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Vocal Image is using AI to help people communicate better

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-27 12:34:00

With 4 million app downloads, Estonia-based startup Vocal Image aims to help people improve their voice and communication skills with AI-powered coaching. But out of its 160,000 active users, it may be its CEO, Nick Lahoika, who best embodies its mission. Lahoika was born in Belarus, didn’t speak English until his relocation to Estonia, and once struggled with speaking anxiety. Yet, he went on to “win a lot of pitch competitions” on behalf of the voice coaching startup, which was inspired by hi

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Expert: LSP for Elixir

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 06:36:36

Expert Expert is the official language server implementation for the Elixir programming language. Installation You can download Expert from the releases page for your operating system and architecture. Put the executable somewhere on your $PATH , like ~/.local/bin/expert For editor specific installation instructions, please refer to the Installation Instructions Nightly Builds If you want to try out the latest features, you can download a nightly build. Using the GH CLI, you can run the f

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Affirm's stock soars 15% on earnings, revenue beat

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-27 18:27:07

Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Affirm shares rose 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the provider of buy now, pay later loans reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company did versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS: 20 cents vs. 11 cents estimated 20 c

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The Duty-Free Loophole Is Closing. What That Means for You—and Your Packages

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-27 16:19:13

Want to buy something online and have it shipped into the US? Well, get ready to pay more for the privilege. Starting Friday, small packages imported into the country will be subjected to a duty. The Trump administration is levying a new tax on all packages coming into the country—regardless of value—starting August 29. This is the latest push in President Trump’s global trade war. The new policy is the result of an executive order issued in July that officially suspended the de minimis import

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After 2 Million AI Orders, Taco Bell Admits Humans Still Belong in the Drive-Thru

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 21:36:00

Fast food companies have been experimenting with integrating artificial intelligence into their restaurants, from Flippy the burger-flipping robot at White Castle to dynamic pricing at Wendy's. One arena where AI seems to really be struggling, though, is at the drive-thru -- and Taco Bell is the latest to experience AI mishaps at the order box. After taking 2 million orders with AI, Taco Bell has reached one conclusion: we still need humans. "We're learning a lot, I'm going to be honest with yo

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There Goes the American Muscle Car

news.ycombinator.com John Mccormack 2025-10-28 02:02:28

PONTIAC, Michigan—Traveling a fair amount for work outside of major metros requires relying on rental cars. And relying on rental cars quickly teaches you that while you might reserve a standard sedan every time, there is no reason to expect the rental car agency to actually give you the keys to a sedan when you show up at the counter. Eventually, you realize your fate is entirely in the hands of the rental car gods, and the rental car gods are capricious gods. Sometimes, the rental car gods f

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Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:57:41

We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions. And the furry ones include at least three species: the Eurasian steppe mammoth, the Arctic-specializing woolly mammoth, and the late-evolving North America-only Columbian mammoth. Because these species inhabited the Arctic, it has been remarkably easy to obtain DNA from them, providing a genetic pict

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Dell shares fall on soft third-quarter earnings outlook

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-28 06:22:07

A Dell Technologies sign is seen in Round Rock, Texas, on June 2, 2023. Despite beating on its top and bottom lines, shares of Dell Technologies fell more than 5% Thursday in extended trading after giving third-quarter earnings per share guidance that below Wall Street's expectations. Here's how the systems integrator did versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS : $2.32, adjusted vs. $2.30 estimated : $2.32, adjusted vs. $2.30 estimated Revenue: $29.78 billion vs. $29.17 billion estimated Dell

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Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 23:51:51

SwiftAI A modern, type-safe Swift library for building AI-powered apps. SwiftAI provides a unified API that works seamlessly across different AI models - from Apple's on-device models to cloud-based services like OpenAI. ✨ Features 🤖 Model Agnostic : Unified API across Apple's on-device models, OpenAI, Anthropic, and custom backends : Unified API across Apple's on-device models, OpenAI, Anthropic, and custom backends 🎯 Structured Output : Strongly-typed structured outputs with compile-time v

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The Unforgotten

news.ycombinator.com Tom Junod 2025-10-25 03:22:52

Open Extended Reactions THEY WERE BOTH SO YOUNG. One would be entering his old age now, with most of a long life behind him. The other would just be entering his senior year in high school, working to fulfill a life of great promise. A vast gulf of time separates them. But nobody knows them now except by memory, so time is also what ties them together. And it is time that tells their story. They were both so young, are both so young still. In the early days of football, President Theodore

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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

news.ycombinator.com Martin Fowler 2025-10-28 09:52:00

Martin Fowler: 28 Aug 2025 I’m about to head away from looking after this site for a few weeks (part vacation, part work stuff). As I contemplate some weeks away from the daily routine, I feel an urge to share some scattered thoughts about the state of LLMs and AI. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ I’ve seen a few early surveys on the effect AI is having on software development, is it really speeding folks up, does it improve or wreck code quality? One of the big problems with these surveys is that they aren’t taking

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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 06:15:22

I keep hearing what a cash incinerator AI is, especially around inference. While it seems reasonable on the surface, I've often been wary of these kind of claims, so I decided to do some digging. I haven't seen anyone really try to deconstruct the costs in running inference at scale and the economics really interest me. This is really napkin math. I don't have any experience at running frontier models at scale, but I do know a lot about the costs and economics of running very high throughput s

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Taco Bell Says ‘No Más’ to AI Drive-Thru Experiment

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-28 14:10:52

Last year, Taco Bell made a simple bet that Alexa-like voice assistants could handle the drive-thru window. It didn’t consider whether people could handle dealing with AI. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company embedded AI in the drive-thru boxes at more than 500 locations across the country and quickly found that it made mistakes, creeped people out, and got very easily manipulated. “We’re learning a lot, I’m going to be honest with you,” Taco Bell Chief Digital and Technology Offic

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Satellite Companies Like SpaceX Are Ignoring Astronomers’ Calls to Save the Night Sky

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-28 14:55:01

There are more than 12,000 active satellites circling Earth at the moment, a growing figure that has nearly doubled in less than three years. This recent boom in the satellite industry has been a major headache for astronomers, with bright satellites appearing as streaks in telescope images of the universe and tarnishing views of the night skies. A new paper reveals that satellite constellations are brighter than the recommended limits set forth by astronomers, with only one company adhering to

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There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-28 17:21:32

Over the past few years, the tech industry's plans for artificial intelligence have grown from ambitious to outright treacherous, with the amount of money invested in the space so high it now poses a serious risk to the broader economy. Underlying the broader, often poorly-defined AI tech are data centers, which are vast warehouses stuffed to the brim with specialized chips that transform energy into computational power, thus making all your Grok fact checks possible. The economics of data cen

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Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 18:00:28

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel, who will get it after upgrading to Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later, which was released on Monday. Microsoft will also roll out this functionality to Excel for Windows and PowerPoint for Windows users later this year. "We are moder

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How Science Fiction Became the Key to This Year’s Most Buzzed About Concert

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-28 17:50:52

2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars. Star Trek. Tron. Blade Runner. Akira. The Fifth Element. Interstellar. Superman. Flash Gordon. The Matrix. That sounds like a list of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, but actually, it’s a list of the films mentioned during a discussion about the inspirations behind the Backstreet Boys’ popular new residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. This past July, one of the biggest boy bands of all time celebrated 20 years of their iconic album, Millennium, at

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Nvidia earnings takeaways: A 'full steam' AI spend, but China uncertainty remains

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-28 22:57:02

Nvidia stock fluctuated on Thursday as investors digested the company's latest earnings report, which signaled robust AI demand but provided little clarity on China. Sales surged 56% in the quarter to $46.74 billion, which was roughly in line Wall Street's projected $46.06 billion, according to LSEG. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, just topping the $1.01 per share estimated by analysts. The better-than-expected results were clouded by concerns over Nvidia's future in

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Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:30:52

Strand is a marketing agency based in London, UK. The company specialises in copywriting and content creation for many of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, running marketing programmes that produce hundreds of white papers, case studies, blog posts and articles every year. Challenge For many years, Strand has relied on a custom-built project management system to support the operational aspects of its business—creating projects, tracking activities and managing documents. How

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Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round as No-Code Heats Up

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-28 21:58:18

Framer, a Dutch company specializing in tools for automating web design, has secured a $100 million funding round that values the startup at $2 billion. The investment was led by existing backers Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico, according to a statement released Thursday. The massive capital infusion positions it to take on its largest rival, Figma, which also uses a community-based model to create websites and design. It went public in 2023 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange thi

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Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-29 00:00:31

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

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‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Reveals Its Freaky and Festive Trailer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-29 02:30:33

After diving into sci-fi horror with 2024’s V/H/S/Beyond—we’re still stressing over that skydiving segment—the long-running found-footage series returns in October with a theme so perfect we can’t believe it hasn’t been done yet: V/H/S/Halloween. A first trailer has arrived for the Shudder release, and it’s full of tricks, treats, and screaming freak-outs. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on there, since the clips are taken from the film’s various elements, but it appears we’ll be getting

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Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round As No-Code Heats Up

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-29 02:58:18

Framer, a Dutch company specializing in tools for automating web design, has secured a $100 million funding round that values the startup at $2 billion. The investment was led by existing backers Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico, according to a statement released Thursday. The massive capital infusion positions it to take on its largest rival, Figma, which also uses a community-based model to create websites and design. It went public in 2023 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange thi

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No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-29 02:15:51

Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users, has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico. This double-unicorn milestone comes at a time of hype for website builders — including direct competitors like Figma, Squarespace and Wix, as well as rising ‘vibe coding’ platforms such as Cursor and Lovable. In 2023, Framer raised a $27 million Series C led by Meritech at a

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Nvidia's Huang touts 'full steam' AI spend while China uncertainty remains

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-29 06:52:52

Nvidia stock fluctuated on Thursday as investors digested the company's latest earnings report, which signaled robust AI demand but provided little clarity on China. Sales surged 56% in the quarter to $46.74 billion, which was roughly in line Wall Street's projected $46.06 billion, according to LSEG. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, just topping the $1.01 per share estimated by analysts. The better-than-expected results were clouded by concerns over Nvidia's future in

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Are OpenAI and Anthropic Losing Money on Inference?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 02:15:22

I keep hearing what a cash incinerator AI is, especially around inference. While it seems reasonable on the surface, I've often been wary of these kind of claims, so I decided to do some digging. I haven't seen anyone really try to deconstruct the costs in running inference at scale and the economics really interest me. This is really napkin math. I don't have any experience at running frontier models at scale, but I do know a lot about the costs and economics of running very high throughput s

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My gaming buddy

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-29 06:00:00

One of the most devastating parts of grief is how it can strike out of nowhere. There you are, doing a perfectly normal, everyday thing, and then that perfectly normal, everyday thing reminds you of something or someone who is no longer there. And when that presence you lost was intimately connected with your life, well, those moments happen frequently and unexpectedly. I recently had to say goodbye to an old friend named Millie, an 18-year-old shih tzu who was a constant and steady companion f

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Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru plan gets caught up on trolls and glitches

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-29 06:16:57

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Taco Bell’s plan to outfit hundreds of drive-thrus with an AI voice assistant isn’t going exactly as the chain expected. Dane Mathews, Taco Bell’s chief digital and technology officer, admitted to The Wall Street Journal that the company is re-evaluating where t

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Investors are loving Lovable

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-29 06:04:06

In Brief Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion, reports Financial Times. Lovable CEO Anton Osika isn’t currently engaging with the flurry of inbound, the Times says, which comes a few weeks after the startup announced a $200 million round at a $1.8 billion valuation in a deal led by Accel. A Lovable spokesperson told the outlet the company isn’t fundraising now

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A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth

news.ycombinator.com Nathaniel Rich 2025-10-25 18:15:50

In June, after months of thwarted efforts, the City of Calabasas received a favorable ruling in its case against Los Angeles County: The Superior Court ruled that Calabasas had the right to test the fire debris deposited in the landfill. The court decision seemed to have an effect: For the next seven weeks, the county and Calabasas tried to negotiate a settlement. No agreement was reached, however, and finally, on Aug. 11, experts hired by the city took 20 samples from four trucks arriving at t

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Vocal Image is using AI to help people communicate better

Expert: LSP for Elixir

Affirm's stock soars 15% on earnings, revenue beat

The Duty-Free Loophole Is Closing. What That Means for You—and Your Packages

After 2 Million AI Orders, Taco Bell Admits Humans Still Belong in the Drive-Thru

There Goes the American Muscle Car

Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

Dell shares fall on soft third-quarter earnings outlook

Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

The Unforgotten

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

Taco Bell Says ‘No Más’ to AI Drive-Thru Experiment

Satellite Companies Like SpaceX Are Ignoring Astronomers’ Calls to Save the Night Sky

There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

How Science Fiction Became the Key to This Year’s Most Buzzed About Concert

Nvidia earnings takeaways: A 'full steam' AI spend, but China uncertainty remains

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round as No-Code Heats Up

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Reveals Its Freaky and Festive Trailer

Figma-Killer Framer Valued at $2B in New Funding Round As No-Code Heats Up

No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

Nvidia's Huang touts 'full steam' AI spend while China uncertainty remains

Are OpenAI and Anthropic Losing Money on Inference?

My gaming buddy

Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru plan gets caught up on trolls and glitches

Investors are loving Lovable

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