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What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•1m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•4m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•5m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•7m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•7m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•7m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•12m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•12m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•13m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
3•roknovosel•13m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•21m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•22m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
3•pseudolus•25m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•25m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•26m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•26m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•27m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•32m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•34m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•34m ago•0 comments
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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