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Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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156 points Sean-Der | 2 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source

Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg

The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself:

libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer

pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc

Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible.

If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub: https://github.com/sean-der.

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mosura ◴[13 Oct 25 22:12 UTC] No.45573883[source]▶
I can’t help feeling this technology will end up more widely deployed for a related but less wholesome application.
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1. BeetleB ◴[13 Oct 25 23:05 UTC] No.45574277[source]▶
Are 1-900 numbers still a thing? Are all those people going to lose their jobs?

And the really scary question: Am I to be sad if they do?

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2. dragonwriter ◴[14 Oct 25 21:31 UTC] No.45585252[source]▶
> Are 1-900 numbers still a thing? Are all those people going to lose their jobs?

IIRC, the 900 “area code” is still reserved for that kind of calling in the North American Numbering Plan, but all of the US carriers have withdrawn from doing pass-on billing for 900 calls (in part, IIRC, because the government prohibited them from disconnecting service for nonpayment of those charges), so I don’t think they’ve been a significant business for a while, and most of that kind of business has moved to various online platforms.