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this is awesome, I'm curious if there's a way to remove bot comments; remove foreign influence keywords etc. Get rid of the energy vampires
Re:How AI Hears Accents on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:45PM (#45584607)
Going mono-tonal to that of an expressive ebook increased my "American English" score from a 52% to 92%.

I'd suggest training a little less on audio books.

This is so exciting!!!
Re:Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:54AM (#43125805)
yet hiring is as difficult as it's even been

Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points

Hi HN! We're Tim and Zi from Roame (https://roame.travel). Roame is a flight search engine that lets you find and redeem business class flights using points and miles, rather than exorbitant amounts of cash. Here's a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fixXuyhofgo We have been flying around the world in first and business class using points for years—Tim for more than a decade and Zi...

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Fly is soooo easy to use and very very easy to go back to. We went back three times, each ended with multi-hour sev0s w/ horrible status updates. Last outage occurred during our YC interview... now we're on AWS.
This is particularly interesting. Having tasted Iberico, I just realized on similarities between it and Yunnan Ham, which I grew up on. https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/mgx3b4/china-has-an-...
Re:Bitcoin surges in Zimbabwe after military seize power on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:28PM (#15709028)
Not just fishy -- fake news all the way. There's just not enough capital out of Zimbabwe to dictate a global market cap surge of 10-20 Billion (in the past 3 days)
Re:Bitcoin surges in Zimbabwe after military seize power on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:37PM (#15708583)
very small correlation between situ in Zimbabwe and price of bitcoins. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets Either a pump from Korea or China.
Re:Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @09:18PM (#12356360)
not too sure about how incorrect the artist's concept is, but we have to remember that Promixa Centauri is a red dward with about 1/10 the radius of our Sun.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:04PM (#9813874)
Location: NYC, NYC / Hanover, NH

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Python stack (Django/Pyramid), Frontend (React.js/Flux), DB (Redis/Postgres/Mongo), Unit testing

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/39zkow5jy1cnei5/programming_cv.pdf...

Email: [email protected]

Currently interning in NYC, will be looking for a Fall (September - Dec) Internship somewhere in the Bay Area. Graduating in June 2016.

Ask HN: What are some good open sourced mobile back ends

Hey all, exploring the mobile world here. I've been through the udemy ios complete course and found Baas such as parse as really convenient. The only caveat is cost. Are there any open source backend solutions that you guys can suggest? I'm most familiar with python, but couldn't find any pre-existing solutions. Let me know!(NOTE: I'm currently trying out datakit/parsekit, seems promising, but...

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Ask HN: Serving rendered html and static content vs. building APIs

Just a quick newbie question. When I was learning flask/django I was taught to use certain python packages to render the html first on the server and then serve it. As I learned more and more technologies on the front end, I realized that letting frameworks render and serve web pages is kind of inefficient (that's why we have nginx and apache, right?) So is it wiser to just build APIs on the...

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Ask HN: What should I learn to make my full stack deployment easier?

I consider myself to be a novice full-stacker, with a preference for python. However, there's a lot of tools out there for many different purposes. I just wanted recommendation on what to learn/use to make my life easier. So... What is it that you guys use that can make my life a little easier? Don't be afraid to get specific (ex. docker, ansible.. etc)

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Re:Show HN: I'm giving away my startup ideas on Monday March 03, 2014 @07:49PM (#7337701)
Here's a quick 24 hours prototype for idea 2: http://timesavorapp.com/

Also to the list you might add: p2p live tv (cable tv replacement) - tv networks generate revenue based on ads (subscription fees) p2p goes to solve a lot problems. Comcast is screwing the whole foodchain - now is the time to act.

Re:Will Code if Taught on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @10:03AM (#7095620)
Here's my advance. Patience is key. Pick a suitable starting language. Webapps - JS/Python. more CS-oriented - Java/C++ I prefer Python personally, but JS looks pretty ubiquitous nowadays.

Know your basics (syntax/MVC/OOP..etc) Once you're done with the cookie cutter stuff, hack hack hack. This includes the learning, Coursera, Udacity, and Codeacademy all provide some top level content - you don't have to finish it. Just learn the necessary concepts and run with it.

In my opinion, it is better and easier to learn programming by building something you're passionate about, rather than something that someone else is passionate about.

Re:Beats Music launches on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:34AM (#7095410)
I bet every song is equalized with extra bass.
Re:Fake Name Generator on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:32AM (#7095400)
Pretty awesome - although I keep on getting Ferraris and type two Diabetes. I guess it goes to show that you really can't have everything.