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Show HN: Memovee – An agentic movie database
by zacksiri | 2026-01-13 16:11:01+00:00
Hi HN

Memovee is an agentic movie database that lets you explore movies using natural language instead of filters or rigid queries.

You can ask things like:

- “Movies that take place in someone’s mind”

- “Top mystery films on Netflix released in the last 5 years”

- “Slow-burn sci-fi movies with strong world-building”

Under the hood, this isn’t just an LLM wrapper. Memovee uses a structured movie database and an agent layer that translates natural-language intent into deterministic queries and aggregations, then reflects on the results before responding.

The agent implementation used by Memovee is open source:
https://github.com/upmaru/memovee-tama

This repository shows how intent parsing, query planning, execution, and result refinement are handled step-by-step, rather than relying on opaque prompt chains.

The core engine itself is not open-sourced yet. Memovee is one concrete application built on top of a more general engine whose goal is to make it possible to build systems like this for any enterprise domain — not just movies.

Engine project:
https://kritama.com

This is still early and focused purely on movies (not TV yet). Coverage and regional availability vary, and there’s a lot left to improve — especially around reasoning depth, evals, and edge cases.

Happy to answer questions about:

- The agent architecture

- How natural-language intent is mapped to structured data

- Agentic vs deterministic tradeoffs

- The path toward a reusable enterprise engine

Looking forward to feedback — especially critical ones.
by zenin | 2026-01-13 16:11:47+00:00
GameAgora is an ad-tech and interactive media startup focused on transforming public spaces into engaging and monetizable destinations. The company specializes in lightweight multiplayer games designed for physical public spaces such as shopping malls, entertainment centers, and large waiting areas.

The core product is a real-time multiplayer gaming platform that allows visitors to instantly join games by scanning a QR code with their mobile phones. Without requiring app installation, users can participate within seconds, turning their smartphones into game controllers.

The company addresses a growing challenge faced by malls and public venues: declining visitor engagement, shorter dwell times, and low-impact traditional advertising. By combining interactive entertainment with integrated advertising placements, the platform converts idle time into high-value engagement while creating new digital advertising opportunities for mall tenants and brands.

Currently, the company is in the pilot development stage, focused on launching its first live deployment in partnership with a mall group. The business model is built around subscription-based licensing for venues, combined with revenue-sharing from in-game advertising and brand sponsorships.

The long-term vision is to build a scalable network of interactive public gaming installations across malls, airports, cinemas, and other high-footfall environments, creating a new category of "playable advertising infrastructure".
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 16:12:05+00:00
As much as I dislike Adams and disagree with a lot of the attempts to paper over a lot of reprehensible stuff, he gave it a try, abandoned it, and publicly denounced it after it didn't work, and even spoke out against the pressuring campaigns done by ivermectin/etc. quacks to push people to waste time, money, and hope on quack treatments.

There's much better examples of areas where he was off the rails than him spending a month on a relatively safe treatment trying to stay alive before giving up when faced with reality.
by s1mplicissimus | 2026-01-13 16:12:26+00:00
> Most of our negative emotions are a waste of time and energy.

In a different frame, most of our negative emotions are there to help us - by signifying that something is wrong. You could be thankful for having them so that you are prompted to investigate what's wrong. It's only when we forget that feelings are only a part of our experience and start to identify with feelings (positive and negative) that trouble arises.
by alixd91 | 2026-01-13 16:12:30+00:00
Vibe coding and LLM wrappers made it trivial to ship an AI product in days.

The real problem starts after launch.

Once users control prompts, retries, and concurrency, costs stop being predictable. Rate limits, budget overruns, and abuse are no longer edge cases. They become operational risks.

Most teams react too late.
They monitor usage.
They get alerts.
They pay the bill.

In production, that model breaks.

What you need is enforcement, not observability.
Budgets that block in real time.
Limits that apply before the model call.
Controls that treat AI spend like infrastructure, not analytics.

That is what I am building with Holdify.

If you are running AI in production, I would value your feedback.
What broke first for you after launch?
by quasse | 2026-01-13 16:12:30+00:00
Seattle actually happens to have some absolutely great examples of local journalism as well as some extremely bad examples of corporate owned "news" factories.

https://westseattleblog.com/ is run by a single person (formerly a husband and wife team) and she attends huge numbers of local events and city meetings providing hyper-local coverage on things that are happening in the area.
by cush | 2026-01-13 16:12:46+00:00
Apple provides high-value services like iMessage, iCloud, iPhotos, Apple Maps, Apple Health etc. They hold mountains of people’s personal data and interactions. These services provide the personalized experiences that allows Apple’s hardware to be so sticky.

These services are threatened by the emerging competitive landscape. Apple is panicking, and there is a forcing function, because their users are spending more and more time with LLMs having the most personal experiences they’ve ever had with any software, and Apple isn’t getting a piece of that pie. They’re in a very high risk position because this is the heart of their brand and as data is slowly siphoned away into apps and services that are providing the experiences their users are growing to expect, that moat and stickiness is eroding.

That said, this precisely why it’s taken so long. While Apple is desperate, they are completely unwilling to disrespect their users trust and mishandle their personal data or compromise their privacy.
by krautburglar | 2026-01-13 16:12:56+00:00
Easy & reliable p2p would upset so many apple carts. I get the feeling that if something really started taking root in that space, the big boys would push for a new obstruction--i.e. NATv6 or some such thing--to put the genie back in the bottle. And since so many people "fake it 'til they make it", they will swallow those worms like eager baby birds. Anyone who rejects the worms will be branded a heretic.
by mortsnort | 2026-01-13 16:12:57+00:00
The money quote:

In the meantime, should the public be worried about MNPs in their bodies?

Given the very limited evidence, Prof Lamoree said she could not say how concerned people should be: “But for sure I take some precautions myself, to be on the safe side. I really try to use less plastic materials, especially when cooking or heating food or drinking from plastic bottles. The other thing I do is ventilate my house.”

“We do have plastics in us – I think that is safe to assume,” said Materić. “But real hard proof on how much is yet to come. There are also very easy things that you can do to hugely reduce intake of MNPs. If you are concerned about water, just filtering through charcoal works.” Experts also advise avoiding food or drink that has been heated in plastic containers.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-13 16:13:30+00:00
I appreciate the response, but that doesn't really answer my question.

I want to know why the executive leadership at Apple failed to see LLMs as the future of AI. ChatGPT and Gemini are what Siri should be at this point. Siri was one of the leading voice-automated assistants of the past decade, and now Apple's only options are to strap on an existing solution to the name of their product or let it go defunct. So now Siri is just an added layer to access Gemini? Perhaps with a few hard-coded solutions to automate specific tasks on the iPhone, and that's their killer app into the world of AI? That's pathetic.

Is Apple already such a bloated corporation that it can no longer innovate fast enough to keep up with modern trends? It seems like only a few years ago they were super lean and able to innovate better than any major tech company around. LLMs were being researched in 2017. I guess three years was too short of a window to change the direction of Siri. They should have seen the writing on the wall here.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-13 16:13:37+00:00
> Compared to what? Have you seen what qualifies as "news" in other parts of the world?

Even compared to non-government funded media in their own countries, just to start with. Or public broadcasters in other countries, such as the BBC or PBS.

As for Swedish public media not taking sides, that is like saying Fox News doesn't take sides and isn't aligned with the Republican party. If you can convince yourself to believe that Swedish public media isn't politically aligned, then congratulations.

> Cherry-picking in journalism has absolutely nothing to do with public media or not, and I'm not sure why you're bringing it up here.

How do you not understand? When interviewing the "common man" out on the streets, you should do that, and not interview somebody who is a high level party functionary without telling people you are doing that.

That's like Fox News interviewing "random strangers" on the streets, but it turns out to be JD Vance in a wig.
by sponaugle | 2026-01-13 16:13:44+00:00
I used about 64MWh last year, not counting what I used for EV charging (Which is on a separate meter). I also produced about 20MWh from Solar. With the EVs I would guess the total is around 70MWh.

Some of this extra is certainly my 6kw homelab + HVAC for that. ;)
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-13 16:13:59+00:00
> I think stoicism still has its place in attempting to prevent e.g. self harming behavior ...

Stoic sources actually state explicitly that Stoic ethics is all about preventing "self-harming behavior" arising from our emotions. They just have a much more expansive definition of what's "self-harming" than modern society does! Raw emotional responses are seen as mere facts of nature that cannot be meaningfully avoided and repressed, but they can still be subjected to reasonable judgment, and then accepted or critiqued. The common modern idea that Stoicism is merely about emotional repression and a totally "unemotional" stance is quite a misconception.
by 2358452 | 2026-01-13 16:14:03+00:00
The link between cardiovascular disease and general consumption of animal products (in comparison with diets with reduced or zero animal products) is by now extremely well established I believe. I believe in this case meta-analyses and large studies should be very informative (although understanding root causes is also important). All cause mortality also observed to be reduced, although to a lesser degree.

Just from a cursory search, you can find tons of studies supporting this. It is not a controversial statement at all in scientific nutrition and medical fields.

Some studies:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11537864/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33951994/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30455-9

I think it's significant however that unhealthy plant based diets show increased mortality, so it's important to pay attention to what you eat in any case.

It's also worth keeping in mind conflicts of interest and cultural aspects. I think probably there are strong interests in the side of animal products, although this is partisan in the US (and surely there is some lobbying from the opposite direction as well). Also I think culturally there's strong preference for animal products, in particular meat and beef consumption, almost everywhere. Of course, science is supposed to be resistant to conflicts of interest (and it is usually mandatory to disclose funding conflicts of interest), but not all studies are the same. Those conflicts being mostly in the other direction give me additional confidence there isn't a strong bias from those sources.

Also I always like to mention you should supplement a plant based diet, with vitamin B12 and usually a few other vitamins.

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Also, for the more literally minded, it's obviously not simply due to the atoms from your food source having come from animals most recently that they're unhealthy, so it's also obviously theoretically possible to produce healthy animal-based foods (if only by transmuting their atoms with nuclear reactions), it's the particular proteins, fats and other compounds typically found tend to interact in unhealthy ways with our system.

But that said it's also very significant (in favor of plants) that animals often suffer a lot in the production of those food products, and whether or not you consume them you have the responsibility to diminish their suffering.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-13 16:14:05+00:00
> Nothing happening in the federal governemnt or the middle east or eastern Europe affects me from a local standpoint

The federal government decides the limits within which your local government must operate. A good chunk of your taxes go to wars in the middle east, and a good deal of the politicians in that federal government self-professedly care more about a middle-eastern country than the one they were elected to represent [1].

To rephrase a saying - you may not care about federal politics, but federal politics cares about you.

[1] "if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t even call it our aid, our cooperation with Israel." - Nancy Pelosi, Israel-American Council Conference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1LmnQRnw8I
by alwillis | 2026-01-13 16:14:10+00:00
> It’s cheap enough it’s not enough to fund development of Final Cut but also not enough money to bother spending time on it. Find it odd personally, just offering them free to keep hardware makes more sense than trying to push a tiny subscription revenue number.

Apple doesn't work that way.

Unlike almost all other tech companies that are organized by divisions, Apple uses a functional organizational structure.

So all of the software teams are under one head of software; there's no senior vp of the Final Cut division, for example.

For accounting purposes, all software is lumped together.

Apple made $391 billion in revenue last fiscal year; when you're making that kind of money, you can afford to do things for reasons other than the amount of money you could make.

Whatever revenue Final Cut generates isn't required to fund the Final Cut team.
by revivalizer | 2026-01-13 16:14:11+00:00
The problem isn’t what FP does—it’s what it actively prevents.

ChatGPTism?

But beauty without utility is just decoration.

ChatGPTism?

FP is suitable for expressing one kind of program: a calculator, where the result is the only thing of importance.

This lack of nuance also seems indicative of ChatGPT.
by shuddha7435 | 2026-01-13 16:14:18+00:00
While building ChatGPT Apps backed by an MCP server, I kept running into non-obvious failures:
405/406 errors, SSE streams that never flush, invalid session errors, CORS preflights, and Edge vs Serverless quirks.

The documentation explains the protocol, but not how these failures actually surface during deployment.

I put together a minimal, deterministic MCP + SSE starter that deploys cleanly on Vercel and makes the correct behavior explicit.
It’s intentionally small and review-friendly, meant as a reference rather than a framework.

Repo: https://github.com/shuddha2021/chatgpt-app-starter-kit
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-13 16:14:20+00:00
I'm an example more towards the middle.

In 2025 I produced 6.5MWh (solar) and consumed 12.7MWh (excluding solar production); this is a family of 4 in a 4 season climate with electric heating and a single electric car.

That was my highest year over the past 5 years.

An additional EV can really add up, especially if both people have long commutes.
by davely | 2026-01-13 16:14:41+00:00
This number can mean wildly different things depending on the size of your house (and location).

I live in the Bay Area, CA in a 1,500 square foot house and consumed 7.8MWh in 2025 and 7.6 MWh in 2024.

Digging a bit more into our solar system data:
We produced a bit over 9MWh in solar each year and it looks like our Enphase batteries discharged 2MWh each year.
by Waterluvian | 2026-01-13 16:14:49+00:00
I got to interact with Scott just once on Twitter. I shared one of his strips in response to a tweet he made. My intent was tongue-in-cheek and very inline with the themes of his work, but he reacted very aggressively and then blocked me.

It was a bit of a crushing moment because inside my head I was thinking, "I know and love this guy's work. Surely if I just engage him at his level without being a jackass, we can add some levity to the comments section." My instinct was that maybe he really was just a jackass and I should label him as such in my brain and move on.

But then my cat got sick last year and went from being a cuddly little guy to an absolute viscious bastard right up to the day he died. It was crushing. One day I realized it felt similar to my experience with Scott. I wondered if maybe Scott was just suffering really badly, too. I have no idea what the truth of the matter is, and I don't think that people who suffer have a free pass for their behaviour. But I think I want to hold on to this optimism.
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 16:15:37+00:00
If something happens in the US or the middle east I'll find out about it - because so many other people need to know the same it isn't hard to find enough people to pay for it.

However if something happens in my city - odds are nobody else reading this lives in the same city and so you don't care. There are only about 30,000 people in the world who care about my cities' parks, the rest of you will never care (maybe one of the thousands of you will happen to stop at a park for one hour of your life - but if we have terrible parks you will just head to the next town). However I live here, the parks in my city matter to me, and so I need someone to tell me about them. Remember I just used parks as an example, the school board and library board happen to meet on the same night so it isn't even possible for me to attend both and that is before we account for my kid's having gymnastics at the same night making getting to one tricky.
by bz_bz_bz | 2026-01-13 16:16:25+00:00
Their total household usage was actually ~17.3 MWh depending on what data source you're using for their usage.

Given 6 MWh of exports with only 3.2 MWh of total solar production, they are cycling their powerwall to get paid for the fact that their off-peak rate is half the price of their peak export tariff rate which is inflating the number you're looking at.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-13 16:16:59+00:00
I don't think the OP is saying he has an issue with the reporting of facts. I think what he's getting at is that a lot of what passes for news today (especially online) are really just op-eds.

Presenting just the facts is being politically neutral, but only when it's just the facts. Providing commentary on the facts is not. I don't think it's all that crazy to say there's been an obvious left-leaning bias in that regard for the last 10-20 years.
by johnvonoakland | 2026-01-13 16:17:00+00:00
I built a free URL shortener with QR codes and click tracking — looking for feedback
Hey everyone,

I'm a developer who got tired of the bloated dashboards and paywalls on most link shorteners, so I built my own.

mnml.ink — does what it says:

Shorten URLs

Generate QR codes

Track clicks & basic stats

No sign-up required for basic use

It's fast, free, and I tried to keep it as simple as possible.

Would love honest feedback — what features would make this actually useful for your workflow? Anything obviously missing?

Link: https://mnml.ink
by RansomStark | 2026-01-13 16:17:03+00:00
think its important to leave some context here:

As far as it is known, Kelly walked a mile (1.6 km) from his house to Harrowdown Hill. It appears he ingested up to 29 tablets of co-proxamol, an analgesic drug; he also cut his left wrist with a pruning knife he had owned since his youth, severing his ulnar artery. Forensic analysis established that neither the knife nor the blister packs showed Kelly's fingerprints on their surfaces [0].

and a letter to the editor:

As specialist medical professionals, we do not consider the evidence given at the Hutton inquiry has demonstrated that Dr David Kelly committed suicide.

Dr Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist at the Hutton inquiry, concluded that Dr Kelly bled to death from a self-inflicted wound to his left wrist. We view this as highly improbable. Arteries in the wrist are of matchstick thickness and severing them does not lead to life-threatening blood loss. Dr Hunt stated that the only artery that had been cut - the ulnar artery - had been completely transected. Complete transection causes the artery to quickly retract and close down, and this promotes clotting of the blood.

The ambulance team reported that the quantity of blood at the scene was minimal and surprisingly small. It is extremely difficult to lose significant amounts of blood at a pressure below 50-60 systolic in a subject who is compensating by vasoconstricting. To have died from haemorrhage, Dr Kelly would have had to lose about five pints of blood - it is unlikely that he would have lost more than a pint.

Alexander Allan, the forensic toxicologist at the inquiry, considered the amount ingested of Co-Proxamol insufficient to have caused death. Allan could not show that Dr Kelly had ingested the 29 tablets said to be missing from the packets found. Only a fifth of one tablet was found in his stomach. Although levels of Co-Proxamol in the blood were higher than therapeutic levels, Allan conceded that the blood level of each of the drug's two components was less than a third of what would normally be found in a fatal overdose.

We dispute that Dr Kelly could have died from haemorrhage or from Co-Proxamol ingestion or from both. The coroner, Nicholas Gardiner, has spoken recently of resuming the inquest into his death. If it re-opens, as in our opinion it should, a clear need exists to scrutinise more closely Dr Hunt's conclusions as to the cause of death.

David Halpin - Specialist in trauma and orthopaedic surgery
C Stephen Frost - Specialist in diagnostic radiology Searle Sennett [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)#D...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/jan/27/guardian...
by maxbond | 2026-01-13 16:17:04+00:00
There's some passages in the Zhuangzi that feel very analogous. I'm too lazy to find actual translations right now so bear in mind my recollection may be flawed.

There's a part where it talks any how, if you're sailing on a river and an unoccupied boat comes down the river towards you, you simply avoid it. But if that boat were occupied, you might holler at the person to get out of your way, and it might be upsetting.

There's also a passage where Zhuangzi's wife has died, and his friend find him merrily beating a drum. He asks if this is the proper way to mourn his wife. Zhuangzi replies that he had initially cried and lamented when his wife passed, until he realized that she had become what she was before she had lived, and that to everything there was a season. (There's definitely more here than I remember off the top of my head.)