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Someone here quoted Kafka [1] on what types of books to read: Books that “bite and sting”. That “wake us up with a blow to the head”. And which “affect us like a disaster, that hurts us deeply, like the death of someone…

Hey HN! I love watching YouTube with my 7-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, the best stuff is often in English (we're German). So I made an AI tool that translates videos directly, using the original voices. All other…

Noticed this for the first time today on Amazon.de: > Zero Tolerance for Fake Reviews > Our goal is to ensure that every review is trustworthy and useful. For this reason, we use both technology and human investigators…

What is AI going to do to humanity? Is it going to take over the world and destroy us, just like we destroy an ant hill when we build a road? Is it going to make us dumb, because nobody will be able to right code,…

I work with flask or fastapi. So far, I deploy to a rented bare metal server, using gunicorn and nginx. It’s a hassle, setting up the service, SSL certificate, etc.. I imagine there are better ways. Interested in…

Another year is coming to an end. While it‘s generally wise to focus on the things one can change, I‘m curious what things in your life you regret. I don't mean things that you would regret theoretically if you thought…

Do you know of a transcription API that uses Whisper on the backend? For those who don't own a GPU, or want to implement transcription without having to deal with parallelizing CPUs and such. Ideally, it should support…

Any thing that makes you feel as though you can "fly". That makes you faster or saves you effort in a way that feels particularly unreal and sublime. Can be anything human-made, from a piece of software to a well…

When I learned swimming as a kid, I struggled with coordinating how my legs were supposed to move. It seemed that I could either focus on my arms, or on one leg, but never on both legs, and much less on arms and legs…

Any suggestions for replacing Alexa, specifically an Echo Show, with a hackable device? I'm getting tired of Amazon annoying me with suggestions ("By the way, did you know..."), and crippling my Amazon Music…

Books your own kids have loved, books you'd want to read to your kids if you had kids, or books you wish your parents had read to you when you were little. Am interested primarily in books rooted in the real world that…

Books that immerse you in the zeitgeist of an era through the lens of a private individual's life. Books that don't describe historical events from outside, or from above, but from the perspective of an ordinary person…

Any contemporary broadcaster or educator who comes even close in terms of education, trust in the intelligence of their audience, and sheer balls? I'm refering here to the creator of the 1973 series "The Ascent of Man",…