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I feel like there will be a minimal UI/no screen but it will have 9 far field microphones. 2-3 cameras , an iris scanner, GPS, and lidar. This is because it is a data collection de…

I make a podcast client for iOS that detects and skips ads for you using an on device model. This allows me to sell without a subscription. I am working on v2 which will bring supp…

This one hurts. We will miss you Mr. Dvorak! RIP

This project is open source and use the excellent SpeechAnalyzer API on macOS. 100% free and local. https://github.com/leftouterjoins/voicewrite

I make an iOS app that uses this API heavily for transcribing diverse audio of varying bitrate and recording quality. The audio often contains music, multiple speakers, sound effec…

> This is a prime example of why programmers are not seriously considered engineers. The civil engineer who builds a great suspension bridge probably looks down on the one who buil…

I want a distributed social network on top of email. Emails don’t have to be human readable. A client could be built to pass and share posts among a network via email messages. Add…

What a coincidence that northern Virginia is spy central.

The longer I participate in the economy the more it starts to feel like the end stages of a game of monopoly. There is nothing left to own unless you already are wealthy and the on…

Opus 4.7 seems smarter not wiser. More knowledge, maybe, but less grit. It often has been asking me to wrap it up or just be happy with current state, instead of working out a prob…

The secret reason they are doing this is because governments want to be able to identify everyone online everywhere it matters at all time. They want to strip anonymity from comput…

For now I would be happy if it just explored the problem space and identify the choices to be made and filtered down to the non-obvious and/or more opinionated ones. Bundle these t…

IMHO, LLMs are better at Python and SQL than Haskell because Python and SQL syntax mirrors more aspects of human language. Whereas Haskell syntax reads more like a math equation. T…

I disagree. I have a successful software product that I vibe coded using claude code starting last June. It does something novel and useful that wasn't yet offered on the App Store…

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good thing I don't have a TV!

We need something like SETI@home/Folding@home but for crawling and archiving the web or maybe something as simple as a browser extension that can (with permission) archive pages yo…

The irony of an intelligence agency publishing a "fact book" in the first place is thick.

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The degradation does not need to be in the inference it can be in how often inference is used. It is closed source but the algorithms that decide what Claude code does when, could …

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Just ten more years! Take my money!

Apple's locked down ecosystem is enabling the rollout of Digital ID which will eventually be required for Internet access and age verification law. This is why Google is locking do…

Call me what you want but it is my belief that the reason google is locking down and Apple refuses to budge is that in the near term future our mobile devices will become our ident…