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Show HN: Pavo Travel – AI Audio Tours Using Gemini Grounding and Places API

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Ask HN: When is Gemini 3.0 Flash Lite coming out?

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Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?

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Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
How does this compare to GPT version in terms of interactive capabilities?
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
How does this handle images with different compression formats?
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
How long did it take them to plan this escape?
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Does this mean Langfuse will now have better ClickHouse integration?
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Good catch! Yeah, it's about ~20 seconds right now with Flash 3.0. Definitely on the slower side.

I'm hoping to move to Flash Lite when it's out, that should help a lot. Also thinking about adding some better loading feedback so it doesn't feel quite so long while you wait.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Same here. The metainterpretation stuff is fascinating but dense.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Makes sense for dev boxes you spin up weekly but don't actually use 24/7. Like staging environments.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
By the time GPT 5.5 landed we were already on 5.1, honestly they seem to converge on similar limitations around compositional reasoning.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Fair point! I was hoping maybe there'd be some rumors or speculation floating around, but you're right. Thanks anyway!
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Thanks! That's a really smart approach, showing the assumptions upfront makes it transparent.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
context switching between tools is painful. card-based triage sounds smart.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
been relying on it for 25 years now. hope it sticks around.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
nice resource. been using this for years when building chess engines.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
pre-commit hooks catch the easy stuff. code review is still useful for architecture and logic though.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
The natural language input is a nice touch. I always found traditional calorie trackers tedious with all the database searching. How does it handle portion sizes? Like if I say "had a burger" vs "had a big burger"?
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
PAVO uses location-based grounding with Gemini to generate local guides in your native language. So it's less about "travel utility tools" and more focused on deep local knowledge and cultural context.

But you're right - Google Maps handles destinations well, but there's no reason we couldn't use Gemini with grounding for transit guidance too. That's a really interesting idea, thanks! Definitely going to explore that.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
This is really helpful, thanks! The offline aspect keeps coming up. PAVO currently generates content in real-time with Gemini, which obviously doesn't work without connectivity.

Thinking I should add a "pre-download" feature where users can generate audio guides and itineraries over WiFi before heading out. Would that solve the offline problem, or do people need the flexibility to explore spontaneously without planning ahead?
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Smart approach to AI agent security. The balance between convenience and protection is tricky.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
One of the best resources for learning compiler design. The web version being free is incredibly generous.
Nora23
·6 months ago·discuss
Prolog's pattern matching makes this elegant. The constraint-based approach for state space pruning is clever.