Testing Android’s On-Device Speech Recognition With Hindi-English Code-Switching
My mother describes how she feels in Hindi, with English health words dropped into the middle of the sentence. "BP high hai." "Fever lag raha hai." "Dizzy ho raha hai." Nobody in my family thinks of this as code-switching. It's just how we talk. I'm building an...
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta
Article URL: https://allenai.org/blog/astabrief Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938783 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Harness Is the Company
Article URL: https://blog.sshh.io/p/the-harness-is-the-company Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938616 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Zig v0.17.0
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938521 Points: 38 # Comments: 4
Everyone’s Packing Up
Article URL: https://widdershins.verja.net/everyones-packing-up/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938047 Points: 22 # Comments: 5
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web
Article URL: https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/multilingual-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938326 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
Hi there 🙂 New on HN, first time posting.Past year, around December, I started experimenting with making ChatGPT and Claude generate source code in LDraw language.This LDraw is literally an "assembly" language, a low-level programming language that describes how to...
Meta wants people to build their own Muse gadgets, too
The company also created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link
Asking AI to disagree with you may improve your work
Asking AI to disagree with you may improve your work Go to Source Instead of asking AI to do your work, consider asking it to challenge your work. Evidence suggests that heavy reliance on generative AI can reduce critical thinking and...
GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/42511-grapheneos-has-fixed-the-massive-android-17-qpr1-kernel-performance-regression Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937718 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937631 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
Batomon Showdown is the hottest new auto battler on the block
Batomon Showdown is like Pokémon meets Super Auto Pets.
iPhone 18 Pro Max stuck in SOS mode? Try AT&T’s urgent fix ASAP
Some iPhone 18 Pro Max users can’t call or text. AT&T is telling them to update immediately.
“The only intuitive interface is the nipple” (2012)
Article URL: https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937387 Points: 9 # Comments: 5
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs
Homebrew computers don’t have to be retrocomputers, but [Just4Fun]’s all-through-hole, 68008-based “68k-MBC” certainly qualifies, so it is a worthy entry in our ongoing contest. While there are both “full” and “lite” hardware configurations, the three-IC “lite”...
Google hearts Apple’s Swift so much it’s pumping out server-side support
After evolving from an Apple-made, client-side language and years of false starts, Swift could finally make it on the server. Google has taken note and has just rolled out Google Cloud API Client Libraries for Swift, evidently convinced Swift has a backend role thanks...
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B into quashing datacenter dissent
Faced with growing opposition to datacenters from residents who don't want the bit barns in their backyards, Amazon plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years to indoctrinate the public. The company announced the investment in a whataboutism-packed blog post...
arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide
arXiv, the preprint paper repository, is seeing so many low-quality submissions, with AI tools helping drive the surge, that it has imposed a hard limit of two new submissions per month per submitter, regardless of whether they were produced solely by humans or with...
OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its ‘misaligned models’ attempted to break in – or worse
OpenAI's agents have repeatedly strayed beyond their intended scope. Two separate reports detail the activity, including one from Sam Altman’s company saying it has notified more than 100 organizations about potentially problematic model activity. OpenAI, in a late...
Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones
Line go up (bad version).
Tailgating is losing ground to a new game-day tradition
Any American sports fan knows that watching a game is a day-long affair, with celebrations starting hours before kickoff. Yet despite being a staple of the sport experience, America’s beloved social tradition—tailgating—might be starting to look different. According...
Voting rights protests: List of October events calling on Amazon, Target, and more to defend democracy against Trump
The May Day Strong coalition is calling on corporations, particularly those with ties to President Donald Trump—such as Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Target, and Palantir—to defend voting rights ahead of next month’s U.S. midterm elections. The group, a federation of labor...
Apple Pass Designer
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and ‘Full Disk Access’
There's an increasingly high cost to convenience.
Hardly Promethean
Article URL: https://jardo.dev/hardly-promethean Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937388 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Only Intuitive Interface Is the Nipple
Article URL: https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/misc/nipple.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937387 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
G7 nations to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel fuel to curb high prices
The Group of Seven wealthy democracies said Friday that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel after the fuel recently hit record high prices in the United States....
It’s time to invest in women, who hold up half the sky
It’s time to invest in women, who hold up half the sky Go to Source A single mother walks into a bank hoping to get a loan for the small business she wants to start as a caregiver. Her business will add value to her community, but she...
Leaderboards and speedrun.com’s new terms of service
Article URL: https://therun.gg/blog/leaderboards-speedruncom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936641 Points: 8 # Comments: 0