Hacker News: Newesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/newestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:59:05 +0000<![CDATA[What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane]]>Article URL: https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413

Points: 724

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:42:21 +0000https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/doom2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413
<![CDATA[Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison]]>Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953

Points: 1161

# Comments: 1310

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:48:12 +0000https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-sentencing-03-28-24/index.htmlmisiti3780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953
<![CDATA[Writing Gnome Apps with Swift]]>Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936

Points: 542

# Comments: 270

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:40:59 +0000https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/msk-lywennhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844936
<![CDATA[Daniel Kahneman has died]]>Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286

Points: 975

# Comments: 298

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:09:13 +0000https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/mrjaegerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286
<![CDATA[DBRX: A new open LLM]]>Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104

Points: 824

# Comments: 335

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:23:48 +0000https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llmjasondavieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838104
<![CDATA[Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor]]>Hey HN! We’re Jack and Finn from Aqua Voice (https://withaqua.com/). Aqua is a voice-native document editor that combines reliable dictation and natural language commands, letting you say things like: “make this a list” or “it’s Erin with an E” or “add an inline citation here for page 86 of this book”. Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/qwSAKg1YafM.

Finn, who is big-time dyslexic, has been using dictation software since the sixth grade when his dad set him up on Dragon Dictation. He used it through school to write papers, and has been keeping his own transcription benchmarks since college. All that time, writing with your voice has remained a cumbersome and brittle experience that is riddled with painpoints.

Dictation software is still terrible. All the solutions basically compete on accuracy (i.e. speech recognition), but none of them deal with the fundamentally brittle nature of the text that they generate. They don't try to format text correctly and require you to learn a bunch of specialized commands, which often are not worth it. They're not even close to a voice replacement for a keyboard.

Even post LLM, you are limited to a set of specific commands and the most accurate models don’t have any commands. Outside of these rules, the models have no sense for what is an instruction and what is content. You can’t say “and format this like an email” or “make the last bullet point shorter”. Aqua solves this.

This problem is important to Finn and millions of other people who would write with their voice if they could. Initially, we didn't think of it as a startup project. It was just something we wanted for ourselves. We thought maybe we'd write a novel with it - or something. After friends started asking to use the early versions of Aqua, it occurred to us that, if we didn't build it, maybe nobody would.

Aqua Voice is a text editor that you talk to like a person. Depending on the way that you say it and the context in which you're operating, Aqua decides whether to transcribe what you said verbatim, execute a command, or subtly modify what you said into what you meant to write.

For example, if you were to dictate: "Gryphons have classic forms resembling shield volcanoes," Aqua would output your text verbatim. But if you stumble over your words or start a sentence over a few times, Aqua is smart enough to figure that out and to only take the last version of the sentence.

The vision is not only to provide a more natural dictation experience, but to enable for the first time an AI-writing experience that feels natural and collaborative. This requires moving away from using LLMs for one-off chat requests and towards something that is more like streaming where you are in constant contact with the model. Voice is the natural medium for this.

Aqua is actually 6 models working together to transcribe, interpret, and rewrite the document according to your intent. Technically, executing a real-time voice application with a language model at its core requires complex coordination between multiple pieces. We use MoE transcription to outperform what was previously thought possible in terms of real-time accuracy. Then we sync up with a language model to determine what should be on the screen as quickly as possible.

The model isn't perfect, but it is ready for early adopters and we’ve already been getting feedback from grateful users. For example, a historian with carpal tunnel sent us an email he wrote using Aqua and said that he is now able to be five times as productive as he was previously. We've heard from other people with disabilities that prevent them from typing. We've also seen good adoption from people who are dyslexic or simply prefer talking to typing. It’s being used for everything from emails to brainstorming to papers to legal briefings.

While there is much left to do in terms of latency and robustness, the best experiences with Aqua are beginning to feel magical. We would love for you to try it out and give us feedback, which you can do with no account on https://withaqua.com. If you find it useful, it’s $10/month after a 1000-token free trial. (We want to bump the free trial in the future, but we're a small team, and running this thing isn’t cheap.)

We’d love to hear your ideas and comments with voice-to-text!


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686

Points: 701

# Comments: 233

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:53:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686the_kinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686
<![CDATA[Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses]]>Article URL: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827266

Points: 703

# Comments: 1101

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:58:21 +0000https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-key-bridge/60303975tbihlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827266https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827266
<![CDATA[Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta]]>Article URL: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814558

Points: 579

# Comments: 618

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:38:17 +0000https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689impish9208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814558https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814558
<![CDATA[Radios, how do they work?]]>Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813679

Points: 631

# Comments: 107

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:56:09 +0000https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-worktodsacerdotihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813679https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813679
<![CDATA[Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file]]>Article URL: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810378

Points: 767

# Comments: 151

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Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:48:06 +0000https://github.com/Y2Z/monolithiscream26https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810378https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810378
<![CDATA[Linux Crisis Tools]]>Article URL: https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-24/linux-crisis-tools.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804214

Points: 595

# Comments: 120

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Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:51:44 +0000https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-24/linux-crisis-tools.htmlsamberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804214https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804214
<![CDATA[Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable]]>Article URL: https://oimo.io/works/life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799755

Points: 1506

# Comments: 243

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Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:24:02 +0000https://oimo.io/works/life/surprisetalkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799755https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799755
<![CDATA[Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI]]>Article URL: https://stability.ai/news/stabilityai-announcement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797176

Points: 508

# Comments: 400

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Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:33:17 +0000https://stability.ai/news/stabilityai-announcementedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797176https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797176
<![CDATA[Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos]]>Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/03/22/feds-ordered-google-to-unmask-certain-youtube-users-critics-say-its-terrifying/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796550

Points: 547

# Comments: 368

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Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:15:54 +0000https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/03/22/feds-ordered-google-to-unmask-certain-youtube-users-critics-say-its-terrifying/wut42https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796550https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796550
<![CDATA[Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation]]>Article URL: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786984

Points: 673

# Comments: 192

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:48:23 +0000https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.phpceladevra_https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786984https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786984
<![CDATA[Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance]]>Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin).

Website: https://memories.gallery/

GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories

Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/ (demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm)

Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time!

Some features to highlight:

* A timeline similar to Google Photos where you can skip to any time in history instantly.

* AI-based tagging that runs locally on your server, identifying and tagging people and objects.

* Albums and external sharing.

* Metadata editing support

* A world map of your photos, supported both on mobile and the web

* Did I mention it's extremely fast?

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community! :)


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783223

Points: 797

# Comments: 230

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:25:10 +0000https://memories.gallery/radialappshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783223https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783223
<![CDATA[U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999

Points: 2544

# Comments: 2567

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:37:43 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.htmljcfreihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
<![CDATA[Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax]]>Article URL: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778412

Points: 1184

# Comments: 199

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:42:46 +0000https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/jiripospisilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778412https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778412
<![CDATA[The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis]]>Article URL: https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777229

Points: 511

# Comments: 213

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:29:37 +0000https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/jsomershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777229
<![CDATA[Vernor Vinge has died]]>Article URL: https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775304

Points: 1149

# Comments: 319

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:08:40 +0000https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/sohkamyunghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775304https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775304