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How We Built DJ ROOTS: An AI-Powered Music Recommendation Platform
🎧 DJ ROOTS – Building a Real-Time Collaborative Music Platform with Gesture Control Crowd Vibes. You Control. Music is one of the best ways to bring people together. However, during parties, college events, hostel gatherings, or study sessions, one common problem always exists— who gets to control the music? Usually, one person owns the playlist while everyone else keeps requesting songs. This often creates confusion, interruptions, and arguments over what should play next. Our team wanted to solve this problem by creating a platform where everyone in the room gets an equal voice. Welcome to DJ ROOTS . 🚨 The Problem Traditional music streaming at group events has several limitations: Only one person controls the playlist. Song requests are ignored or forgotten. No real-time collaboration. Existing queue systems don't truly represent the crowd's choice. There is no simple browser-based solution that works instantly without downloading an app. We wanted to build something that makes music democratic . 💡 Our Solution DJ ROOTS is a real-time collaborative DJ platform where anyone can join a room using a simple room code. Participants can: Create or join a music room Add songs using YouTube Upvote or downvote tracks Automatically reorder the queue based on crowd votes Watch every change happen instantly across all connected devices Let the host control playback using webcam hand gestures Instead of one person deciding the playlist, the entire crowd decides what plays next. 🛠 Tech Stack Frontend React 19 Vite Tailwind CSS v4 Framer Motion Three.js GSAP OGL Backend Node.js Express.js Database & Authentication Supabase PostgreSQL Supabase Authentication Supabase Realtime Computer Vision Google MediaPipe Gesture Recognizer Audio Pipeline yt-dlp youtube-dl-exec HTML5 Audio API Web Audio API Deployment Vercel (Frontend) ⚙️ How It Works Users create or join a room using a unique room code. Songs are added using a YouTube link or search. Song metadata is automatically fetched. E
Ananya Sharma
2026-07-14 02:15
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Wired
Wi-Fi 8 Explained: Features, Release Date, and More
Chipset makers and router manufacturers are talking about Wi-Fi 8, but what is the new standard, and when will it arrive?
Simon Hill
2026-07-14 02:05
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The Verge AI
The EV market is on the road to recovery thanks to high gas prices
As the US war on Iran sent gas prices soaring, American car buyers flocked to electric vehicles - and in particular hybrids. After a sluggish winter and fall, EV sales rebounded in the second quarter of 2026, with automakers posting some of their best numbers since the elimination of the federal EV tax credit last […]
Andrew J. Hawkins
2026-07-14 02:03
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Engadget
TV-logging app TV Time is functionally relaunching as parent company pivots to AI
Bingers is expected to launch by the end of July as a replacement for TV Time.
staff@engadget.com (Jackson Chen)
2026-07-14 02:02
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MIT Technology Review
What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…
James O'Donnell
2026-07-14 02:00
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Ars Technica
Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
"If we can't control the force of nature, at least we can control the narrative."
Jennifer Ouellette
2026-07-14 01:49
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TechCrunch
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
Tim Fernholz
2026-07-14 01:28
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Product Hunt
Robynn AI - Self Improving Websites
Websites that improve and heal with self-learning Discussion | Link
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2026-07-14 01:21
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Ars Technica
Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty.
Ryan Whitwam
2026-07-14 01:18
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Wired
Tesla Says It’s Building a Wheelchair-Accessible Robotaxi
A Tesla representative at a DC hearing said the vehicle is “an active product being built.” But its timeline isn’t clear.
Aarian Marshall
2026-07-14 01:15
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The Verge AI
The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI
When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and unreleased product samples. That's according to a blockbuster lawsuit filed by Apple, which accuses OpenAI of stealing confidential documents, spying on hardware prototypes, and tricking one of […]
Emma Roth
2026-07-14 01:00
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Product Hunt
Review by Eddie AI
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2026-07-14 00:45
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TechCrunch
Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
Russell Brandom
2026-07-14 00:31
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Engadget
Games Done Quick abruptly canceled SNK stream due to ties with Saudi Arabia
Games Done Quick said it would not accept funds from or work with SNK in the future.
staff@engadget.com (Jackson Chen)
2026-07-14 00:14
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HackerNews
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
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2026-07-14 00:06
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Ars Technica
A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."
Eric Berger
2026-07-14 00:05
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Dev.to
The Myth of the Post-Documentation Era
There is a growing sentiment in engineering circles right now that documentation is a relic of the past. The argument usually goes something like this: We’re living in the era of agent-driven development. If an AI agent can read the raw source code or parse an OpenAPI specification instantly, why waste human engineering hours writing prose? Code churns too fast anyway, and human-written docs are outdated the second they’re committed. It’s an attractive, black-and-white view of the world. It’s also completely wrong. Chasing strict determinism in your source of truth is a pipe dream. Code and specs tell a system how something works, but they are fundamentally incapable of explaining why it was built that way in the first place. The Intent Gap: Why Code Isn't Enough Even if you’re building entirely for a downstream consumer of AI agents, there is a massive, structural gap between a raw API specification and an operational reality. Agents are phenomenal at pattern matching and syntax execution, but they struggle with architectural philosophy and human intent. We still need words to contextualize the boundaries. A spec can define an endpoint, its parameters, and its payload. What it can't capture is the nuance of why a specific architectural trade-off was made, or the implicit historical context of a legacy edge case. Prose provides the guardrails for non-deterministic systems. Even if that prose is ultimately consumed by a machine rather than a human, the written word remains the highest-leverage way to transmit intent. The Danger of Slop Describing Slop This doesn't mean we need to return to the days of manually maintaining massive, static wiki pages. Automation has a massive role to play here. Cascading automation—where documentation is dynamically generated alongside code changes—is incredibly powerful. But there’s a trap here: slop describing slop is entirely useless. If we completely hand off documentation generation to unchecked LLMs, we end up with a feedback loo
Ben Halpern
2026-07-13 23:59
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Dev.to
The AI Skill Registry at 5,776: A Deep Dive into Reusable Modules for Code Review, Terraform, and Database Migrations
The AI Skill Registry at 5,776: A Deep Dive into Reusable Modules for Code Review, Terraform, and Database Migrations TormentNexus’ skill registry has surpassed 5,776 reusable modules. This post dissects three high-impact skill categories—code review, Terraform generation, and database migration—with real code examples, performance metrics, and architectural constraints. Learn how to leverage these modules to accelerate development pipelines. From Silos to Synergy: Why 5,776 Skills Matter In late 2023, TormentNexus crossed the 5,000-module threshold. As of February 2025, we’re at 5,776 verified, runnable AI skills—each one a `SKILL.md`-defined unit that maps to a specific task, parameter set, and output schema. The registry isn’t a flat list; it’s a dependency graph where skills chain together. For example, a `terraform-generate` skill calls a `code-review` skill internally to validate the generated HCL before output. This modular architecture means a single prompt can sequence up to 3.2 skills on average (median depth: 2), with a measured 94% success rate for execution with no human intervention. The registry spans 37 domains, from frontend component generation to Kubernetes manifests. The top three categories—code review, infrastructure as code, and database operations—account for 1,308 skills collectively. Each skill is stored as a JSON schema in the registry, with an average execution latency of 1.42 seconds (GPU-accelerated, single A100). Let’s examine three representative modules in detail. // Metadata from an actual registered skill: code-review-python v2.1 { "name": "code-review-python", "registryID": "SKI-PYTHON-REVIEW-1729", "version": "2.1", "outputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "issues": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/definitions/Issue" } }, "complexityScore": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 100 }, "refactoredSnippet": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["issues", "complexityScore"] }, "defaultPromptTemplate": "Revie
Robert Pelloni
2026-07-13 23:58
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HackerNews
Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code
I'm fascinated by the generative AI wave rolling over us, and wondered if AI could create a language that it might prefer using over the ones created by and for humans. To create the design, I had AI analyze the ASTs of several mainstream languages plus a few of the conceptually groundbreaking but esoteric ones (listed in the README) and then create a new structure and new syntax. It was named after the Jacquard machine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine ), a precursor to Babbage's
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2026-07-13 23:56
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HackerNews
Show HN: HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the Terminal
This is a model I’ve been thinking about lately. It demonstrates a pattern that I’m wondering could exist, where terminal applications, BBS-style shared user boards, and other expressions of creativity and sharing are created with web technologies but rendered into the terminal and accessed over SSH. I like that this brings back some kind of old days of the internet feeling and uses web technologies but sidesteps the public World Wide Web, even though it’s still on the internet. You can try it o
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2026-07-13 23:52
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