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Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant

2•aquila416•1h ago
Sophia NLU is an on device, low compute, Rust based natural language understanding engine that acts as a conversation agent. It offers the fluidity of a LLM without the compute, requiring only 160MB of RAM, no GPU. Handles unlimited devices, multiple intents, ambiguity, contextual awareness, millisecond latency, doesn't connect to the internet, and never calls home.

Upgrade to v1.2 just released with details at: https://nlu.tech/r/ha_v10200

This upgrade comes with many improvements:

* Sophia will now ask for clarification if it's uncertain which entity you meant. * State persistence. For example, if you ask how many lights are on in the kitchen, you can now say "turn them off for me" in the next message and Sophia will remember which lights you mean. * Help improve Sophia! When Sophia doesn't correctly understand a message, simply tell Sophia the last message was wrong. It will be logged, and once in a while, manually upload all pending through the Log menu of the web interface for review and repair. * And more...

Grab a free trial of Sophia, and be setup within minutes at: https://nlu.tech/ha/

After the free trial, you can either pay a small fee or simply refer a single paying customer and get your lifetime license absolutely free. Essentially, a 2 for 1 deal.

The built-in Assist is very rigid as it only allows for single intents, and requires the friendly names of devices. LLMs require a GPU, hallucinate and give probabilistic mismatches. And nobody wants to send their messages over the wire to big tech. Sophia solves this pain point with quality and privacy.

Hand crafted, not vibe coded. This is actually 2.5 years of R&D with many months and upgrades for the HA edition now. I have huge ambitions for this tech, so am 100% here to ensure you get the best software possible and it works exactly as you need. If there's any issues at all, just simply let them be know, and they will be resolved.

My inbox is always open, if you need me, I'm at matt@cicero.sh. I've had a very rough handful of years since going suddenly blind, so if you could do me a favor and share this around it would be greatly appreciated.

The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/06/11/1830
1•snvzz•2m ago•0 comments

A digital reckoning against smartphones in schools has spread to Sweden

https://apnews.com/article/sweden-school-mobile-phones-ban-screen-time-20a32f9bd9e2849a5ba76ef3fd...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•6m ago•0 comments

SpaceX demolishes IPO records, visualized

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2•giuliomagnifico•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Manob: A social media plaform without algorithm, ads, or data-tracking

1•Iamahmedsalman•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dont lose your friends, use a Kadoodle to plan your next event

https://kalerum.com/en/tools/kadoodle
1•mailforge•14m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic

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3•jbk•21m ago•0 comments

The end is not nigh

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3•bigfudge•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sentinel Den – Zero-back end, on-device iOS security SDKs

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1•iamuhammadkhan•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: At what point does a codebase become too large to understand?

1•visha1v•30m ago•0 comments

Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward?

5•chand190•33m ago•1 comments

Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund

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2•iancmceachern•34m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

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5•xiaoyu2006•34m ago•1 comments

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2•devtoolsguides•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Proton – A easy CGO-free immediate-mode GUI framework for Go

1•CzaxTanmay•36m ago•0 comments

Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine

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Largest AI Data Center: Doubling every 7 months

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Show HN: VeloIQ – An internal OS to build full-stack FastAPI apps in minutes

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DevRel is becoming a freelance job now? (India specific)

3•arpansac•51m ago•0 comments

Study Finds Competitors Share Directors More Often Than Previously Known

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1•toomuchtodo•51m ago•1 comments

Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan

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2•zdw•52m ago•0 comments

Device Clock Generation

https://zipcpu.com/blog/2025/12/17/devclk.html
3•mfiguiere•53m ago•0 comments

Git v2.55 will release with Rust support enabled by default

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AppList – Minimalist App Launcher for iPhone

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Ask HN: Is anyone running AI agents in production reliably – what's your stack?

3•nehpets•1h ago•1 comments

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InkyCap – Typst-based PKM for academics, writers, and everyone

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2•gurjeet•1h ago•0 comments

Koalas at risk of death once seven-day temperatures rise beyond 27C

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7•bryanrasmussen•1h ago•0 comments

Linear Coding Sessions

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3•samtheprogram•1h ago•0 comments

Reading Is a System

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rPX2rZ80CmHJCKZBziS1BtdodQM4NJhkNIz8EhF9nHM/edit?usp=sharing
2•_bramses•1h ago•2 comments