Hacker News: Nora23

New comment by Nora23 in "FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence"

Nora23 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:04:30 +0000

How does this compare to GPT version in terms of interactive capabilities?

New comment by Nora23 in "Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them"

Nora23 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:21:57 +0000

How does this handle images with different compression formats?

New comment by Nora23 in "East Germany balloon escape"

Nora23 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:02:23 +0000

How long did it take them to plan this escape?

New comment by Nora23 in "ClickHouse acquires Langfuse"

Nora23 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:01:04 +0000

Does this mean Langfuse will now have better ClickHouse integration?

New comment by Nora23 in "Show HN: Pavo Travel – AI Audio Tours Using Gemini Grounding and Places API"

Nora23 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:06:34 +0000

Good catch! Yeah, it's about ~20 seconds right now with Flash 3.0. Definitely on the slower side.

I'm hoping to move to Flash Lite when it's out, that should help a lot. Also thinking about adding some better loading feedback so it doesn't feel quite so long while you wait.

Show HN: Pavo Travel – AI Audio Tours Using Gemini Grounding and Places API

Nora23 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:17:53 +0000

Hi HN,

I built Pavo Travel, an AI-powered travel guide that generates custom audio tours on-demand for any location.

The problem: Traditional audio guides are pre-recorded and limited to major attractions. Generic AI guides suffer from training data cutoff—they don't know about places that opened last year or current hours.

Pavo Travel solves this by combining Google Places API with Gemini's grounding feature. Instead of hallucinating from stale training data, it pulls real-time information about restaurants, hours, reviews, and events happening now. Tap any spot on the map → get a fresh, narrated tour in your native language.

Technical stack: - Google Gemini AI with Grounding (real-time web search) - Google Places API for location data - Text-to-speech for narration - Flutter (iOS/Android) - Offline map support

It's live now. The grounding makes a huge difference vs traditional LLM approaches—no more "this restaurant opened in 2019" when it closed last month.

Would love feedback, especially on the grounded content quality and UX flow.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645289

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by Nora23 in "My Gripes with Prolog"

Nora23 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:32:42 +0000

Same here. The metainterpretation stuff is fascinating but dense.

New comment by Nora23 in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

Nora23 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:23:50 +0000

Makes sense for dev boxes you spin up weekly but don't actually use 24/7. Like staging environments.

New comment by Nora23 in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

Nora23 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:18:21 +0000

By the time GPT 5.5 landed we were already on 5.1, honestly they seem to converge on similar limitations around compositional reasoning.

New comment by Nora23 in "Ask HN: When is Gemini 3.0 Flash Lite coming out?"

Nora23 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:29:16 +0000

Fair point! I was hoping maybe there'd be some rumors or speculation floating around, but you're right. Thanks anyway!

Ask HN: When is Gemini 3.0 Flash Lite coming out?

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:40:24 +0000

I'm currently using Gemini 3.0 via API, but it's slow and expensive. On the other hand, 2.5 Flash doesn't have enough capability for what I need.

I was hoping for a 3.0 Flash Lite version that balances speed, cost, and performance, but I haven't seen any rumors or announcements. Does anyone know if Google is planning to release one?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641068

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by Nora23 in "Show HN: 0xCal – A calorie tracker where you just describe what you ate"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:29:42 +0000

Thanks! That's a really smart approach, showing the assumptions upfront makes it transparent.

New comment by Nora23 in "Show HN: Azurite – Triage Linear and GitHub issues using MCP (Deck of Cards UI)"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:46:22 +0000

context switching between tools is painful. card-based triage sounds smart.

New comment by Nora23 in "Can Wikipedia Survive?"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:42:39 +0000

been relying on it for 25 years now. hope it sticks around.

New comment by Nora23 in "Chess Programming Wiki"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:39:44 +0000

nice resource. been using this for years when building chess engines.

New comment by Nora23 in "Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:30:02 +0000

pre-commit hooks catch the easy stuff. code review is still useful for architecture and logic though.

New comment by Nora23 in "Show HN: 0xCal – A calorie tracker where you just describe what you ate"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:25:53 +0000

The natural language input is a nice touch. I always found traditional calorie trackers tedious with all the database searching. How does it handle portion sizes? Like if I say "had a burger" vs "had a big burger"?

New comment by Nora23 in "Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:44:16 +0000

PAVO uses location-based grounding with Gemini to generate local guides in your native language. So it's less about "travel utility tools" and more focused on deep local knowledge and cultural context.

But you're right - Google Maps handles destinations well, but there's no reason we couldn't use Gemini with grounding for transit guidance too. That's a really interesting idea, thanks! Definitely going to explore that.

New comment by Nora23 in "Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?"

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:37:04 +0000

This is really helpful, thanks! The offline aspect keeps coming up. PAVO currently generates content in real-time with Gemini, which obviously doesn't work without connectivity.

Thinking I should add a "pre-download" feature where users can generate audio guides and itineraries over WiFi before heading out. Would that solve the offline problem, or do people need the flexibility to explore spontaneously without planning ahead?

Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?

Nora23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:50:26 +0000

Curious what travel apps the HN community actually finds useful when traveling internationally.

I'm particularly interested in: • Navigation and getting around unfamiliar cities • Dealing with language barriers • Finding local experiences vs tourist traps • Any apps that have genuinely saved you time or made travel easier

I've tried Google Maps, TripAdvisor, and the usual suspects, but they all feel generic. What do you use? Any hidden gems?

(Context: I'm working on a travel app called PAVO Travel, so trying to understand what features travelers actually need vs what developers think they need)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628969

Points: 2

# Comments: 4