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Show HN: orb-ui – Voice AI UI Components for React (Vapi, ElevenLabs, etc.)

https://orb-ui.com/
2•alexanderqchen•1h ago
I got tired of rebuilding the same pulsing circle every time I prototyped a voice AI app, so I packaged it up.

orb-ui is a React component library for voice AI agent UIs. You plug in an adapter for your voice provider, the component handles the state machine (idle, connecting, listening, speaking) and renders it.

  import { Orb } from 'orb-ui'
  import { createVapiAdapter } from 'orb-ui/adapters'
  
  <Orb adapter={createVapiAdapter(vapi, { assistantId })} theme="circle" />
Click the orb to start/stop. Animation reacts to audio volume in real time.

The existing alternatives (ElevenLabs UI kit, Vapi Blocks) are shadcn-style copy-paste components locked to one provider. This is a proper package you can install and update.

Demo: https://orb-ui.com

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/orb-ui

GitHub: https://github.com/alexanderqchen/orb-ui

Curious what voice AI UIs people are building and what you'd want from a library like this.

Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/google-is-using-old-news-reports-and-ai-to-predict-flash-floods/
1•gmays•29s ago•0 comments

NASA aims for April moon launch with Artemis astronauts

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-artemis-moonshot-launch-d4cee0936115bb4d995272f7e1b921c4
1•gmays•5m ago•0 comments

The Artificial Self

https://theartificialself.ai
1•vinhnx•6m ago•0 comments

Lobbying records for age verification bills traced in removed Reddit post

https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_trac...
2•zahlman•7m ago•0 comments

I like being smart, AI tool that keeps you from getting dumb

https://www.oddity1.com
2•JoonSPP•10m ago•0 comments

Bringing Software Development Practices to PhD-Level Neuroscience Research

https://ideas.tbrianjones.com/posts/2026-03-08-research-engineering/
1•bjones•14m ago•1 comments

Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/google-fiber-will-be-sold-to-private-equity-firm-and-...
4•waits•20m ago•0 comments

Drone strikes in Haiti that killed 1250, 17 children, condemned by rights group

https://haitiantimes.com/2026/03/11/hrw-condemns-haiti-drone-strikes-killing-children/
2•e12e•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas

https://github.com/copycat-main/browser-assistant
3•a8hi•21m ago•0 comments

Enhanced rock weathering is not yet a reliable climate protection measure

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-weathering-reliable-climate.html
2•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler

https://ssg.dev/the-forsaken-world-of-windows-task-scheduler/
1•sedatk•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't there an open-source model trained by the community?

4•mittermayr•25m ago•3 comments

Met chief gives phone firms deadline over thefts

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77egvep8mdo
1•Cider9986•25m ago•0 comments

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/13/liquid/
1•rdoherty•26m ago•0 comments

How to Seed a Cloud

https://generalresearch.com/detail-oriented/how-to-seed-a-cloud/
2•x0xMaximus•26m ago•0 comments

Redis for AI Agent Collaboration

2•pavlikenemy•26m ago•0 comments

The Geometry of Color in the Light of a Non-Riemanian Space (2025)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cgf.70136
1•anigbrowl•27m ago•0 comments

Teaching Qwen3-4B to Trade: From Hold-Collapse to +9.4% Returns

https://sabareesh.com/posts/trading-llm/
2•sabareesh•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sapphire – A portable language with native UI and 3D vectors

https://github.com/foxzyt/Sapphire
2•foxz•30m ago•0 comments

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-some-games/
2•jc_811•31m ago•0 comments

Consider the Pigeon, a Surprisingly Capable Technology (2019)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/consider-the-pigeon-a-surprisingly-capable-technology
2•ohjeez•32m ago•0 comments

Rtings.com Reviews are now Pay2View, thanks to AI

https://www.rtings.com/company/revamping-our-membership-program
4•theawesomekhan•33m ago•2 comments

Show HN: I built a smart contract scanner and ran it vs. the $197M Euler exploit

https://paragraph.com/@veritasomega/i-built-a-smart-contract-scanner-and-ran-it-against-the-dolla...
2•URS_Adherent•37m ago•0 comments

ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization

https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer
2•robinhouston•40m ago•1 comments

(Foam) the Measurement Solution

https://foam.is/
1•isaacbowen•40m ago•0 comments

I built a security scanner for OpenClaw after 824 malicious skills were found

3•baz_sec•40m ago•0 comments

What I Learned Launching CodeYam CLI and Memory on Show HN and Product Hunt

https://blog.nseldeib.com/p/what-i-learned-launching-codeyam
2•nadis•42m ago•2 comments

It's hard for solo developers to gain attentions

4•tonipotato•46m ago•2 comments

Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join The Pentagon

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/wall-street-access-pentagon.html
2•keernan•46m ago•1 comments

An Agent Skill that lets coding agents render rich interactive visuals

https://github.com/bentossell/visualise
2•aanet•46m ago•0 comments