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ntik.me
Personal blog · ntik.me/posts · on HN as nicktikhonovaiprogrammingbusiness
ntik.me is a personal blog at ntik.me about ai, programming and business. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers running Nvidia's PersonaPlex 7B full-duplex speech-to-speech model on Apple Silicon in Swift. The thread discusses real-time voice agent latency.
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Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-09
What Hacker News says?
I really like this, and have actually tried (unsuccessfully) to get PersonaPlex to run on my blackwell device - I will try this on Mac now as well. There are a few caveats here, for those of you venturing in this, since I've spent considerable time looking at these voice agents. First is that a VAD->ASR->LLM->TTS pipeline can still feel real-time with sub-second RTT. For example, see my project https://github.com/ac…
Comment linking /posts/voice-agent
on “Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift”Submitted Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an AI voice agent from scratch as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small Teams (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion