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I usually skim/scan before reading anything. I used to do this to get a gist of what to expect, but now I do it to look for telltale signs of AI slop (and run through Pangram if I’…

This has more to do with Voice Activity Detection (VAD) than the latency described in the article

Thanks for WebRTC for the Curious and for Pion! Not using the latter directly, but have used both to better understand WebRTC

This is one of the coolest hacks I've seen recently. Having done some much less involved MacOS hacking, I can't help but wonder if we may finally see momentum behind some flavor of…

To my understanding, while sweating is important to heat adaptation and blood plasma volume adaptations, thermal load and cardiovascular strain are likely bigger factors (and more …

Potentially, but likely much less effective and less studied, and you likely need longer sessions for effective dosage. Most of the studies I've seen on improvements in blood plasm…

FWIW, most of the studies on improvements in blood plasma volume from passive heat are usually done on saunas with temperatures > 150 degrees F (60 C). Steam rooms usually only get…

Thanks for trying it, and keen eye! Fixing (with Claude code) but also taking time to try to learn a bit about the canvas drawing/pixel art, which I'm not super familiar with.

After seeing yesterday's insightful post on using git heuristics as the first step for exploring a codebase [1], I messaged a couple of friends to ask how they explore codebases to…

Ah yea, I got an uncommon dragon instead of the rare duck. Did you get your legendary?

This is awesome! Working on a desktop pet so the buddy caught my attention. Looking forward to making friends with my Rare Duck buddy tomorrow. Wish it was a snarky duck instead of…

Do you think LLMs make this process of starting the engine easier or harder? They make getting started much easier, but it might be harder to feel a sense of momentum since our exp…

Author here. The FaceTime is a reference to the J Cole lyric in the footnotes. I actually dug up a video from a class project when I was 20 and created a voice clone in ElevenLabs …

There's no shortage of advice on how to vibe-code (or vibe engineer, if you're actually reading the code outputted by LLMs) better. We're inundated with how to write prompts, set u…

To the best of my knowledge, Waymo still has humans in the loop as Fleet Response agents that the vehicles can call for remote assistance when they aren't sure what to do. Caveat t…

https://www.davidtran.me Didn't quite hit the criteria for 100 points, so didn't submit a PR (just have a single submission with 69 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=d…

Love this idea! The Whiteboard Gym explainer video seemed really text-heavy (although I did learn enough to guess that that's because text likely beat drawing/adding an image for t…

Whoa, a negative task-switch cost! I didn't take it multiple times, but it makes sense that having practice at this specific task probably improves both your overall response times…

https://www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/experiment_mul... for the actual runnable experiment. Shared my results below (I'm pretty tired at the moment so don't feel my sharpes…

Awesome project! Reminds me of donothingfor2minutes.com from Calm, but with a different end goal of focus instead of calm. Regarding mobile phones going to sleep, Wake lock [1] mig…

This luggs the cake! Did y'all ever debate buying a truck vs. renting on GetAround?

TL;DR: my co-founder and I hosted hundreds of 1-hour co-working sessions ourselves. In the early days of what is now Flow Club, my co-founder and I had built several apps to try to…

>Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. Since going back to being pri…

When I'm stuck on coding something, I find myself reaching for my phone even if I don't have any particular reason to do so. Inspired by Calm's DoNothingFor2Minutes.com which launc…