Week 14, 2026

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This app is cool and it showcases some use cases, but it still undersells what the E2B model can do.

I just made a real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B. I posted it on /r/LocalLLaMA a few hours ago and it’s gaining some traction [0]. Here’s the repo [1]

I’m running it on a Macbook instead of an iPhone, but based on the benchmark here [2], you should be able to run the same thing on an iPhone 17 Pro.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sda3r6/realtim…

[1] https://github.com/fikrikarim/parlor

[2] https://huggingface.co/litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-liter… – karimf

The “what to do instead” section is basically DARPA’s “Heilmeier Catechism,” which is the framework they use to gauge high-risk high-reward ideas. It doesn’t kill ideas, but it places the onus on the proposer to be clear-eyed and explicit about what they’re putting forward:

What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon.

How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?

What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?

Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make?

What are the risks?

How much will it cost?

How long will it take?

What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?

https://www.darpa.mil/about/heilmeier-catechism – the_snooze

This sounds very like Licklider’s essay on Intelligence Amplification: Man Computer Symbiosis, from 1960:

Men will set the goals and supply the motivations, of course, at least in the early years. They will formulate hypotheses. They will ask questions. They will think of mechanisms, procedures, and models. They will remember that such-and-such a person did some possibly relevant work on a topic of interest back in 1947, or at any rate shortly after World War II, and they will have an idea in what journals it might have been published. In general, they will make approximate and fallible, but leading, contributions, and they will define criteria and serve as evaluators, judging the contributions of the equipment and guiding the general line of thought.

In addition, men will handle the very-low-probability situations when such situations do actually arise. (In current man-machine systems, that is one of the human operator’s most important functions. The sum of the probabilities of very-low-probability alternatives is often much too large to neglect. ) Men will fill in the gaps, either in the problem solution or in the computer program, when the computer has no mode or routine that is applicable in a particular circumstance.

The information-processing equipment, for its part, will convert hypotheses into testable models and then test the models against data (which the human operator may designate roughly and identify as relevant when the computer presents them for his approval). The equipment will answer questions. It will simulate the mechanisms and models, carry out the procedures, and display the results to the operator. It will transform data, plot graphs (“cutting the cake” in whatever way the human operator specifies, or in several alternative ways if the human operator is not sure what he wants). The equipment will interpolate, extrapolate, and transform. It will convert static equations or logical statements into dynamic models so the human operator can examine their behavior. In general, it will carry out the routinizable, clerical operations that fill the intervals between decisions.

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/man-computer-sym… – Vetch

That was great fun, an interactive refresher on my EE studies. Thank you so much for creating it.

If anybody can create something similarly interactive, educational and hands-on for microbiology or robotics, I am happy to sponsor your cost. – vibe_that_works

Neat idea!

Ive added this to the HN Arcade! https://hnarcade.com/games/games/mvidia – yuppiepuppie

It sounds great, it remembers to me:

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
https://nandgame.com/ – mdtrooper

This reminds me of the Zachtronics game KOHCTPYKTOP (https://zachtronics.com/zach-like/). The game left me wanting more and wishing I was using an actual tool for learning or designing semiconductors circuits, rather than playing a game. – dnotq

Anyone who likes this should also take a look at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ At the end you have your own CPU with your own assembly language. Sadly stuck in early access since forever with some very rough edges – txr

In addition to the advanced flow we’re building free, limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. This allows you to share apps with a small group (up to 20 devices) without needing to provide a government-issued ID or pay a registration fee.

What stops scammers from simply creating a new hobbyist account for every 20 people they scam? – aniviacat

S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off
A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something
opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that
these are the S-TIER ones on my system
https://growingswe.com/blog
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
https://mlu-explain.github.io/
https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage
https://svg-tutorial.com/
https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
these are the BEST of the BEST, you ll be blown away opening each page is how good they are. i am thinking of creating a bookmark manager that uses my criteria above and runs across every damn blog link ever posted on HN to categorize them as S-TIER, A-TIER, opinion and so on – vivzkestrel

I built a free interactive .cursorrules generator: https://survivorforge.surge.sh/cursorrules-generator.html

It lets you pick your framework and stack, then generates a tailored .cursorrules file for your project. No signup, no tracking, runs entirely in the browser.

Why free: I was collecting cursor rules for different frameworks anyway (React, Go, Rust, FastAPI, etc.) and realized the hardest part for most people is not finding rules — it is combining them correctly for a multi-framework project. A Next.js + Tailwind + Prisma project needs different rules than a pure React SPA.

Cost to operate is basically zero — it is a static site on Surge.sh. The content took real effort though, I reviewed cursor rules across 16 frameworks to extract what actually improves AI output versus what is just noise.

No monetization plan for the generator itself. I do sell a more comprehensive collection with project-specific templates on Gumroad, but the generator covers the most common use cases for free. – SurvivorForge

Built this to display the weather forecast exactly as I want: https://weather-sense.leftium.com

Same thing for hacker news: https://hn.leftium.com

Same thing for bookmarks/start page: https://multi-launch.leftium.com

This one allows (dancer) friends to create/manage a web site without any programming knowledge: https://veneer.leftium.com Samples:

https://www.vivimil.com
https://veneer.leftium.com/s.1RoVLit_cAJPZBeFYzSwHc7vADV_fYL…

All my projects are hosted on Vercel (and/or Cloudflare), within their free/hobby tiers.
No plans to monetize any of them.
I find it more interesting to work on projects that are used by someone, whether that is myself or others.
These projects are for learning. I would love to make a living developing novel UX like these projects. Perhaps a future project, or through someone I meet via these projects. (I did get a GitHub sponsorship, which was partially made possible by my work on these projects.) – Leftium

This comment about the OpenClaw guy hits a little too close to home:

“Peter Steinberger is a great example of how AI is catnip very specifically for middle-aged tech guys. they spend their 20s and 30s writing code, burn out or do management stuff for a decade, then come back in their late 40s/50s and want to try to throw that fastball again. Claude Code makes them feel like they still got it.” – zhoujianfu

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