Hacker News: Harvy

New comment by Harvy in "120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom"

Harvy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:10:11 +0000

How is this not mentioned in the article anywhere? I've seen similar articles and keep thinking: is this about the 24 delay or something else. It just leads to confusing messaging.

New comment by Harvy in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

Harvy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:32:59 +0000

I've just played it to the end with my own OAI key. Only $4 to solve which I thought was value for money.

A few issues:

Voice isolation seemed to be a problem as I airplaying my laptop to my TV to make it group experience. It did start to hear it's own voice, could be counteracted with lowering the volume.

Sometimes the voice reply would just stop but the text was there.

There was some bug where some characters if you went back to them would just answer the last question again. Also just strange stuff like no one knew what they had for dinner but the doctor could tell me how to treat a heart attack. It seemed like the knowledge base they are drawing from didn't have that. Was interesting to see the limits of what they could say.

Design-wise would be good to have a mute toggle as a keyboard shortcut, as we would then try to discuss what people said in the room and it would pick us up.

Also didn't realise we had to accuse the person they were the murderer, as we didn't know what button to press. That was a confusing design as everything had been action based by the UI at the point but now you are asking the user to perform an action with their voice. It also meant we had to accuse them and then immediately start saying why as we know it might cut us off if there's too long a pause. Maybe that could be a button to say you are ready to accuse then you say who and they would ask why, then you present the evidence step by step.

Would be good to have your own stats if you're logged in. i.e time to complete, etc but I guess that's just on a long list of features to implement.

Overall good experience:

I would like to see more involved mysteries. Liked the atmosphere, the characters. Still not sure about the AI portraits but I think that's because it's obvious it is AI. Just using voice to voice made it really nice to use. TBH didn't even need to look at the screen most of the time.

Realtime voice isn't there yet, as there is still handling interruptions and having to ensure you complete your sentence without stopping. Maybe that could be worked around in the app here but probably should be solved at model level. Basically what Thinking Machines are doing.

Also Sophia was really adamant about staying in the kitchen. I got so annoyed I told her to call it the bouncy castle instead.

New comment by Harvy in "Smart Earbuds with built-in camera and AI"

Harvy — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:05:45 +0000

Also is it implying it can do all this with a local model on the phone?

New comment by Harvy in "Smart Earbuds with built-in camera and AI"

Harvy — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:04:29 +0000

Started this company out of passion for gadgets and inspiration from Pranav Mistry's work on Sixth Sense.

I was born with high power and had to take eye surgery to get rid of glasses and see the world with wide open eyes. We believe in a future where humans touch grass again and not wear screens on their eyeballs.

Wut?

New comment by Harvy in "GPT-5.4"

Harvy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:01:22 +0000

Isn't that what LLMs are?

New comment by Harvy in "Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates"

Harvy — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 07:13:42 +0000

I have a phone going on 6 years now. Replaced the battery a few years ago and slapped on a custom ROM once mine was invariably not supported. I don't have a huge case on it or keep it plugged most of the time.

It's my daily driver, so I use it all the time and it basically runs everything I need.

New comment by Harvy in "Wikipedia Speedruns"

Harvy — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:28:38 +0000

Have you tried... Marathon mode? Conserve your clicks but take your time

Show HN: App to upload and share photos from your own server

Harvy — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:37:42 +0000

Article URL: http://android.harvinderatwal.com/photosharer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931519

Points: 1

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New comment by Harvy in "What do you find most annoying in your house?"

Harvy — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:01:17 +0000

Lack of low level floor lighting which turns automatically when you walk on the floor at night. That would be awesome.

My lost iPhone

Harvy — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:28:26 +0000

Article URL: http://harvinderatwal.com/blog/2012/11/my-lost-iphone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757342

Points: 15

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A Github for hackerspaces

Harvy — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:18:57 +0000

Article URL: http://www.knowable.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716798

Points: 1

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New comment by Harvy in "What do you think of my new blog theme?"

Harvy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:51:09 +0000

I like it overall. I thought that the icons on the left hand side were clickable and it would filter by that type but no. Personally I like categories and tags, so more of that please.

How to use a personal blog

Harvy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:43:33 +0000

Article URL: http://harvinderatwal.com/blog/2011/03/how-to-use-a-personal-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748939

Points: 3

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