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The Humane Environment Project (2002)
Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20030407235521/http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/mission.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542596
Points: 1
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Generic Freelist Allocator for Go
Article URL: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/Snawoot/freelist
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542504
Points: 1
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Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity?
If LLM do actually help engineers become significantly more productive what could explain that, for instance, in the open source community:
- We are not fixing bugs faster
- We are not developing features faster
- We haven't seen an explosion of new projects
- We haven't seen an explosion of vulnerabilities being discovered
Maybe I am missing something but to me everything looks the same (except for an increasing amount of useless customer service chatbots and garbage LLM generated books on Amazon)
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542497
Points: 23
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The Criterion Closet Is Hitting the Road
Article URL: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8593-the-criterion-closet-is-hitting-the-road
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542278
Points: 1
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Show HN: Pico-ASHA – Audio streaming to hearing aids using a RPi Pico W
The past several months, I have been developing a method of streaming audio to my hearing aids from a PC. To do this, I have programmed a Pi Pico W to act as a USB audio device which will work with any OS and be capable of playing audio on my hearing aids.
For a bit of background, modern hearing aids have different methods of directly streaming audio over bluetooth. The earliest (and most common) is Apple's Made for iPhone program. Phonak hearing aids use bluetooth classic (A2DP). Many devices support Android's Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA). And the latest hearing aids are beginning to support the new LE Audio standard.
The goal of Pico-ASHA is to implement Android's ASHA. Android has published a specification at https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/bluetooth/asha. The reference implementation is in the AOSP project.
Pico-ASHA presents itself as USB headset (and a CDC serial device) to the OS. Apart from the Pico W, no additional hardware is required. Pairing to hearing aids is automatic, and once paired, audio streaming Just Works (tm) - in theory! The project is implemented using the Pico C/C++ SDK, including TinyUSB for the USB audio/CDC support, and btstack for the Bluetooth LE stack.
I have now reached the stage of the project where it (mostly) works well with my own hearing aids (Oticon More 2). I would like to expand testing to other hearing aid makes and models, because I have probably made assumptions that work with my hearing aids, but not others. If anybody with suitable hearing aids who have (or can obtain) a Pico W and are willing to be an early tester, it would be much appreciated. I would hate for this to be an Oticon More only project.
The motivation for working on this is pretty simple - the adapters hearing aid manufactures provide for interfacing with computers are outrageously priced. I object to paying them hundreds of dollars for commodity hardware. Also, it's been a great challenge.
This is my first ever attempt at developing on a microcontroller, on USB device support, and bluetooth. So please forgive the state of the codebase, I was learning how to do stuff as I went along.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge the recent work occurring in the Linux space to add experimental ASHA support to BlueZ (https://github.com/bluez/bluez/pull/836) and a pipewire implementation (https://github.com/thewierdnut/asha_pipewire_sink). Both projects reignited my enthusiasm to continue work on Pico-ASHA.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542243
Points: 2
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Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs
Article URL: https://qz.com/almost-all-new-car-sales-in-norway-last-month-were-evs-1851639882
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542241
Points: 5
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WTF is an AI PC? [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbOzaYU694U
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542233
Points: 1
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FRS/GMRS Privacy Codes Demystified
Article URL: https://www.k0tfu.org/reference/frs-gmrs-privacy-codes-demystified.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542203
Points: 1
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Oscar Health's early observations on OpenAI o1-preview
Article URL: https://www.hioscar.ai/blog/oscar-healths-early-observations-on-openai-o1-preview
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542198
Points: 2
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Personal Task Management with Integrated Time Tracking
Article URL: https://super-productivity.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542165
Points: 1
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New Library for native WebGPU apps in C++
Article URL: https://github.com/bv7dev/wgpu-lab
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542156
Points: 2
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Chrome AP Firmware Embraces the x86_64 Architecture
Article URL: https://blog.osfw.foundation/chrome-ap-firmware-adopting-to-x86_64-architecture/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542136
Points: 1
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Take Action: The Draghi Report Brings Us One Step Closer to EU/ACC
Article URL: https://www.santiago-martins.com/take-action-the-draghi-report-brings-us-one-step-closer-to-eu-acc.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542124
Points: 1
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Is My Host Fast Yet?
Article URL: https://ismyhostfastyet.com/?sort=fast
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542120
Points: 1
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NATO military committee chair, others back Ukraine's use of long range weapons
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-nato-military-chiefs-d020f72aaa3abec8e5fa971f7123ffe1
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542119
Points: 2
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Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
Article URL: https://giacomo.coletto.io/blog/arch-amd/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542076
Points: 3
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Research on the Eco-Friendly Impact of Online Lottery Tickets
Article URL: https://lotteryngo.com/eco-friendly-impact-of-online-lottery-tickets-research/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542041
Points: 1
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How the EU's landmark Apple tax ruling gave Ireland €13B it didn't want
Show HN: I build Figma plugin for unlimited themes/modes
Hi everyone,
I’ve created a new Token Swapper plugin for Figma to address limitations I encountered while working on a multi-brand mobile app UI. The Figma’s Pro plan’s 4 Modes (or even the Enterprise plan’s 40 Modes) weren’t sufficient for my needs.
I made Token Swapper to quickly switch between themes (based on variables and styles) without relying on Modes. The only requirement is that you organize your themes in top-level folders within both the variables and styles sections.
I’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts. Your feedback is appreciated!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542013
Points: 1
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Is the College Startup Pipe Dream Dead?
Article URL: https://rohan.ga/blog/startup-pipe-dream/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541987
Points: 1
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