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New comment by pain_perdu in "AI Wall of Shame"

pain_perdu — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:32:56 +0000

Thanks

AI Wall of Shame

pain_perdu — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aiwallofshame.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804861

Points: 1

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Ask HN: SeedLegals Partnerships in London, worth it?

pain_perdu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:24:44 +0000

Hi All. In the UK, a business named SeedLegals (similar to Clerky + Stripe Atlas) offers a paid program for select businesses to 'advertise' offers to their 75,000 users (businesses who incorporated or manage cap table via them). It's a significant investment just to be on their Perks page and significantly more to get coverage in their webinars, newslettters or events. We're a very young API/Model provider. Is it it worth paying SeedLegals to break into the UK market? If you're a UK statup do you ever use SeedLegals Perks? Their founder is a rockstar for whom I have the greatest respect (he invented BBC iPlayer and is generally just a very honest nice guy but SeedLegals is a lot bigger than just him now so sanity checking). Thanks in advance.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788963

Points: 2

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Apple Accused of Removing Village Names of Disputed Territory in South Lebanon

pain_perdu — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Villgecrazylady/status/2043380336545968466

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742500

Points: 12

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New comment by pain_perdu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

pain_perdu — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:05:35 +0000

This looks really useful! FYI my day job is at a frontier voice ai lab focused on hyper-realistic low latency TTS (we're a commercial spinoff of Kyutai called Gradium). Happy to hook you up with a bunch of free credits if it's at all useful. Contact me anytime via colin at gradium dot ai.

New comment by pain_perdu in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

pain_perdu — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:01:41 +0000

Hi. Our model at http://www.Gradium.ai has no problem with 'code-switching' between Spanish English and we have excellent background noise suppression. Please feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

New comment by pain_perdu in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

pain_perdu — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:47:21 +0000

It's actively under development. Do you have a particular use-case in mind?

New comment by pain_perdu in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

pain_perdu — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:07:09 +0000

Hey Rob. I'm not on the tech team here at Gradium (I do GTM) but still curious where you found the glitch? Were you entering words into the STT in the bottom of the front page? Can you share an example so I can replicate? Many thanks!

Hibiki-Zero:real-time and multilingual speech translation model

pain_perdu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-02-12-hibiki-zero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992501

Points: 1

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BridgerClone

pain_perdu — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bridgerclone.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979757

Points: 4

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Optimizing Quality vs. Latency in Real-Time Text-to-Speech AI Models

pain_perdu — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:47:08 +0000

Article URL: https://gradium.ai/blog/optimizing-quality-vs-latency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973411

Points: 1

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Why Your Voice Cloning Sounds Fake (and How to Fix It)

pain_perdu — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:01:50 +0000

Article URL: https://gradium.ai/blog/voice-cloning-sounds-fake

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721911

Points: 5

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New comment by pain_perdu in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

pain_perdu — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:43:41 +0000

I'm psyched to see so much interest in my post about Kyutai's latest model! I'm working on part of a related team in Paris that's building off Kutai's research to provide enterprise-grade voice solutions. If anyone building in this space I'd love to chat and share some our upcoming models and capabilities that I am told are SOTA. Please don't hesitate to ping me via the address in my profile.

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

pain_perdu — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329

Points: 635

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Pickle Expose: Sliced and Diced

pain_perdu — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:53:49 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/thedowd/status/2007337800430198913

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46474286

Points: 3

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Spotify says 'anti-copyright extremists' scraped its library

pain_perdu — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:23:11 +0000

Article URL: https://musically.com/2025/12/22/spotify-says-anti-copyright-extremists-scraped-its-library/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354326

Points: 16

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New comment by pain_perdu in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

pain_perdu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:45:47 +0000

I moved to the USA in 2016 thanks to Peters help and every successful interaction I have had with USCIS since then has been because of his sage advice. You will not find a more knowledgeable or kind adviser than Peter.

North Korea hackers are using "EtherHiding" to embed malware on blockchains

pain_perdu — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:34:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-hackers-use-etherhiding-to-hide-malware-on-the-blockchain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45629444

Points: 4

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

pain_perdu — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:07:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-developer-roman-storm-guilty-on-one-count-in-federal-crypto-case/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816275

Points: 15

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Processing 23B Rows of Alien Txtbase Stealer Logs

pain_perdu — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:44:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/processing-23-billion-rows-of-alien-txtbase-stealer-logs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44251619

Points: 2

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