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Re:Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:35AM (#49934688)
The Verge also has an interview with Paulus about this https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003936/home-assistant-says-bi...
Re:The iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Press Conference Q&A – Finally on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:14PM (#49824498)
Weirdly, I and at least a few others based on the YouTube comments, saw the presentation pop up in our YouTube suggestions in the last few days and at least I watched the presentation a few days ago. Wonder if there’s any connection between its recent resurgence and this Q&A getting uploaded now.

Also gotta wonder (as John does) where this came from. I assume Apple’s archival library, but who got it out of there and why now.

Yes they have, but they didn't have the ability to align a book _on device_ like Apogee does. It just listens for a few seconds of audio to find where you are in the book and then aligns automatically going forward without having to pre-process.
I haven't spent much time with calibre-web in a long time but can confidently say BookOrbit blows it out of the water in terms of functionality. I love that I can have one app that handles books and audiobooks. The ecosystem of apps that work with it is growing quick too, Apogee for iOS being a standout for me. They recently added readaloud support (like Amazon Whispersync or Storyteller) natively in the app, which I've never seen done before.

I have no relation to BookOrbit except I'm a very happy user.

For someone looking for a bit more than this, I recently got Bookorbit running and its quite powerful for being so young. https://bookorbit.app/
Re:typ.ing on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:07PM (#49402782)
This makes me wonder: what's your daily driver keyboard? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402769
Re:Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard? on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:07PM (#49402776)
My current daily driver is a Logitech MX Keys. I don't love it honestly but it's not bad.

Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

Inspired by the thread about typ.ing [0] and people talking about their setup, I wondered what HN users are using for their daily driver keyboard.Please list the model, switches, keycaps, layout and any other details you think relevant.[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346854

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Did you look at LiteLLM at all? It seems fine but Bifrost looks interesting too.
Re:FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @06:00PM (#48998950)
I've always wanted something like Storyteller for non-Amazon devices. Thanks!
Re:Ramp AI Router on Monday July 20, 2026 @05:28PM (#48985113)
Ramp (the startup neobank that has eaten Brex's lunch as of the last year or two) is getting into the AI routing game to compete with OpenRouter and LiteLLM it seems.

They recently rolled out some quite good cross provider AI spend management tools. The router is surprising but also makes sense for them I think.

Re:Flipper One – we need your help on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:26AM (#48224373)
I just want them to finally ship Busy Bar https://busy.app/
Thanks for making me aware of zizmor, just ran and fixed all issues on our core repos.
Re:AudioNoise on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:22PM (#46570513)
> Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

Linus Torvalds is now vibe-coding

Re:Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:46PM (#46480764)
Discord isn’t an alternative as it’s not publicly searchable
Jenny Nicholsen is as excellent as Kevin Perjurer’s Defunctland. I highly recommend both.
Re:Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer on Sunday December 07, 2025 @04:09PM (#46185181)
I love using Syncthing for syncing all my ROMs and saves across my handhelds (RG35XXSP running muOS, AYN Thor running Android), my NAS and MacBook. I'm trying to figure out what my concern level should be with a change in ownership of syncthing-fork for Android though. I guess let's see what happens?
Re:Meta acquires AI-wearables startup Limitless on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:42AM (#46171032)
Full disclosure: The submitter of this post, PStamatiou, is a former co-founder of Limitless fka Rewind. He left a year or so ago.
Re:John Giannandrea to Retire from Apple on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:21PM (#46114130)
I'm really surprised this got any fanfare at all from Apple. Kind of confirms a single person as the reason for their continual AI misses which feels weird for them.
Re:Helping Valve to power up Steam devices on Saturday November 22, 2025 @02:52PM (#46017687)
GTA V is running at high preset locked 60fps via GameHub on the Ayn Thor which has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIPlwoAt58#t=14m41s

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