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Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark

Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The result, up front Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy half of LibriSpeech, while running roughly three times faster than Small. And the API it replaces, SFSpeechRecognizer, came last on clean speech: behind even Whisper Tiny, a 40MB model. Enginetest-clean WERtest-other WERModel size Apple SpeechAnalyzer (iOS/macOS 26)2.12%4.56%system Whisper Small (WhisperKit CoreML)3.74%7.95%~460MB Whisper Base5.42%12.51%~140MB Whisper Tiny7.88%17.04%~40MB Apple SFSpeechRecognizer (legacy)9.02%16.25%system Lower is better: WER…
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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras placed across the United States. A senior LAPD official told news outlets, first reported by ABC7 and the Los Angeles Times, that the police department would allow its three-year contract with Flock to expire when it ends on Saturday. The department cited “serious concerns” around civil liberties and privacy. Flock’s cameras are operated by the…
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clawkwork/clawk: Disposable, network-restricted Linux VMs for AI coding agents · GitHub

clawkwork/clawk: Disposable, network-restricted Linux VMs for AI coding agents · GitHub

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: A coding agent is only useful when you let it actually do things: install packages, run the code it writes, start servers, use the network. On your own machine that leaves two bad options. You approve every command (and babysit a prompt every few seconds), or you run --dangerously-skip-permissions and hope nothing important is one rm -rf or one leaked token away. clawk is a third option. cd into a repo, type clawk, and Claude Code (or Codex, or a shell) is working inside a…
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floodtide/dom-docx: Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) · GitHub

floodtide/dom-docx: Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) · GitHub

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML): paragraphs, runs, lists, tables, images. Not screenshots or layout hacks. Live demo: dom-docx.com. Try the converter, browse showcases, read the learn guide. Built with a visual regression loop: render HTML in Chromium, convert to docx, rasterize via LibreOffice, score layout + structural fidelity against a human-validated metric, iterate. Latest scores: TEST-SCORES.md · methodology: SCORING.md. Requires Node.js ≥ 20. No browser or Playwright is needed for the default inline path. When is Playwright needed? Entry styleSource:…
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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

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đź’Ą Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Just after noon on a Saturday last month, a Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered about 200 feet over a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police chase a man hiding behind a parked car. The target of this manhunt lay down on the pavement, apparently unaware that he remained in full view of the flying eye overhead. The 5-pound drone had, in fact, already followed him across the city, zooming in on his black SUV’s license plate, keeping the vehicle locked at the center of its…
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Another Ridiculous Interrail Holiday – 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks – Terence Eden’s Blog

Another Ridiculous Interrail Holiday – 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks – Terence Eden’s Blog

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the 1st class tickets when they went on sale in December. Here's how our journey ended up: The trip included two ferries - one overnight - which had a small Interrail discount. In total we spent approximately…
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Inside Berkshire’s $397 Billion Bet Against an Overheated Market

Inside Berkshire’s $397 Billion Bet Against an Overheated Market

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Berkshire Hathaway just reported a record $397.4 billion in cash and T-bills, 59% of its investable portfolio. After fourteen straight quarters of net equity selling, a streak that has continued unbroken under new CEO Greg Abel, what does the nearly $400 billion in cash signal?If one is to take Warren Buffett at his word, Berkshire is just waiting in the wings for a good deal. But he’s also never been known to publicly predict market corrections, never mind a crash, so one is left having…
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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: I harass the sea with my tiny boat and am called a pirate, you do it with a great fleet and are called a king. Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. Well, maybe it’s not you that they need to convince. Maybe it’s your C-Suite, various world leaders, or the manager of your retirement fund. They’ve raised $132 billion in investment, and are approaching an IPO valued over $1 trillion. Since they cannot show…
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Quadrupling code performance with a “useless” if

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" ifJuly 12, 2026So I was optimizing a domain-specific compressor the other day, as one does.One important problem was chunking the input string and optimally choosing the most compact encoding for each chunk (different encodings compress different characters better, so where to split is not immediately obvious). The previous post describes the algorithm if you’re interested, but it boils down to finding the shortest path on a grid. For each cell, the algorithm computes the best cell following it. Following…
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Backtrack-free cursive

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đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: I narrowed the problem to backtracking—the need to add strokes to the letters I’ve partially written. English wants me to dot my i’s and cross my t’s. It has a lot of them, and they like to cluster in a single word. Instead of thinking about what I want to write next, I have to maintain a mental queue of pending strokes. Backtracking is rare in Russian. Only Đą (short i) and ŃŤ (pronounced like e in end) require two strokes. There is also Ń‘…
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