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Show HN: Spraff – Voice and text AI chat, self-hostable, no data retention
Hi HN! I built a simple, self-hostable AI chat app that focuses on voice input and privacy.Why I made this: I want to talk to AI (voice or text) without my conversations being logged, used for training etc.Requires an OpenRouter account. No subscription: pay-as-you-go with most conversations costing a fraction of a cent (a couple of cents for requests with search enabled)Privacy:- Uses OpenRouter to route to Gemini 3 Flash on Google Vertex with Zero Data Retention (ZDR).- Prompts and responses a
Ask HN: With so many AI models, how do you quickly choose the right one?
With the number of AI models available today (for transcription, OCR, image/video generation, etc.), I am curious how people choose the right model in practice.<p>If you care about things like output quality, cost, and latency, how do you evaluate models quickly, especially if you don’t want to write custom code or build evaluation pipelines?<p>Do you rely on docs and benchmarks, ask engineers to run experiments, manually test a few options, or something else?
Ask HN: Why is Apple's voice transcription hilariously bad?
Why is Apple’s voice transcription so hilariously bad?Even 2–3 years ago, OpenAI’s Whisper models delivered better, near-instant voice transcription offline — and the model was only about ~500 MB. With that context, it’s hard to understand how Apple’s transcription, which runs online on powerful servers, performs so poorly today.Here are real examples from using the iOS native app just now:- “BigQuery update” → “bakery update”- “GitHub” → “get her”- “CI build” → “CI bill”- “GitHub support” → “ge
Show HN: I bootstrapped a podcast search engine in Rust (1 yr update)
A year ago, I shared my journey bootstrapping Audioscrape in Rust. Back then: 500 users, SQLite, 4k LoC in main.rs, running on a $7/month VM.Today: 25,000+ transcribed episodes, knowledge graph with AI-extracted entities, and still running lean.What changed:Tech evolution: SQLite → PostgreSQL (scale). Added OpenSearch for full-text + semantic search. Self-hosted WhisperX on 2 GPUs (~100 episodes/hour). OpenAI for entity extraction (people, companies, topics). Still Rust/Axum, now
Show HN: Summit – local AI meeting insights
Summit is a local-first macOS app for meeting recording and transcription.
All audio processing, transcription, and summarization happens on your Mac - nothing is sent to the cloud (unless you chose to).Built for privacy-sensitive work such as NDAs, legal, healthcare, consulting.Features: - Works with any call app: zoom, meet, teams, etc.
- Automatic call detection
- On-device speaker identification
- Custom summary templates (decisions, action items, notes)
- Supports online and in-per
How AI could make you fitter than ever in 2026
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Instagram Chief Says AI Images Are Evolving Fast and He's Worried About Us Keeping Up
In a 2025 year-end post, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri addressed the massive shifts AI is causing in photography, stressing ...
China's DeepSeek kicked off 2026 with a new AI training method that analysts say is a 'breakthrough' for scaling
DeepSeek has released a new AI training method that analysts say is a "breakthrough" for scaling large language models.
In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism
In 2026, here's what you can expect from the AI industry: new architectures, smaller models, world models, reliable agents, ...
Yann LeCun calls Alexandr Wang 'inexperienced' and predicts more Meta AI employee departures
Yann LeCun, formerly Meta's chief AI scientist, criticized Wang and predicted that more AI employees will leave the company.
AI teachers and cybernetics - what could the world look like in 2050?
Futurist and author Tracey Follows, who helped write a government White Paper on UK education in 2050, believes learning will ...
Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful Promised the World’s Largest AI Data Center — Is It Even Happening?
Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Valley AI data center faces regulatory, cost, and community hurdles, raising doubts about the future ...
AI stocks jump amid broadly positive outlook for 2026 markets
The artificial intelligence boom that fueled much of investors' stock gains in 2025 is expected to remain a major theme for ...
Discussion about AI in data tracking and databrokering
I was thinking about how huge AI is nowdays in the tracking & databrokering schemes, like how companies can use AI to make data tracking and ”databrokering” easier and that way show very targeted ads and sell data, it’s wild how AI changes that area and how big potential it is for databroker companies etc, and i think we will see even more targeted ads in the future than now because of Artificial Intelligence, which might not be the best thing to hear for privacy enthusiasts.
Show HN: Kuack – Run Kubernetes jobs in visitor browsers
WebAssembly makes it possible to run serious computation in browsers. I wanted to see if we could treat browsers as Kubernetes workers.Kuack is a Virtual Kubelet provider that schedules Kubernetes workloads to browser tabs. Visitors' browsers connect, report capacity, and become ephemeral workers. It looks like a regular Kubernetes node - same kubectl commands, same OCI images, same workflows. The difference is that pods execute in browsers instead of servers. With multi-platform OCI images
Debugging for Systems Programming Learning
Learning systems programming was always an aspiration for me. Understanding more about what the machine was doing when you coded something one way as opposed to another. I always felt a vast gulf between toy examples and real programs. I could grasp the concepts quite well, but did not have a good feel for how to compose them. And when I read code for large systems, it was in the how the developer can composed the pieces that I would begin to feel lost and get discouraged. But that feeling that
Show HN: 1seed – Derive all your crypto keys from a single seed
I built 1seed because I was tired of managing separate SSH keys, age keys, and signing keys across machines.Also something about brain wallets is romantic to me, admittedly.One seed derives everything deterministically: SSH keys, age encryption keys, Ed25519 signing keys, and site-specific passwords. Same seed + same realm = same keys, always.Storage is automatic: tries OS keychain (macOS Keychain, Linux Secret Service, Windows Credential Manager), falls back to ~/.1seed if unavailable. No
The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
I’ve been utilizing Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro via the AI Studio front-end to develop a new platform. The 1M+ context window is, technically speaking, a game-changer for "stitching" together a 55,000-line codebase. However, I recently discovered a predatory billing architecture that I’m calling the "Context Tax."If you use the AI Studio UI, you might be walking into a massive bill without a single warning.Here is how it happened, and the UK/EU privacy "pro-tip" I
Show HN: mac-cleanup-go – an interactive macOS cleanup tool
Instead of a traditional command-style CLI, it runs as a TUI in the terminal,
allowing users to inspect cleanup targets before proceeding.On my macOS machines, caches and app data often take up more than 40% of disk usage.
Manually cleaning them each time felt tedious, so I built this tool to make the process easier.While similar tools exist, I found it hard to quickly understand how items were categorized
or how important each cleanup target was, so I built my own.Repository:
https://
Show HN: Vibora – Run Claude Code remotely, close your laptop, keep shipping
I built Vibora because I wanted more than a UI to orchestrate multiple Claude Code sessions — I wanted to kick off work, close my laptop, and check progress from my phone while I'm out. You don't need to run it remotely. Vibora is still incredibly useful running on your laptop. But once you get used to telling Claude to work on a feature, notify you when it's finished, and getting that first notification 20 minutes later — you won't want to go back.Vibora is a self-hosted web