No, the RF is very low power and can safely be active on your face for long periods. We've done a lot of investigation and verification with safety. While doing R&D the first 2 months we collected hundreds of hours of data on ourselves with various configurations, so we made sure it was safe before :)
Also, the RF transmission only activates when you're actively dictating.
Are you referring to the "Top all-time" list? That list seems to be mostly filled with popular books that do not go into too much detail, which is required for a decent treatment of probability and statistics.
There is a separate topic "Data & Statistics" that has quite some relevant titles.
Also, I think the interest in probability theory has only recently grown with the advent of generative AI. I'm expecting more interest in the future.
Edit: also, the site seems to miss some nice gems, most likely because they are not traditionally published books:
"Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence" is freely available on Arxiv, and was discussed on Hacker News in March 2025 [1].
It seems that Air is a strategic product, and Thinkrail is more of an experiment.
While they are both "agentic development tools", it seems that Air is mostly concerned with managing multiple agents, whereas Thinkrail is about spec-first development.
And most people running containers are running a default docker/containerd setup, which does not actually isolate you from anything at all in the first place anyways.
I’m being a little cynical - I’ve submitted it twice (though the ‘C’ front end is new) and it bombed both times - the second time within seconds of submission.
I think it’s my own fault, I’ve posted the link to the compiler pages several times in what I thought were relevant posts, and I think HN thinks I’m spamming. So I’m not posting the home page for a while and we’ll see if a future submission “takes”
might be worth firing an email to hn@ycombinator.com. they should be able to tell you why your submission was auto-killed, and might work with you to ensure your next submission isnt.
I actually did email the second time because it was clearly an automated response, but I didn’t hear anything back. Not too surprising, Dan is a very busy guy, and he doesn’t know me from Adam :)
It reads like someone making up new terminology to make their work sound complicated. Seeing ‘organism’ and ‘superposition’ in a discussion of how NNs work reads strangely to me
It would help if this was also written up in the conventional way as a scientific paper (Intro, methods, conclusions, etc). These discursive blog posts are getting exhausting.
Interestingly, this is not copyright infringement, or at least not for the text being reproduced here. The original book (1972) mentions "The text of this book is not copyright" [1]. The image reproductions could invite copyright trolls though, so be warned.
Edit: mostly concerned about RF near my eyes for 8 hours a day.
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