Hacker News: Newesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/newestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:33:25 +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: 651

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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[NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++]]>Article URL: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182

Points: 414

# Comments: 258

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:50:59 +0000https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNextBrajeshwarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182
<![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: 1132

# Comments: 1264

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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[Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?]]>Article URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/28/blobs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852879

Points: 234

# Comments: 347

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:41:06 +0000https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/28/blobs.htmlbpierrehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852879https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852879
<![CDATA[Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?]]>Article URL: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buyback

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849727

Points: 227

# Comments: 281

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:12:04 +0000https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intel-subsidy-chips-act-stock-buybackrobtherobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849727https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849727
<![CDATA[Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works]]>Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844960

Points: 271

# Comments: 255

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:43:59 +0000https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/CharlesWhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844960https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844960
<![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: 540

# 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[MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/nyc-congestion-pricing-tolls-mta.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841703

Points: 387

# Comments: 781

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:03:22 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/nyc-congestion-pricing-tolls-mta.htmljaredwienerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841703
<![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: 973

# Comments: 297

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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[The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem]]>Article URL: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-pentagons-silicon-valley-problem-andrew-cockburn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39839789

Points: 291

# Comments: 428

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:38:51 +0000https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-pentagons-silicon-valley-problem-andrew-cockburn/NDAjamhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39839789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39839789
<![CDATA[The window for great-grandmothers is closing]]>Article URL: https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/the-window-for-great-grandmothers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39839629

Points: 273

# Comments: 460

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:28:54 +0000https://memoirsandrambles.substack.com/p/the-window-for-great-grandmothersyakkomajurihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39839629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39839629
<![CDATA[Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark]]>Article URL: https://aider.chat/2024/03/08/claude-3.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838169

Points: 197

# Comments: 221

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:31:06 +0000https://aider.chat/2024/03/08/claude-3.htmlgoranmoominhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838169https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838169
<![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: 821

# 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[Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/two-nights-of-broken-sleep-can-make-people-feel-years-older-finds-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837714

Points: 348

# Comments: 293

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:28:13 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/two-nights-of-broken-sleep-can-make-people-feel-years-older-finds-studyBrajeshwarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837714https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837714
<![CDATA[Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says]]>Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836715

Points: 187

# Comments: 243

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:29:22 +0000https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7bisaacfrondhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836715
<![CDATA[Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users]]>Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836350

Points: 391

# Comments: 218

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:10:11 +0000https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/vdddvhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836350https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836350
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?]]>I see so many AI product launches. Is there anyone who is working on non-AI products?

If so what are you working on?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695

Points: 347

# Comments: 503

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:25:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695jackedEngineerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695
<![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: 700

# 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[Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO]]>Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/26/rust-cdo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645

Points: 357

# Comments: 238

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:36:40 +0000https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/26/rust-cdo/Tomtehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645
<![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