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acyou commented on From Hackathon to YC producthunt.com/p/april-y... · Posted by u/rmason

vedhsaka · 2 hours ago

We didn't expect this will come on hackernews. But more on this - April is voice first app so you dont have to see/use your phone.

Crash was because of the panic - we were getting late and I reversed the car while taking a turn and didn't see the pillar - I crashed into it - this was before we started recording or started speaking with April.

But that is a good flag - will update the article with more details.

acyou · an hour ago

But it says in your article, "We record a demo and dent Akash’s car while recording, just minutes before the deadline." So I think the only thing to do now is to own up to it and please post the demo including the crash so that we can all have a good laugh, and also appreciate the demo that got you into YC?

acyou commented on From Hackathon to YC producthunt.com/p/april-y... · Posted by u/rmason

acyou · 3 hours ago

That is too funny. So we crash the car while distracted, filming the demo for AI powered voice email we do during our commute, and "Judges love the demo". Pretty funny when nobody gets hurt, not so funny when we rear end a family of 4 or injure a pedestrian.

It's a controversial story, generates buzz. But as usual, the human cost seems to fall by the wayside along the way. You need brainpower to process email, right? Can people really drive properly while trying to focus on something else? Seems like the answer is instantly no, and they are still in YC. Makes me a little sick.

acyou commented on At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019) apmreports.org/episode/20... · Posted by u/Akronymus

lisper · 22 days ago

But do these characters correspond to sounds?

acyou · 22 days ago

Not exactly, more or less to some extent without a 1:1 correspondence, more like a 1:100 or something like that technically, but practically it probably works out to roughly 1:1 to 1:2 correspondence on average?

acyou commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

alextousss · a month ago

My roommate and I are still working on Tornyol, our mosquito killing drone! It uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes, and missile control theory to ram into mosquitoes and grind them in its propellers.

Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes!

The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous surface in a short time compared to static systems or man-portable insecticide spraying. Our goal is to be competitive with ITNs against Malaria.

Some links :

https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/supercon-2024-killing-mosqui...

https://manifund.org/projects/build-anti-mosqu

acyou · a month ago

Surface level thinking, ecological disaster in the making. Birds and bats and other bugs eat mosquitoes to live. Killing all the mosquitoes is like the Chinese killing all the sparrows. We do not understand, and we do not want to understand, the deep consequences of our actions.

People who think we can reengineer and shape ecology by eliminating key species are here on the dunning Kruger curve.

Better option, if you really want to fight malaria go fight that directly, leave mosquitoes out of it.

acyou commented on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling news.samsung.com/global/i... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

dotancohen · a month ago

Only if you have a cold environment into which to dump that heat into. You could maybe trickle charge your phone in the winter, if you don't mind a cold spot where the device sits on your body.

acyou · a month ago

Assuming body is 38 degrees C, and ambient is 20 C, Delta T is 18 C, which "works" to whatever extent.

acyou commented on The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018) bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

acyou · a month ago

22 meters underground, built in 1950s, Tokyo, 5-7% of GDP - yeah the gigantic underground vaults serve as flood protection, to those who have a good understanding of Japanese history, it's understandable to believe these were rather primarily built as bomb and nuclear shelters.

acyou commented on Endometriosis is an interesting disease owlposting.com/p/endometr... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo

acyou · 2 months ago

In what way is endometriosis related to a) hormonal birth control (estrogen and progestin), b) sexually transmitted disease, c) age, d) pregnancy, e) obesity? The article didn't seem to discuss these much, I don't know much about endometriosis, but I feel like I have heard these come up and was surprised not to see them discussed.

acyou commented on Precious Plastic is in trouble preciousplastic.com//news... · Posted by u/diggan

decimalenough · 3 months ago

The wood used for disposable utensils comes from farmed, very fast growing trees like bamboo and balsa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochroma

acyou · 3 months ago

As I was saying, https://stopthesethings.com/2021/12/18/billions-of-wind-turb...

acyou commented on Precious Plastic is in trouble preciousplastic.com//news... · Posted by u/diggan

try_the_bass · 3 months ago

Was this written by an LLM?

acyou · 3 months ago

No, what are you trying to say?