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Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds

https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap
10•kzahiri•1h ago

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ubutler•36m ago
Just a word of advice, it could go a long way to have a human write the README rather than an LLM.

Right now, it’s a little hard to follow what the actual findings are, why they are what they are, and why that’s important.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
336•itvision•4h ago•268 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-sola...
133•neversaydie•1d ago•26 comments

Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds

https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap
12•kzahiri•1h ago•2 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
860•theanonymousone•13h ago•149 comments

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/
75•gnabgib•3h ago•13 comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
46•Audiophilip•3h ago•5 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
191•tsak•8h ago•154 comments

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/
61•baranul•3d ago•40 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
140•collinmanderson•5h ago•93 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com
185•willcarkner•9h ago•129 comments

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/
274•yusyd•9h ago•311 comments

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm
51•sebg•3h ago•2 comments

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
143•tedsanders•8h ago•102 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74
314•Footkerchief•9h ago•267 comments

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4
15•indyjo•1w ago•1 comments

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965
84•luu•6h ago•155 comments

Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-medi...
33•boplicity•1h ago•8 comments

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-e...
6•koolhead17•2d ago•0 comments

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/
251•Wirbelwind•13h ago•190 comments

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update
202•dsubburam•4h ago•104 comments

New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-...
10•champagnepapi•36m ago•2 comments

The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/07/26/the-sylvester-gallai-theorem/
7•surprisetalk•6d ago•0 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/
107•laurentiurad•6d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

https://github.com/mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350
37•mdeeds•3h ago•20 comments

Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

https://github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdk
84•davidmckayv•9h ago•20 comments

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/
59•bschne•6h ago•40 comments

The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

https://danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/
96•hasheddan•4d ago•20 comments

Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/
59•mpweiher•1w ago•10 comments

Pareto Front

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
218•binyu•1w ago•93 comments

Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters

https://zenodo.org/records/21359923
6•purestatelabs•2h ago•1 comments