Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks

TalkNotes is a productivity app that uses AI to transcribe and analyze audio, allowing users to create tasks, events, notes, and flashcards by simply speaking. The app supports over 100 languages, offers unlimited note generation and AI voice transcription, and allows users to turn audio into smart notes, todo lists, and more, making it a time-saving tool for daily meetings and note-taking.

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Copyright reform is necessary for national security

The founder of Anna's Archive, a massive online library of over 140 million copyrighted texts, reveals that their collection is being used to train AI models, including those from Chinese companies, despite the library's illegal nature. The founder argues that the West needs to overhaul its copyright laws to stay competitive in the AI race and protect national security, proposing reforms such as shortening copyright terms and introducing exceptions for mass preservation and dissemination of texts.

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How to Run DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning Models on RyzenAI and Radeon GPUs

AMD has provided instructions on how to run DeepSeek R1 Distilled Reasoning models on its Ryzen AI and Radeon GPUs, which use chain-of-thought reasoning to analyze complex prompts and deliver more thorough results. To deploy a DeepSeek R1 distill, users need to install the Adrenalin 25.1.1 driver, download LM Studio 0.3.8 or above, and follow a series of steps to select and configure their preferred model, with the goal of enhancing data security and reducing latency by performing reasoning directly on local AMD hardware.

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Show HN: Simple to build MCP servers that easily connect with custom LLM calls

The MCP Server in Mirascope enables secure and controlled interactions between host applications and local services by exposing resources, tools, and prompts through a standardized protocol. The server can be used to create a variety of applications, such as a book recommendation server, which can register tools, resources, and prompts to provide book recommendations to clients.

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Show HN: We're building a desktop app for browser-based AI agents

Meha is an AI intern that uses your browser to complete tasks through chat, capable of scraping websites, researching leads, and outputting data in various file formats. It works by controlling your local Chrome browser using a custom framework powered by OpenAI GPT models and scraping algorithms, with the goal of making users 10x more productive by automating grunt work.

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Gradual Disempowerment: How Even Incremental AI Progress Poses Existential Risks

The incremental advancement of artificial intelligence poses a systemic risk to human influence over large-scale systems, including the economy, culture, and nation-states, as it undermines human control and alignment with human interests. This gradual disempowerment can lead to an irreversible loss of human influence, potentially resulting in an existential catastrophe, and highlights the need for technical and governance approaches to address this risk.

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Large Language Models for Mathematicians (2023)

Large language models, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to aid professional mathematicians by generating high-quality text and code, and can be a valuable tool to improve the quality and speed of their work. This note explores the capabilities and limitations of language models in mathematics, including their potential to change the way mathematicians work, and provides guidance on best practices and potential issues.

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Chrono: A Peer-to-Peer Network with Verifiable Causality

Logical clocks are used to establish causal ordering of events in distributed systems, but existing constructs are inadequate for permissionless settings with Byzantine participants. Chrono, a novel logical clock system, introduces the Decaying Onion Bloom Clock (DOBC) and leverages non-uniform incrementally verifiable computation to enable scalable and verifiable causality in decentralized networks.

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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration

This proposal suggests using a buried nuclear explosion in a remote seabed to pulverize basalt, accelerating carbon sequestration through Enhanced Rock Weathering and potentially making a significant dent in atmospheric carbon levels. The approach, although radical, is argued to be feasible with careful planning and execution, and could reimagine nuclear technology as a catalyst for decarbonization in the fight against climate change.

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Formally Verified Binary-Level Pointer Analysis

This paper presents a formally proven correct approach to binary-level pointer analysis, which is crucial for trustworthy results in various software applications. The approach allows for customization of precision through different abstract domains, and experiments with three domains show that it can derive sound designations for memory writes in commercial binaries.

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Show HN: I built a full mulimodal LLM by merging multiple models into one

OmiAI is an opinionated AI SDK for Typescript that automatically picks the best model from a curated list based on the prompt, providing features like built-in reasoning, multimodal support, and internet access. The SDK offers a simple and streamlined experience, allowing users to generate text, images, and other media without having to manually select models or configure settings.

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AI Copilot for CLI

The AI Command Line Helper is a tool that uses AI to suggest and execute shell commands based on natural language requests, allowing users to interact with their system using plain English. The tool can be used with either a local Ollama server or OpenAI's API, and provides features such as command review and confirmation to ensure safe execution.

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Show HN: I hacked LLMs to work like scikit-learn

FlashLearn is a Python library that provides a simple interface for incorporating Agent LLMs into workflows, allowing for data transformations, classifications, summarizations, and custom tasks with minimal code and no model training required. It supports multiple LLM providers, scales easily, and returns structured JSON outputs for easy integration into downstream tasks.

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Show HN: Chrome extension to run GenAI models in browser

This Chrome extension, built on top of Transformers.js and Plasmo, allows users to run large language models (LLMs) in the browser, enabling tasks such as text summarization, code generation, and image understanding. The extension is still under development and not yet ready for production use, with features and APIs subject to change, but it has already demonstrated promising performance with various LLM models.

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Oumi: Everything you need to build foundation models

Oumi is a fully open-source platform that streamlines the entire lifecycle of foundation models, from data preparation and training to evaluation and deployment, providing tools and workflows for developing, launching, and deploying models. With Oumi, users can train and fine-tune models, work with text and multimodal models, synthesize and curate training data, deploy models efficiently, and evaluate models comprehensively, all with a consistent API and production-grade reliability.

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