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Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard)Hey HackerNews,I built this project over the last few weeks as a palette cleanser from a failed game launch.I wanted to learn a bit about AI/Neural-Networks and naively thought I could build a tiny maze-solving AI in a weekend with a 100% solve rate.Well - I couldn't, but I got pretty close. 14 Bytes total model size, and a 96.5% solve rate on unseen mazes. Trained across 46 phases experimenting with different ideas to improve the model (better performance, smaller size).Its quite fun to watch the model attempt to solve the maze, when they fail its usually due to getting stuck in a loop. The models have no access to coordinates, map-data, or external memory scratches - they must navigate using only immediate local neighbourhood observations.There is a model dropdown and you can see how the model has progressed over each phase, constantly getting smaller and increasing its solve rate. Total trained models number in the thousands - I just expose the winning models from each phase.Overall
Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS?Granola are cracking down on their auth and I can no longer pull my meeting notes out and put them in Obsidian (my plugin is gonna have to be deprecated: https://github.com/tomelliot/obsidian-granola-sync/).That means I'm gonna need a different meeting transcription/summary pipeline. There's a cambrian explosion of meeting transcription tools (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Show+HN%3A+transcription). It's awesome.I've tried some, but haven't found one that works how I want. Can you help me find one that suits my use case?- daemon runs in the background- uses local models for transcription, diarization/speaker identification- primary interface is CLI/no UI. It should just happen in the background.- GUI is secondary. Maybe a button in the menu bar for starting/stopping a meetingoptional/secondary- pulls in calendar info for titling and attendees- cleans the transcript- generates summary
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The 14 Best Exfoliators for Mature Skin, According to DermatologistsAlongside daily cleansing and moisturizing, there’s one essential skincare step that’s key to achieving a smooth, glowing complexion: Exfoliating, or the process of getting rid of dead skin cells that ...
Show HN: Cask.news – discover and track new homebrew Mac appshomebrew has over 6,000 mac apps, this huge catalog is ever growing and there's no real way to keep up with what is actually new - except when you catch that line that shows new casks when you update brew in the terminal...in case some new open source alternative drops, as we just saw with macshot essentially completely obliterating cleanshotx, you'd have no idea unless you catch it when someone posts it on hn or X.well, now there is cask.news! it automatically stays up to date with the brew.sh json and sends out instant, daily, or weekly notifications about new apps. it's also great for just browsing all the casks and finding alternative apps.I have been building on this since mid february and I finally like how it looks, its features, its auto generated reviews and ratings... and my friends told me to post it on hn so I resurrected my 16 year old account to do so :Danyway, check it out and let me know what you guys think!
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Show HN: Protogen – An Autopoietic Autonomous World ModelThe Autonomous Autopoietic World Model Generation Artificoal IntelligenceWhy Protogen is DifferentMost AI today is a "Black Box"—you put text in, and you get text out, but you don't know why. Protogen is a White-Box system:•Metabolic Heartbeat: The system has an internal "pulse." It processes, cleans, and organizes its own thoughts in the background, even when you aren't interacting with it.•Entropy Gating: It uses Shannon Entropy to protect its "sanity." If you feed it nonsense, it detects the chaos and refuses to let it corrupt its internal logic.Symbolic Evolution: It watches how concepts relate. When a relationship becomes strong enough, it "lifts" that concept into a Symbol, creating a permanent foundation for future reasoning.•Recursive Learning: It doesn't just learn facts; it learns rules. It then looks for patterns within those rules to build increasingly complex understanding.
ResearchPod – Turn ArXiv papers into 20-min podcast episodes (iOS)Hi HN,I’m Noah and I built ResearchPod because I was drowning in arXiv PDFs but had a 45 minute commute where my brain was free but my eyes were busy.ResearchPod transforms any research paper (via PDF upload or arXiv browse) into a podcast episode that's about 20 minutes long and features two hosts.How it works:1. Extraction: It parses the PDF and cleans the text. 2. Analysis/Scripting: It uses OpenAI and Grok to extract key insights and reformat them into a natural dialogue between two hosts, Alex and Sam. They don't just read the text. Instead, they discuss the methodology and implications like peers. 3. Synthesis: The script is sent to a dedicated TTS service running Gemini 2.5-flash-preview. I'm using the multi-speaker features to give each host a distinct and natural voice.Why I built this: I found that triage is the hardest part of research. I don't always have time to sit and read 30 pages just to find out if a paper is relevant to my interests. Listening to a high-fidelity summ
Founders and Freelancers – Advice NeededI help founders and teams get time back in their week by taking over the delivery + ops work that slows everything down, things like:-Projects with no clear owner-Roadmaps that only exist in someone’s head-Tasks piling up with no prioritisation-Zero visibility on what’s happening-Processes that should exist… but don’t-Clients or stakeholders losing confidenceI work remotely and plug in part-time or fractional as the person who cleans this up so you can actually focus on the work that matters.--What I’m trying to figure out now is: Where do people who need this kind of help actually hang out? Founder communities? Slack groups? LinkedIn? Cold outreach? Something I’m missing? What's the best way to reach out?I know the problems I solve - I’m just trying to find the right places to meet the people who need it.Any insights on this topic or just in general starting out would be hugely appreciated. DMs and connections open.
Show HN: NextClip – AI Video Editor for Talking Head Videos## Transform boring talking head videos into scroll-stopping content in 5 minutes*The Problem:* Content creators spend hours editing talking head videos, manually removing filler words, adding captions, and inserting visuals. Most give up and post boring, unengaged content that gets scrolled past.*The Solution:* NextClip uses AI to automate 90% of the video editing process. Simply upload your raw talking head video and watch as AI cleans your audio, adds engaging captions, and intelligently places visuals exactly where they'll have maximum impact.## Key Features That Make NextClip Different* One-Click AI Audio Cleanup* - Instantly remove filler words, duplicate takes, and awkward silences - Click any word in the transcript to delete it from the video in real-time - Remove silences of specific lengths (0.5s, 1s, 2s+) with precision* Smart Transcript-Based Editing* - See your entire video as text - Click to delete words/sentences instantly - Visual indicators show where edits were made -
Show HN: Airbook – Cursor for AnalyticsHi HN - We’re Hoshang & Vishal from Airbook (https://www.airbook.io) - An AI native workspace to do all your analytics work in one place.Airbook automatically syncs, cleans and centralizes all your data scattered across HubSpot, Amplitude, GA4, Zendesk, Stripe, Postgres, Snowflake and more - You can then use Airbook AI to build powerful interactive reports and unified dashboards.Here's a demo - https://youtu.be/hFp9J98p4_wOur AI is schema-aware -It understands your fields, relationships, and can auto-build queries across sources with context. You can join sources like HubSpot + Salesforce + Snowflake for example. Every query it generates is editable, so you always stay in control. From there, you can prompt it build a dashboard for you or trigger workflows to push data into Customer IO, Clay, and more.We built Airbook after years of leading data and ops at high-growth startups, where every question → insight → action flow involved bouncing between ETL scrips, CSV exports, warehouse que
I tried to buy Dataroma. Now I'm building the research engine I wish existedHi HN! I'm George, founder of ValueSense (valuesense.io). For the past year, I’ve been working on a platform that helps investors research public companies the way analysts at hedge funds do, but without the spreadsheets, PDFs and 12 browser tabs.The backstory I used to rely on Dataroma to track superinvestor portfolios (the Buffetts, Ackmans, Klarmans of the world). I liked the simplicity, but as I used it more, I hit major friction: - There’s no conviction scoring, trends or clustering of buys/sells - No institutional or insider context - No real ability to explore investor relations data - UI hasn't changed in over a decadeI actually tried to acquire Dataroma at one point, but the deal didn’t go anywhere. So I started building the tool I wanted.What I’m building The core idea: a research engine that connects smart money activity with investor relations data and makes it usable.Here’s what’s already working: 1) Smart Money Signals A pipeline that ingests, cleans and structures data f
Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registryI got tired of the push-to-registry/pull-from-registry dance every time I needed to deploy a Docker image.In certain cases, using a full-fledged external (or even local) registry is annoying overhead. And if you think about it, there's already a form of registry present on any of your Docker-enabled hosts — the Docker's own image storage.So I built Unregistry [1] that exposes Docker's (containerd) image storage through a standard registry API. It adds a `docker pussh` command that pushes images directly to remote Docker daemons over SSH. It transfers only the missing layers, making it fast and efficient. docker pussh myapp:latest user@server Under the hood, it starts a temporary unregistry container on the remote host, pushes to it through an SSH tunnel, and cleans up when done.I've built it as a byproduct while working on Uncloud [2], a tool for deploying containers across a network of Docker hosts, and figured it'd be useful as a standalone project.Would love to hear your thoughts an
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