Native visionOS platform support (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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GitHub
Native visionOS platform support by rsanchezsaez · Pull Request #105628 · godotengine/godot
Dear Godot community,
I'm on Apple's visionOS engineering team, and we would like to contribute Vision Pro support to the Godot engine. This is the first PR that lays the foundation...
I'm on Apple's visionOS engineering team, and we would like to contribute Vision Pro support to the Godot engine. This is the first PR that lays the foundation...
Ď€0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization (Score: 153+ in 14 hours)
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www.pi.website
A VLA with Open-World Generalization
Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.
Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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Advanced Python Features (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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Edward Li's Blog
14 Advanced Python Features
Python is one of the most widely adopted programming languages in the world. Yet, because of it’s ease and simplicity to just “get something working”, it’s also one of the most underappreciated.
If you search for Top 10 Advanced Python Tricks on Google or…
If you search for Top 10 Advanced Python Tricks on Google or…
CSS Hell (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
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Csshell
CSS Hell
Web site created using create-react-app
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great (Score: 151+ in 22 hours)
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Technologizer by Harry McCracken
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.
Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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bioGraphic
Ping, You've Got Whale - bioGraphic
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
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The Register
America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
Opinion: The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot
Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
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Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code.
This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly.
I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI speech to speech service. While there are several useful Text-To-Speech (TTS) and Speech-To-Text (STT) repos out there, I believe none gets Speech-To-Speech right. OpenAI launched an embedded-repo late last year which sets up WebRTC with ESP-IDF. However, it's not beginner friendly and doesn't have a server side component for business logic.
This repo is an attempt at solving the above pains and creating a great speech to speech experience on Arduino with Secure Websockets using Edge Servers (with Deno/Supabase Edge Functions) for fast global connectivity and low latency.
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Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code.
This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly.
I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI speech to speech service. While there are several useful Text-To-Speech (TTS) and Speech-To-Text (STT) repos out there, I believe none gets Speech-To-Speech right. OpenAI launched an embedded-repo late last year which sets up WebRTC with ESP-IDF. However, it's not beginner friendly and doesn't have a server side component for business logic.
This repo is an attempt at solving the above pains and creating a great speech to speech experience on Arduino with Secure Websockets using Edge Servers (with Deno/Supabase Edge Functions) for fast global connectivity and low latency.
GitHub
GitHub - akdeb/ElatoAI: Realtime AI speech with OpenAI Realtime API on Arduino ESP32 with Secure Websockets and Deno edge functions…
Realtime AI speech with OpenAI Realtime API on Arduino ESP32 with Secure Websockets and Deno edge functions with >10min uninterrupted conversations globally for AI toys, AI companions, AI de...
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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sebs.website
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
<p>The Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. What is it and how can we avoid it?</p>
Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
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Yahoo Finance
Apple, Meta fined as EU presses ahead with tech probes
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech. The EU…
MinC Is Not Cygwin (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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minc.commandlinerevolution.nl
MinC Is Not Cygwin
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 (🔥 Score: 174+ in 1 hour)
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Silent’s Blog
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
After over two decades, players are now forbidden from flying a seaplane, all thanks to undefined code behavior.
How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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ingau
How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly
I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free.
My vault lives in iCloud…
My vault lives in iCloud…
AI Horseless Carriages (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
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koomen.dev
AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev
An essay about bad AI app design
Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Hey HN,
I'm Sindre, CTO of Scrimba (YC S20). We originally launched Scrimba to make video learning more interactive for aspiring frontend developers. So instead of passively watching videos, you can jump in an experiment with the code directly inside the video player. Since launch, almost two million people have used Scrimba to grow their skills.
However, one limitation is that we've only supported frontend code, as our interactive videos run in the browser, whereas most of our learners want to go fullstack—building APIs, handling auth, working with databases, and so forth.
To fix this, we spent the last 6 months integrating StackBlitz WebContainers into Scrimba. This enables a full Node.js environment—including a terminal, shell, npm access, and a virtual file system—directly inside our video player. Everything runs in the browser.
Here is a 2-minute recorded demo: https://scrimba.com/s08dpq3nom
If you want to see more, feel free to enroll into any of the seven fullstack courses we've launched so far, on subject like Node, Next, Express, SQL, Vite, and more. We've opened them up for Hacker News today so that you don't even need to create an account to watch the content:
https://scrimba.com/fullstack
Other notable highlights about our "IDE videos":
- Based on events (code edits, cursor moves, etc) instead of pixels
- Roughly 100x smaller than traditional videos
- Recording is simple: just talk while you code
- Can be embedded in blogs, docs, or courses, like MDN does here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/core/css-fund...
- Entirely built in Imba, a language I created myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662
We think this format could be useful for open-source maintainers and API-focused teams looking to create interactive docs or walkthroughs. Our videos are already embedded by MDN, LangChain, and Coursera.
If you maintain a library or SDK and want an interactive video about it, let us know—happy to record one for free that you can use however you like.
Would love to answer any questions or hear people's feedback!
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6tfHx
Hey HN,
I'm Sindre, CTO of Scrimba (YC S20). We originally launched Scrimba to make video learning more interactive for aspiring frontend developers. So instead of passively watching videos, you can jump in an experiment with the code directly inside the video player. Since launch, almost two million people have used Scrimba to grow their skills.
However, one limitation is that we've only supported frontend code, as our interactive videos run in the browser, whereas most of our learners want to go fullstack—building APIs, handling auth, working with databases, and so forth.
To fix this, we spent the last 6 months integrating StackBlitz WebContainers into Scrimba. This enables a full Node.js environment—including a terminal, shell, npm access, and a virtual file system—directly inside our video player. Everything runs in the browser.
Here is a 2-minute recorded demo: https://scrimba.com/s08dpq3nom
If you want to see more, feel free to enroll into any of the seven fullstack courses we've launched so far, on subject like Node, Next, Express, SQL, Vite, and more. We've opened them up for Hacker News today so that you don't even need to create an account to watch the content:
https://scrimba.com/fullstack
Other notable highlights about our "IDE videos":
- Based on events (code edits, cursor moves, etc) instead of pixels
- Roughly 100x smaller than traditional videos
- Recording is simple: just talk while you code
- Can be embedded in blogs, docs, or courses, like MDN does here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/core/css-fund...
- Entirely built in Imba, a language I created myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662
We think this format could be useful for open-source maintainers and API-focused teams looking to create interactive docs or walkthroughs. Our videos are already embedded by MDN, LangChain, and Coursera.
If you maintain a library or SDK and want an interactive video about it, let us know—happy to record one for free that you can use however you like.
Would love to answer any questions or hear people's feedback!
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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You Wouldn't Steal a Font (🔥 Score: 182+ in 47 minutes)
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fedi.rib.gay
Rib :ms_red_panda: (@Rib)
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (https://bsky.app/p…
Doge Worker's Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower (🔥 Score: 176+ in 51 minutes)
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Krebs on Security
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said…
Teaching LLMs how to solid model (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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willpatrick.xyz
Teaching LLMs how to solid model
It turns out that LLMs can make CAD models for simple 3D mechanical parts. And, I think they’ll be extremely good at it soon.