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Ask HN: Any DIY open-source Alexa/Google alternatives?

Posted by personality0 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:32AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm looking to replace my Alexa with an alternative where I can use a realtime model like Gemini or an STT -> LLM -> TTS pipeline. Should be easy to build with an Arduino or I'd even be happy buying an already made solution.Basic functions should include playing Spotify, asking questions, settings timers.

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Re:Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:28AM (#47121446)

Also Scaleway

Re:Google is down in Eastern Europe on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:57AM (#45124799)

Updated title to be Eastern Europe

Google is down in Eastern Europe

Posted by personality0 on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:49AM
from the outage.report dept.

https://outage.report/google

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Re:OpenStreetMap Calendar on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:59AM (#42997903)

This is great, I was thinking of creating something similar for a map-based events project. Is there an API to create events? From what I saw you can only read/list events? If possible, I'd like to incorporate this into my app, when a venue/organiser creates an event, for it to also go to OpenStreetMap Calendar.

Re:Ask HN: Programmable Lasers? on Monday July 08, 2024 @09:37AM (#40905315)

https://www.laserworld.com/en/