Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
Voice Interfaces for Everyone Moonshine Voice is an open source AI toolkit for developers building real-time voice applications. Everything runs on-device, so it’s fast, private, and you don’t need an account, credit card, or API keys. The framework and models are optimized for live streaming applications, offering low latency responses by doing a lot of […]
Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness
There are many coding agents, but this one is mine. $ npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent Copy About Why pi? Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. Adapt pi to your workflows, not the other way around. Extend it with TypeScript extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes. Bundle them as pi packages and share via npm […]
Looks like it is happening
For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state of hep-th for quite a while. Sabine Hossenfelder today has AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”, in which she gives her […]
Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
February 24, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple accelerates U.S. manufacturing, with Mac mini production coming later this year Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston, and a soon-to-be-launched training center will support advanced manufacturing skills development CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac […]
How to talk to anyone, and why you should
It started with two incidents on the same day. In a fairly empty train carriage, a stranger in her 70s approached me: “Do you mind if I sit here? Or did you want to be alone with your thoughts?” I weighed it up for a split second, conscious that I was, in effect, agreeing to […]
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
*This post was updated at 12:35 pm PT to fix a typo in the build time benchmarks. Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt the most popular front-end framework from scratch. The result, vinext (pronounced ”vee-next”), is a drop-in replacement for Next.js, built on Vite, that deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single […]
Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
Synopsis Hacker Smacker helps you identify quality authors and filter out obnoxious commenters on Hacker News. Three little orbs appear next to every author’s name and you can choose to either friend or foe them. If you friend people, and they also use Hacker Smacker, you’ll see all of your friend’s friends and foes. This […]
Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments
Linum Image-Video VAE Modern video generation relies on diffusion transformers, but attention scales quadratically so pixel space calculations are intractable. A VAE (Variational Autoencoder) solves this by compressing images and videos into a compact latent space for the diffusion model to operate in. Today we’re open-sourcing our Image-Video VAE, our experiment logs, and a key […]
Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
New data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) confirms that Tesla registered just 8,075 vehicles across the EU, EFTA, and UK in January 2026, a 17% decline from the same month last year. The drop is particularly damaging because January 2025 was already a weak month for Tesla, during the production transition to the […]
OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
ADDENDUM — february 18, 2026 we are in direct written correspondence with persona’s CEO, rick song. he has been responsive and engaged in good faith. rick has committed to answering the 18 questions in 0x14 in writing. all correspondence will be published in full as part 2 of this series. the core findings, including openai-watchlistdb.withpersona.com […]