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What if you could have AI applied to your brain?

Imagine this. You can control Alexa with your voice and ask it to play songs, remember grocery lists, add reminders to your calendar. Elon Musk's Neuralink can interface with your brain and reduce the latency with which you can communicate with computers. What if you had AI applied to your brain and you could train it to think like you just like how you train your agents at work? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223726 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Who Pays for AI Data Centers?

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOeLB0WVNE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224121 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: Narro – Read web pages and Kindle books using local AI voices

I wanted a read-aloud extension that could read from the Kindle Online Reader. The ones I tried used voices I did not enjoy listening to or had a UX that was too cluttered or annoying or needed a signup. So I decided to vibe code my own. It is open source and uses open weight models that run in the browser. https://swrdfish.github.io/Narro/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224373 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector

Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224463 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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It’s time to find a new browser

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 149, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It Actually Feels Like Fall Now At Least In My Neighborhood), and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Demis […]
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Laika has spent 20 years building up to Wildwood

Across several decades in Hollywood, Caleb Deschanel has seen a lot. He served as cinematographer on films like The Passion of the Christ and The Patriot, worked on sequences in The Godfather and Titanic, and directed a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Even still, nothing could quite prepare him for his first stop-motion project: working […]
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Lee Chang Dong ponders the ethics of the camera

Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature film, Possible Love, is inspired by true events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate fired a third of its staff - 2,600 employees - after which many died by suicide. Possible Love is the latest in a long line of Lee movies that engage with themes of class or labor […]
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I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop

It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is […]
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What to expect from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event

It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company is back with another launch, focused on the MacBook Pro, it looks like. Its "Pro and tell" event is scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. […]
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LG’s brilliant C6 OLED TV is already $400 off ahead of Black Friday

Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you’re hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off its early Black Friday sale, letting you save on the LG C6 and various soundbars through November 1st. Right now, for instance, you can snag a 55-inch […]
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Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunk

Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B […]
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These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential

From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.
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Cash on delivery is a ledger problem

A lot of online orders in Egypt are still paid in cash, at the door, to a courier. When your platform's money arrives in a courier's pocket instead of through a payment gateway, a delivery app quietly becomes an accounting system. I built the backend for Rahwan , a logistics platform for Egyptian merchants run by Giantrex , where I'm founder and CTO. This post is about the part nobody demos: how the money is tracked between the vendor who sold the product, the courier holding the cash, and ...
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How to Convert PDFs to Markdown for RAG and Chatbots (and When Not To)

Markdown keeps a document's headings, lists and tables in plain text that chunkers and LLMs handle well, so it's a sensible format to put between a PDF and your vector store. PDFs with a real text layer convert cleanly. Scanned PDFs need OCR first. Tables, multi-column layouts and repeated headers are where conversions usually go wrong, so check the output before you embed it. Disclosure: this post is published by Appie.run. One of the conversion routes below is Appie's free converter and on...
Lazylist-AI
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Lazylist-AI

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built I built LazyList AI — a tranquil, minimalist task trimmer designed for anyone suffering from to-do list paralysis and productivity burnout. The Problem Traditional productivity apps make you work for them instead of working for you. You write down 35 tasks, get overwhelmed by high-priority flags, spend 45 minutes color-coding tags, and end up paralyzed by ...
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From DevTools to Code: Stop Manually Translating cURL Commands

We've all been there: You open Chrome / Firefox DevTools. You inspect an API request on the Network tab that works perfectly. You right-click and hit "Copy as cURL (bash)" . You paste it in your terminal — 200 OK . Magic! ✨ Now you need to reproduce this exact call in your backend (Python, Node.js, Go, or PHP). And then the tedious part begins: stripping headers, escaping double quotes, formatting JSON payloads, mapping cookies, and figuring out whether the authorization he...
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JavaScript Closures Explained with a Real-World Example

Have you ever wondered how a function can remember variables even after the outer function has finished executing? That's the magic of Closures in JavaScript! ** What is a Closure?** A closure is created when a function remembers and can access variables from its outer lexical scope, even after the outer function has finished executing. Real-World Example: Bank Account Imagine creating a bank account. You want to deposit money and check the balance, but you don't want anyone to...
I built an Enterprise AI Dashboard using only Vanilla JS (Zero frameworks)
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I built an Enterprise AI Dashboard using only Vanilla JS (Zero frameworks)

Hi everyone! I wanted to challenge myself to build a data-heavy, enterprise-style UI without using React or any other framework. Just pure HTML, CSS, and native ES6+ JavaScript. No bundlers, no npm packages, no dependency bloat. The Features Dynamic KPIs with animated count-up Interactive Canvas 2D Charts (Line and Donut charts built from scratch) AI Copilot Simulation with streaming responses (letter by letter) Multi-tenant Workspace switching ...