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Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 11:35am
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NativePHP for Mobile

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 11:27am

Article URL: https://nativephp.com/mobile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794601

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Categories: Hacker News

Ask HN: Have you built internal tools to generate complex PDFs?

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 11:26am

I’m working on a modular doc engine for generating complex PDFs; think insurance policy docs, contracts, compliance forms.

We’ve spoken with insurtech teams dealing with template sprawl from manual copy-paste, PDF logic buried in code that eng teams have to maintain.

If you’ve dealt with this in the past: what did you build? What failed? What would have helped?

Would love your thoughts: https://sutro.one

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794583

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Categories: Hacker News

Open Sourcing our Startup – AI-powered avatars (UE 5.2)

Hacker News - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 11:19am

Hi HN

TL;DR: Had to shut down our startup SPAR - Open Sourcing the code https://github.com/spar-app/spar-services

In 2024, we developed an AI agent infrastructure to support realistic, personality-driven AI avatars in real-time. The business use case was to provide a new training (sparring) and onboarding tool for companies. In particular, for companies that need to train customer-facing employees (ex, high-end retail)

To achieve the above, we were orchestrating three servers: 1. The first to run a Metahuman on Unreal Engine (5.2); 2. The second to run a custom finetuned open-sourced LLM; 3. The third to handle all the rest, connecting to the above two servers and streaming (WebRTC) on the client's browser, while coordinating with external APIs (Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text, etc.).

Key features: * Real-time interactions with distinct avatar personalities. * Fine-tuning toolkit for customizing and refining LLM-generated dialogues. * Structured feedback system that links actionable guidance directly to conversation points.

The future will use AI and immersive experiences to practice soft skills. We will not be building this future, but if you are, feel free to use our work to accelerate yours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794505

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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Do Vibration Plates Really Work? We Asked Personal Trainers What They Think

CNET Feed - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 11:00am
Do vibration plates actually do anything or help you lose weight? We spoke with experts to find out.
Categories: CNET

Yahoo Wants To Buy Chrome

SlashDot - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 10:44am
Categories: SlashDot

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