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Show HN: Book Reading Habit – read the books you buy
I built Book Reading Habit (iOS only) after struggling with my own inconsistent reading habit.What helped most was keeping reading sessions short — easy to start, easy to repeat. That became the core idea behind the app.Book Reading Habit is built around that approach, with a strong focus on privacy and a calmer reading experience: no ads, no social feed, and no unnecessary noise around reading.Current features include:- short, extendable, or open-ended reading sessions- reading tracking- text n
Show HN: AriaType – Privacy-first voice keyboard with AI polish (Beta, macOS)
Hi HN,I built AriaType, a local-first voice keyboard for macOS (currently in Beta v0.1.0).The motivation: I wanted a voice input solution that:
1. Respects my privacy (no cloud processing required)
2. Works everywhere (not just in browsers or specific apps)
3. Actually produces clean, usable text (not raw speech-to-text)How it works:
- Hold a hotkey (Shift+Space by default), speak, release
- Whisper-based models (or sensevoice) run locally for transcription
- Optional AI polish removes filler wo
Show HN: Aurora Subtitles RealTime speech translation running locally on Windows
Hi HN,I built Aurora Subtitles, a Windows application that generates real-time
subtitles and translation from microphone or system audio.Everything runs locally using Whisper for transcription and NLLB for
translation. CUDA acceleration is supported to reduce latency, and
subtitles appear as an overlay on screen.The goal was to create something useful for:
- voice chats and Discord
- games
- meetings
- accessibility, including helping people with hearing impairmentsNo cloud APIs are required and
Show HN: Payo – I got tired of losing contacts at conferences, so I built
I go to a lot of tech events and conferences. The pattern is always the same: have a great conversation, swap some details verbally, promise to follow up… and then lose half of it by the time I sit down.
I tried everything scanning badges (when they exist), typing notes into my phone mid-conversation (awkward), taking photos of business cards (who carries those anymore). Nothing stuck.
So I built Payo. It's a PWA no app store, just open it on your phone.
The core flow: tap record, say what
Show HN: Ratschn – A local Mac dictation app built with Rust, Tauri and CoreML
Hi HN, I'm the solo developer behind Ratschn.I type a lot and got extremely frustrated with the current state of Mac dictation tools. Most of them are either heavy Electron wrappers, rely on cloud APIs (a privacy nightmare), or force you into a SaaS subscription for a tool that essentially runs on your own hardware. I wanted something that feels native, respects system resources, and runs entirely offline without forced subscriptions.The stack is Rust, Tauri, and whisper.cpp. Here are the d
Show HN: Live Kaiwa – real-time Japanese conversation support
I live in a rural farming neighborhood in Japan.Day-to-day Japanese is fine for me. But neighborhood meetings were a completely different level.People speak fast. There's local dialect. Someone references a flood from 1987, a land boundary dispute from 1994, and three people I've never met but everyone else knows. I would walk out feeling like I understood maybe 5% of what happened.So I built a tool for myself to help follow those conversations.Live Kaiwa listens to Japanese speech and
Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
Subtitle: <i>The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician</i><p>https://archive.is/Cwf05
Show HN: Time Machine – Debug AI Agents by Forking and Replaying from Any Step
Hey HN! We are building Time Machine, a debugging and replay platform for AI agents. We would love your feedback.Here's a demo: https://youtu.be/KyOP9BY0WiY
Website Link: https://timemachinesdk.dev/Here is the initial problem we are trying to solve: Imagine it's Step 9 of 10 of an agent running, and it hallucinated a tool call, wrote garbage to your database, and crashed. You fix the prompt. You re-run. $1.50 gone. This happens six more times before lunch.
Ask HN: TikTok scraping – maximize signal when only 5% of content is useful?
Hey everyone.I'm working on a machine learning project that needs a lot of TikTok video data that has to do with ads and behavior. I'm gonna do a bunch of transcription and analyses on individual videos after getting their ids.I'm facing a problem right now. I estimate only about 5% of the data fetched by tools like ensembledata through the degrees of freedom it allows (individual hashtag / keyword search.)I understand this possibly is a confounding problem.My question is has
Show HN: AutoICD API – AI clinical coding platform for ICD-10 and SNOMED
Hi HN,I built AutoICD, an AI-powered clinical coding platform that converts unstructured medical text into ICD-10 and SNOMED-CT codes. This is not an LLM wrapper. The platform uses a multi-layer machine learning architecture internally, combining custom-trained models with curated medical knowledge.Platform and tooling:- JS SDK – https://github.com/fcggamou/autoicd-js
- Python SDK – https://github.com/fcggamou/autoicd-python
- MCP Server – https:/
How Your Brain Sizes Up Others in Real-Time
Researchers identify a neural "fingerprint" in the brain that predicts how accurately we can size up the intentions and strategies of others.
Why anger feels close to fear: Brain charts emotion in a map-like way
It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such ...
A new phase of sensing phase change materials
Infrared cameras inform a convolutional neural network that determines the melt-fraction level of phase change materials.
As artificial intelligence PAC supports Jesse Jackson Jr., his campaign welcomes AI in Bobby Rush ad
The ad is a not-so-subtle nod of AI approval for Jackson, who is seeing support from the Leading the Future PAC — funded by OpenAI stakeholders.
Artificial Intelligence answering non-emergency sheriff's calls
Non-emergency calls to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office are being answered by an artificial intelligence processing system beginning this weekend.
Saudi Arabia declares 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence as AI investment reaches $9.1bn
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1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy Before It Soars 74% to Join Nvidia as a $4 Trillion-Dollar Company
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Overusing artificial intelligence can give workers "AI brain fry," study finds
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2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks to Sell Before They Fall 40% and 55%, According to Wall Street Analysts
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Regulate Artificial Intelligence, Most Voters Say
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is seen as a threat to job opportunities for real people, according to a majority of voters who favor government regulation of AI.