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Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•2m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•7m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•12m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•14m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•17m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•31m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•32m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•45m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•48m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•58m ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
3•throwaw12•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments

Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
2•andreabat•1h ago•1 comments

I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
2•mgh2•1h ago•1 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
2•vladeta•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Andi – AI language tutor with a 3D talking teacher (Realtime API)

https://www.anditutor.com/en/landing
2•thekotik•8mo ago
I vibe-coded Andi — a browser-based AI language tutor where you practice with a 3D talking teacher in real time. It's built with the Realtime API, WebRTC (via LiveKit), and Three.js, Next.js plus a custom lipsync animation system. The biggest challenge was performance — running smooth 3D and real-time audio in-browser is brutal. I ended up designing a lightweight 30MB character model (down from 500MB) to make it usable on the web.

It’s desktop-only for now. Mobile browsers don't have enough performance for heavy 3d models. If browser version gets stuck, just reload the lesson. Chrome is better then Safari.

Would love feedback on: – Whether this tool can find real product–market fit in such a crowded space – How you’d approach bringing this to mobile (iOS especially)? In my experience Apple libraries don't work well for heavy hyperrealistic models. Unity seems the only reliable option rn. – Better ways to optimize or rethink this stack for 3D + realtime audio?

Comments

speak_to_me•8mo ago
I can comment on the product side of things. I've been working in language learning tech for over 15 years and I'm also a qualified language teacher.

I watched the demo video. Obviously you're going to need to write language lessons for the avatar to deliver. I'm not sure what your background is but do you know how you'll do that? Many apps hand that job over to AI and that might work fine for a beginner lesson 1 when you're just repeating some simple phrases but how would it manage with a properly structured lesson about the present perfect or subjunctive? I've seen AI give incorrect information about grammar and create quiz questions that are wrong or impossible to answer.

Also, language lessons don't just exist in isolation, a good language course ties each lesson together to reinforce what was previously learnt. You would have to think about all this.

Your other alternative is straight-forward conversation practice for higher levels, where you're not actually teaching the language, just providing conversation. But I think that very soon ChatGPT will have human-like avatars in their interface, so people will be able to use that for conversation practice.

You're probably aware, but other apps that are doing something similar are Praktika, Loora, Call Annie, Makes You Fluent.

If you want to do some more reading about the AI language learning industry you may find my Medium articles useful: https://medium.com/@oh-yeah-sarah

thekotik•8mo ago
So I used lesson structure from best practise for each level. So you gonna have the conversational topic for A1-C1 level as in textbook or tutor classes. But then I give flexibility to AI agent, and only feed the lesson name and lesson structure but trust AI with content.

So far it's a good balance I found between giving directions to agent and some space to improvise. What do you think?

Yes, competition is brutal. But if you open their product it's not even close to experience of "humanoid" tutor in a call. I tried to get to it as close as possible without performance issues, not sure if users care, but to me it's a huge difference.

thekotik•8mo ago
And of course the expectation is not to be on the same level as human professional, but the focus is on giving confidence in conversational practise in non-judgemental environment