Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM
Hey HN, we’re the co-founders of Retell AI (https://www.retellai.com/). We are building a conversational speech engine to help developers build natural-sounding voice AI. Our API abstracts away the complexities of AI voice conversations, so you can make your voice application the best at what it does. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LT64_mgkro. With the advent of […]
Gemma: New Open Models
Responsible by design Gemma is designed with our AI Principles at the forefront. As part of making Gemma pre-trained models safe and reliable, we used automated techniques to filter out certain personal information and other sensitive data from training sets. Additionally, we used extensive fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align our […]
Starbucks $10 pork-flavored coffee
Retail Starbucks launched a pork-flavored coffee in China. It costs $10 and is dividing people. Huileng Tan 2024-02-21T08:12:51Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. […]
Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age
We seem to be moving from technology inspired by Star Trek to tech straight out of books by Douglas Adams? This is not my observation. I was on the podcast WD-40 this week, talking about crowdfunding, narrative hooks, and how to preserve a lightness of approach. Here it is, WD-40 episode 288: Crowdfunding. After we […]
XL: An Extensible Programming Language
color “white” milkyway 10000 rotatez -23 earth 400 hello_world 440 milkyway R -> // —————————————————————————- // Draw the Milky Way // —————————————————————————- locally texture_wrap true, true texture_transform {scale 5, 5, 5} texture “milkyway.jpg” rotatey 0.02 * page_time + 100 scale 1, -1, 1 sphere R earth R -> // —————————————————————————- // Draw Earth // —————————————————————————- […]
What the fuck is going on in Argentina?
Patagonia Diaries #1 This is the first picture on this entire blog that isn’t my own. We were so focused on adventure during the trip that it turns out none of us took a single picture in a city setting that I felt was more appropriate for this post. Cheers to Benjamin R for the […]
Rust and Htmx: Making a Slack/campfire clone
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Priceless barn find: first microcomputers discovered by cleaners
Two of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than half a century ago, and only one other is known to exist. The history of computers, and especially of what became the personal computer, is […]
Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
Sign Find and contact your MP Vehicle theft is an issue that affects us all collectively. As cybersecurity and technology professionals, we recognize the importance of acting rapidly to reduce its impact on Canadians. That being said, we believe the federal government’s proposal, particularly the prohibition of security research tools, is ill-advised, overbroad and most […]
LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking
This is a tutorial series to help you set up the Vim or Neovim text editors for efficiently writing math in LaTeX. Here is an example of what I have in mind: The blue bar with white text shows the keys I am typing, the bottom shows the resulting LaTeX source code, and the top […]