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Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
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White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

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Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

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How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•10m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

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Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

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The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

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Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

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StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

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https://afelyon.com/
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Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

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LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

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US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

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Open in hackernews

Show HN: VAAK (Voice-Activated Autonomous-Knowledge-System)

https://github.com/ayushmaanbhav/Voice-Activated-Autonomous-Knowledge-System
1•ayushmaanbhav•3w ago
Most "Voice AI" demos today are just API wrappers around cloud LLMs. They are impressive, but they fail in production for three reasons: Latency, Compliance, and Lack of Control.

I built VAAK (Voice-Activated Autonomous-Knowledge-System) to solve exactly this.

It’s not just a "local chatbot." It is a domain-agnostic, production-grade Conversational Operating System built entirely in Rust.

Here is why Senior Architects and Product Leaders should pay attention:

1. The "Deterministic" Architecture Enterprise AI cannot hallucinate when discussing interest rates or medical advice. VAAK uses a hybrid architecture:

Generative Fluidity + Deterministic Guardrails: It flows naturally but adheres strictly to business logic for critical data.

Sophisticated Memory Systems: It doesn't just "remember" the last token. It separates Context Memory (conversation flow) from Agent Memory (long-term facts), allowing it to handle complex, multi-turn negotiations without losing the plot.

Real-Time RAG: Built-in Retrieval Augmented Generation that queries your internal knowledge base in milliseconds, ensuring answers are grounded in your documents, not the internet.

2. Built for Complex "Human" Behaviors VAAK isn't limited to Q&A. It is engineered for specific high-value modes:

Discovery & Intent: Accurately identifies why the user is calling before attempting to solve.

Objection Handling: A dedicated layer that manages pushback (e.g., "The price is too high") with empathetic, logic-backed retorts.

Sales & Conversions: Tracks sentiment and guides the conversation toward a closing event.

Finance & CRM: Securely handles transactional queries (Gold Loans, EMI calculations) with zero data leakage.

3. True Sovereignty & Security (GDPR Ready) In the era of "Data Sovereignty," VAAK offers what big cloud providers can’t: Total Isolation.

Air-Gapped Runtime: No data leaves your VPC.

Compliance First: Built-in PII redaction and audit logging.

Zero-Trust Design: You own the model, the weights, and the inference pipeline.

4. Performance Engineering (The Rust Advantage)

<500ms Latency: Achieves human-level "interruptibility" and response times.

No GPU Tax: Runs inference efficiently on standard CPUs.

Configurability: Change the entire domain (e.g., from Banking to Healthcare) just by swapping a YAML config file.

The Vision VAAK is proof that we don't need massive clusters to build intelligent systems. We need better engineering.

If you are building for Banking, Healthcare, or Government sectors where privacy and precision are non-negotiable—this is the blueprint.

Explore the architecture & code here: https://github.com/ayushmaanbhav/Voice-Activated-Autonomous-...

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