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thangalinon GLP-1 may slow biological aging

Robert Lustig's Sugar: The Bitter Truth hammers on fructose being a major culprit to weight gain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Dr. Gil Carvalho (medical doctor, research scientist, science communicator) debunks parts of Lustig's 30-year-old claims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdoDx9dIuNE

Nonetheless, Dr. Carvalho agrees with avoiding sugary drinks:

"We have a lot of recent evidence, recent studies after [Lustig's] talk. The link between soda and weight gain and obesity and other chronic diseases is quite strong."

Drink fewer sugary beverages, consume fewer calories (eat less), exercise, and drink less alcohol.

thangalinon Worlds more habitable than Earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es6DDuMmhAM

12 years with bugs, but no mammals of course.

thangalinon Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

KeenLore is my emotive audiobook creator, which I've been working on for the past several months to help me narrate my sci-fi novel. Here's a slightly outdated demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo

I've since added character ages (child to supercentenarian voices, consistent relative to their base adult voice), crowd chants (2 to 100 people works flawlessly), case sensitivity for character aliases (to help detect quotation attributions), custom phonetics, and English speaking characters can have a variety of accents applied. Will soon have Chatterbox driving the novel's narration. Screenshot:

https://i.ibb.co/GffgfnCL/narrating.png

It's self-hosted, fully local, based on software having permissive licenses and open weights. Runs on a lowly 8GB NVIDIA T1000 (and 96 GB of RAM).

thangalinon Worlds more habitable than Earth?

> to build stable closed ecosystems

Sealed terrariums? Unless you mean something more complex than plants, soil, sunlight, and water?

https://laidbackgardener.blog/2019/10/14/the-worlds-second-o...

"That means it has been growing inside its bottle with no additional air, water or fertilizer for 47 years."

thangalinon Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?

https://github.com/OpenMOSS/MOSS-TTS

KeenLore is my locally hosted full-cast emotive audiobook generator I'm developing for my novel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo

Another HN user suggested embedding sound effects. The lead author of MOSS-TTS emailed me that the next version will have a SOTA voice designer. Poke around the voice design space, you'll find text-to-effects here and there. I certainly have my eyes on this space.

thangalinon Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

> Pun intended?

Guilty.

> I profoundly disagree

People will take to wearing corrective contact lenses that will have recording capabilities in a few years. This is going to open up a huge can of worms for privacy, cinemas, and more. I did not write that we mustn't do anything about it right now, only that it is short-sighted. Creating laws about wearable recording devices would benefit from addressing near-future technology, which will include easily concealed digitally augmented corrective lenses.

* https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/vil-innfore-midlertidi...

* https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/dfd/org/minister-of-digita...

* Contact: postmottak@dfd.dep.no

thangalinon Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

This is short-sighted; smart contacts are viable.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-51137379

thangalinon Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

https://sci-net.xyz/10.1038/s41586-026-10955-0

https://sci-net.xyz/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.031

thangalinon GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

I started KeenLore (an emotive audiobook creator) that way. I gave it software specifications, languages, JSON schema definitions, container requirements, hardware configuration (8GB NVIDIA T1000 GPU, 96GB RAM), and zero user interface mockups. For the second round, I asked it to build a completely independent, re-entrant, and data isolated demo system on top of the web application. The demo application included voice generation using one of its voice designs. Here's the output:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo

The system performs quotation attribution on my local hardware for my near-future, hard sci-fi novel (having nearly 500 quotations) with over 97% accuracy.

The initial prototype was developed quite quickly, but numerous successive iterations were required to fix numerous gaffs by Opus 5 (because it doesn't actually _understand_ what it takes to make general-purpose audiobook narration software).

thangalinon Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

I'm looking to put together a tutorial discussing fundamentals of Blues and Swing partner dancing. I have the raw source material. I'd like to change the background, change the attire of instructors (myself and a friend), and fix up other issues (dead space, umms, and other gaffs). The footage is about 22 minutes, and can be split into 5 different segments of about 3 - 4 minutes each.

I'm running Arch Linux and would rather not install DaVinci Resolve, but Blender would be fine for the non-linear video editor.

My plan is to use ChatCut to trim and split into the different sections. After I have the five segments, what would you suggest for swapping the background (environment) and attire? There are two simultaneous camera shots (front and side) that I'd like to stitch together as well.

Any suggestions? (Paying someone a couple of hundred $CAD to take this task off my plate would also work.)

thangalinon Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

> Fish Audio or Higgs

I wasn't able to find a version of these that can create voice samples based on voice designs. Do you mean to use Qwen3 TTS Voice Design to create samples followed by Higgs or Fish Audio to clone the sample voices and narrate the novel?

MOSS-TTS 2.0 will apparently have voice design, as well, on par with ElevenLabs quality.

thangalinon Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

> annotate your text with extra 'stage directions'

Good idea, not something I've considered yet. Wouldn't take much to add it since there's already a feature for selecting a quotation and assigning it an intonation. Same infrastructure could be reused to select arbitrary text and assign stage directions.

thangalinon Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

Here's a video of my Emotive Audiobook Creator, KeenLore, a locally hosted web app:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo

No cloud, no tokens to pay. Reads a book using a full cast of characters. Quotation attribution detection (for my novel) is at 97.2% accuracy (485/499 quotes identified and assigned correctly). The autofill of character voice descriptions uses the prose to determine how the character sounds.

Employs Gemma 4[1] for the prose analysis (voice fills, quotation detection) and Qwen3 TTS Voice Design[2] for creating voice samples. Runs on an 8GB NVIDIA T1000 GPU card, 96 GB RAM, and a AMD Ryzen 5 7600.

[1]: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/

[2]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-Voice-Design

thangalinon The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

On a related paw, Leopardus guigna (güiña) in Anticura goes by the cute name of kodkod:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodkod#/media/File:Leopardus_g...

thangalinon Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png ;-)

thangalinon JetKVM Mini

You missed the Tangentially part, which is what tells people that it is a different type of KVM, which are also useful to many.

thangalinon JetKVM Mini

Tangentially, I tested many KVM models:

https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/18561/kvm-d...

The only one that met my requirements was the UGREEN 8K@60Hz DisplayPort KVM switch:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0CFFFHFJT

Several months in without any major issues.

thangalinon Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

Of possible interest, I once used an OSM editor to help draw Voronoi diagrams on spherical surfaces in a scalable vector graphic file format to help depict planet-wide fissures from colossal collisions.

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/05/12/impacts-project-vor...

thangalinon From Git to Fossil (2025)

If all you want is a simple read-only web presence for a Git repository, there are plenty of solutions. Here's mine:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek

thangalinon Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=23

Quoting my book:

"Studying these layered strata is known as magnetostratigraphy and can be used to verify radioactive dating methods. Geologists used magnetostratigraphy to cross-check the dates of the Nakali Formation, where Nakalipithecus nakayamai’s jaw was found."

thangalinon 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

27 KB is extraordinarily impressive. Here's a deterministic suite of common language- and format-specific PHP files an LLM wrote for me in 32 KB, for comparison:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/render/rule...

thangalinon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

The proof of finite-time singularity may impact both fluid dynamics models (CFD) and AI reasoning models. Under specific conditions, Navier–Stokes equations allow velocity to grow infinitely, causing the continuum fluid assumption to break down. Knowing the exact mathematical breakdown mechanisms helps developers improve adaptive mesh refinement and sub-grid scale models around high-vorticity regions (like vortex stretching and turbulent shear layers). While aerodynamic simulations for vehicles operate far from singularity thresholds, their stability at extreme boundaries could improve?

Proving out the combination of scaling inference-time compute and agent collaboration to solve previously intractable mathematical problems is WOW. By pairing creative candidate generation with automated proof checkers (like Lean) we are leaning into a repeatable framework for AI-driven scientific discovery.

thangalinon LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

For my text editor, KeenWrite[1], 42% of users answered that they'd use AI. Since the majority don't want it, no AI has been added.

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

thangalinon Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png ;-)

thangalinon Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

Here's likely the first computer Go algorithm (in FORTRAN) and I believe the SGF is the first ever recorded human-computer game:

https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/historical-computer-go

thangalinon Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

In Go, there are exchanges of plays called "joseki". Professionals consider the outcome of joseki to be an equal result for both players. Most joseki are only a handful of moves, but some, such as the "flying knife" joseki have variations that continue for upwards of 50 moves. A traditional 19x19 go board has 361 intersections.

Shin's genius was to play out a complex variation of the flying knife joseki that was, in essence, a one-way path to reach an equal board position that occupied about 1/4 of the board. Due to the 2-stone handicap, the position favoured black with the game ~25% complete. KataGo could not have played any other way, where a human may have tried to foil the plan by introducing further complications.

What was truly incredible was how Shin held the advantage from that point on.

thangalinon GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

Besides JavaFX[1] are there any free, open-source, object-oriented, event-driven, cross-platform, native GUI frameworks that allow for keyboard-accessible UIs? Preferably using a modern language such as Go.

When I developed KeenWrite[2] over 12 years ago, I chose JavaFX because it was (a) bundled with Java; and (b) ran on Linux, Mac, and Windows. JavaFX was later ripped out of Java, to my chagrin, forcing a number of technical contortions.

[1]: Not free on Windows due to Microsoft's $500 cert signing process.

[2]: https://keenwrite.com/

thangalinon State of the Map 2026

https://shufflenblues.com/location/

I used OpenStreetMaps to create a map with a theme that fits the website theme. There were no other free options that I could find to accomplish this goal. Moreover, the map works on just about every browser under the sun. Great work by their team.

thangalinon Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

From reddit:

* $250 per finished hour for the narrator (lowest professional rate).

* 200k to 270k words.

* 22 hours, 20 hours, and 25 hours.

* Books 1 to 3 cost $5,500, $5,000, and $6,250, respectively.

My novel has 8 major characters, including the 3 narrators, and 25+ minor characters. That price tag is daunting, presumably in USD. This would mean investing $7,750 CAD in crafting an audiobook, which may not even sell, much less recoup the investment.

In contrast, a locally hosted solution has a wallet cost of pennies for electricity plus my time to develop the system.