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Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

news.ycombinator.com Piper Ai 2025-12-28 04:17:14

How does Piper work? Install extension → Click any phone number → Type what you need → Piper calls them. You get results in minutes. Works on any website with phone numbers. What kind of calls can Piper make? The boring ones. Restaurant reservations, doctor appointments, customer service battles, subscription cancellations, price shopping. Any call that makes you think 'ugh, I'll do it tomorrow.' Does it sound like a robot? Nope! Piper sounds more human than most humans before coffee. Natural

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SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 00:54:46

SQLx 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit SQLx is an async, pure Rust † SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. † The SQLite driver uses the libsqlite3 C library as SQLite is an embedded database (the only way we could be pure Rust for SQLite is by porting all of SQLite to Rust). †† SQLx uses #![forbid(unsafe_code)] unless the sqlite feature is enabled. The SQLite driver directly invokes the SQLite3 API via libsqlite3-sys , which requires unsafe . Cross-platform. Being native Rust

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SQLx – The Rust SQL Toolkit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:54:46

SQLx 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit SQLx is an async, pure Rust † SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. † The SQLite driver uses the libsqlite3 C library as SQLite is an embedded database (the only way we could be pure Rust for SQLite is by porting all of SQLite to Rust). †† SQLx uses #![forbid(unsafe_code)] unless the sqlite feature is enabled. The SQLite driver directly invokes the SQLite3 API via libsqlite3-sys , which requires unsafe . Cross-platform. Being native Rust

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Principles for production AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 15:19:03

Every now and then, people ask me: “I am new to agentic development, I’m building something, but I feel like I'm missing some tribal knowledge. Help me catch up!”. I’m tempted to suggest some serious stuff like multiweek courses (e.g. by HuggingFace or Berkeley), but not everyone is interested in that level of diving. So I decided to gather six simple empirical learnings that helped me a lot during app.build development. This post is somewhat inspired by Design Decisions Behind app.build, but

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Runway Launches New Aleph Model That Promises Next-Level AI Video Editing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 21:58:49

Runway, a pioneer in generative video, just unveiled its latest AI model called Runway Aleph that aims to redefine how people create and edit video content. Aleph builds on Runway's research into General World Models and Simulation Models, giving users a conversational AI tool that can instantly make complex edits to video footage, whether generated or existing. For instance, want to remove a car from a shot? Swap out a background? Restyle an entire scene? According to Runway, Aleph lets you do

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Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page "Photos" Really Came From

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:27:12

Subscribers to the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue were horrified after spotting a double-page ad for the brand Guess, featuring a blonde model who didn't look quite right. Unsurprisingly, a small caption in the top left-hand corner revealed that the two images, which showed the fake model sporting two different looks, were "produced" by AI marketing company Seraphinne Vallora. Vogue isn't just another fashion rag; it's a flagship brand of Condé Nast's publishing empire, as well as

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Six Principles for Production AI Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:19:03

Every now and then, people ask me: “I am new to agentic development, I’m building something, but I feel like I'm missing some tribal knowledge. Help me catch up!”. I’m tempted to suggest some serious stuff like multiweek courses (e.g. by HuggingFace or Berkeley), but not everyone is interested in that level of diving. So I decided to gather six simple empirical learnings that helped me a lot during app.build development. This post is somewhat inspired by Design Decisions Behind app.build, but

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-12-25 11:00:00

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they aligned their technology with human values, I realized that the malleability of AI models was a double-edged sword. Models could be tweaked to, say, minimize biases, but also to enforce a specific point of view. Governments could demand manipulation to censor unwelcome facts and promote propaganda. I envisioned this as something that an authori

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Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page "Photo" Really Came From

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 09:27:12

Subscribers to the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue were horrified after spotting a double-page ad for the brand Guess, featuring a blonde model who didn't look quite right. Unsurprisingly, a small caption in the top left-hand corner revealed that the two images, which showed the fake model sporting two different looks, were "produced" by AI marketing company Seraphinne Vallora. Vogue isn't just another fashion rag; it's a flagship brand of Condé Nast's publishing empire, as well as

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Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-29 09:26:07

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Sony has shared more details about its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event in early June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the fight stick is now called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable battery, mechanical switch buttons, restrictor gates that limit the joystick’s movemen

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OpenAI prepares GPT-5 for roll out

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:43:15

OpenAI's ChatGPT-5 could drop in the coming days, and it could be one of the best models from the Microsoft-backed startup. As The Verge's Tom Warren first reported, GPT-5 is being prepared for an August release. GPT-5 is believed to be the "unified" model, which means it combines the breakthroughs from the reasoning and multi-modal models, such as o3 and 4o respectively. ChatGPT currently has too many capable models for different tasks. While the models are powerful, it can be confusing beca

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Mario Kart World and other Switch 2 games are 10 percent off

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-12-29 18:19:31

I wasn’t expecting to see any deals on Switch 2 games for a while. Even though the console is currently much easier to find in stock, game discounts — especially ones on first-party Nintendo launch games — aren’t the norm. However, you can get 10 percent off on the likes of Mario Kart World, and the Switch 2 editions of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild. Sure, these are small price drops, but anything that brings them closer to the cost of last-gen Switch games is

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Nothing Headphone (1) Review: Something Special

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-12-30 04:01:00

As someone who has been openly critical of Nothing’s claims that it will revolutionize the technology world, I happen to actually love the brand’s products. From the excellent Ear (a)—among our favorite cheap earbuds—to its affordable smartphones, the brand leverages excellent design and near-top-tier internals to absolutely dominate the mid-tier of the tech market. The Headphone (1) noise-canceling over-ears, I am happy to say, continue this tradition. They look as good (or better) than more e

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Modder behind first USB-C iPhone now wants to upgrade every model

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-26 03:30:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? A passionate modder made headlines a few years back by creating the first working USB-C port for an iPhone. Now, that same developer is taking things to the next level, launching a full-scale manufacturing effort to deliver a polished, production-ready version of the adapter to the public. Ken Pillonel's latest project is an iPhone case that adds USB-C connectivity to older Appl

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When progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-12-30 03:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When my wife recently brought up AI in a masterclass for coaches, she did not expect silence. One executive coach eventually responded that he found AI to be an excellent thought partner when working with clients. Another coach suggested that it would be helpful to be familiar with the Chinese Room analogy, arguing that no matter how sophis

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How big can I print my image?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:36:03

How big can I print my image? Jul 24, 2025 For an image to look as sharp as real life, it needs to have a resolution higher then that of the human eye: usually around 1 arcminute, or 1/60th of a degree. $$ \text{Linear resolution} = \frac{\text{Distance}}{\text{1 radian}} \times 1 \text{ arcminutes} $$ $$ \text{Linear resolution }(\text{inches}) = \text{Distance (m)} \times 0.0115 $$ $$ \text{Features / Inch } = \frac{87}{\text{Distance (m)}} $$ For an image to look good at 1 meter, around

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Designing a flatpack bed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 05:09:14

I just moved into an unfurnished apartment and my professional woodworker friend just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, so I’ve been designing myself a bedframe. The rough scope / requirements: fit a 200 cm x 180 cm mattress have 50 cm of clear space underneath for storage visually hide this space from the front (required) and sides (nice-to-have) CNC-cuttable from a single sheet of baltic birch (2440 mm x 1220 mm) maybe use Ikea LÖNSET slats Christoffer Martens’s Siebenschlafer bed is

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Designing a Flatpack Bed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:09:14

I just moved into an unfurnished apartment and my professional woodworker friend just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, so I’ve been designing myself a bedframe. The rough scope / requirements: fit a 200 cm x 180 cm mattress have 50 cm of clear space underneath for storage visually hide this space from the front (required) and sides (nice-to-have) CNC-cuttable from a single sheet of baltic birch (2440 mm x 1220 mm) maybe use Ikea LÖNSET slats Christoffer Martens’s Siebenschlafer bed is

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Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

news.ycombinator.com Laurie Winkless 2025-12-30 02:35:33

Olivine is a rather unassuming rock. Olive brown to yellow green in color, this hard yet brittle mineral is thought to be the most abundant in Earth’s upper mantle. Chemically, olivine is magnesium iron silicate, though it contains other elements too. Economically, it’s close to worthless. Its limited industrial utility stretches to gemstones, metalworking, ceramics, and occasionally, as a gravel for road construction. At some mining sites, olivine is a waste product, stored in piles on the surf

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EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-30 03:02:36

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault' EE says it carried out further work overnight to fix a technical problem which left some customers unable to make or receive calls. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of people who use the mobile provider have told the BBC they have experienced service issues. It comes after thousands were left unable to make or receive calls earlier this week due to a technical issue which impacted both mobile and landline phones. On Saturday, a spokesperson f

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Want to Improve Your iPhone Call Quality? Try This Hidden Feature

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 04:00:05

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, and it brought call screening and more to the iPhone's of developers and beta testers. But you don't need to be a developer or beta tester to use a hidden iPhone feature that can make your calls clearer for the person on the other end. The feature is called Voice Isolation. Apple introduced Voice Isolation in 2023 with iOS 16.4. The tech company added the feature, alongside Wide Spectrum, to FaceTime calls with iOS 15 in 2021, but only

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This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 04:00:52

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much of that is frozen in the form of glaciers. That leaves just 0.3 percent of that freshwater on the surface in lakes, swamps, springs, and our main sources of drinking water, rivers and streams. Despite our planet’s famously blue appearance from space, thirsty aliens would be disappointed. Drinkable water is actually pretty scarce. As

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New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examples

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-30 09:27:42

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all while being significantly smaller and more data-efficient. The architecture, known as the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), is inspired by ho

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An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 18:10:26

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change "The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us." Going Under Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels caused by climate change that mean, essentially, that the low-lying country has no feasible future. As Wired reports, the nation signed an agreement with Australia in 2023 to set up a migrati

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Want Stronger Kidneys? Try Adding These 13 Foods to Your Diet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 22:00:06

Your kidneys do a lot more than you probably realize. They filter your blood, balance fluid levels, regulate hormones, and help keep everything from your blood pressure to your energy levels in check. Despite how essential they are, kidney health often gets overlooked - and that can be a problem. According to the CDC, more than 1 in 7 adults in the US has chronic kidney disease, and many don't even know it. Your kidneys are quietly working around the clock to keep your body in balance. They fil

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AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-30 23:11:08

AI referrals to websites still have a way to go to catch up to the traffic that Google Search provides, but they’re growing quickly. According to new data from market intelligence provider Similarweb, AI platforms in June generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, a figure that’s up 357% since June 2024. However, Google Search still accounts for the majority of traffic to these sites, accounting for 191 billion referrals during the same period of June 2025. One p

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Breaking Bad creator’s new sci-fi show hits Apple in November

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-12-31 04:09:17

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. As promised, Apple has finally revealed Pluribus, a new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan that’s coming to Apple TV Plus. In addition to a very brief teaser involving some gross donut behavior, the streamer also confirmed that the show will premiere on November 7th. The show has been in the works for a while, as Apple first

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Animated Cursors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 08:59:25

Tattoy now supports animated cursors. It uses the same format as Ghostty, therefore rendering the cursor using custom shaders. Here are some popular Ghostty cursors, that you can use out-of-the-box with Tattoy. Even though Tattoy supports Ghostty cursors its rendering is quite different. Ghostty renders the cursor using actual pixels whereas Tattoy renders using UTF8 text-based "pixels", namely "▀" and "▄". This means that Tattoy cursors sometimes miss out on the subtleties of Ghostty cursors,

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-31 09:00:23

Modern humanity’s most famous cousins, the Neanderthals, may have had a clever, if unappealing, dietary trick for survival: maggots. Research out today posits these creepy crawly fly larvae provided Neanderthals an ample source of essential nitrogen and fat. Scientists at Purdue University, the University of Michigan, and others conducted the study, published Friday in Science Advances. Using both experimental and historical data, they showed that maggot-infused meat is rich in fat and nitrogen

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Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-31 09:10:14

For two straight weeks, Finland has been roasting under record-high temperatures. The country is facing its most intense and persistent heatwave in its recorded history, which has brought beach weather to towns above the Arctic Circle. Friday marked the 14th consecutive day that at least one part of Finland reached a temperature above 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Local weather stations across the country have also reported record

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Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit

SQLx – The Rust SQL Toolkit

Principles for production AI agents

Runway Launches New Aleph Model That Promises Next-Level AI Video Editing

Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page "Photos" Really Came From

Six Principles for Production AI Agents

Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

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OpenAI prepares GPT-5 for roll out

Mario Kart World and other Switch 2 games are 10 percent off

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Modder behind first USB-C iPhone now wants to upgrade every model

When progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration

How big can I print my image?

Designing a flatpack bed

Designing a Flatpack Bed

Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault'

Want to Improve Your iPhone Call Quality? Try This Hidden Feature

This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examples

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

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Breaking Bad creator’s new sci-fi show hits Apple in November

Animated Cursors

Neanderthals Ate Maggots, Scientists Say

Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

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