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Web scraping with your web browser: Why not? (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwYd
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Includes working code. First article in a planned series.
The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fKAR
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Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fFjQ
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We only learnt of our son's online life after he died at 20 (Score: 155+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fK2s
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Linux from Scratch (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fJvq
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LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fHNw
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炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space (Score: 153+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fEPp
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Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fH2z
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Hey HN, we've been working with OpenAI for the past few months on the new Realtime API.
The goal is to give everyone access to the same stack that underpins Advanced Voice in the ChatGPT app.
Under the hood it works like this:
- A user's speech is captured by a LiveKit client SDK in the ChatGPT app
- Their speech is streamed using WebRTC to OpenAI’s voice agent
- The agent relays the speech prompt over websocket to GPT-4o
- GPT-4o runs inference and streams speech packets (over websocket) back to the agent
- The agent relays generated speech using WebRTC back to the user’s device
The Realtime API that OpenAI launched is the websocket interface to GPT-4o. This backend framework covers the voice agent portion. Besides having additional logic like function calling, the agent fundamentally proxies WebRTC to websocket.
The reason for this is because websocket isn’t the best choice for client-server communication. The vast majority of packet loss occurs between a server and client device and websocket doesn’t provide programmatic control or intervention in lossy network environments like WiFi or cellular. Packet loss leads to higher latency and choppy or garbled audio.
Don't squander public trust on bullshit (Score: 154+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fHVw
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Reverse engineering and dismantling Kekz headphones (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fFvi
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12 Months of Mandarin (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fGJA
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Show HN: Chebyshev approximation calculator (open source web app) (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fG9i
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Hi everyone,
here's a web app I made that generates code for efficiently approximating mathematical functions. This is useful when performance matters more than perfect accuracy, for example in embedded systems.
The app uses Chebyshev expansions, which despite their theoretical depth result in suprisingly compact and readable code in practice. This code is generated for you and using it does not require any knowledge of the underlying theory.
Source code and more info:
https://github.com/stuffmatic/chebyshev-calculator
Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI (Score: 152+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fF7q
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AI at Meta: Movie Gen (🔥 Score: 168+ in 57 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fGgp
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MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone (Score: 152+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fDkb
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The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fK2N
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ESP32: leaving love notes and entering demoscene territory (2022) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fGtY
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The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fKef
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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fKnw
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It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
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Noise (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
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How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer? (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fHz2
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Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fHnk
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Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fEQ8
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Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fGFQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fGFQ
Hey HN, I'm Nate, the creator of Tamagui.
One is a React framework that does two things differently in hopes of simplifying how we build websites and apps:
1. It unifies React Native and React web with typed file system routing by making Vite able to serve RN. This lets you share (or diverge) your code in a simpler way for cross-platform apps.
2. We've partnered with Zero (https://zerosync.dev) to make local-first work well. We've been building a solution in One that makes Zero supporting server rendering, without waterfalls, and with seamless server/client handoff.
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Honestly - I'm a bit hesitant to post One here.
HN has really soured on frontend/frameworks. And I get it. We've collectively complicated the hell out of things.
That's why I decided to build One. I loved Rails, it made me as a young developer able to finally realize way more ambitious projects than I'd ever done before. I also liked the promise (not implementation) of Meteor - it felt like the clear future, I guess just a bit too early (and a bit too scope-creeped).
I worked at Uniswap and built Tamagui and so spent a lot of time building cross-platform apps that share code. Uniswap is built on Tamagui and I think proves you can make really high quality UX while sharing a lot of code - but it's insanely hard and requires a huge team. My goal with One is to make what is now possible but hard dramatically easier.
And I think the path to there goes through local-first, because it makes building super responsive apps much, much simpler, and Zero is the first library to actually pull it off in a way that doesn't bloat your bundle or have very limiting constraints.
I happened to live down the street from Aaron, one of the founders of Zero, in our tiny town in Hawaii. We talked a lot about Zero over the last couple years, and I found it really admirable how he consistently chose the "harder but better" path in building it. It really shaped into something incredible, and that convinced me to actually launch One, which at the time was more of an experiment.
I can see a lot of potential criticism - do we need yet another framework, this is too shiny and vaporware-y, this is just more complexity and abstraction, etc. Happy to respond to those comments if they come.
I'm just building out something that I've been wanting for a long time. Opinionated enough to let me move fast like Rails, but leaning on the great work of team Zero so that we don't end up with the scope creep of Meteor. And honestly, it's just really fun to hack on.
New research says blue zones can be explained by comically flawed data (Score: 153+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fFtc
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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer (🔥 Score: 159+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fGEC
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US Dept of Energy announces $1.5B in electric grid improvements (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fE69
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Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fFBL
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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing (🔥 Score: 160+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fFuq
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