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Hacker News - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 2:05pm
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How many unique business ideas / implementations for investment considerations?

Hacker News - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 1:21pm

I have:

* Optical illusion internet captcha idea.

* Some ICE engine cylinders smaller and deactivate larger ones for fuel efficiency, then activate all for power idea.

* Magnetic suspension in semi trucks which wouldn’t add much weight to an already 12+ ton semi truck so that handling is improved and winds don’t blow the truck around idea.

* Braking system that uses a massive amount of electricity to engage brakes electromagnetically, would have to design to not cause nearby electronics to power off idea.

* A 6 Lines of Verilog Code 64-Bit Addressing BitBitJump CPU for a security focused, bug-free CPU under European Union Public License Version 1.2 or GPLv2 Only, not idea, actually implemented in Verilog. EUPLv1.2 Toolchain in development.

* A FPGA Architecture that can get logic blocks to disable themselves individually or get neighboring logic blocks to disable themselves to work despite silicon defects. Under European Union Public License Version 1.2 or GPLv3 or later, not idea, actually implemented in Verilog. EUPLv1.2 Toolchain in development.

* A gym that has a lot of long pool lanes with slightly cold water which starts shallow but becomes deeper, so that one can burn body fat pacing back and forth however deep they want to go.

* Etc. (I’ll keep posting them on my ScaleUpstream Page by making new blog posts, it usually takes me around two weeks to come up with a new business idea.)

I keep being told that my ideas are not ready, that I need others to invest in me first before they consider investing in me (network effect), etc.

Not that they owe me anything, but it would be great if I could achieve my dream “job” of inventor that I picked in high school at some point.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872535

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Show HN: TTS Arena V2

Hacker News - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 1:12pm

Hi HN,

I just launched TTS Arena V2 - a platform for benchmarking TTS models by blind A/B testing. The goal is to make it easy to compare quality between open-source and commercial models, including conversational ones.

What's new in V2:

- Conversational Arena: Evaluate models like CSM-1B, Dia 1.6B, and PlayDialog in multi-turn settings - Personal Leaderboard: Optional login to see which models you tend to prefer - Multi-speaker TTS: Random voices per generation to reduce speaker bias - Performance Upgrade: Rebuilt from Gradio -> Flask. Much faster with fewer failed generations. - Keyboard Shortcuts: Vote entirely via keyboard

Also added models like MegaTTS 3, Cartesia Sonic, and ElevenLabs' full lineup.

I'd love any feedback, feature suggestions, or ideas for models to include.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872436

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