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Show HN: BindWeave – Subject-Consistent Video Generation via MLLM-DiT
by lu794377 | 2025-11-07 00:45:14+00:00
I built BindWeave, a subject-consistent video generation model that fuses multimodal reasoning with diffusion to keep your characters, objects, and creative intent perfectly aligned across shots. Instead of prompting frame by frame, BindWeave understands who’s who and what’s happening — maintaining story and visual continuity from single-person clips to multi-actor scenes.

What it does

Cross-Modal Integration for Fidelity – Binds text intent to visual references for faithful generation (MLLM-DiT core).

Single or Multi-Subject Consistency – Keeps identities and roles stable across frames and scenes.

Entity Grounding & Role Disentanglement – Reduces character swaps and attribute drift.

Prompt-Friendly Direction – Understands shot types, interactions, and cinematic notes.

Reference-Aware Identity Lock – Use one or more images to maintain the same subject identity.

Designed for Creative Stacks – Fits ads, trailers, explainers, and short-form storytelling.

Who it’s for

Creators, filmmakers, and marketers

Studios producing multi-scene or multi-actor videos

Educators, storytellers, and localization teams

https://www.bindweaveai.com/?i=d1d5k

Why it matters: BindWeave bridges the gap between text-to-video generation and consistent storytelling. It ensures that identities, roles, and scenes stay coherent — unlocking true narrative control in AI video generation.

I’d love feedback from the HN community — especially on cross-modal fidelity, multi-scene continuity, and real-world creative use cases.
by robotresearcher | 2025-11-07 00:45:42+00:00
Yes, I am also super interested in cutting the size of models.

However, in a few years today’s large models will run locally anyhow.

My home computer had 16KB RAM in 1983. My $20K research workstation had 192MB of RAM in 1995. Now my $2K laptop has 32GB.

There is still such incredible pressure on hardware development that you can be confident that today’s SOTA models will be running at home before too long, even without ML architecture breakthroughs. Hopefully we will get both.

Edit: the 90’s were exciting for compute per dollar improvements. That expensive Sun SPARC workstation I started my PhD with was obsolete three years later, crushed by a much faster $1K Intel Linux beige box. Linux installed from floppies…
by Marsymars | 2025-11-07 00:46:26+00:00
In most cases a true second factor isn't really what any involved party cares about.

My bank (I mean, they use SMS, but pretend they use TOTP) just care about not having to spend money on support because I used "password1!" as my password for every account and lose all my money.

I just want to log in to my bank.

If I've got a long, random, unique, securely-stored password, I don't actually care about having a second factor, I'm just enabling TOTP so that I don't have to copy/paste codes from my email or phone.
by MBCook | 2025-11-07 00:47:05+00:00
It’s a fantastic language? I’ve come to really like it. Strong type system, is it to work with, lots of resources available, compiles to a binary, interfacing with any other language that you can link to with C, the syntax doesn’t look ugly to me (quite subjective), excellent concurrency support…

What can I say I’m a fan.
by vkou | 2025-11-07 00:47:07+00:00
What was interesting/worked about it's design (and why did the players care?[1])

Was it resilient to the, uh, many, many well-documented problems that the genre pushes players/itself into?

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[1] There's a lot of ideas in this space that sound interesting on paper to nerds bikeshedding, but often fall flat in actual implementation. I'm curious as to what were the ones that worked.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-07 00:48:00+00:00
Judge Reed O'Connor, of the U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, said he disagreed with the Justice Department that dismissing the case is in the public interest but said he did not have authority to reject the decision.

He added the government's deal with Boeing "fails to secure the necessary accountability to ensure the safety of the flying public."

(Per non-paywalled article on the same topic https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boeing-criminal-case-agreement...)
by gentleseahorse | 2025-11-07 00:48:01+00:00
We're running an API-based coding challenge. Your goal is to guide as many Morty's to Planet Jessica. One round takes 3mins - best round wins. $10,000 in cash to whomever saves the most Morty's, no questions asked. 2nd prize is $4k, 3rd is $2k.

Anyone can enter, regardless of where you are in the world. If you're up for it, here's your portal: challenge.sphinxhq.com
by Terr_ | 2025-11-07 00:48:35+00:00
> Software development has always resisted the idea that it can be turned into an assembly line.

This is... only true in a very very narrow sense. Broadly, it's our job to create assembly lines. We name them and package them up, and even share them around. Sometimes we even delve into FactoryFactoryFactory.

> The people writing code aren't just 'implementers'; they are central to discovering the right design.

I often remember the title of a paper from 40 years ago "Programming as Theory Building". (And comparatively-recently discussed here [0].)

This framing also helps highlight the strengths and dangers of LLMs. The same aspects that lead internet-philosophers into crackpot theories can affect programmers creating their no-so-philosophical ones. (Sycophancy, false appearance of authoritative data, etc.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592543
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-11-07 00:48:53+00:00
Very tangential, but I want to put what I learned down somewhere:

There is a subset of the DHCP Protocol which is the DHCPINFORM packet. This is where the client informs the server of the IP it already has, and gets network information (router, DNS...) back from the DHCP server. Search for "DHCPINFORM" in RFC2131 [1].

This protocol is used on Macs when you configure their interface with "Using DHCP with Manual Address".

Now the fun thing is when you have a misconfigured firewall that's also serving as a DHCP relay, which is how I fell down this rabbit hole. The standard DHCP request package (DHCPREQUEST) by nature will be sent as a broadcast packet, as will the DHCPACK response because of course the client does not have an IP address yet. But a DHCPACK in response to a DHCPINFORM will be a unicast packet, because in this case the client does have an IP address. So if your firewall acts as a DHCP relay but otherwise blocks ports 67 & 68, then the usual DHCP stuff will work (broaecast, handled by the relay), but the "DHCP with Manual Address" (DHCPINFORM) will fail, because the unicast DHCPACK will get blocked.

Anyways, I brought this up in relation to your comment because, for DHCPINFORM, the RFC says this:

> The server SHOULD check the network address in a DHCPINFORM message for consistency, but MUST NOT check for an existing lease.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2131
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-07 00:49:10+00:00
Parent comment never said operating inference at a loss, though it wouldn't surprise me, they just said "operating at a loss" which they most definitely are [0].

However, knowing a few people on teams at inference-only providers, I can promise you some of them absolutely are operating inference at a loss.

0. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1...
by vinhnx | 2025-11-07 00:49:14+00:00
> “You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one.”

This resonates deeply with me. That's why I built one myself [0], I really really love to truly understand how coding agents work. The learning has been immense for me, I now have working knowledge of ANSI escape codes, grapheme clusters, terminal emulators, Unicode normalization, VT protocols, PTY sessions, and filesystem operations - all the low-level details I would have never think about until I were implementing them.

[0] https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode
by vinhnx | 2025-11-07 00:50:38+00:00
Kimi K2 Thinking, MiniMax M2 Interleaved Thinking: open models are reaching, or have reached, frontier territory. We now have GPT and Claude Sonnet capable at home, as they are open-weight. Around this time last year, we had the DeepSeek moment, Now is the time for another moment.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-11-07 00:51:53+00:00
FWIW, iio-sensor-proxy gives you a user-accessible dbus API for ambient light sensors. GNOME has had a feature to auto-adjust screen brightness based on it for ages (though their implementation leave much to be desired and hasn't changed despite of several attempts to rework it over the years).

$ monitor-sensor Waiting for iio-sensor-proxy to appear +++ iio-sensor-proxy appeared === Has accelerometer (orientation: normal) === Has ambient light sensor (value: 56.200000, unit: lux) === Has proximity sensor (near: 0) Light changed: 56.200000 (lux) Light changed: 55.100000 (lux) Light changed: 58.500000 (lux) Light changed: 48.800000 (lux)
by slwvx | 2025-11-07 00:53:42+00:00
The anarthrous [1] use of nouns ("blockchain", "quantum") that were previously used with articles implies they are in the euphoria stage, and that a bust and further work may be required to make significant progress. I'd love to see a cultural linguist look at the development of "quantum" from an adjective describing a sub-atomic state or some other noun to an anarthrous buzzword.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anarthrous
by anabis | 2025-11-07 00:54:01+00:00
>The ideal case would be something that can be run locally, or at least on a modest/inexpensive cluster.

It's obviously valuable, so it should be coming. I expect 2 trends:

- Local GPU/NPU will have a for-LLM version that has 50-100GB VRAM and runs MXFP4 etc.

- Distillation will come for reasoning coding agents, probably one for each tech stack (LAMP, Android app, AWS, etc.)x business domain (gaming, social, finance, etc.)
by barren_suricata | 2025-11-07 00:55:12+00:00
Not sure how related this is, but I've noticed it has a tendency to start sentences with usually inflated optimism and I think the idea is that if it has a tendency to intro with "Aha I see it now! The problem is" whatever comes next has a higher tendency to be a correct solution than if you didn't use an overtly positive prefix, even if that leads to a lot of annoying behavior.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-07 00:55:47+00:00
Time dilation means that you can get anywhere while experiencing an arbitrarily small amount of time. You can cross the galaxy in a second as far as special relativity is concerned. (With the expenditure of insanely vast amounts of energy, ofc.)

To an observer back home you'd look like you're travelling at merely extremely close to the speed of light, but to you the journey would take a second.
by mmooss | 2025-11-07 00:55:54+00:00
> there are two classes of people in the US

Where do you get that?

> they're beholden to their own laws (UCMJ) separate from civilians

People in the US military have the same obligations as everyone else to the laws of the federal, state, and local governments where they are.

Stockbrokers are subject to SEC regulations; lawyers are subject to legal rules, such as attorney-client privelege, etc. That doesn't make them separate classes of people.
by xg15 | 2025-11-07 00:58:18+00:00
That's a lot of political opinions there, in the service of "avoiding political factionism".

Another thing: People who propose theoretical systems for governance seem to have a weird fondness of lotteries. I can't really understand it.

Yes, it may be "just" in a mathematical or statistical sense, but it's also maximally intransparent (it's literally impossible to predict who will be chosen, that's the entire idea), so people may view the outcomes as unfair or arbitrary.

It's also easy to manipulate: The people who operate the lottery would be in the best position to become the new power brokers.

Has there ever been any real-life political system that uses lotteries?
by rwhaling | 2025-11-07 00:58:51+00:00
That's a great question - right now it is only looking at the results from a battery of several dozen indicators that we compute upstream of the model itself (which saves massively on tokens)

As small models continue to improve, and edge hardware becomes more capable, we would really like to run larger models that could incorporate full page content and screengrab data, which would be more likely to catch these kinds of attacks.

But we also find that sites that do one shady thing usually do others, which is a big reason why a tiny model like this can work - and why we are betting on low latency being a differentiating factor in real-world impacts.
by klardotsh | 2025-11-07 00:59:14+00:00
I don’t know the “correct” answer, but here’s my answer as someone whose TOTP are split across a YubiKey and Bitwarden: I store TOTP in Bitwarden when the 2FA is required and I just want it to shut up. My Vault is already secured with a passphrase and a YubiKey, both of which are required in sequence, and to actually use a cred once the Vault is authenticated, requires a PIN code (assuming the Vault has been unlocked during this run of the browser, otherwise it requires a master password again).

At that point, frankly, I am gaining nearly nothing from external TOTP for most services. If you have access to my Vault, and were able to fill my password from it, I am already so far beyond pwned that it’s not even worth thinking about. My primary goal is now to get the website to stop moaning at me about how badly I need to configure TOTP (and maybe won’t let me use the service until I do). If it’s truly so critical I MUST have another level of auth after my Vault, it needs to be a physical security key anyway.

I was begging every site ever to let me use TOTP a decade ago, and it was still rare. Oh the irony that I now mostly want sites to stop bugging me for multiple factors again.
by bawolff | 2025-11-07 00:59:25+00:00
> Okay, I will spell it out: You are confusing might with right.

You are confusing describing the world with how it is and describing how it ought to be.

Might does tend to make right in geopolitics if you are a super power. That doesn't mean i like it, or think that it is right, its just the world we currently live in is.
by belorn | 2025-11-07 00:59:38+00:00
That sounds very much like a cultural thing. Here in the Sound (the strait between Denmark and Sweden), the norm is definitively to fly a flag with so many different nationalities sailing here. In Sweden it is also required (through not punishable) to carry a flag if you are around the port, when in visible range of the coast guard, when in foreign waters, and when in visible range of other ships in international waters. The only exceptions to those requirements is participation during sports events.

With the trouble brewing with the Russian shadow fleet in the Baltics, flying a flag seem quite important unless you want the coast guard to stop you (they have also increased their presence significant the last 5-10 years and do a lot of random checks).
Ask HN: Beta testers for a free AI crawler analytics dashboard
by vieews | 2025-11-07 00:59:42+00:00
I'm building a free dashboard to track AI crawlers and non-human visitors on websites. It's designed for developers, SEOs, and marketers who want to understand how AI agents (like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others) interact with their sites.

I'm looking for beta testers to try it out, provide feedback, and help shape the tool. No cost, no commitment.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
by slwvx | 2025-11-07 00:59:53+00:00
I see such questions as a sort of trolling. A question that would be more educational and would result in less click-bait headlines would be to ask people to pick from among a multiple-choice list for the name of the numbers: "Are 1,2,3,4... know as (a) Roman, (b) European, (c) Arabic, or (d) Indian-Arabic numerals?"
by moregrist | 2025-11-07 01:01:02+00:00
> My home computer had 16KB RAM in 1983. My $20K research workstation had 192MB of RAM in 1995. Now my $2K laptop has 32GB.

You’ve picked the wrong end of the curve there. Moore’s law was alive and kicking in the 90s. Every 1-3 years brought an order of magnitude better CPU and memory. Then we hit a wall. Measuring from the 2000s is more accurate.

My desktop had 4GB of RAM in 2005. In 20 years it’s gone up by a factor of 8, but only by a factor of 2 in the past 10 years.

I can kind of uncomfortably run a 24B parameter model on my MacBook Pro. That’s something like 50-200X smaller (depending on quantization) than a 1T parameter model.

We’re a _long_ way from having enough RAM (let alone RAM in the GPU) for this size of model. If the 8x / 20 years holds, we’re talking 40-60 years. If 2X / 10 years holds, we’re talking considerably longer. If the curve continues to flatten, it’s even longer.

Not to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm, but let’s be realistic about hardware improvements in the 2010s and 2020s. Smaller models will remain interesting for a very long time.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-07 01:01:39+00:00
I bet you are the kind of person who uses "auto" a lot in whatever programming language that you use. For me, context matters because, in the words of Joel Spolsky, (1) you read code much more than you write code, and (2) it is harder to read code than write code. As a result, I always choose the more verbose form when writing code that other people will read.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-07 01:01:59+00:00
> The guy got arrested, lost his job and had to hire a lawyer. Almost got charged with a felony assault, but the jury decided that he shouldn't be charged. Instead, later charged with a misdemeanor. I'd be super stressed about all of that, plus the trial and then having to wait 7 hours to find out I'm not guilty, but also incredibly happy after. However, all that and his name is forever associated with this incident, so despite no criminal history he might find future employment more challenging.

While it probably won't be with DoJ again (at least under this Administration), I don't think he's going to have much problem finding a job. Being associated with "this incident" I don't think is the kind of universal black mark you seem to think it is.
by Retric | 2025-11-07 01:03:22+00:00
Even that could run you near 2,000$ on a modest new home ignoring the rebate.

But my point was more that price savings are easy to slip into the new construction pipeline for a wide range of homes. Similarly Argon helps r with insulation on day 1, but only lasts ~20 years on a window that may be in use for 100.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-07 01:04:06+00:00
> You're right about "reasoning". It's just trying to steer the conversation in a more relevant direction in vector space, hopefully to generate more relevant output tokens.

I like to frame it as a theater-script cycling through the LLM. The "reasoning" difference is just changing the style so that each character has film noir monologues. The underlying process hasn't really changes, and the monologues text isn't fundamentally different from dialogue or stage-direction... but more data still means more guidance for each improv-cycle.

> say we're generating the next token from the word "queen". Is this the monarch, the bee, the playing card, the drag entertainer?

I'd like to point out that this scheme can result in things that look better to humans in the end... even when the "clarifying" choice is entirely arbitrary and irrational.

In other words, we should be alert to the difference between "explaining what you were thinking" versus "picking a firm direction so future improv makes nicer rationalizations."
by tadfisher | 2025-11-07 01:05:54+00:00
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by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-07 01:06:14+00:00
Teach biologists that?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250115224532/http://www.dam.br...

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/12/can_one_explain...

https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture...

(2014)

With someone actually trying in 2002, using TFB for inspiration & M2 as a very early Jupyter/sage

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://mast.que...

(These bloggers as well as creator of M1 may want to chip in a dozen cts)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-07 01:06:50+00:00
I appreciate that you put a lot of thought into your response but I think you missed the plot. I know damn well what "comrade" means. It's one of those words with a stereotype attached to it. There are lots of words that change meaning in that way. I could call someone "my dear _" and people will assume that I'm talking to a romantic interest, because it's so weird to use the expression now in normal conversation. Likewise, if you shout out "I'm so gay!" the first thought people will have is that you are a homosexual, rather than you are in a good mood.

>That's quite literally the biggest difference between socialism and communism, the long run.

Without getting into a huge discussion on this, books have been written to try to draw a line between these two things. Ultimately they refer to the same thing, a deviation from a free market and society. To support people who have less, they must steal from those who have more. Socialism or socialist policies (such as the type we have in the United States, not the kind that most original socialists were writing about) is like a concerning lump that might turn out to be nothing more than a nuisance. Communism is Stage 4 cancer.

>A society of equals first.

This is easiest to achieve when people have a certain amount in common. But even among the most homogeneous society, differences are ever present and naturally result in different outcomes. The only sense in which we can fairly approach equality is in being equally protected by the law. If you insist on siphoning off the financial resources of those who provide valuable services to benefit others merely for existing, the worse off everyone is going to be. Many books have been written to prove that this is the case. Helping people who have experienced some kind of unforeseen setback is fine, up to a point, but I think that ought to be voluntary too.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-07 01:07:00+00:00
Yuval Noah Harari has written coherently, eloquently - consistently warning that the AI race is creating a dangerous "winner-take-all" scenario, leading to unprecedented concentration of wealth and power, both between nations and within societies. [1] His key points of this dynamic include:

A) Immense concentration of power and wealth leading to a new kind of imperialism or colonialism, where most countries that do not lead in AI development will be left far behind, potentially becoming exploited "data-colonies" providing the raw data but receiving little of the resulting wealth and power. [2]

B) Risk to global equality and democracy where a handful of countries and corporations that master AI will gain the ability to "hack" human beings—to understand, predict, and manipulate our feelings and decisions better than we can ourselves. [3] This immense power, concentrated in a few hands, poses an existential threat to democracy and could usher in an era of "algorithmic totalitarianism" or a "digital dictatorship." [4]

C) In the AI Arms Race, Harari emphasizes that "whoever wins, humanity will lose," because it prioritizes speed and dominance over safety, ethical considerations, and global cooperation. Leaders' primary fear is that their competitors will gain supremacy and eventually dominate the world. [1]

In essence, Harari views the "winner-take-all" dynamic as the core mechanism by which the AI revolution threatens to create an unprecedented, two-tiered global society—the technological "haves" and "have-nots"—with profound consequences for freedom and human civilization.

[1] https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10446261

[2] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/01/yuval-hararis-warnin...

[3] https://medium.com/@bettybassett63/the-subversive-power-of-a...

[4] https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/three-thi...