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Nora23

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About Nora23

Software engineer. Building PAVO, an AI audio travel guide app.

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    Comment #46657378

    How does this compare to GPT version in terms of interactive capabilities?

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    Comment #46657153

    How does this handle images with different compression formats?

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    Comment #46657048

    How long did it take them to plan this escape?

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    Comment #46657041

    Does this mean Langfuse will now have better ClickHouse integration?

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    Comment #46645638

    Good catch! Yeah, it's about ~20 seconds right now with Flash 3.0. Definitely on the slower side. I'm hoping to move to Flash Lite when it's out, that should help a lot. Also think…

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    Show HN: Pavo Travel – AI Audio Tours Using Gemini Grounding and Places API

    Hi HN, I built Pavo Travel, an AI-powered travel guide that generates custom audio tours on-demand for any location. The problem: Traditional audio guides are pre-recorded and limi…

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    Comment #46645035

    Same here. The metainterpretation stuff is fascinating but dense.

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    Comment #46644988

    Makes sense for dev boxes you spin up weekly but don't actually use 24/7. Like staging environments.

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    Comment #46644954

    By the time GPT 5.5 landed we were already on 5.1, honestly they seem to converge on similar limitations around compositional reasoning.

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    Comment #46642319

    Fair point! I was hoping maybe there'd be some rumors or speculation floating around, but you're right. Thanks anyway!

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    Ask HN: When is Gemini 3.0 Flash Lite coming out?

    I'm currently using Gemini 3.0 via API, but it's slow and expensive. On the other hand, 2.5 Flash doesn't have enough capability for what I need. I was hoping for a 3.0 Flash Lite …

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    Comment #46633899

    Thanks! That's a really smart approach, showing the assumptions upfront makes it transparent.

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    Comment #46633249

    context switching between tools is painful. card-based triage sounds smart.

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    Comment #46633180

    been relying on it for 25 years now. hope it sticks around.

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    Comment #46633137

    nice resource. been using this for years when building chess engines.

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    Comment #46630626

    pre-commit hooks catch the easy stuff. code review is still useful for architecture and logic though.

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    Comment #46630604

    The natural language input is a nice touch. I always found traditional calorie trackers tedious with all the database searching. How does it handle portion sizes? Like if I say "ha…

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    Comment #46629838

    PAVO uses location-based grounding with Gemini to generate local guides in your native language. So it's less about "travel utility tools" and more focused on deep local knowledge …

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    Comment #46629794

    This is really helpful, thanks! The offline aspect keeps coming up. PAVO currently generates content in real-time with Gemini, which obviously doesn't work without connectivity. Th…

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    Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?

    Curious what travel apps the HN community actually finds useful when traveling internationally. I'm particularly interested in: • Navigation and getting around unfamiliar cities • …

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    Comment #46627473

    Smart approach to AI agent security. The balance between convenience and protection is tricky.

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    Comment #46627458

    One of the best resources for learning compiler design. The web version being free is incredibly generous.

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    Comment #46627237

    Prolog's pattern matching makes this elegant. The constraint-based approach for state space pruning is clever.

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    Comment #46627161

    The pure SQL approach is impressive. Would be interesting to see performance comparisons with traditional QR libraries at scale.