skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just launched hosted Orpheus on [Gabber.dev](https://gabber.dev/)—an LLM-agnostic voice API for building real-time, emotionally expressive AI agents.

We’re hosting [Orpheus TTS](https://github.com/canopy-ai/orpheus-tts) in production, which gives you:

- ~200ms TTS streaming latency

- Expressive voices that sound like humans

- Emotion tags like <laugh>, <sigh>, <cry>

- Significantly lower cost (~$1/hr) compared to ElevenLabs or [Play.ht](http://Play.ht) ($5+/hr)

- Integrate with WebSocket API or Realtime WebRTC SDK

Gabber also handles:

- Memory (long-term + session-based)

- LLM orchestration (use your own or ours)

- Tool calling

With this release, real-time AI voice is finally fast, affordable, and expressive enough to unlock use cases that just weren’t viable before. With cheaper, easier access to high-quality voice, you can now build what you actually want—whether it’s an AI companion, a voice-native coach, a video game NPC, or something entirely your own.

If you're curious about how we’re hosting Orpheus at scale or want to talk memory, GPU infra, SDKs—happy to share.
Page 71 to 74 cover environmental impact and energy usage - so not a whole chapter but it is there.
Juniper Networks Patches Junos Vulnerabilities
I'm glad I'm not the only one that has found 3.5 to be better than 3.7.
> I find it odd to opine about the political business of other countries

AFAICT, they weren't opining, they were asking questions. I think that's very natural. "My media is telling me that there's some weird stuff going on over there, can you tell me what's really going on?"
There's also promptic which wraps litelm, which supports many, many, many more model providers, and it doesn't even need plugins.

Llm is a cool cli tool, but IMO litellm is a better Python library.
OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80k sites with messages that bypassed filters
> I would have assumed that making LLMs indistinguishable from these humans would make those kinds of comments less interesting to interact with but there’s a base level of conversation that hooks people.

I think it is heading in this direction, just takes a very long time. 50% of people are dumber than average
I was working on a similar thing but for JS.

Imagine this: It would be cool when these functions essentially boiled down to a distilled tiny model just for that functionality instead of an api call to foundation one.
Note that this is an overview, each chapter has its own page, and even those are overviews, each chapter comes as a separate PDF.

The full report PDF is 456 pages.
My wife and I are slowly amassing a similar collection. So far the centerpieces are a stone that I took from the corner of the hearth of one of her ancestor's homestead, a family Bible from the mid-1800s, and some metal tools that I've found on old family land while metal detecting.
It should be easy to patch out or possibly add a command line switch to disable it if desired.
No. UB is a term of art here.

Consider a hypothetical non-LLVM full reimplementation of the compiler. If it optimizes and there are invalid assumptions then there is likely UB. LLVM isn't involved in that case though.
Read most hacker news discussions, the top responses often cover other aspects/questions raised. I am responding to someone's question raised, in Hacker News style, not going off on a tangent. You've been here long enough to know that and that you are making a bad faith argument, not actually engaging with what I said.

I don't think grants should be pulled nor do to I support Trump's policies. I don't think all criticism is anti-semitic, but I understand why/how they way some people approach it.

What abouting other situations isn't a response, especially when I am talking about why people have specific feelings about a specific situation. Again you are failing to engage and instead yourself are going off on a tangent.
Of course you can. I'd argue you shouldn't, but that's beside the point. There is clearly a difference between people being able to do something, and the compiler forcing it on them.
>My point being: much of the western world seems to move towards openness, inclusiveness, and accessibility, whereas the US currently moves backwards, as exemplified by the OP.

US doesn't just move backwards, it has a very specific behavior mode -- one of a culture that perceives itself to be under a threat of disappearing.

It's usually a behavior of a diaspora community that doesn't want to give in to assimilation or a country resisting colonization. Thus a focus on token symbols -- ash crosses, fetishization of language, grandstanding on the most nonsense and minor token issues.

The group that exhibits this behavior struggles to put up boundary between "them" and "us".
ha, ha, fair. Ultra. To be fair, I own a MacBook Pro M1 Max and Mac Mini M4 Pro and follow Apple products closely.
> How can you be so certain?

"Vibe diagnosing"
Slight nit: "zonal" doesn't necessarily mean "not replicated", it means that the replicas could all be within the same zone. That means they can share more points of failure. (I don't know if there's an official definition of zonal.)

NB: I am on the rapid storage team.
What's the intention of these for profit companies "buying" open-source repos? Can they even be really bought ?
For those who didn't know, the rind can also be dropped into an otherwise ordinary pot of soup and add a lot of flavor.

Thanks for the risotto tip; gonna have to try that. I've never tasted the rind after cooking it in soup: it's not an appealing look to my eye.

What size should the rind be chopped up for risotto?
Why would you expect anyone to be interested in this solution given the whole discussion is about self-hosting?
This was 3.7. I did give Gemini a shot for a bit but it couldn’t do it either and the output didn’t look quite as nice. Also, I paid for a year of Claude so kind of feel stuck using it now.

Maybe I will give 3.5 a shot next time though.
Pretty sure the answer is yes. I have no direct knowledge of the matter for Gemini 2.5, but in general TPUs were widely used for training at Google. Even Apple used them to train their Apple Intelligence models. It’s not some esoteric thing to train on TPU; I would consider using GPU for that inside Google esoteric.

P.S. I found an on-the-record statement re Gemini 1.0 on TPU:

"We trained Gemini 1.0 at scale on our AI-optimized infrastructure using Google’s in-house designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) v4 and v5e. And we designed it to be our most reliable and scalable model to train, and our most efficient to serve."
"Hey these tools are kind of disappointing"

"You just need to learn to use them right"

Ad infinitum as we continue to get middling results from the most overhyped piece of technology of all time.
If you can self-host or publish a demo of your work that is open-sourced, I find that that really opens the door for a lot of web dev positions, regardless of what particular languages you know and/or what’s in vogue.

(Mine would be https://jonline.io/jon, part of a larger project that does federated social media, but just a “hello world” portfolio server app that you open source would be quite effective, I think. This is all based on recruiters’, hiring managers’, and other devs’ responses when I link them to it.)
> how so many organizations end up investing humongous amounts of effort rolling their own databases from scratch because none of the off-the-shelf solutions meet all their requirements. But in most of these cases, it's because some of the "requirements" were actually "nice-to-haves" and they could have gotten by fine with an off-the-shelf database, but they talked themselves into building one from scratch.

I love the term "arbitrary uniqueness" for this too. Like how different are your needs, really?
If anything, an emoji is easier to search for, as less things would be using it than a general "warning" (or whatever would make sense, as the emoji'd thing isn't the warning itself). Do have to get a copy from somewhere to search for though. It's also much easier to "visually" search for it.

At least in the blog there are a two spaces after the emoji so it can freely draw past its boundaries rightwards without colliding with anything for a good bit; and nothing to its right is used assuming monospace alignment. So at worst you just get a half-emoji.
Google search is weirdly hallucinating saying "Theodore Scott Glenn is an American actor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University". As far as I can tell the actor and professor are two different people. Am I wrong? Can't tell what is true/false anymore.
What is the status of GCC plugins?
The mailman had a pretty wild costume
I'm a big fan of Cloudflare's offerings in general, including D1 (despite the fact it admittedly has flaws).

That being said, the pipe dream statement is accurate IMO. I do think they'll get there, but like you said - a lot of the ideas put forward around a DB per customer just aren't present at all in the DX.

If I were to hazard a guess, Durable Objects will slowly gain many of the features and DX of regular workers. Once they reach parity workers will begin end-of-life (though I'd guess the workers name will be kept, since 'Durable Objects' is terribly named IMO).

This is kind of what happened (is happening) with pages right now. Workers gained pretty much all of their features and are now the recommended way to deliver static sites too.

For me, this can't come quickly enough. The DX of workers with the capability of DO is game changing and one of the most unique cloud offerings around.

It'll bring a few new challenges - getting visibility across that many databases for example, but it completely removes a pretty big chunk of scaling pain.
I've been looking for a new calendar myself. I've been using Vueminder for years, but I think it's time to move on. I'm not keen on the renewing updates thing either.

I'm in the Proton ecosystem, but from what I understand their Calender kind of sucks right now.
I'm wondering if I remember an urban legend or other apocryphal story.

From the headline, I immediately thought of an answer I swear I learned about in some machine learning class years ago. People were struggling with a food inspection device that tapped (cheese? fruit?) like this, trying to emulate what a human expert did.

The punchline was that the human expert didn't really know how to articulate their decision either, and it wasn't listening to the drumming sounds at all, but merely dispersing some odors to do a better sniff test.
Whenever such concrete realities are revealed, I chuckle at Marc Prensky's ideas from "Digital Natives" (that still linger on today):

> Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to “serious” work.

Even reading this back when it was published, it came across as drivel. Now, we have doomscroll-optimized short-form video which does precisely what Prensky recommended, and nobody in their right minds would suggest that it is healthy/good/beneficial for kids to consume that kind of media.
Secure K8s using passkeys and OIDC (fully air-gapped)
It wouldn't. Not for now

It's not only the sound, it's the sound, the bounce, the response to different strengths, the smell, the color. Humans are multimodal, machines are not, yet.

The moment we have a Michelin star level robot cook, then we can start thinking about automating this kind of stuff. For now, we have better results with humans!

Italians have absolutely zero problems replacing manual processes with technology. Creating each wheel is more science than art, everything is done in highly sterilized environments with exact temperature control, as an example.
whats the lifetime environmental impact of hiring one decent human being who is capable enough assist with work. Well a lot, you gotta do 25 years with 30 kids to get one useful person.

You get to upgrade them, kill them off, have them on demand
==There’s like five Trump republicans on HN==

Neither true nor relevant to the comment. The comment was about the propensity to demand more from one side than the other. In this case, you put the onus on Democrats to positively interpret a Republican administration policy that Republican politicians can't even articulate.

==after being between 466 and 657 between 2019 and 2022. Did Trump’s policies cause air quality to get better and then suddenly get worse halfway through the Biden administration?==

No, COVID did that, as other people have explained in this thread.
Let's be more specific to try and remove the COVID outliers:

- PM2.5 unhealthy days fell 41% during Obama's term (1,195 unhealthy days in 2008 down to 702 days in 2016).

- PM2.5 unhealthy days increased by 9% from 2017 to 2018, after Trump changed the rules.

It should also be noted that wildfires can have a large impact on PM2.5 levels.
Lotta people playing on the deck. Hoping to port to switch one day. Local multiplayer would be awesome.
> Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

The empire strikes back. Until now, the job market, was flooded with false vacancies.
>I still wonder what would have happened had Jean-Louis Gassée been less greedy and Apple acquired BeOs instead of Next.

I'm pretty sure Apple would have been bankrupt a few months later if they didn't buy back Steve.
Ah excellent—that's what we were waiting for. I've changed the URL to that from https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-wit... above. Thanks!
Everything old is new again.

Back in the early 2000's I used Mozilla Sunbird to host my calendar on my personal Win2k server via IIS's WebDAV module… I don't think CardDAV was a thing yet but I might be mistaken.

I ended up importing all that data from it into my Google Calendar which is kind of fun because I've got all my homework and whatnot for college courses on there if you go back far enough.
Also worth noting that `1 - -2` works and produces 3 in C because the space breaks the operator.
you know how the endorsements work right? some comms intern writes a quote, emails it to someone at the other companies for the go ahead/approval, and that's how you get dozens of companies all spouting BS that kinda sounds the same.
Adam Smith would be considered a right wing economist today, similar to Milton Friedman, perhaps with more support for certain government functions such as education. However, even on that issue, given the wildly different level of education available today, its not easy to predict what he would think.

Often quotations from him are taken wildly out of context to support a 'progressive' viewpoint. An example (From David Friedman's blog):

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

But, if we keep reading:

It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.

Adam Smith was a proponent of free trade, free markets, and flat taxation (proportional to income). Not very socialist.

(https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/discovering-what-is-tr...)
Here's a passage from a children's book I've been carrying around in my heart for a few decades:

“I don't like cleaning or dusting or cooking or doing dishes, or any of those things," I explained to her. "And I don't usually do it. I find it boring, you see."

"Everyone has to do those things," she said.

"Rich people don't," I pointed out.

Juniper laughed, as she often did at things I said in those early days, but at once became quite serious.

"They miss a lot of fun," she said. "But quite apart from that--keeping yourself clean, preparing the food you are going to eat, clearing it away afterward--that's what life's about, Wise Child. When people forget that, or lose touch with it, then they lose touch with other important things as well."

"Men don't do those things."

"Exactly. Also, as you clean the house up, it gives you time to tidy yourself up inside--you'll see.”
Oh no, don't apologize - this was a case where you did exactly the right thing and I'm glad you posted!

(I was just adding some explanation for more seasoned users who might wonder why we were treating this a bit differently.)

Also, welcome to posting on HN and we hope you'll continue!
Will AI Replace Humans (e.g. Writing, Coding)?
So basically pay protection money? We have engineered such a system that the only way to use your own stuff is to pay a tax for it and rely on centralized system, even though you don't need to be public at all?
Big Book of R
Trading FSD for OKX – Aibfarm
> I can't claim to have ever used gemini, but last I checked it still can't cite sources, which would at least assist with validation.

Yes, it can cite sources, just like any other major LLM service out there. Gemini, Claude, Deepseek, and ChatGPT are the ones I personally validated this with, but I bet other major LLM services can do so as well.

Just tested this using Gemini with “Is fluoride good for teeth? Cite sources for any of the claims” prompt, and it listed every claim as a bullet point accompanied by the corresponding source. The sources were links to specific pages addressing the claims from CDC, Cleveland Clinic, John Hopkins, and NIDCR. I clicked on each of the links to verify that they were corroborating what Gemini response was saying, and they were.

In fact, it would more often than not include sources even without me explicitly asking for sources.
"""Used to"""
But isn't it actually more like, COBOL lets you talk in COBOL-ese (which is kinda stilted), whereas LLMs let you talk in LLM-ese (which gets a lot closer to actual language)? And then since the skill cap on language is basically infinite, that this becomes a question of how good you are at saying what you want - to the extent it intersects with what the LLM can do.
Columbia University hired a Muslim professor, Muhamed Abdul, who said: “Yes, I am with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad” on his social media account.
Google to embrace MCP
Just write what you know: they won't be able to know where were you...

... but they will be able to know if you're lying to them because they are trained to read people.
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s3: https://aws.amazon.com/pm/serv-s3

s3 express: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/

cross-region replication: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/replic...
Trump formulated his ideas on tariffs in the 1980s. He talked about them with Oprah in another ero. He didn't do this in preparation for some realization of the bond situation in 2025.
Not an issue with JS disabled ;)
Show HN: chart2txt, LLM-readable astrology charts
Working on a larger astrology project, I realized there's no good way to get text descriptions of an astrology chart in a form designed for LLMs. Astro.com can generate descriptions, but it's unintuitive.

I decided to build a small js library that could handle the conversion: https://github.com/simpolism/chart2txt -- the chart2txt site was designed as a usage example.

In working on the example, I also realized there was no simple API that outputs basic astrology data (i.e. convert a birth time + place into planet + ascendant positions). So, I built that too to support the example app, using the standard swiss ephemeris library: https://github.com/simpolism/simple-astro-api

Here's an example prompt once you have your chart text: "In a paragraph or two that doesn't reference specific planets or astrological jargon, synthesize the astrology chart below to explain the personality of the native:"

Then, you can ask further questions. It's also fun to try against different LLMs and see how the results change! My overall thesis is that astrology is a symbolic language, so a chart reading is not dissimilar from a translation, and thus we should expect LLMs to be pretty good at it. I don't have much interest in debating whether astrology is "real" or "true", though, as all we're doing here is a play of historical symbols.

Hope you enjoy! Let me know about any bugs, issues, feature requests, etc!
The Co-op food stores in Hanover and Lebanon NH did a March madness cheese bracket. We hosted a small bracket party with a selection of unfamiliar cheeses for friends to try while filling out our brackets.

It was weirdly fancy (eating good cheese), and weirdly not (I don't think of March madness brackets as a particularly refined thing). It was all delicious though!
I actually quite like the emojis they put in the output, it helps alleviate the balance of providing enough context while also giving a clear visual indicator for the actual error message.

They aren't going overboard on it, they just put a warning emoji in front of the error message.
Garfield Minus Garfield is good, but Lasagna Cat is on another level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
The wife of a terrorist is protesting with Columbia University students. Sami Al-Arian was deported from the US in 2015 for aiding Islamic Jihad.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1785504227244052872
In Virginia, it;s the opposite -- you need to request a REAL ID. "A REAL ID is an optional, upgraded version of your driver’s license or ID card that has a star in the right corner. ... Since REAL ID is optional in Virginia, you may not need one if you already have another federally accepted form of ID, like a valid U.S. passport or military ID, or don’t travel by plane."
Thanks! I've changed the URL of the current thread and re-upped this one. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646209.
Black Poverty Leads White Americans to Blame Inequality on Blacks Themselves
> people were not exactly flat out all day long...

Which is kind of the point

Give people some of their free time back. If they can get the same productivity in less time, why keep them slack at the office

We should not be trying to optimize to get people to go flat out all day long for 40 hour weeks
Are you going to be hosting the multi-lingual?
I think the lessons people most fail to learn concern why someone like Trump could be elected into office in the first place. It's easy to sigh with contempt at the current leadership (and there is plenty to detest), but it is more difficult to examine the failures of the political establishment, to examine the failures of the liberal order, and to examine how these failures create a situation that allows for the proverbial poison that lurks in the mud to hatch out. It is especially difficult for such an establishment to do so as that would require self-criticism. Note that I am not legitimizing the poison, but as often happens, excesses and errors committed in one direction often produce excesses and errors in the other, as if to counterbalance. It doesn't mean all poison is the product of an opposing poison. There is no legitimacy to Hitler (who was driven by and preyed on German narcissism and insecurity, as well as economic factors) or Stalin (who preyed on class envy).

And it is also lazy to put all reaction to these failures into the same bucket. MAGA is not the same as much of what falls under "postliberalism"[0]. There are serious thinkers who are responding, within a broader tradition, to the collapse of the liberal order by examining its causes and looking at possible exits from the situation.

[0] https://www.postliberalorder.com/
He Was Held Captive in His Room for Decades
Funny thing About Asimov was how he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work.
There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans.