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Re:Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try ...
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:45PM (#49819812)
Grammarly itself is basically a closed-source version of LanguageTool
https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:03PM (#49172510)
Location: Oakland, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, JS/node/react/ts, Java, R, vector/relational/nosql dbs, docker/k8es, terraform, GitHub actions, tensorflow/pytorch/gensim etc etc
Resume: Available on request
Email: [email protected]
Github: https://www.github.com/bpiche
Hi, I'm Ben Piché, a full stack AI/NLP engineer with about 15 years of experience. Have worked at lots of startups as well as big companies like Apple, Capgemini, Deloitte, Twitter, Wells Fargo and SAP. Specializing in AI architecture, agents, conversational AI, digital transformation, and related solutions.
Re:From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:16PM (#48740935)
I still think of this video often and wonder if it is building on any of that technology, almost 10 years old now
[Regina Dugan's Keynote at Facebook F8 2017 | Inverse\]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI
Re:Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:52PM (#48662619)
Likewise
Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:35PM (#46816210)
This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..
Re:
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:36PM (#46640389)
IA is hosting a couple more of Rick Prelinger’s shows this month. Looking forward to visiting
Re:Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ou...
on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:49PM (#46357319)
Kirlian Selections rocks
Re:Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don't have to 'follow...
on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:13PM (#46293781)
I didn't see any mention of this in the article, but: not sure if his wife is still on the board of OpenAI or not. He must have a unique and intimate view into some of this stuff and it's probably why they asked him about this stuff instead of another good actor. Big fan of his movies
Re:Meta Ray-Ban Display
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @09:10PM (#45283655)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI
regina dugan's f8 keynote 8 years ago
where they announced they were working on a 'haptic vocabulary' for a skin interface as well as noninvasive brain scanning technologyu\
Re:Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please
on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:36PM (#42704220)
After Doug's recent passing, I sincerely doubt it.
Re:Best Pens for 2025
on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:21PM (#42690255)
I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now
Re:Ask HN: How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025?
on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:13PM (#42690166)
https://www.kavitareader.com
Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN
Re:That dark matter video aged like milk
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @01:36AM (#40735270)
Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting
Re:Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)
on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:20PM (#40711209)
Yeah that makes sense. Got me wondering to what extent it’s possible with something like load balancing too. Maybe meetups don’t have to corner the market on that kind of info sharing
Re:Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)
on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:20PM (#40710599)
I live here too. I'm biased, but 1) this place is not full of awesome engineers, it's mostly full of overworked contractors and newbies with eighth grader syndrome. And 2) you can't just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project. That's a huge security issue and if it were true it would be a lot easier to social engineer places today. Not to say that it isn't possible, but this comment paints an unproductive, idealized, and inaccurate view of the bay.
edit: it is a very cool e-ink project, and there are some cool communities like the maker faire. Reflexively reacting against the generalization
Re:3 Days in Space Were Enough to Change 4 Astronauts' Bodies and Minds
on Thursday June 13, 2024 @06:08PM (#40675383)
Spacenoid and newtype neonates
Re:Is Apple about to launch the real Siri?
on Saturday June 08, 2024 @02:50PM (#40619499)
People have a lot more faith in ReAct than they should, for applications like this
Re:Hudson Yards Video Game
on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @12:41AM (#40581458)
Ahh yes the early beta version of endorphin port
Re:Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents
on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @12:26AM (#40581401)
Theyre so out of touch it’s almost funny
Re:Fentanyl is fueling a record number of youth drug deaths
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @06:18PM (#40447397)
China
Nikon FA
Re:Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:17PM (#40445028)
As a Gibson fan: this sounds like his robot avatars from The Peripheral and the VR glasses from Virtual Light.
In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.
Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.
Re:Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:11PM (#40444940)
I agree with your assessment that a lot of this stuff is BPO. There is only so much customer service that can be automated. That being said, AI is a big tent and has been around for decades, despite the media claiming that OpenAI has been the first company to take it into the mainstream. AI flies fighter jets without any human pilots. I personally think there is already a lot of impressive stuff happening with reinforcement learning and am excited to see where large action models go, despite rabbit's failures.
Re:Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:13PM (#40423309)
Luke skywalker shooting torpedoes into the Death Star vibes. Burn it down.
Re:Scarlett Johansson lawyers up over ChatGPT voice that 'shocked and ...
on Monday May 20, 2024 @09:51PM (#40423188)
Go for the throat ScarJo!
Re:Intercom to make $94M bet on AI centric efforts
on Monday May 20, 2024 @09:48PM (#40423163)
It’s gonna take a lot more than that if they want to do it in house. The moat is financial, and it is wide and deep
Also I gotta say their billboard on the 101 outside of SF really irritates me
Re:OpenAI to Pull Scarlet Johansson Soundalike Sky's Voice from ChatGPT
on Monday May 20, 2024 @07:51PM (#40422129)
Immanetizing the eschaton
Re:Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder. Does it make sense to move out of SF ...
on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:40PM (#40418631)
Rent is not cheap in Walnut Creek. Maybe next door in Concord, but not WC lol
Re:Ask HN: How do you get started writing "predicting" software?
on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:00AM (#40386265)
That's character-level n-gram modeling