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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert?

Ask HN: How come everyone is an LLM expert? 3 by delis-thumbs-7e | 3 comments on Hacker News. It is a bit strange how new model is released and hour after there is commentators declaring it complete trash and embarrassment to the AI industry, or the best thing since sliced bread. Surely they have not had the opportunity to test the ins and outs of the model yet? Or do people just blindly trust benchmarks as if they were not pretty easy to manipulate, as research has shown quite a few times now? Or is it just all vibe? So how do you measure how one model is better than another?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?

Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? 6 by onemiketwelve | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been having a hard time finding a solution. Is there really no commercialized model that I can feed in a reference sound and text instruction and get another sound out? Right now having a multimodal inputs to image or text output is a commodotized, solved problem. IE you can put a prompt for some image and use a reference image to guide the model on what you want. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words right? Ive also used a text and audio input in order to get a text description or classification out. I cannot for the life of me find a solution for Audio + text -> Audio My usecase is that I'm trying to generate new sound effects based on a source that doesn't have that many clean examples and thought this would be just another solved workflow but I'm not finding much. Tried elevenlabs SFX but it's only text->audio an...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?

Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? 17 by Gooblebrai | 20 comments on Hacker News. I'd have swear before there were more and even a more button at the bottom

New ask Hacker News story: GitHub Refuses To Remove Cracked Copies Of My Software Even After A Month

GitHub Refuses To Remove Cracked Copies Of My Software Even After A Month 5 by IvanK_net | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am a developer of https://ift.tt/6wVmSu1, a popular photo editor that runs in a web browser. Many people are asking AI models to take the Javascript code from my website, remove all ads from it, and they publish such a "new product" on Github for everyone to download. There exist tens of such repositories on Github. I want my website to be the only source of a stable version of my program Photopea. I even received emails from people complaining about something in Photopea, and it took several emails to figure out that they are not using Photopea.com (so it ruins my reputation a little). I reported it to Github on the 4th of September 2026: https://ift.tt/sqp8uJy Today, a month later, I received this response: Thank you for submitting a DMCA takedown notice. We've reviewed the information you've provided, and based on the facts presented to us, we...

New ask Hacker News story: Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos

Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos 3 by iliashad | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey, I'm Ilias, the founder of Orcah Studio. I'm building a local-first desktop app (Mac OS available now) that can transcribe audio, recognize faces, detect objects, perform OCR, and describe video scenes. Plus, a local-first video agent that understands your prompt and finds the exact moment you're looking for. I fine-tune the agent based on an open-weight model (an 8-billion-parameter model) with tool calling. You can check out all the features here: https://orcah.app. Plus, I have an MCP that you can connect to Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to search your indexed videos: https://orcah.app/mcp

New ask Hacker News story: Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week

Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week 2 by Steaglsz | 0 comments on Hacker News. Google has started 70+ unique trackers the last 24 hours which bring it on my phone to at least 130 unique trackers i could find. Reddit is up to 149 unique trackers. My phone is being pinged 8 (EIGHT.) TIMES. A. SECOND. You cant delete or change any of these settings from google or it breaks the app and just reinstalls it fresh on your next battery restart. Welcome to the New Age https://ift.tt/IXzCLkd