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Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•1m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•5m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•7m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
1•Anon84•11m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•12m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•14m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•21m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•22m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•27m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
9•mooreds•28m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•30m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•35m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•37m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•37m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•37m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•39m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•39m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•46m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•47m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•48m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•49m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•50m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•51m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•53m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•53m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a full-fledged service?

https://sutrasphere.com/
36•ranabasheer•6mo ago

Comments

ranabasheer•6mo ago
I developed a telephony agent service to help my aging parents, who aren't fluent in English, navigate their healthcare needs. My parents simply talk to the agent, which I call Maya, in their native language. Maya then understands their requests and handles the outgoing calls to various offices and providers in English. So far, it's been an invaluable resource for them, helping with three key tasks: Scheduling doctor's appointments across multiple insurance plans. Checking pharmacy readiness for medicine pickups. Arranging transportation (both medical and non-medical) through services like CalOptima and OC ACCESS. The system uses a straightforward tech stack on AWS, combining separate ASR, LLM, and TTS models. It's a pragmatic solution I built because I couldn't find an existing service that fit my specific requirements. It’s been so useful for my family that I'm starting to wonder if this could help others in similar situations. What do you think, Hacker News? Is there a broader need for a service like this? I'm looking for your honest and brutal feedback on whether I should pursue this full-time.

Note: due to lack of scaling resources, only messaging works for general public. if you would like to test voice, I am happy to add you to whitelisted phone numbers.

averageRoyalty•5mo ago
This obviously hasn't taken off on HN, but absolutely you should pursue it. This is a fantastic use of AI, and you've already done the leg work making it functional and building a concise "what is it" site that is very clear.

There are many non native speakers in many countries, this could very quickly become a great global service. Be careful with privacy and hosted data, especially medical.

Well done to you!

ranabasheer•5mo ago
Thank you for your kind words. The task of managing health related appointments for aging parents, kids, and your spouse itself is a full time job for some. I was hoping to get a handle on this with a tool like this.
thrown-0825•5mo ago
Great idea and good luck.

Before you open this up to the public you should prepare to be used as a potential spam vector and put some rate limits in place.

Assuming you are using something like twilio behind the scenes it can be very difficult to get yourself off a blacklist once you wind up on one.

Animats•5mo ago
Twilio will be a problem. Twilio no longer comprehends that there are non-advertising SMS applications. I used to use Twilio for something that just responded to incoming SMS messages. Then they changed their rules so that I had to register as an "ad campaign" and pay extra fees, even though I didn't do anything outbound.
thrown-0825•5mo ago
Yeah i have had similar issues with them.
ranabasheer•5mo ago
I agree, keeping the spam off the tool is the hardest part. I have put in place a whitelisting of phone numbers. But that will all be thwarted by a determined spammers.
probably_wrong•5mo ago
Here's some honest and brutal feedback:

First, this service is breaking enough European data privacy rules that you should seriously consider blocking European visitors altogether (who's your GDPR Data Protection Officer? How do I get in touch with them?). On that vein:

> We use enterprise-grade encryption for all data and follow strict privacy protocols. Your information is never sold or shared

No information on what those privacy protocols are, though. And unless you're self-hosting the entire stack, are you really sure you're not sharing my private information with, say, OpenAI?

At a more general level, speech recognition and LLM performance outside English ranges from "it's okay" to "bad". If you're offering a service in a language that you don't speak (and forgive me for doubting your ability to speak Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, and several more), be prepared for things to go wrong in ways you cannot understand. And speaking of which, how big is your "support team"? You wouldn't write "team" to mean just a single person, right?

> During your conversation with the officer, Maya stays on the line taking detailed notes about next steps, required documents, deadlines, and contact information so nothing gets lost.

I hope you're checking that you're in a one-party consent state. I also hope you've accounted for the person saying "I do not consent to be recorded".

At an even more general level: the problem with this idea is that it's aimed at the "average" person, but everyone has different pain points and your app will probably break up in contact with them. I can imagine it works well for your family because you know them, but are you sure it will work with mine? And you're aiming it at a sector of the population that, by definition, is bad with technology. That's a tough sell.

Anything related to healthcare can be a minefield. I wouldn't walk in there unprepared.

ranabasheer•5mo ago
The more I read about healthcare regulations, I feel like I should just keep it as a tool for my parents and family. It does seem like a minefield of potential penalties albeit set up for the right intention but it keeps small players out.
NDxTreme•5mo ago
Honestly, the big play here is to partner with someone that has that knowledge already.

So, the other end of the spectrum, doctors offices, insurance agents, etc.

These people have to already make reminder calls/emails etc, and they can get the consents needed.

That said, you probably have a gap between what you are doing now and what they require, which you need a case study to fill in.

avhception•5mo ago
This website already looks like a full-fledged service / sales pitch? Sounds great as a service, but you seem to have already made up your mind and asking if you should feels a little disingenuous.
luke-stanley•5mo ago
Exactly, and by the way, this is why I did not upvote it! Others probably have the same feeling.
villgax•5mo ago
trying to growth hack but rather poorly
ranabasheer•5mo ago
I don't have this service available for general public so not trying to grow but asking for feedback on if is even worth taking it there.
ranabasheer•5mo ago
Developing a professional looking website in half a day has become truly possible due to AI.
villgax•5mo ago
exactly my point too
ranabasheer•5mo ago
I put together this website using replit. It hardly took me half a day to pull together the content for this site. The intent was to give you all a look and feel of how it would work.
awwx•5mo ago
> Is there a broader need for a service like this?

This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.

jeroenhd•5mo ago
It's not a new idea, seeing as Google pretty much announced this years ago. I don't know how much uptake it got (it isn't available in my country) but it's definitely one of the main real-world use cases of LLMs and related AI that I can see surviving the bubble. If you can get enough money out of it to pay for your service costs, that seems like an excellent tool.

That said, my experience with LLMs is that they tend to lie/misrepresent user input and intention, especially when translating text. Doesn't sound like a problem to me if you're just ordering pizza or scheduling a haircut, but when it comes to healthcare, that might become problematic. Furthermore, there are quite a few regulations when it comes to healthcare services that you might need to double check, just to make sure you're avoiding having to comply with difficult and expensive regulation. Not really an issue for a tool built for your parents, but when you're marketing it to people (especially vulnerable groups, like people not speaking the language of the country they're in).

Also, does this bot announce that it's a bot?

Also, how will you prevent scam callcenters from ruining your bot's reputation? Is there some kind of abuse detection in place? Because if you just have a service that will call people and tell them what you instruct it to tell them, I can guarantee that malicious people will flock to it.

nelgaard•5mo ago
That is the problem with this kind of stuff. If it was only used by aging parents it might be OK. But it will be used by everyone. Even if OP manage to somehow prevent abuse, others will just build it themselves.

Because why would you want to make phone calls in the first place and not just send an email, or an SMS?

Because of spam filters and because people do not read their emails immediately because we get so many. But now we just get the same with phone calls.

It was already bad enough with fake Microsoft support.

ranabasheer•5mo ago
True, that is the biggest problem we have with any service. There are lot of bad players that ruin it for everyone else.
ranabasheer•5mo ago
I agree. The very first demo google gave was their agent making a hair appointment. However, the focus of the current crop of AI services seems to miss out the larger population that still relies on phones to make appointments and other day to day activities. They are focused on MCP, api integration and other device-to-device links that they miss out on device to human link that majority relies on.
villgax•5mo ago
This doesn't seem like a genuine post. You went out of your way to make a landing page. Since you asked for brutal feedback, you should have shared some actual footage of people using this instead of making some landing page which already acts like it's a ready-to-use product, then what would be the point of this phony behavior in your comment?
ranabasheer•5mo ago
I am using this landing page to get feedback from people if a service like this becomes available. At this moment, the service is not setup for scaling. Deep in everyone's mind there is a feeling that something that you did as a hobby can be more than that. The reason for this ask is to get a feel for that or just keep it where it is now.
funnybunny1•5mo ago
Tried out this AI agent thing the today and was pretty surprised how well it worked. I asked it to find a specific detergent brand at the nearest Target or Costco — it pulled up what was in stock. Then I had it call CVS to check if my prescription was ready. It actually navigated the answering system, got through to someone and even connected me to the pharmacist when more details were needed. Kinda wild that it could just do that.