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Attach a shredder to your mailbox along with a camera and image recognition. Shred everything that you don’t need.
Re:Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:25PM (#50299533)
> ASR = automatic speech recognition. I think this is the same as STT, speech to text?

I'm surprised no one corrected you. There's no speech left when it's converted to text, while, as you stated, the other one is Automatic speech recognition :-)

Re: on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:06PM (#50293358)
Useless and misleading talk!!
I don't quite follow that. Can you give an example? I buy car parts all the time and install them myself as well.

You stated your comment in the future tense. What are you anticipating?

there was a change of power halfway through that
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:20AM (#50245293)
> This requires a cover to equalize the size with the camera for haptic reasons.

Not really! The cover just follows the seam. And larger batteries will increase the weight as well, which Apple definitely doesn't want.

Got the repo here: https://github.com/propellingbits/SpeakRight

I've got some ideas; let's see how much I can pull off in the remaining months of 2026.

Gmail has already been targeted from day 1!
Great. Maybe create a separate repo so we can collaborate? I can fork it too, if you're okay with that. Hopefully more will join in.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:25PM (#50214117)
> Apple can easily detect the jailbreak and lock me out of anything iCloud, and iMessage and such.

Don't sign into any of Apple services then! Just use it as a pure developer playground or create an alternate ID. Can't be looking for everything everywhere :-)

Great effort in improving your skills! I guess I can use a similar approach to improve my speaking skills?
Re: on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:05PM (#50197279)
Can you shed some light on orchestration? I don't want to babysit them. Do you have a concept of roles and hierarchies, like team lead, tester, engineer, etc?
> I guess they could be gambling that she can't afford a good lawyer; many people can't.

Then the government provides a lawyer; you can't be without counsel even if you can't afford them.

https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/resource/right-assistance...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/right_to_counsel

Why not ask AI to explain it all line by line and write sequence, high level and low level docs? But I prefer not giving 100% control to AI
Re:I Built a Drone with Only One Motor [video] on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:01PM (#50159621)
> Where would you start?

Exploration and tinkering! But you have to have passion and deep interest in that topic/problem

Re:Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:21PM (#50122267)
I was trying to clarify your use case, which you've shared above.

> What you're describing is for recording videos of the phone .

I meant screen recording on a mac itself and not via a phone.

Anyway, thanks for your response. Your sites look great.

Re:Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:56PM (#50121887)
> So much faster and seamless than VNC. Already helped me two times today.

Can you share how the experience different than the local screen recording via something like Screenshot App?

> No, because it’s a law enforcement officer doing it.

Possible! Many police officers have gone to jail for murdering people.

strictly available only to sovereign states, national governments, and authorized law enforcement or intelligence agencies
Re:Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:18PM (#50077127)
how do you handle diagrams or other visual descriptions from text?
Re:Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:12PM (#50065745)
> I give him check writing ability to make it smoother for me to pay bills.

I immediately smell a giant red flag! I'm dealing with a lawsuit in another country, so I can't be there more than once or twice a year. To handle that situation, I'd have to sign a power of attorney. That document was shocking to read. It gave my lawyer pretty much every possible permission, including withdrawing from the suit at his will, and it said I can't sue him, I can't change attorney, and whatnot. Funny, the doc had been in circulation for the last 50 years. I wrote a new doc and gave him the absolute minimum :-)

Re:Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:15PM (#50064881)
"I write a check to go pay my taxes, and instead of her using it to pay my taxes, she would send me a fake filing of taxes and take that money."

Maybe he was way too innocent! You write a check to the IRS or have federal/state auto-detect. That option is there for sure if filing electronically.

Pegasus begs to differ!
Re:Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:41PM (#50023130)
This announcement has become an annual troll event for the lunatic in the office; I heard he was pretty pissed off this morning, although that’s usually the case with him.
Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:35PM (#49958137)
so pre-conditions for the job must be - know swimming and have a SCUBA gear?
That posture looks painfully uncomfortable for the wrist.
Re:What Meta Got Right with Muse on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:38AM (#49953840)
> I then linked my Facebook, IG and others to this new Meta account so that Muse can access them.

You completed the circle!

Re:The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:52AM (#49923338)
> Way longer than that. The first KH-11 satellites that Hubble shares its design with were in orbit in the late 1970s.

That's all fascinating stuff! What are some books that cover the start of the pursuit of those advanced machines? Can I say warfare machinery? Was it the end of WWII and a race to self-protect, was it the start of cold war, establishment of NATO, or a particular administration?

Re:The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:36AM (#49923101)
> They simply couldn't care less anymore about telling better lies than their predecessors.

4 years ago, people didn't fill their pockets on the current scale, and they also didn't pitch their own businesses under the cover of national interests.

Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:32PM (#49885395)
I'm a small fish.

Some people here have 640 GB of RAM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621754

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