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The Government of British Columbia has announced that the province will be adopting year-round daylight saving time, eliminating the biannual clock changes effective November 2023. This decision aims to provide consistency and reduce the disruption caused by the twice-yearly time shifts.

Apple has introduced the new iPad Air powered by the M4 chip, offering improved performance and efficiency compared to previous models. The device features a sleek design, enhanced display, and expanded connectivity options.

The article explores the privacy concerns raised by Meta's (formerly Facebook) new AI-powered smart glasses, which can potentially monitor workers' activities and conversations without their explicit consent. Employees express concerns about the lack of transparency and the implications for their privacy and autonomy in the workplace.

A study finds that the first-ever in utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe, paving the way for potential new treatments for this congenital condition.

The article discusses the advantages of the Go programming language for developing intelligent agents. It highlights Go's performance, concurrency support, and ease of deployment as key factors that make it well-suited for building effective agent systems.

A filter list for uBO that blurs all video and non-follower content from Instagram. Works on mobile with uBO Lite.

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016443

I built a voice agent from scratch that averages ~400ms end-to-end latency (phone stop → first syllable). That’s with full STT → LLM → TTS in the loop, clean barge-ins, and no precomputed responses.

What moved the needle:

Voice is a turn-taking problem, not a transcription problem. VAD alone fails; you need semantic end-of-turn detection.

The system reduces to one loop: speaking vs listening. The two transitions - cancel instantly on barge-in, respond instantly on end-of-turn - define the experience.

STT → LLM → TTS must stream. Sequential pipelines are dead on arrival for natural conversation.

TTFT dominates everything. In voice, the first token is the critical path. Groq’s ~80ms TTFT was the single biggest win.

Geography matters more than prompts. Colocate everything or you lose before you start.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/NickTikhonov/shuo

Follow whatever I next tinker with: https://x.com/nick_tikhonov

The article discusses the release of the AMD AM386 processor on March 2, 1991, which was a clone of the Intel 80386 microprocessor. It provides technical details about the AM386's performance and compatibility, as well as the historical context of AMD's efforts to compete with Intel in the x86 processor market.

The article describes a tool called the 'STM32 RDP1 Decryptor' that can be used to decrypt and recover data from STM32 microcontrollers that have their Read Protection (RDP) level set to 1. This can be useful for security research and reversing firmware on these devices.

The article explores the use of large language models for few-shot learning, demonstrating their ability to generalize knowledge and effectively solve tasks with limited training data. It presents a novel approach that significantly improves the performance of large language models on few-shot learning benchmarks.

The article discusses the rising popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) and the potential challenges they face, such as the need for more charging infrastructure and the cost of EVs compared to traditional gasoline-powered cars.

A little weekend project, made so I can pause/play/rewind directly on the piano, when learning a song by ear.

According to the report, some of Apple's AI servers are reportedly sitting unused in warehouses due to low usage of Apple's AI intelligence technology. The article suggests that Apple may be overproducing AI hardware, leading to excess inventory.

Hey HN,

I just released v4 of my gapless playback library that I first built in 2017 for https://relisten.net. We stream concert recordings, where gapless playback is paramount.

It's built from scratch, backed by a rigid state machine (the sole dependency is xstate) and is already running in production over at Relisten.

The way it works is by preloading future tracks as raw buffers and scheduling them via the web audio API. It seamlessly transitions between HTML5 and web audio. We've used this technique for the last 9 years and it works fairly well. Occasionally it will blip slightly from HTML5->web audio, but there's not much to be done to avoid that (just when to do it - lotta nuance here). Once you get on web audio, everything should be clean.

Unfortunately web audio support still lacks on mobile, in which case you can just disable web audio and it'll fallback to full HTML5 playback (sans gapless). But if you drive a largely desktop experience, this is fine. On mobile, most people use our native app.

You can view a demo of the project at https://gapless.saewitz.com - just click on "Scarlet Begonias", seek halfway in the track (as it won't preload until >15s) and wait for "decoding" on "Fire on the Mountain" to switch to "ready". Then tap "skip to -2s and hear the buttery smooth segue.

The article provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics, covering topics such as fluid properties, pressure, and the Bernoulli principle, with the aim of building a solid foundation from scratch.

The article discusses the closure of the WeatherRadio service in Canada by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The RAC (Radio Advisory Board of Canada) has responded to this decision, expressing concerns about the impact on public safety and the availability of critical weather information for Canadians.

The article reports that the Trump administration continued to use Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI company, in Iran strikes mere hours after Trump had banned Anthropic. This contradicts the administration's stated position and raises questions about the use of AI technology in military operations.

The article discusses an incident with the Claude AI service, where the service experienced an outage due to a network issue affecting a key data center. The incident led to degraded performance and service disruption, and the article outlines the steps taken by the team to investigate and resolve the issue.

I've built airdefense.dev, which is able to simulate all kinds of ballistic missiles, one-way-attack drones like Shaheds, and most of the commonly deploy anti-air defence systems. All of this inside the browser. I've now added a scenario of the current attacks in the Middle East by Iran. It was quite the challenge to optimize it enough to not completely kill a common laptop, although it still runs best on a bit beefier systems.

Reframed is an open-source project that aims to enhance the performance and user experience of web applications by reframing the way they are built and delivered. It utilizes modern web technologies and approaches to optimize performance, reduce server-side processing, and provide a smooth, responsive user interface.