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whisper.cpp has realtime capability. Been using it for 2 years at this point

99catmasteron New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs

Where and how do you disable these mitigations?

99catmasteron Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source)

There seems to be a common medical definition for the word Pica

From: https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/pica.html#:~:text=What%20I....

>What Is Pica? Pica is an eating disorder in which a person eats things not usually considered food. Young kids often put non-food items (like grass or toys) in their mouths because they're curious about the world around them. But kids with pica (PIE-kuh) go beyond that.

FYI

99catmasteron Has LLM killed traditional NLP?

https://archive.is/J53CE

99catmasteron Merry Christmas Everyone

Lmao

99catmasteron Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth

Wow, that’s uncanny.

99catmasteron Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers

For all the Malaysians on HN, how are y’all planning to handle this?

99catmasteron Show HN: BuddyAI – Your Nighttime Walking Companion

Great concept. Although I wonder how much someone being on the phone actually deters rapists/ muggers.

99catmasteron Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise

Genuine question: why should I care about my data being encrypted and private?

99catmasteron Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

99catmasteron Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case

I hope you also contemplate how many innocent people (usually undocumented migrant workers) have been scapegoated in drug trials and executed…

99catmasteron What is Your Private Phone setup? (2022-2024)

Genuine question: why should I care about my data being peddled by big tech?

99catmasteron Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes

Is hyperphantasia the same as maladaptive daydreaming or does the former enable the latter?

99catmasteron 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

99catmasteron OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

I’m lacking a lot of context here, why are Altman and his crew (not sure who they are either) creeps?

99catmasteron I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot

Sorry for noob question but what does NAT and NAT’d mean in this context?

99catmasteron Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming

What’s the difference between GPT4 and GPT4-Turbo?

99catmasteron Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

As someone who’s exclusively used ChatGPT (3, 3.5 and now 4), how do the other alternatives compare?

99catmasteron TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out

That’s crazy.

99catmasteron Ask HN: How to Deal with Revenge Bedtime Procrastination?

Set up a routine. Mine consists of taking a shower immediately before going to bed, usually soon after eating dinner which happens after I exercise. Before I head into the shower, I put my devices away to charge and after I’m done, head straight to bed. Crucially I used to spend an hour ish after the shower procrastinating on my phone or whatever, but I’ve since replaced it with a routine. Now when I leave the shower my eyelids feel heavy

99catmasteron Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

Any Anki power users here have any anecdotes with FSRS?

99catmasteron Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

I’m curious, how did you manage to get a child into Anki and make them self sufficient on it? Kudos to you

99catmasteron Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead

Is their Vanguard anti cheat still a root kit?

99catmasteron It's so cold, Teslas are struggling to charge in Chicago

Tesla cars are live in a weird space where their tech under the hood is massively overengineered but the parts of the car you interact with are designed around an extremely minimalist borderline reductionist dogma with random capacitive touch button inconveniences sprinkled on top

99catmasteron A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's

Why’s Arizona so expensive lol

99catmasteron Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?

Am I the only one for whom this doesn’t work? If I try to unlock the car with the fob against my head, my car doesn’t seem to receive any signal. But if I try and unlock the car from the same distance, key fob not on head, it works like normal.

99catmasteron Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM

Christ.

99catmasteron Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise

Pretty cool, I personally prefer the sound selections on Forest, though.

99catmasteron Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information

Cronometer exists already and does this a million times better