Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
Hi HN, we’re Yarik and Vlad from VOYGR (https://voygr.tech/), working on better real-world place intelligence for app developers and agents. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIpcWIE0n4. Google Maps can tell you a restaurant is ”4.2 stars, open till 10.” Their API can’t tell you the chef left last month, wait times doubled, and locals moved on. Maps […]
US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy
This is a research tool that visualizes 342 occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, covering 143M jobs across the US economy. Each rectangle’s area is proportional to total employment. Color shows the selected metric — toggle between BLS projected growth outlook, median pay, education requirements, and AI exposure. Click any tile […]
My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant
I have been watching HomeAssistant’s progress with assist for some time. We previously used Google Home via Nest Minis, and have switched to using fully local assist backed by local first + llama.cpp (previously Ollama). In this post I will share the steps I took to get to where I am today, the decisions I […]
Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily
Bill C-22: A New Phase for Lawful Access Legislation Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, marks a new phase in the decades-long debate over government access to personal information, following the controversial Bill C-2. Last spring, Bill C-2 faced immediate backlash due to its ”unprecedented rules permitting widespread warrantless access to personal information,” which were […]
Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me
I don’t normally do follow-ups and never this quick. After posting that last article, it was fun to read the comments on Reddit and Hacker News as they rolled in. I even found other discussions. I couldn’t help wonder, ”Could I have made it even more performant?”. After heading home I decided to take another […]
Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
When you write typed Python, you expect your type checker to follow the rules of the language. But how closely do today’s type checkers actually follow the Python typing specification? In this post, we look at what typing spec conformance means, how different type checkers compare, and what the conformance numbers don’t tell you. A […]
MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Louis Mosley, head of Palantir Technologies UK. Graphic: the Nerve Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses “a national security threat to the UK”, according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence. The […]
Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
Abstract Introduction: While corruption exists in both democracies and autocracies, its social consequences may differ fundamentally across regime types. Democratic norms of equality and impartiality make trust highly sensitive to institutional failure. We theorize two mechanisms—normative amplification and representative contagion—by which corruption erodes trust more in democracies. In democracies, corruption violates core fairness norms and […]
I Love FreeBSD
When I first laid eyes on the FreeBSD Handbook, back in 2002, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Six years of Linux, a relationship I’ve written about elsewhere, across various distributions, had trained me to hunt for documentation in fragments: often incomplete, often outdated, sometimes already stale after barely a year. Here was an […]
Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days? 58 points by tathagatadg 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 18 comments How has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their students to explain why the course they enrolled in deserves the rigorous study? Are the […]