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by mintone | 2025-09-30 20:02:43+00:00
I wrote this a year or so ago: https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ai-goes-to-hollywood...

"The studios and creators who thrive in this new landscape will be those who can effectively harness AI’s capabilities while maintaining the human creativity and vision that ultimately drives the art of cinema."

It is in many ways thrilling to see this come to life, and I couldn't agree with you more.
by joemi | 2025-09-30 20:03:35+00:00
You seem to be confusing the concept of a language with the concept of program used to write in a language. DEML is a language (that's what the "L" is for). A program with a UI, graphical or otherwise, can be used to create a DAG, and then that DAG can be saved in a DEML representation.

With that in mind, what you seem to be bothered by (please correct me if I'm wrong) is actually that a language has been released without a UI to abstract away the process of writing it?
by ashivkum | 2025-09-30 20:03:37+00:00
A selection of recent ones:

- Site blocking with /etc/hosts doesn't work consistently with Orion, it intermittently and inconsistently ignores these rules. (this is sort of niche but it's bizarre for a browser based on WebKit)

- The password manager is busted on certain websites that have a third input box (so a captcha or 2FA code), where it'll fill the password twice

- Kept randomly getting the error "Orion can't open this page: This operation couldn't be completed. Cannot allocate memory" with like 10 windows, ~30 tabs open. Haven't seen it recently but like many Orion bugs it is intermittent and hard to reproduce consistently.

- Switching between Chrome and Orion sometimes (inconsistently) switches me to the last Orion window I had open (often on a different Desktop) rather than the one I clicked on.

- On networks where I can form WebRTC connections in Safari and Chrome, I cannot in Orion.

- This was just fixed but until like yesterday, the highlight color in their PDF viewer for ctrl F was a barely visible 10% opacity highlight that was totally unusable.

- Various other intangible performance bugs that seem to pile up when you haven't restarted in a day or two. It starts out really snappy and tends to get slower the longer you've had it open.

I should note that the pace of developement would be much faster if they would open source the browser, but instead of that they keep starting new, closed source projects that will likely have the same fate. Their Linux Orion port is from scratch, none of their macOS code is reusable.
by echelon | 2025-09-30 20:03:59+00:00
I'll have you know that in this year's Atlanta 48 Hour Film project (something I've been doing since I was a teen), several teams used AI.

Rewind to just one year prior -- 2024.

AI video was brand-spanking new. We'd only just gotten over the "Will Smith" spaghetti video and the meme-y "Pepperoni Hug Spot" and "Harry Potter by Balenciaga" videos.

I was the only person to attempt to use AI in 2024's competition. It was a time when the tools and infrastructure for video barely existed.

On the debut night, I was resoundingly booed by the audience. It felt surreal. Working all weekend to have an audience of peers jeering at you in a dark theater. The judges gave me an award out of sympathy.

Back then, image-to-video models really were not a thing (Luma launched "Dream Machine v1" shortly after this). I was using Comfy, Blender, Mocap, a full Mocap suit (the itchy kind), and a lot of other hacks to build something with extremely crude tools.

We lost a day of filming and had to scramble to get something done in just 24 hours. No sleep, too much caffeine. Lots of sweat and toil.

The resulting film was a total mess, of course:

https://vimeo.com/955680517/05d9fb0c4f (It's seriously bad - I hate it. It might legitimately be the very first time AI was used in a 48 hour competition.)

That said, it felt very much like a real 48 Hour competition to me. Like a game jam. The crude ingredients, an idea, the clock. The hustle. The corners being cut. It was palpable.

I don't think you can say there isn't soul in this process. The process has so much soul.

Anyway, fast forward to this year. Three teams used AI, including my own. (I don't think I have a link to our film, sadly.)

We all got applause. The audience was full of industry folks, students, and hobbyists. They loved it. And they knew we used AI.

The industry is anxious but curious about the tech. But fundamentally, it's a new tool for the tool box. The real task is storytelling.
by cesarb | 2025-09-30 20:04:20+00:00
> But can you elaborate on how this is enforced?

The import is rejected by customs. Yes, this means there's the small loophole of traveling to another country (which is usually a long travel, this country is huge and the ocean is wide), buying the phone there, and bringing it back with you.

I don't know whether the carriers do reject phones with IMEI pointing to a non-homologated model used with a SIM registered to a Brazilian carrier (that is, not roaming).

> If it's IMEI-based, then probably you can still have an alternative phone that will use WiFi hotspot from the "certified" one.

That takes me back, it's exactly how I used my pre-smartphone PDA, tethering to my phone through Bluetooth. Yeah, that would work (it's exactly how I use my laptop when I can't use the normal Internet connection), were I able to import the thing in the first place.
by neilv | 2025-09-30 20:04:35+00:00
> And we're introducing Cameo, giving you the power to step into any world or scene, and letting your friends cast you in theirs.

How much are they (and providers of similar tools) going to be able to keep anyone from putting anyone else in a video, shown doing and saying whatever the tool user wants?

Will some only protect politicians and celebrities? Will the less-famous/less-powerful of us be harassed, defamed, exploited, scammed, etc.?
by imtringued | 2025-09-30 20:05:02+00:00
I don't know why you come up with an ideological statement like that.

The management culture, anti software/nerd mindset among the population and eastern European competition in the offshoring market have a much bigger impact.

E.g. even though Germany is practicing mercantilist beggar thy neighbour export surplus policies, the country has failed to become an exporter of software or be known for quality software. Anyone who wants to work in the software industry is better off leaving the Eurozone and going to Switzerland where they get paid more in addition to the things you claim are the cause.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-30 20:05:03+00:00
It'd be relatively easy for Google to screen out and filter ads... Charge enough when creating an account or starting/changing a campaign. Then you can pay staff for manual review. They could charge $1000 for account creation (half of which you get back after the first year), then they charge even $20 at campaign creation/change... They can even provide context/feedback, "Sorry, but this seems misleading, doesn't relate to what you are linking, is scammy, etc." And have an additional "check" of each ad and target after a day, a week and a random point within each month. Charge an additional minimum of $20/mo per ad for (re)validation.

For the bulk of legit advertisers, this won't affect the bottom line of a given campaign and will keep out the scammers, etc. Leading to a much higher quality ecosystem. It would also give Google the potential for a higher percentage share of profits in the system. It would also likely reduce the CPM pricing though, possibly to a larger extent than profits from the validation system itself.

But it would be a much healthier overall system.
by brandonb | 2025-09-30 20:05:22+00:00
For decades, LDL cholesterol has been the main target in preventive heart health.

The American College of Cardiology just started recommending that everyone measure hs-CRP, a blood test for inflammation. Why? Because inflammation now predicts cardiovascular events more accurately than cholesterol — especially in people already on statins or those without traditional risk factors.

In some ways, cholesterol has become a victim of its own success. With routine screening and statins, most heart attack patients now have artificially lowered cholesterol. That leaves the remaining risk hidden in non-traditional biomarkers — beyond the usual SMuRFs (standard modifiable risk factors).
by bgwalter | 2025-09-30 20:05:43+00:00
What is the target market for this? The videos are not good enough for YouTube. They are unrealistic, nauseating and dorky. Already now any YouTube video that contains a hint of "AI" attracts hundreds of scathing comments. People do not want this.

Let me guess, the ultimate market will be teenagers "creating" a Skibidi Toilet and cheap TikTok propaganda videos which promote Gazan ocean front properties.
by roncesvalles | 2025-09-30 20:05:57+00:00
It's not the same. There is an explosion in expressiveness/ambiguity in the step from high-level programming languages to natural languages. This "explosion" doesn't exist in the steps between machine code and assembly, or assembly and a high-level programming language.

It is, for example, possible to formally verify or do 100% exhaustive testing as you go lower down the stack. I can't imagine this would be possible between NLs and PLs.
by roscas | 2025-09-30 20:06:16+00:00
I understand you. I'm forced to be used by Windows at work. There are so many problems I already forgot most of it. But still, every bluetooth connections hangs the mouse for 2 seconds, explorer worst program ever written ever in any operating system. Windows boots with 7GB of ram being used of the 8 the machine has. Every day I collect some goodies for a book or page to show how bad it is. It is worst than the worst Linux you can find. And it should not be because the amount of money goes into it, it's absurd. Then people go into Mac because while being bad for privacy and a lock environment, it is still best than Windows. But Linux is not like any of those. Some companies that take care of a specific distro, make a good job, including Ubuntu, that I really don't like. But you do have a stable RockyLinux or Manjaro, both with a few supported desktop environments that work. I also don't like Kubuntu or anything from Ubuntu. Gnome works but I don't like it. So all that is left if Plasma and XFCE. You do have many others that are nice, but it is better to test them out first, on real hardware. There are a few things that only work on Windows, mostly software that checks if it is not Windows. But you do have all on Linux. Desktop environments and windows managers, server software and games, email, graphics, you name it! You also have Windows software that runs better on Linux. Updates? Lol! Windows updates? Yeah sure. And people say ArchLinux is too rolling! LOL! Do you know how many updates Teams gets in the morning? Yes, wait for the afternoon. Ok so what is my choice? ArchLinux with XFCE. I do like Manjaro on all flavours. Love RockyLinux also.
by freediver | 2025-09-30 20:06:30+00:00
> Kagi as a brand is LLM-optimist

Kagi founder here. I am personally not an LLM-optimist. The thing is that I do not think LLMs will bring us to "Star Trek" level of useful computers (which I see humans eventually getting to) due to LLM's fundamentally broken auto-regressive nature. A different approach will be needed. Slight nuance but an important one.

Kagi as a brand is building tools in service of its users, no particular affinity towards any technologies.
by sigbottle | 2025-09-30 20:06:35+00:00
I regularly get AI movie recaps on my shorts and I just eat it up.

The very fact that I (or billions of others) waste time on shorts is an issue. I don't even play games anymore, it's just shorts. That is a concerning rewiring of the brain :/

Guess what I`m trying to say is that, there is a market out there. It's not pretty, but there certainly is.

Will keep trying to not watch these damn shorts...
by saagarjha | 2025-09-30 20:06:39+00:00
It’s really not true anymore that PTX is forward compatible. There’s a subset that is but any of the new interesting interfaces that have been added are not forward compatible and change in each microarchitectural revision. Most of the reason you’d drop down to PTX anyway is to use those; otherwise compilers are fairly good these days and it’s rarely the case you’ll see PTX unless you’re profiling.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-30 20:06:40+00:00
The 737-MAX is not "unstable by design". It has the exact same positive stability as other planes in 99% of it's flight envelope.

The remaining exception is that, at a certain AoA, speed, thrust, etc, there is a case where adding thrust pushes the nose up more than it does for the normal 737

The nose push is not abnormal, it is not unsafe, it is not unexpected. All planes with engines below the inertial "center" of the plane have this, including every 737 and every A320.

The problem was, this meant that it's flight characteristics were "different" from the older 737s. The entire point of any plane that is even a little bit 737 is to sell to airlines as "This is still a 737 and you don't need to train anyone in anything extra".

MCAS was built to change how the plane acts in this very specific regime, to act more like older 737s and counteract this nose push.

MCAS was entirely unnecessary except for business and policy goals. MCAS killed people because properly training aircrews for it would have gone against the entire point of the 737 MAX.
by philipfabianek | 2025-09-30 20:07:12+00:00
Indeed, this is one way to think about it. However, PTX is an instruction set for a virtual machine, not the actual hardware. The true, hardware-specific assembly is called SASS (Streaming Assembly) and the PTX code is translated into SASS by the GPU driver (using ptxas) in a final compilation step. Unlike SASS, PTX is (mostly) forward compatible.

I don't know the details about your CUDA 12 vs. 13 issue but I think it is not about hardware compatibility but more about the software stack. An application linked against CUDA 12 libraries and might not work with CUDA 13 libraries.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-30 20:07:21+00:00
I'd be surprised if there wasn't a self-hostable, open-source JS injected comment system similar to Discus available. For me, I'd like to stay as close to SSG as possible for blogs, and only load comments on-demand for users. Just to give the best initial impression of the content. One of these days I'll finish out my setup and get back into blogging.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-30 20:07:22+00:00
Well all the locomotives I see daily, that are not steam locomotives from 50 years ago, don't have cowcatchers. Instead they are designed that, in case of a frontal collision with another train, they push each other to the side, so that there will be less deaths.

What I remember is a collision of a high speed train with sheep in a tunnel. (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenbahnunfall_im_Landr%C3%BC...) The collision itself only was with a single sheep.
by martin-t | 2025-09-30 20:08:11+00:00
56 minutes, 4 downvotes, HN is truly full of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Does anybody here really think rich people deserve to just get richer faster than any working person can? Does anybody really believe that buying up homes and companies and raking in money for doing absolutely nothing is what we should be rewarding?

Then put your name behind it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-30 20:08:17+00:00
> The Sora 2 system card claims Sora can resist generations of "political persuasion".

To actually do that, it would need to have the evolving contextual knowledge of current events and the reasoning power to be able to identify prompts which, when requested, would likely have use in political persuasion, which would be a bigger breakthrough in AI than anything they are promoting.

Conclusion: it can’t actually meaningfully do that, though it will probably reject some subset of prompts involving topics pre-identified to it as politically sensitive.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-30 20:08:17+00:00
> Are you saying that the Pavel Durov situation wouldn't have been possible in the UK

first Durov is a French citizen, so its not like he's immune to french laws

Second france has a totally different legal system to the UK(legal code vs common law)

thirdly, he's the primary owner of telegram, not an employee

Fourthly he was arrested on fraud, money laundering and child porn charges. Those are all criminal charges, not civil(GDPR is mostly Civil, same with the online saftey act, howefver with the OSA "senior managers" could be criminally liable, but again that's for CSAM, of which possession and distribution is a criminal already)

> Seems naive.

I really wish people would actually bother to understand law, because its pretty important. For programmers is much easier, because we are used to reading oddly worded specifically ordered paragraphs to divine logical intent. The law is really similar to programming.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-09-30 20:08:39+00:00
Its owned by worse than that. Its owned by MediaLab now. That's the same company that owns WorldStarHipHop, the website that encourages children to do dangerous acts to get viral stardom.

You can look up who owns MediaLab, and the things they have done. I don't think the UK is going to kidnap them if they go there. They have money.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-30 20:08:47+00:00
The Internet Archive will outlast Imgur. I'm willing to bet on it if you'd like, feel free to propose terms for resolution and preferred forum.

(Accessing Imgur archives in Wayback is as trivial as a browser extension for your average user; Imgur has raised $60M and only does ~$30M/year, they will eventually be sold or close as the user experience degrades as operators and investors attempt to squeeze more from the enterprise)
by laladrik | 2025-09-30 20:09:23+00:00
Hello everyone, I started programming because I wanted to make games. However, I got a chance to bring the food to the table making on web sites. A few months ago I came across a list of challenges for a programmer. One of challenges was creating a clone of Space Invaders. I created a clone of the game and wrote the article. In the article I wrote about the challenges related to gamedev which I faced. With gamedev background I wouldn't have them, I guess. However, for me as for a backend programmer, they were something. I hope the article is good enough to inspire other programmers like me to complete their first games.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-09-30 20:09:24+00:00
I really hope they have more granular APIs around this.

One use case I'm really excited about is simply making animated sprites and rotational transformations of artwork using these videogen models, but unlike with local open models, they never seem to expose things like depth estimation output heads, aspect ratio alteration, or other things that would actually make these useful tools beyond shortform content generation.
by jfengel | 2025-09-30 20:09:33+00:00
Half the country is thrilled by that. The other half is horrified, but there's not much they can do about it. (Which is part of what thrills the other half so much.)

We had an election and we decided that we wanted an egomaniac in charge. Being an egomaniac, he inferred that this was because, rather than despite of, his egomania. And he appears to be right about that, since the only people objecting are the same people who object to everything else he does.

If a significant fraction of them pushed back and said, "No, don't do that", he probably wouldn't. He reverses himself all the time when his people are displeased with him.

Americans pride themselves on being a nation of laws, not of men, so it's perhaps surprising that quite so many people are so wholeheartedly embracing rule by a cult of personality. But I've found that often, the thing a country most proudly declares about itself is the thing that it doesn't do, rather than what it actually does. Your actual accomplishments pale in comparison to your imagination.
by notatoad | 2025-09-30 20:09:38+00:00
it seems like this is basically youtube's ContentID, but for your face. as long as you upload your "cameo" aka facial scan to them, they can recognize and control the generation of videos with it. if you don't give them your face, then they can't/won't.

"Consent-based likeness. Our goal is to place you in control of your likeness end-to-end with Sora. We have guardrails intended to ensure that your audio and image likeness are used with your consent, via cameos. Only you decide who can use your cameo, and you can revoke access at any time. We also take measures to block depictions of public figures (except those using the cameos feature, of course). Videos that include your cameo—including drafts created by other users—are always visible to you. This lets you easily review and delete (and, if needed, report) any videos featuring your cameo. We also apply extra safety guardrails to any video with a cameo, and you can even set preferences for how your cameo behaves—for example, requesting that it always wears a fedora."
by missedthecue | 2025-09-30 20:10:01+00:00
GE today is not the GE it was 5 years ago. They have really paired down the company. They spun off finance, sold healthcare, and got out of energy & power. GE today is essentially just an engineering company in the aerospace sector, and they've paid down $100B of debt since 2018.

Today they're sitting on $10B in cash and do another $10B in free cashflow annually. Not very corpse-like!
by tkcranny | 2025-09-30 20:10:05+00:00
It’s true that phones cameras are miracles of technology, especially considering their size. But I take a modern Fuji traveling because the modern phone camera look is so over-processed and distinct. There’s no faking the real optics a large aperture and sensor gives, the portrait mode on phones is still a poor imitation of the real thing.

Fuji then has the whole film simulation system with all their colour science from the last century. It’s a ton of fun, and the jpgs it produces are distinct and beautiful, and I believe better than 99% of people could achieve from post processing the raws, myself included.

The middle-age guy part is accurate though, I got it as a thirtieth present.
by conductr | 2025-09-30 20:10:16+00:00
This sounds about right. My time in the industry, I always remember our top selling rep was basically royalty at the company he drove so much volume - but, he was only about 22 and never finished college or had any actual medical training. He just grew up with a surgeon Dad, country club, etc. and had deep connections with a lot of surgeons by virtue of this. He was also very charismatic and a good salesman, just not the guy you'd want training your surgeon before they fused your spine.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-30 20:10:29+00:00
> mob reprisals

Great choice of words here, it's an accurate description of the terror of the commons. Force everything into a public venue so we're all watching each other and then get every one invested in reporting on everyone else's behavior.

Meanwhile in the name of "saving the children" from their poor parents we continue to add restrictions, laws and strip rights.

> This is why predators...

We had plenty of these before the internet, the idea that these sorts of laws change any of that is just naive.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-30 20:10:57+00:00
This is not speculative, it's happened plenty already. People put mitigations in place, patch libraries and move on. The difference is that agents will find new zero days you've never heard of for stuff on your system people haven't scrutinized adequately. There will be zero advanced notice, and unlike human attackers who need to lie low until they can plan an exit, it'll be able to exploit you heavily right away.

Do not take the security impact of agents lightly!
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