
LambdaMOO was(is) like this. And even more literally than in Smalltalk. Persistent objects, object oriented programming language, live code editing, object manipulation, programming right in the world, with immediate and shared effect.

But unlike a Smalltalk environment, the things you were editing were (in metaphor at least) living narrative "world" objects like rooms, objects, characters, etc. meant to give a (text-based) "VR" aspect. And it was multiuser, so collaborative.

It's a compelling, though exotic, way of making things.

I'm attempting to defibrilate the whole thing here: https://github.com/rdaum/moor
to also share a reference - here's an on disk hashmap that uses mmap that I made in golang: https://github.com/snissn/gomap
Okay, but iterating square roots like √√2 = (2^(2^-1))^(2^-1) recurses into the base, whereas the equivalent iterated log is 2^(2^-1 × 2^-1) = 2^(2^-2) = +2^(+2^(-2^(+2^0))) with the bit representation [1 1 0 0 1 0 0 ...], i.e. it recurses into the exponent.
Really fun, nice work. Oops, I skipped the extra life, since it wasn't too clear I only had one. The destroy last brick didnt seem to work. It said I had +1 choice for only missing 3x, but I only received the coin choice. And missed ball gave me a 'list.findLast is not a function' (brave) and didnt run at all on my bit older FF, but not your fault, I lose a site a week at the moment, and I refuse to play the never ending updates game.

Anyway, what a refreshing twist on an old fav. of mine. I dont even know what the console was called, but my cousin had this on an Atari cartridge thingy. Years later I wrote my own in a 4GL that no one will ever have heard of, but I never captured the feel of the original. I think this exceeds the original, well done!
Photographs of the Old West
> Doomscrolling, like drug addiction, is largely the product of the holistic social-biological environment of the actor. People generally do not intentionally throw away stimulating, happy, healthy lives to become destitute drug addicts, and a comparison of opening a parking payment application to being offered alcohol seems hyperbolic.

Even taking this statement at face value, it's easy to point out how absurd it is.

A huge segment of opiod abusers started off with prescriptions. These were functional members of society and availability to dangerous substances absolutely led to bad outcomes. [1]

Or take another vice, gambling. Recently legalized pretty much everywhere, gambling help lines have seen a huge uptick in traffic [2]. It's only been a few years since sports betting has become mainstream, and already it's a drag on society.

But going beyond the face value of that statement, there's a deeper issue which is, huge segments of the population are not leading "stimulating, happy, healthy lives". There's a reason why purveyors of drugs, scams, cults, gambling tend to go after these demographics; people that are desperate for relief. Does that make it okay? Does it excuse the peddling of harmful wares? Because it sounds like you're saying it's fine to sell harm because these people should know better. I think that's a rotten way to live.

You are entitled to your opinion, but I think this line of thinking is wildly antisocial. It's absolutely the "fuck it, i just gotta get my bag" thinking that is ruining trust in our industry.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/prescription-o...
[2]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...
Imagine you open Spotify on your phone, only to (maybe?) realize it's streaming from Apple Music.

Is that ok for you that Apple appropriated the app? They offered the platform, the ecosystem and the store. Is it within their right?

That's what happened here.
I worked as a sysadmin during a major outage a few years ago. A bug completely destroyed a table in one of the customer databases; we had to restore/rebuild the table. It took hours. We reported it to our leadership; they handled the comms. When the message got translated and posted on the company's status page - well, it sounded like we were doing our customers a favor. Nothing said was technically untrue, but I was amazed at the spin from "We fucked up and we're working to fix it" to "We're doing this all for you; you're welcome". Ever since then I've been skeptical of status pages.
> but I'm not sure why they would

Because that's the expectation that was set by Mullenwegs words and actions. Who ever said you need to be under oath for deception to take place?
Intelligence implies belligerence
Note that just having solar doesn't necessarily protect you in a blackout. A lot of systems won't work without having power on the main line to sync to.
Community manager is a weird role that seems to have popped up a few years back—something not quite marketing and not quite customer success
Donald Trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on imports from EU
You can of course use your batteries on a regular basis even without solar, and even offset your expenses by filling them up during lower-cost times if your utility provides that.

Additionally, a good tri-fuel generator is often less than $1000 so you have power even if you can't get petrol.
I honestly thought I took down Slack when I posted a little too long message only to realize it went down globally.
Show HN: GPT CYOA MBTI Test – Personality Analysis via Storytelling, No Surveys
GPT-Powered Interactive MBTI Assessment
No forms, no biases - just stories that decode you

Core Innovation

LLM as Dungeon Master
GPT-4o/Deepseek dynamically generates story variants across sci-fi/fantasy/suspense, adapting to your unique narrative choices in real-time

Stealth Personality Analysis
Your open-ended decisions in scenarios like these reveal true traits:
"Will you hack the alien welfare system to save your crew?" (Ethics → T/F)
"How'd you cheer up a depressed AI?" (Empathy → F/T)
"Describe your ideal post-apocalyptic government" (Structure → J/P)

Radical Openness
No multiple-choice prisons - type freely in any language.

Our NLP pipeline:

Maps to MBTI dimensions via hybrid model (neural net + rule-based)

Adjusts story probabilities using Bayesian inference

Roadmap:
Custom model fine-tuning | Player Community | API

Try & Contribute

Demo: mbti-world.com
now, this is a thing that I want to see YC invest more into
Neon brown is orange :)
> For example the smart phone. A physical button or even alexa is easier to turn off the lights.

These aren’t mutually exclusive.

I usually press the physical button for my lights but it’s great to be able to pull out my smartphone and turn off lights across the house, or even in the same room if I’m doing something like holding a baby who is falling asleep.

Putting the common light controls on easily accessible phone widget screens is really easy these days.

I think people who get irrationally angry at the ability to control things from a phone are missing out at this point. You don’t have to use it or buy it, but I’ve derived a lot of value from it.

> Stupidity is intrinsic to humanity and since humanity builds technology, stupidity is therefore intrinsic to technology

This is a deeply cynical and unhappy way to navigate life.
We had one in 2018 tho :-)
Publish a lint rule, get a prize
What do you mean by "offline operation"? Which part is non-trivial?
I need to use fire (technology) in my life or I'll die in the cold.
They are complex because, usually, they are a union of everything every vendor in the consortium has done and/or wants to do.
I know the following comment is discouraged from hackernews but these are extenuating circumstances:

Yoooo WTAF
Most of the population of Bangladesh lives on what is technically an island created by the forking of the Brahmaputra, whose distributaries rejoin 150 miles away (as the crow flies). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaputra_River#Bangladesh
the #doom channel is where Mark is referring to. it's all there!
Hi Matt!
Biology doesn't mandate avoiding technology on specific days. Last I checked, circadian rhythms don't prohibit elevator buttons or smartphones.
Cool! Do you have plans to launch a paid offering? The website makes me think it's a company but I didn't see any pricing / sales details.
Good luck guys! This maybe that I've usually been a part of smaller teams but the screenshots you guys provided are a little... overload-y.

Care to share what's the average size of your early adopters? Because it seems to be something great for larger teams but, then again I imagine the friction is greater for them too.
If you kept the sails and rebuilt the boat around them, does it make sense to say it's the same boat?

That's why I said "you can believe your story" while I pointed out it's a very unlikely one.
> There's more science to food than just nutrition and health.

Maybe. But nutrition and health is what should mater the most, if you don't want to end up with a country of overweight people.

> does not exclude the technology from having a place in a kitchen

Certainly. From fridges and washing machines to food processors and electric stoves technology is more than welcome to the kitchen. But is always a cost/value calculation. And if you're not a billionaire patent troll like the author of that book then a lot of the gadgets and techniques he advocates are just not worth it.

> Can you give some examples of countries that do not share this "weird obsession"?

On cooking? Sure! Mexico, India, Colombia, Brazil, most of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Thailand, ... all of them with fantastic cuisines based mostly on the freshness of their ingredients, with little preparation, straight from the ground/sea to the table.
Bad Apple time!
Appreciate you reaching out about the summarization feature. Teams have been making use of it to save time. They like jumping directly to key moments of the meeting and also outright skipping meetings.
It’s really awesome for starting timers and playing music though. I also ask it questions and it does pretty well at answering them. For once we get to be on the opposite side of the exploitation curve here. They can provide this service to me for free in perpetuity I hope. I think my Dots were maybe $19 or bought on eBay.
Leaving Instagram in the Dust