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Show HN: Reading Assistant Physical Books Meta RayBans

1•roshangill•1h ago
Reading technical books is hard. Unknown words, confusing phrases, and misunderstood concepts requires opening your phone, starting Claude, and working with Sonnet through a series of exchanges, before finally getting it.

Focusing back on reading after such a context switch can be difficult. Repeated multiple times and your attention span is gone.

Fix: An assistant understands your book deeply and answers inquiries through voice while you read, side-stepping the current process entirely.

All you have to do is: - Upload a PDF version of your physical book and start reading - Say "Hey Lumos" along with your inquiry ("why does det(A) mean the matrix loses volume?") - Assistant researches the contents of the book and responds - Continue reading until you need help again

It's in extreme beta but works well enough where I can't read a book without it. If you're interested in trying it out, reach out.

The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/the-uks-latest-debanking-scandal-should-give-everyone-pau...
1•iamnothere•37s ago•0 comments

The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived [audio]

https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/2026/07/03/megapod-the-most-...
1•mooreds•54s ago•0 comments

Harm Bot · Streamlit

https://harm-youtube.streamlit.app
1•cocoglare•4m ago•0 comments

How Amazon SQS fair queues work

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-fair-queues-detail...
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm trying to map all vacation rentals you can book direct

https://staythere.ai/
1•wthayer•6m ago•0 comments

Overshadow-JS, suncalc tells you sun angles, this tells you shadows

https://github.com/Botfather90/overshadow
1•Brandon99pt•9m ago•0 comments

Yes, Robot. Yes, Boss?

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-428-yes-robot-yes-boss
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses

https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/
5•tjwds•17m ago•1 comments

The circuit that lets your brain think and see

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/circuit-lets-your-brain-think-and-see
3•hhs•18m ago•0 comments

US Government says it got hacked – again

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/us-government-says-it-got-hacked-again/
2•jack1689•22m ago•0 comments

The Gap Map v0.1

https://www.currentai.org/blogs/introducing-the-gap-map-v0-1#article
2•droidjj•23m ago•0 comments

Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony?

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ameisen-kolonie-verletzte-pflegt/
4•hhs•27m ago•1 comments

Amsterdam invented the fire department

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/
12•zdw•28m ago•1 comments

GitHub offering CD-ROMs of your code for a few days

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/your-code-is-physically-yours-forever-until-you-lose-it-lets-be-...
2•evo_9•28m ago•1 comments

Shopify SEO Experts Can Boost Your Online Store Rankings

https://www.techwrath.com/shopify-seo-experts-boost-online-store-rankings/
2•techwrath11•32m ago•1 comments

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-...
9•hhs•33m ago•0 comments

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge
5•zdw•34m ago•0 comments

Save Claude Code Tokens with Smart Routing

https://github.com/regolo-ai/brick-SR1
2•FrancescoMassa•34m ago•0 comments

Elevating Privileges from Firefox to Android Root

https://rootme.nebusec.ai/
9•kozika•34m ago•2 comments

Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models

https://chenliu-1996.github.io/projects/LM-Dispersion/
7•E-Reverance•38m ago•0 comments

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-pa...
6•sohkamyung•39m ago•1 comments

GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card

https://gitfut.com
3•redbell•40m ago•0 comments

Sneaker Company Allbirds Plans to Pivot to A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/allbirds-shoes-ai-pivot.html
2•shepherdjerred•40m ago•1 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/
10•programLyrique•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scout.kids – Agents that find activies for families

https://scout.kids
2•davmar•42m ago•0 comments

Radiolarite – "Iron of the Paleolithic"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolarite
3•jumploops•46m ago•0 comments

Overturning a $1B Copyright Award Against a Broadband Provider

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/overturning-a-1-billion-copyright-award-against-a-broadband-provider/
1•zdw•47m ago•0 comments

Coding without AI: a revolutionary new way to work

https://isaaclyman.com/blog/posts/coding-without-ai/
14•aard•47m ago•2 comments

Trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/116720287681995824
1•radiator•47m ago•0 comments

Disputing the Declaration of Independence

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/disputing-declaration-independence
3•pepys•56m ago•0 comments