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AI Stock Research Assistant · Streamlit

Article URL: https://ai-stock-research-kiaan.streamlit.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341308 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Vetted AI code is hard to justify

Article URL: https://amoffat.github.io/blog/vetting-burnout.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341368 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI is like farming. (and the purpose behind what I'm building)

I was watching a documentary on bronze ages last night. A line stuck with me. After the invention of bronze tools farming got more efficient and people had more time on their hands. They used it to BUILD cities (and everything in it). That's the true human spirit that can't be diminished. Are transitions usually violent (also economically and politically)? Yes. Bigger the technological advancement, bigger are the transitions. We are going to be witnessing a massive re-training of an entire workf...
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We Tested 4 Text-to-Speech Engines on 12,000 Live Healthcare Calls — Here's Which One Patients Actually Trust

Last quarter, we ran our production voice AI receptionist — Loquent — across four different TTS engines simultaneously, split-testing real patient calls at dental and healthcare clinics. The results surprised us: the most "natural sounding" engine in demos performed the worst with actual patients. Why We Ran This Test At Autor, we've been running Loquent in production for over a year now. It handles thousands of automated calls per month for healthcare and dental clinics across C...
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7 MCP Tool-Schema Mistakes That Make AI Agents Less Reliable

AI agents can only use tools as reliably as those tools are described. That’s why I built ToolReady AI —a free tool that reviews MCP and AI-agent tool schemas, identifies reliability problems, and recommends specific fixes. A function might work perfectly when a developer calls it directly, yet still fail when an agent has to decide when to call it, which arguments to provide, and what values are safe. In many cases, the problem is not the underlying API. It is the tool schema placed betw...
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The First Job Changes More Than Your Resume

Most people ask: What will my first job teach me? The deeper question is quieter: What does it take to become someone who can finally be trusted with real work? There is a real tension in the first job. One view says it’s just a stepping stone — gain experience, update the résumé, move on. Another says it shapes you in ways that stay long after the job itself is forgotten. Both can be true. A first job can be temporary. What you learn from it may not be. The First ...
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A Security Fix Should Show Where the Attack Stopped

The concrete problem A security pull request can be green for the wrong reason. Unit tests may pass, the vulnerable endpoint may return a different status code, and a scanner may stop reporting the original finding. None of those results necessarily shows that the attacker lost the capability that mattered. The same identity might reach the sensitive action through another route, inherit a broader token, or trigger an equivalent workflow with slightly different input. This becomes especia...
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How to Turn Latitude and Longitude into an Address with JavaScript

Sometimes you have GPS coordinates like: 40.7128, -74.0060 But coordinates alone are not very useful to most users. They usually want to know something much simpler: What place is this? The process of converting latitude and longitude into a human-readable address is called reverse geocoding . In this article, we'll build a simple reverse geocoding example with JavaScript. What Is Reverse Geocoding? Normal geocoding converts an address into coordi...
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Docker Compose Isn't What I Thought It Was

post 7: A practical guide to understanding Docker Compose—what it is, how it works, and the misconceptions that catch most beginners. You've mastered single containers. Now it's time to build a real application. A frontend. A backend. A database. A Redis cache. Suddenly you're juggling multiple docker run commands. Ports. Networks. Volumes. Environment variables. Chaos. Then someone says: "Just use Docker Compose." It works beautifully. But here...
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🤖 AI agents are becoming “digital employees”

SpaceXAI recently introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI-agent service designed to work more like an autonomous teammate. The agents have their own cloud computer environment and can log into applications, websites and tools to perform multi-step tasks. They can also operate in parallel and coordinate with other agents. The product is entering a market that already includes competing agentic workplace products from OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft. Traditional chatbot: User ↓ Question...
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Building OopsCalorie: When Your AI Thinks Dinuguan Is Champorado 😂

I’ve been building a side project called OopsCalorie , an AI-powered calorie and meal tracking app. The idea sounded simple enough: User logs or takes a photo of their food. AI identifies the meal. Estimate calories and macros. Save the entry. Done. Simple, right? Well... Then we started testing it with Filipino food. 😂 AI Meets Filipino Food 🇵🇭 One of the funniest parts of building OopsCalorie has been testing the food recognition. At one point, ou...
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🚀 30 React.js Interview Questions You Should Know Before Your Next Frontend Interview ⚛️

30 React.js Interview Questions You Should Know Before Your Next Frontend Interview ⚛️ Whether you're preparing for a frontend interview or simply want to brush up on your React.js knowledge , this guide covers 30 real-world, scenario-based React interview questions that interviewers frequently ask. The goal isn't just to memorize definitions. These questions are designed to help you understand how and when to apply React concepts in real-world applications . 📌 Bookmark this ...
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I Edited the Task Mid-Flight. The Agent Stopped Instead of Guessing.

I spent a while getting permission levels right. What an agent may read, what it may write, what needs a human. That work was worth doing, and it did not save me here. The gap is simple to state and easy to miss: permission levels answer what may this agent do . They say nothing about what happens when the task itself changes after the agent already has permission . The situation When work is handed to an agent, the handoff carries a task definition, a scope, and the conditi...
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Why I Built xAgent

I started building xAgent in April 2025. The original idea was straightforward: build a task-oriented Agent that could run work on its own and turn AI into real automation. Looking back, that sentence sounds simple. Most of what I have done over the past year has been filling in everything hidden inside the words “run work on its own.” The first version used a single Agent. I quickly ran into a problem: once the prompt focused its attention on one kind of work, the Agent could do that work...
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The Railway Test

In August 2026, Congo's Council of Ministers approved a collaboration convention worth about $1.26 billion to rehabilitate the Dilolo–Sakania line: roughly a thousand kilometres of track running from the Angolan border, across the Congolese copper belt, to the Zambian border. It is good news. Copper and cobalt from Katanga have spent decades travelling thousands of kilometres by road to ports in South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique. Trucking is slow, expensive, and exposed to every border qu...
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Why BQN Wins

All BQN solutions outperformed everything else in this perf wars video, this file explains the optimizations BQN has which led it there. Comments
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Agentic AI in a Smolbox

Article URL: https://remyhax.xyz/posts/smolbox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338338 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Building an AI Text Detector from Scratch

Article URL: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/ai-detector-from-scratch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338761 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: Can you still tell AI-generated text apart in your own language?

I'm Japanese, and I can still usually spot AI-generated Japanese by its word choice. Some words, like 実務 (practical work) and 帳簿 (a ledger), turn up far more often than they should. Casual ones like 効く (to work well, to be effective) and 刺さる (to pierce > to resonate, to hit home) get used where another word would normally be the first choice. They're the Japanese equivalent of "delve." I'm not a native English speaker, but my impression is that AI-generated English has improved a lot recently ...
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Show HN: AI-generated music box version of any song (for baby)

title basically covers it. project #2 from my paternity leave. My partner & I got frustrated with hearing Brahm's Lullaby and Wheels On The Bus repeatedly. I also stand by that babies can enjoy adult music just as easily as they can enjoy "kids music". But most adult music is too dense/complex for babies to understand, so I created this to generate baby-friendly, slowed down versions of songs that we like to play for our baby & sing along with. Uses BS-roformer for stemming out the input audio +...