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erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Linguists have a word for the ums, uhs, ers, and elongated versions (ummmm, uhhhhh) that pad spoken English: disfluencies. I don’t record a lot of voice audio, but a few friends do, and they tell me editing those out by hand is miserable. So I built erm to do it. That’s the whole interface for the common case. It writes a cleaned .wav and a JSON cut list next to the input. This post walks through how it works, because the obvious approach doesn’t sound…
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Equal AI raises $30 million to screen calls so Indians don’t have to do it

Equal AI raises $30 million to screen calls so Indians don’t have to do it

✨ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Fundraising,India,AI assistant,call screen,Prosus Ventures ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In India, consumers receive a lot of calls every day, from spam and scams to delivery people and financial services companies trying to contact them. There are apps like Truecaller and the government's Caller Name Display (CNAP) system to identify the caller, but knowing the caller's name is often not enough. That's why Equal AI is creating an assistant that can take calls on your behalf, collect information, and tell you why someone is calling. The app is currently available on…
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coder/boo: A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty. · GitHub

coder/boo: A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty. · GitHub

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (libghostty-vt), written in Zig. Every session's output is parsed through Ghostty's terminal emulation core, so boo always knows the exact screen state of every session: contents, styles, cursor, scrollback, and terminal modes. That state is used to rehydrate your terminal on attach, to answer terminal queries for detached sessions, and to let scripts and AI agents read the screen exactly as a human would see it. Sessions that survive disconnects: detach with Ctrl-A d, reattach with…
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Waymo launches loyalty program with 10% cash back and free cancellations

Waymo launches loyalty program with 10% cash back and free cancellations

🚀 Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,loyalty programs,robotaxis,Waymo ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Waymo is launching a loyalty program called Waymo Premier, which will offer frequent taxi riders a number of perks for $29.99 per month. Premium members will be able to skip the virtual line and earn 10% cash back on every ride (and “more during busy times,” according to Waymo). They'll also get five free ride cancellations each month, and Waymo says Premier members will be able to hail a robotaxi in cities where the service still has a waiting list. The company told TechCrunch…
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This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air – UT Austin News

This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air – UT Austin News

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a jacket that harvests drinking water directly from the air. The technology could benefit anyone who spends much time in areas without easy access to drinking water, from hobbyist hikers, campers and runners to agricultural workers, emergency responders and soldiers. “Water harvesting from air is usually imagined as a stationary device such as a box, a panel or a large sorbent bed,” said Guihua Yu, chair professor of the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Walker Department…
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Prometheus Jeff Bezos raises $12 billion to build an ‘artificial general architect’ of the physical world

Prometheus Jeff Bezos raises $12 billion to build an ‘artificial general architect’ of the physical world

🔥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Biotech & Health,Hardware,jeff bezos,physical ai,Prometheus 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Prometheus, the AI ​​startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vic Bajaj, the former co-founder of Google's Verily life sciences unit, announced it has raised $12 billion at a valuation of $41 billion. The new money came from Bezos himself, as well as from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, among others. This is the second fundraising round for Prometheus, which launched late last year with an initial raise of $6.2 billion, according to CNBC. Prometheus is building what it calls the…
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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive 11th June 2026 After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its goal. I’ll illustrate this with an example. I was hacking on Datasette Agent today when I noticed a glitch: a horizontal scrollbar that shouldn’t be there in the jump menu chat prompt. I snapped this screenshot: Then…
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Theker just raised $85 million to build a factory robot that specializes in nothing

Theker just raised $85 million to build a factory robot that specializes in nothing

🔥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Robotics,Startups,Automation,theker ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Human beings are not quite ready to replace factory workers, but industry cannot wait. Faced with labor shortages, manufacturers have shown increasing interest in startups that promise faster automation without the usual trade-offs. That's the bet behind Theker, an AI robotics startup that aims to go beyond robots trained to do a single task. “If you always have to put the same cookie in the same box, that works perfectly, but most processes don't,” Carla Gomez Cano, co-founder of TechCrunch, told TechCrunch. Theker is designed…
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If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort

If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read? On one hand, an AI with robust integration to internal code bases and documentation often produces genuinely useful output. On the other, as an increasing amount of a software engineer's day is spent reading AI text, a fatigue sets in. If…
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These are the countries that are moving to ban social media for children

These are the countries that are moving to ban social media for children

🚀 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Government & Policy,Social,evergreens,social media bans ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Over the months, several countries have announced plans to restrict children and teens' access to social media. Australia became the first country to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely monitoring. The Australian regulations, along with proposals from other countries, aim to reduce the pressures and risks young users may face on social media, which include cyberbullying, addiction, mental health issues and exposure to predators. Of course, there are…
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