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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?

Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC? 2 by albert_e | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am exploring ways to work with my PC that doesnt involve always sitting at a desk and typing with hands like a cave man. Testing out using Wispr Flow and similar voice inputs -- seems to work fine for some use cases. I also place the laptop on a treadmill sometimes and try to to get some research / browsing / work done. Mouse (trackball) and typing are the current weakest link. are there decent handheld input gadgets that allow simple trackpad / click / scroll up&down / next&previous type of navigation and a push-to-talk voice input? I am looking at cheap remotes for FireTV stick and other streaming boxes that seem to have voice input -- anyway one could hack one of those to do our bidding and pair with a PC?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting 92 by Oras | 65 comments on Hacker News. I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I see lots of clearly AI generated posts recently in HN and mostly coming from new accounts (green), it is more noticeable in the Show HN section. I wish the team can either restrict new accounts from posting or at least offer a default filtering where I can only see posts from accounts with certain criteria. I don’t want to see HN becoming twitter, which is full of bots and noise, as this would be a really sad day.

New ask Hacker News story: OpenAI might end up on the right side of history

OpenAI might end up on the right side of history 3 by shoman3003 | 0 comments on Hacker News. note: I am in MENA, am not with the military in any way. when i first read the statement by Dario, i was shocked by the fact the military was so dismissive about Ai safety (not to mention privacy). Seeing anthropic resist the military, I felt so proud of being a claude user to the point I deleted gpt right away. it's nice to see your fav products sync with your values. but today, after thinking more about it, i realized something. for a government to allow one Ai company to dictate terms, it opens up a precedent for Ai companies in the future to resist governmental oversight. that might not be a big deal in 2020s, but in 2030s by all estimations many Ai companies will be big enough to resist entire governmental structures. Maybe not the US or China, but they will definitely be big enough not to be easily influenced. those independent companies will eventually grow so large, no governmen...

New ask Hacker News story: How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?

How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste? 2 by cachelogic | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious how teams running LLM-heavy applications handle duplicate or redundant API calls in production. While experimenting with LLM APIs, I noticed that the same prompt can sometimes be sent repeatedly across different parts of an application, which leads to unnecessary token usage and higher API costs. For teams using OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar APIs in production: How do you currently detect or prevent duplicate prompts or redundant calls? Do you rely on logging and dashboards, caching layers, internal proxy services, or something else? Or is this generally considered a minor issue that most teams just accept as part of normal usage?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?

Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified? 4 by BelVisgarra | 0 comments on Hacker News. Online job scams seem increasingly common. I'm curious whether people would actually use a job board where every job listing is verified before being published. Would something like this make you more likely to search for jobs there?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?

Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing? 5 by overgard | 4 comments on Hacker News. Well first, I don't mean this as a shot at the mods that do a great job. I'm noticing a lot of posts and comments around AI seem like industry plants. Look, I recognize that people are excited about AI and want to share their perspectives, and I'm not trying to accuse people that disagree with me of being industry plants, but the recent one about "I love coding at 60 now because of Claude Code!" by a new user with "cc" at the end of their name seems a LITTLE suspicious. As is the number of upvotes -- I can understand how a new model gets a lot of excitement, but a stranger on the internet enjoying the new model doesn't seem like 800 points worthy? I'm not trying to spark a controversy here, but I'm wondering if others feel the same or if I'm just overreacting.