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by the_king 5mo ago
I cannot wait for Starship to become a real thing, but you have to admit it's way behind schedule. The engines are awesome now.
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by the_king 7mo ago
This it is very impressive. But scrolling through the preprint, I wouldn't call any of it elegant. I'm not blaming the model here, but Python is much easier to read and more universal than math notation in most cases (especially f
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by the_king 7mo ago
I just tested it on a very difficult Raven matrix, that the old version of DeepThink, as well as GPT 5.2 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, and pretty much every other model failed at. This version of DeepSeek got it first try. Thinking time was 2 or 3
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by the_king 9mo ago
I think good names and a good file structure are the most important thing to get right here.
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Aqua Voice's Avalon is #6 on OpenASR Leaderboard(aquavoice.com)
2 points by the_king 11mo ago|0 comments
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by the_king 1y ago
Totally understand, thanks for being a customer. I'm sorry we weren't able to make the web version as smooth as we wanted to. We do plan to support Linux. This was probably a little bit of a blind spot for us - not realizing that
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by the_king 1y ago
I think Aqua v1 had two problems: 1. The models weren't ready. 2. The interactions were often strained. Not every edit/change is easy to articulate with your voice. If 1 had been our only problem, we might have had a hit. In reali
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by the_king 1y ago
you've got nothing to worry about here. if firebase studio can make a todo app, i'd be surprised. this is the worst "vibe coding" tool i've ever used.
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by the_king 1y ago
We can do that, with some help from the community.
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by the_king 1y ago
thanks! I share the same sentiment. I remember thinking in college how annoying it was that I was reading low-resolution, marked-up, skewed, b&w scans of a book using Adobe Acrobat while CS concentrators were doing everything in VS Code
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by the_king 1y ago
Aqua is in another league when it comes to accuracy. I just ran them side by side on a simple q to ChatGPT and here were the results... Aqua Voice What is the first recorded eclipse in human history? I'm not asking when the first o
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by the_king 1y ago
thanks! We're working on iOS, but it's tough to get the ergos right given all of Apple's restrictions and neglected APIs.
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by the_king 1y ago
I was excited to try this out because I've had a lot of trouble getting the Supabase integrations to work on Lovable and Bolt.new. Sorry to say that Firebase Studio did an awful job. It did not successfully build even the first view of
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by the_king 1y ago
We're building something different, but there is some overlap. Aqua is built for max speed, while keeping accuracy high. To achieve that, inference runs in a datacenter (for now). You can customize Aqua using custom instructions, simil
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by the_king 1y ago
Thanks! We're faster, more accurate, and have a streaming option. Aqua can go from key-up to paste in as little as 450ms. Flow was closer to 1000 in our tests. Overall, you'll notice we make a few more tweaks to the output than Wi
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by the_king 1y ago
We're more accurate and much faster than Mac Whisper, even their strongest model (Whisper Cpp Large V3). For that benchmarking table, you can use Whisper Large V3 as a stand-in for Mac Whisper and Super Whisper accuracy.
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by the_king 1y ago
Shoot, might be due to AirPods mic init latency. AirPods work well on Desktop (though their mic quality isn't the best).
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Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows(withaqua.com)
140 points by the_king 1y ago|83 comments
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by the_king 2y ago
This is well written. I appreciated the line, "startups are a race to learn stuff."
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by the_king 2y ago
Files-to-prompt has been a surprisingly useful tool for this kind of workflow. https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt
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10 Factories making consumer electronics in China [video](youtube.com)
2 points by the_king 2y ago|0 comments
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by the_king 2y ago
Reminds me of some underrated Peter Thiel advice: almost always an extra hour invested in a project you’re already deeply into will have greater returns than starting some totally tangential thing from scratch. The tangential thing will alw
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by the_king 2y ago
It may turn out that in the “next epoch,” our stock market will be understood as our civilization's greatest work of art - our greatest cathedral to capitalism.
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by the_king 2y ago
Sounds more like they were (and still are) being sloppy. “be better” is one thing. “runs without fatal crash” is what semi is talking about.
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by the_king 2y ago
> It’s not just that it’s immature software, they need to change how they do development. I remember geohot saying something similar about a year ago
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by the_king 2y ago
Yeah, they are here: https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024
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by the_king 2y ago
Yes! It's fully real time. This was a challenge, but something we decided not to compromise on. Imagine a pen that was only showing you words at the end of a paragraph — that'd be crazy! But this is how most people use voice today
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Aqua Voice (YC W24) for Desktop
12 points by the_king 2y ago|9 comments
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by the_king 2y ago
I would love to see the dashboard that the team that made the decision was looking at. I'd be interested to hear speculation by people who know about this as to what they think went wrong. Was it off course? Did the engines not relight
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by the_king 2y ago
Anthropic's latest 3.5 sonnet is a cut above GPT-4 and 4.0. And if someone had given it to me and said, here's GPT-4.5, I would have been very happy with it.

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