Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

325 get-inscribe 2026-07-13 16:57:26 UTC get-inscribe.com Qwen Share 146

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer surpasses Whisper models and its legacy API, achieving 3.5-4x lower word error rates and 3x faster processing on M2 Pro, making it the top on-device English transcription engine for current Apple devices. It supports fewer languages than Whisper but offers superior accuracy and speed for English, prompting Inscribe to prioritize it for compatible languages while ...

Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode

101 speckx 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC scottwillsey.com Qwen Share 52

Use Xcode's CLI tools (xcodebuild, notarytool) and XcodeGen to automate Mac/iOS app builds, avoiding Xcode GUI entirely via scripts like release.sh. LLMs like Claude Code streamline setup, handle certificate management, and generate workflows for signing, notarization, and deployment without manual GUI steps.

AI Is a Bad Tool

46 shtgnwrng 2026-07-13 19:57:26 UTC bytecode.news Qwen Share 31

AI excels as a data distiller but falters in code generation due to opacity and poor abstraction, exposing human reliance on unverified outputs. Its rise reveals the irrelevance of many software roles, driven not by AI superiority but by inadequate abstraction in current practices.

The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?

81 ianberdin 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC playcode.io Qwen Share 40

AI model pricing per token is misleading due to varying tokenizers, which split text differently—TypeScript costs 1.73x more on Claude than GPT. Real costs depend on your content: test tokenizers directly, as silent tokenizer updates can raise bills without price changes.

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

161 benwerd 2026-07-13 20:00:26 UTC werd.io Qwen Share 68

Climate.us was created by former NOAA employees to preserve public climate data after Climate.gov's shutdown under Trump. The site relies on donations to maintain critical resources, underscoring the need for sustained government support for public infrastructure.

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

47 cakehonolulu 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC cakehonolulu.github.io Qwen Share 4

The author ported Linux to the Sega 32X to enhance board bringup skills, overcoming hardware limitations via SDK examples, FPGA flash carts, and custom synchronization solutions like Peterson's algorithm. Challenges included cross-compilation fixes, memory constraints, and implementing inter-CPU communication, resulting in a functional albeit slow Linux system with a console display.

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

169 ibobev 2026-07-13 14:57:26 UTC fabiensanglard.net Qwen Share 34

Silpheed's Mega-CD FMV optimized tile reuse, 16-color palettes, and tilemap compression to deliver cinematic video despite 90s hardware limits, with reverse-engineering uncovering 7.5fps compression and ASIC tricks for efficient playback.

Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

15 alxmrs 2026-07-13 20:02:26 UTC github.com/xqlsystems Qwen Share 1

A 28x28 image model uses flattened indices, skips zero-weight rows, and computes pre-activation layers (z = W @ a + b) with gradient updates (weight/bias - lr * gradient). Trained parameters are stored as xarrays, preserving layer shapes and biases per output dimension.

Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback

32 ano-ther 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC blog.thunderbird.net Qwen Share 25

Thunderbird users value customization, simplicity, and modern design, seeking reduced clutter and clear language. The team will streamline settings, simplify terminology, enhance privacy explanations, and improve accessibility based on feedback.

Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here

69 karencarits 2026-07-13 17:57:26 UTC github.com/logseq Qwen Share 44

Logseq 2.0 beta is now available for testing, inviting user feedback to improve the stable release, with a note to back up data due to potential instability. This nightly build includes a security fix (GHSA-92h5-2358-7xjv) and updates from Beta 0.10.10, addressing major regressions.

Ancient Roman Board Game

51 nobody9999 2026-07-13 17:57:26 UTC ludus-coriovalli.web.app Qwen Share 20

Ludus Coriovalli, an ancient Roman asymmetric board game featuring four Hounds blocking two Hares, was reconstructed via AI and wear analysis of a 2,000-year-old stone in the Netherlands. A 2025 Antiquity study confirmed its rules by linking play patterns to a cooperative blocking game design.

TFTP Honey Pot Results

18 speckx 2026-07-13 19:57:26 UTC bruceediger.com Qwen Share 5

A TFTP honey pot over 35 days captured mostly infosec company scans (e.g., Palo Alto, Censys) probing for TFTP servers via file requests like "a" or "pxelinux.0," revealing automated server identification efforts rather than malicious exploitation. Despite varied patterns, most traffic aimed to detect TFTP server presence, with limited CVE exploitation attempts observed.

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

376 forks 2026-07-13 15:57:26 UTC techcrunch.com Qwen Share 280

The LAPD ended its contract with Flock over privacy and civil liberties concerns, citing unresolved data security issues, joining other cities in distancing from the surveillance firm. Flock faces criticism for security flaws, unauthorized access, and false license plate readings, sparking public distrust and calls for federal investigations.

PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer

0 2026-07-13 17:57:26 UTC ycombinator.com Qwen Share

PgDog, a San Francisco-based startup scaling PostgreSQL, seeks a versatile engineer proficient in Rust/Postgres to build distributed systems and tools like OLAP query engines, prioritizing hands-on problem-solving over AI reliance. The role involves shaping the roadmap, deploying features directly to users, and leveraging Rust's safety for mission-critical infrastructure.

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

303 momentmaker 2026-07-13 11:57:26 UTC jivx.com Full Share 56

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

12 neogenix 2026-07-13 20:15:26 UTC github.com/marcelpanse Qwen Share 6

The tool automates converting YouTube videos to PDF tablature by sampling frames, using AI to detect and crop tab regions, deduplicating by bar numbers, and compiling into a PDF with the video title as metadata. It requires no configuration and outputs to out/<video-title>.pdf.

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

29 matthewgapp 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC nobie.com Full Share 8

Every formula, every pixel, calculated the same as Excel. Your files are always standard .xlsx — open them in Excel anytime, no surprises.

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

9 panic 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com Full Share 1

An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

62 Tiberium 2026-07-13 19:57:26 UTC whois.com Qwen Share 48

The domain t.me, registered with GoDaddy since 2010 and expiring in 2035, uses privacy protection via Domains By Proxy. It has multiple EPP status restrictions and Google's name servers, with DNSSEC unsigned.

Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents

29 mtw14 2026-07-13 18:57:26 UTC github.com/morganwilliscloud GoogleT5 Share 12

A pi can be turned into an ai assistant. the fish can lip-sync to its own voice and flap its tail if it wants to emphasize itself. you talk to the pi, it talks back — head swiveling, mouth lip synchronizing, tail flapping for emphasis. this project was created with help from claude code and you can use any ai helper to help you get through. point the mic away from the speaker

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

118 fishbone 2026-07-13 11:57:26 UTC github.com/floodtide Qwen Share 29

dom-docx converts semantic HTML to editable Word documents (OOXML) with layout fidelity, using Chromium/Playwright for rendering and LibreOffice for validation. It supports Node.js 20+ and browsers, offering inline or computed style conversion, image rasterization, and customizable document settings like headers, footers, and page layouts.

Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

80 eso_logic 2026-07-13 13:57:26 UTC esologic.com Qwen Share 38

Decommissioned NVIDIA GPUs (K80, P100, V100) are benchmarked for homelab use, showing viable performance despite age and inefficiency. Docker-based testing reveals multi-GPU setups can deliver strong results for projects like streamarize, though power costs and outdated drivers remain challenges.

How sea stars build materials that can see

17 hhs 2026-07-13 17:57:26 UTC engineering.upenn.edu Full Share 1

When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, stiffness and durability. But what if those same materials could also sense their external environment? That question emerged unexpectedly for Ling Li, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, when his lab and colleagues were investigating how […]

Show HN: PlanWright – A control plane for AI coding agents

5 dudemanAtl 2026-07-13 20:02:26 UTC planwright.tools Prefix Share 2

Speed moved to the middle and left the ceremonies behind. Planwright inverts the two that are still human-paced: it turns your chaos — transcripts, decks, email, Slack — into objectives, and triages acceptance so you rule only on what needs judgment. Planning and acceptance finally move at agent speed, and every ruling is signed. ↳ “Reposition homepage” · scheduled↳ “SOC 2 export bundle” · ...

Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise

14 mathaix 2026-07-13 17:57:26 UTC github.com/mathaix Qwen Share 11

OpenClaw Machines is an open-source platform using Firecracker microVMs for secure, hardware-isolated AI agent sandboxes on self-hosted infrastructure, with a control plane for orchestration and Cloudflare for secure routing. It offers cost efficiency via flat server costs, data sovereignty, and enterprise features like workspace integrations, all under Apache-2.0 licensing.

Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector

27 peter_lawrey 2026-07-13 16:57:26 UTC blog.vanillajava.blog Qwen Share 19

Optimizing logging (e.g., using Chronicle Queue vs. SLF4J) significantly impacts latency, especially for p99.99, more than GC choice. Workload changes, like logging adjustments, can flip optimal GC preferences (e.g., Parallel GC over Shenandoah).

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

383 ranger_danger 2026-07-12 20:57:26 UTC nebusec.ai Qwen Share 178

GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in rtmutex code, enabling privilege escalation via a dangling pointer from a freed stack frame. Exploited through a race condition and controlled memory overwrite, it allows unprivileged users to execute arbitrary code, fixed in Linux 7.1.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

235 david927 2026-07-12 21:57:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Qwen Share 862

Working on iOS app improvements and multiplatform C projects with X11/wasm. LLM coding diminished coding's joy, sparking thoughts of a new hobby.

Backtrack-Free Cursive

239 dmit 2026-07-13 06:57:26 UTC mmapped.blog Qwen Share 110

The author finds English cursive frustrating due to frequent backtracking for letters like "t" and "i," unlike Russian, which minimizes this. They designed a custom cursive script blending SmithHand and Russian elements to reduce backtracking, enabling smoother, more enjoyable writing.

Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator

73 surprisetalk 2026-07-13 12:57:26 UTC lcamtuf.substack.com Qwen Share 19

A quirky oscillator uses a reversed 2N2222 transistor, exploiting its low-voltage avalanche breakdown to charge/discharge a capacitor via an LED. Its oscillation stems from a unique V-I curve "dip," avoiding stable equilibrium, though it's inefficient and unstable.