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Show HN: Yell into the void to find others via semantic search

https://void.devrupt.io
2•ddtaylor•1h ago
Hi HN,

I made Voidful, a kind-of-anti-social network where users can yell into the void to see how many other people are yelling the same thing. If you yell something similar, this is considered an "echo" and you gain access to a chat room about that topic with other users being notified.

Currently when users yell into the same void they are brought into a chat together, but this is somewhat of an MVP. In the future that chat may have guard rails related to the topic, rewards left by other users, and possibly more!

A key concept is that users can never enumerate or list the voids, as otherwise it will likely turn into a vanity war like traditional social media, which in my opinion is at the all-time-high for gamification. I am trying to remove the incentive to say random stuff to make line go up.

I am interested in how people use this kind of technology. I believe in the future when more consumer devices are capable of inference this will be adapted to be more client side and anonymous, with the vector database using homomorphic encryption via [HEVEC].

Check it out: https://void.devrupt.io

This was similar to my last experiment, [Ethos], also with very low inference cost using `qwen3-8b` for the LLM and `qwen3-embedding-8b` for the embedding.

Any feedback about subjects you give it and incorrect analysis is appreciated. I am curious what happens if a lot of people go into a chat at once, and it makes sense to try "Hacker News" as a chat topic.

[Ethos]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993774

[HEVEC]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873962

Show HN: 3sessions – A menu bar timer that counts down your free/work time

https://github.com/tednguyendev/3sessions
1•imvms205•1m ago•0 comments

Trump Justice Department moves to dismiss Steve Bannon criminal case

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-doj-dismiss-steve-bannon-case-january-6
1•stopbulying•1m ago•0 comments

Bannon, Epshteyn hit with investor class action over 'Patriot Pay' cryptocurency

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/bannon-epshtyn-hit-with-investor-class-action-over-patri...
1•stopbulying•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude Battery – usage at a glance. A minimalist macOS menu bar widget

https://github.com/Reebz/claude-battery
1•Reebz•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Oatpad – a simple local-only notes app for Mac, built with Tauri

https://www.oatpad.app/
2•itsdandanlai•2m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Has Claude Code quality dropped recently for anyone else?

1•vampiregrey•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: J-RAY – A privacy-first JSON visualizer with two-way binding

https://j-ray.vercel.app/app
2•MauryWebDev•4m ago•0 comments

Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can't Work

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1•mhb•4m ago•0 comments

The Other AI Bubble

https://jamesst.one/posts/the-other-ai-bubble-that-no-one-is-talking-about
1•jamesmstone•4m ago•0 comments

X(Twitter) is down again on February 16 2026

https://cryip.co/x-twitter-down-again-february-2026-outage/
1•deskithere•4m ago•0 comments

Scientists Could Help Reveal Fraud – and Get Paid for It

https://undark.org/2026/02/09/opinion-whistleblower-university/
1•JeanKage•5m ago•0 comments

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2•imnitwit•5m ago•0 comments

AI is the first new UI paradigm in years

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1•andsoitis•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Palettepoint.com – AI color palettes from text descriptions or images

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

X Is Down

https://twitter.com/downdetector/status/2023392580302512638
4•altertable•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I made a Reddit post checking tool to keep align with subreddit's rules

https://postshield.xyz/
1•sithu_khant•8m ago•0 comments

I proved my AI agent can't skip the approval step (196 states, zero bypasses)

https://joshtuddenham.dev/blog/agent-safety/
1•joshuaisaact•8m ago•1 comments

Cisco_Meraki_Bypass.ps1 – Dealing with captive portals on headless devices

1•dailker•8m ago•0 comments

DBSafe: Pre-execution safety analysis for MySQL DDL/DML operations

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The Sovereignty Nobody Offers You

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1•javasop•9m ago•0 comments

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1•rafruf•9m ago•1 comments

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1•code_pig•10m ago•0 comments

A look at the traffic originating from my Tor Exit relays

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2•speckx•11m ago•1 comments

X down: Social network suffers major global disruption

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/gmzigks6j
2•indy•12m ago•0 comments

Game Font Library: Video Game Fonts and Typography Database

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2•jonbaer•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: EU-based and simpler Kagi alternative – Uruky

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2•BrunoBernardino•14m ago•0 comments

Japan's Illegal Drifting Underworld – Tokyo Drift [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0UwUeKhAg
1•keepamovin•15m ago•0 comments

Apple acquires Israeli audio AI startup Q.ai

https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-acquires-audio-ai-startup-qai-2026-01-29/
1•kwar13•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express

https://github.com/tsoniclang/express
2•jeswin•16m ago•0 comments

Trump Pushing $1M-$2.5M 'pay-for-play' scheme for America's 250th birthday [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrDvVDXC68
2•stopbulying•18m ago•2 comments