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by embedding-shape | 2026-01-31 12:06:22+00:00
> Europe will never have competitive offerings until they pay their employees the equivalent of what FAANGs pay.

Stop focusing on the absolute number of "$/year", and things will make more sense. Seemingly you'll be able to live a more lavish life in Spain given 1/4 of the salary compared to FAANG, yet your life is better and you can afford more.

Higher salaries aren't always better, especially when you're almost willfully ignoring more important things like purchasing power and quality of life.
Show HN: Kling VIDEO 3.0 released: 15-second AI video generation model
by dallen97 | 2026-01-31 12:06:28+00:00
Kling just announced VIDEO 3.0 - a significant upgrade from their 2.6 and O1 models.

Key improvements:

*Extended duration:*
• Up to 15 seconds of continuous video (vs previous 5-10 seconds)
• Flexible duration ranging from 3-15 seconds
• Better for complex action sequences and scene development

*Unified multimodal approach:*
• Integrates text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video
• Video modification and transformation in one model
• Native audio generation (synchronized with video)

*Two variants:*
• VIDEO 3.0 (upgraded from 2.6)
• VIDEO 3.0 Omni (upgraded from O1)

*Enhanced capabilities:*
• Improved subject consistency with reference-based generation
• Better prompt adherence and output stability
• More flexibility in storyboarding and shot control

This positions Kling competitively against:
- Runway Gen-4.5 ($95/month)
- Sora 2 (limited access)
- Veo 3.1 (Google)
- Grok Imagine (just topped rankings)

The 15-second duration is particularly interesting - enables more narrative storytelling vs the typical 5-second clips. Combined with native audio, this could change workflows for content creators.

Pricing isn't mentioned in the announcement. Previous Kling models ranged from $10-40/month, significantly cheaper than Runway.

Anyone have access to test this yet? Curious how the quality compares to Runway and Sora at this new duration.
by bko | 2026-01-31 12:06:29+00:00
I don't understand this perspective. Programmers often scoff at most other examples of intellectual property, some throwing it out all together. I remember reading Google vs Oracle where Oracle sued Google for stealing code to perform a range check, about about 9 lines long, used to check array index bounds.

I guess the difference is AI companies bad? This is transformative technology creating trillions in value and democratizing information, all subsidized by VC money. Why would anyone in open source who claims to have noble causes be against this? Because their repo will no longer get stars? Because no one will read their asinine stack overflow answer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
by riedel | 2026-01-31 12:07:25+00:00
I learn: proxy networks run by large corps are good. True internet is bad. While I understand that often we are talking about Malware/Worms etc that enable this. However, i find it often disturbing to here often a lot of libertarian speech from the tech scene, while on the other hand are feeling themselves very comfortable to take over state power like policing efforts to save the world.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-31 12:07:33+00:00
'A fantastic flick, our theater was sold out and erupted in applause and cheers at the end of the show. Melania is a wonderful human, a class act and America is blessed she is once again our First Lady. This behind the scenes sneak peek was so well done and such a wonderful watch. A must see.'

'This is the first movie I’ve gone to watch in the theater in 10 years. I thought getting to see a little glimpse into her personal life was great.'
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-31 12:08:01+00:00
As a Buxtonist (shorthand for committed-but-armed pacifist) Plato's choice of spirit animal has my vote*

Καὶ μὴν τό γε τῆς τοῦ κυνὸς φύσεως ἐπισκοπεῖν ἃ λέγομεν, ὅτι ὁ γενναῖος σκύλαξ, ὡς μὲν ἀστεῖος, πρὸς τοὺς γνωρίμους ἅπαντας

ἃ δὲ ἀλλοῖα, πρὸς τοὺς ἀγνῶτας.

Ὃ μὲν οὖν γιγνώσκει, φίλον: ὃ δ᾽ οὐ γιγνώσκει, ἐχθρόν. ... οὐκοῦν ... ὁ κύων ... φιλοσοφός; ... φιλομαθὴς γὰρ δή.

I look forward to PH Franco-in' it with Bessent, Hegseth or even the next dem favourite! (Some chance they'd share his taste in music?)

(In the spirit of Vickrey maybe) should I mention Carter's MEOW?

I admit it was a feint.. when I'd said "universal conscription" I had something like the CCC in mind, with medical exemptions redirected to nursing..

Now, I think SSSS would be a good patch..

Service.Satire.Spectator-Sport

PS: MEOWs have a habit of lying flat, something I find endearing, but atm no way to incorporate that into the cosmogony
by user3939382 | 2026-01-31 12:08:24+00:00
Most of the difficulty arises from conflating discreet and continuous values which a la dirichlet function cannot be integrated whereas discrete values do not physically exist in real computation. Both the physical boundary of the transistor is a probabalistic field as is obviously the analog signal it (probabilistically) discretizes. When you ask ill posed questions in math you get to debate the answer for decades.
by scheeseman486 | 2026-01-31 12:09:46+00:00
Microsoft test on and make considerations for Proton for a bunch of their releases. Sony do too. Cyberpunk has specific graphics presets, Baldurs Gate 3 has a native executable, indie games often do too.

There's outliers, it'd be fair to say EA don't give a damn. But a lot do and you can't handwave away Microsoft and Sony as small fish either.
by input_sh | 2026-01-31 12:09:52+00:00
In theory I have nothing against some sort of a tiny local LLM model that will index them and make the search a little bit more powerful, but to be honest if the feature is advertised as "AI", I doubt I will care enough to look into details.

I'd rather take a dumb "synonyms" plugin that I have complete control over and renders results "instantly" than invoking any sort of LLM where I have to wait more than 3 seconds for a result.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-31 12:10:28+00:00
Cancer treatment goes back to particle physics research at CERN, the Web was born there, cloud was previously known as Grid Computing at CERN,

Three examples of how humanity would not be as we know it today without CERN.

As Alumni, there are many other changes that trace back to CERN.

We don't sit only on the H1 beer garden and go skiing.
by 9dev | 2026-01-31 12:10:44+00:00
Putting your head in the sand and ignoring it all isn't a good strategy either. Like it or not, AI will be a part of the rest of your career in some quantity. Not just because we collectively decide that we want to use these tools, but because tools that undeniably provide a huge productivity boost when used correctly are something the economy cannot ignore.

My advice would be to avoid feeling compelled to try every new tool immediately, but at least try to stay aware of major developments. A career in software engineering also dooms you to life-long learning in a very fast changing environment. This is no different. Agents are tools that work quite differently from what we're used to, and need cognitive effort and learning to wield effectively.

Waking up one day to realise you're now expected to work naturally in tandem with an AI agent but lack the experience is not a far-fetched scenario.
by kranner | 2026-01-31 12:10:57+00:00
> If you ask AI to write a document for you, you might get 80% of the deep quality you’d get if you wrote it yourself for 5% of the effort. But, now you’ve also only done 5% of the thinking.

This, but also for code. I just don't trust new code, especially generated code; I need time to sit with it. I can't make the "if it passes all the tests" crowd understand and I don't even want to. There are things you think of to worry about and test for as you spend time with a system. If I'm going to ship it and support it, it will take as long as it will take.
by enlyth | 2026-01-31 12:11:14+00:00
That was literally the opposite of my intention. Maybe the choice of word wasn't perfect, but basically, I was trying to highlight that domain expertise is still valuable in the specific scenario of software engineering.

The same could be said about any other job, if you put me against a construction worker and give us both expensive power tools, he will still do a better job than me because I have no experience in that domain.
by griffzhowl | 2026-01-31 12:11:50+00:00
Very perspicacious remark that it's more likely than five or four... are you an astronautical engineer by any chance?

But I'm wondering about such shallow angles - wouldn't it bounce off the atmosphere or somesuch? Perhaps it's just about possible somehow: just imagine firing a kilometre of rock from a mountain at a six degree angle with enough velocity to get it into orbit, but in reverse.
by jfyi | 2026-01-31 12:12:10+00:00
The alternative is recognizing that China offers a level of long term stability that the US is failing to match. That stability is worth a premium. You may not believe it's a high one, but our trade partners facing random tariff changes every month see it differently, even if just for a negotiating tactic at the current stage.

We also need to seriously adjust our line of thinking at what they are capable of. The "copycat" era is ending. Our supply chains have hammered their youth with generations of engineering knowledge. If you are relying on an ideological difference to assume they are not capable of innovation, you are making a strategic mistake.
by catdog | 2026-01-31 12:13:26+00:00
> The key phrase here is “requirements analysis” and if you’re not good at it either your software sucks or you’re going to iterate needlessly and waste massive time including on bad architecture. You don’t iterate the foundation of a house.

This depends heavily on the kind of problem you are trying to solve. In a lot of cases requirements are not fixed but evolve over time, either reacting to changes in the real word environment or by just realizing things which are nice in theory are not working out in practice.

You don’t iterate the foundation of a house because we have done it enough times and also the environment the house exists in (geography, climate, ...) is usually not expected to change much. If that were the case we would certainly build houses differently than we usually do.
by tucnak | 2026-01-31 12:14:49+00:00
> Thank you for submitting to /r/memes. Unfortunately, your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):

> Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES AND FOLLOW A GENERAL MEME FORMAT

> All posts must be memes following typical setup/design: an image/gif/video with some sort of caption; mods have final say on what is (not) a meme

Reddit mods, man.
by sunshine-o | 2026-01-31 12:14:51+00:00
If Europe wants to reach digital independence it really has to look at thew big picture.

1. European banks mostly sell debt and Nasdaq/Magnificent 7 stocks to their clients. This is what EU citizen invest in.

2. Data centers run on semiconductors made in Asia and cheap energy. Software is almost "the easy part".

3. The whole migration to "the Cloud" (aka MS/AWS/Google), CAPEX to OPEX transition during the ZIRP era was a scam sold by the same ruling class that now tell you need to revert to the previous model.

4. Human capital has to be considered. Having big consulting shops making banks on exploiting foreigners is not a sustainable path to build digital independence (see the content of the recent trade deal with India, an US and Russia ally).
by RandomTeaParty | 2026-01-31 12:14:52+00:00
I mean... What's wrong with youtube tab consuming power "as if it's on screen" if it plays video?

As an avid idle game player, I'm tired of opening games in different window and having main window not-fullscreen just for the game to play normally

This "tab unloading" is great and all, but not giving us users any control to turn it off is awful
by treetalker | 2026-01-31 12:15:22+00:00
Distilled:

> Users should claim the output of LLMs as their own, for the following reason. LLMs are tools; tools can be used with varying degrees of skill; the output of tools (including LLMs) is a function of the user's skill; and therefore the output is attributable to and belongs to the user.

> Furthermore, we should use tools, including LLMs, actively and mindfully. We shouldn't switch off our brains and accept the output uncritically. We should iterate and improve as we go along.

I agree with you that the author seems to inappropriately convert differences in degree of skill into differences of kind.
by CraigJPerry | 2026-01-31 12:15:49+00:00
This levels concept resonates with me: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/progressive-complexity-manife...

There are cases where you need more than htmx / datastar, but i like the explicit calling out of when these boundaries occur (e.g. you've exceeded what "islands" can give you), and i like the gravitational pull to lower levels.
by INTPenis | 2026-01-31 12:15:53+00:00
Ötzi and his killers might have been up there looking for the impact site, there might have been a mad rush to find the impact, they might have seen it as some sort of holy item worth killing for.

There was after all a sun cult in Europe at this time.

And we have recovered an iron dagger made from a meteorite in the 14th century BCE. So this phenomenon of tracking a meteorite impact site and finding it might go much further back in human history.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2026-01-31 12:15:59+00:00
Can Europe build AI datacenters though?

Europe has no wafer production and no companies that produce GPUs.

That means it is dependent on Taiwan for wafers and the USA for GPU design.

Then there is the question wether there is a will to invest. Gemini gives me this list of publicly traded companies in the US and what they invested in AI infrastructure in 2025:

Amazon: $100B
Alphabet: $90B
Microsoft: $80B
Meta: $70B
Tesla: $20B

For Europe, I get this list:

Deutsche Telekom: $1B
by uxp100 | 2026-01-31 12:16:50+00:00
Not the poster, but I grew up eating oatmeal that you would slice. Toss a pot on the wood stove, done when you remembered to grab it. Milk and honey on soft slices of oatmeal. Honestly don’t eat oatmeal much today, but was confused the first time I had oatmeal away from him and it wasn’t at least like lumpy. I’m sure that pot had to be soaked for a half an hour every morning.
by 202508042147 | 2026-01-31 12:18:00+00:00
As a European, I am glad that this is finally discussed in the open! I have made multiple comments in the last weeks that one of the most important things, for me, is an alternative to the Visa/Mastercard duopoly. And yes, I can use an app to pay, but whenever I rent a car or purchase something online, I still use one of these two American companies. Why isn't the European Commission mandating these app payments in different EU countries to connect with each other? Wouldn't that go faster than the digital euro, that is set to come no earlier than 2029?
by user3939382 | 2026-01-31 12:18:06+00:00
The debt clock is a proxy for the total amount of plastic we route from shipping containers -> landfills. Plastic is oil, oil is energy. Energy can be exchanged for labor globally therefore energy prices money not the other way around. It’s our civilizational bottleneck. The true cost of oil isn’t priced in to begin with and we have it bound up for 500+ years. This is creating a massive distortion in the global economy which physics will insist on regardless of monetary policy.

Or we burn the oil -> heat into the atmosphere via silicon doing things like routing “wyd” texts around dozens of network devices across the country when the message doesn’t have that value.

The economics of how we allocate energy makes no sense and we debate how to fix this via policy.
by dxdm | 2026-01-31 12:18:29+00:00
It sounds like a good way to make sure you don't overcharge your customers when handling such requests at scale. Failure and duplication will happen, and when serving enough requests will happen often enough to occupy engineering with investigation and resolution efforts forwarded from customer support.

Being prepared for these things to happen and having code in place to automatically prevent, recognize and resolve these errors will keep you, the customers and everyone in between sane and happy.
by briancr | 2026-01-31 12:18:31+00:00
No, there are both referenced-based and tracing-based GC routines that will deallocate short-lived objects. Sorry, I was just trying to enumerate the ways memory goes out of scope to show that none of those ways results in an invalid pointer _within the scripting language_.

The safety comes because there is no way to access a pointer address within the scripting language. The main functionality of pointers is replaced by aliases (e.g. a = @b.c, a = @array[2], etc.). The only use of pointers is behind the scenes, e.g. when you write ‘b.c’ there is of course pointer arithmetic behind the scenes to find the data in member ‘b’.

Having said that, it is certainly possible for a C callback routine to store an internal pointer, then on a second callback try to use that pointer after it has fallen out of scope. This is the only use-after-free I can imagine.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-31 12:19:00+00:00
You either die as a programmer hero or live long enough to be a Linkedin-style influencer.

On a more serious note, the technology & its use cases of AI are pretty dividing especially within software engineering. I would consider the fact that the financial incentives driving it and the what ~3 TRILLION $ invested in AI driving up some of this divide too.
by briancr | 2026-01-31 12:21:47+00:00
Also, if someone else has access to the member, meaning that there is an alias to the member, then the reference count should reflect that. Here’s an example:

i :: int | 1 reference

a := @i | 2 references

remove i | 1 reference

The data originally allocated for ‘i’ should persist because its reference count hasn’t hit zero yet.
by p4bl0 | 2026-01-31 12:22:55+00:00
Comparing artists and a company like Google is… bold of you.

If you're thinking about content creators, you're just wrong. Most of them get almost nothing from YouTube ads, and for those who do, a few of them have no money have multiple revenue sources of which YouTube AdSense is very rarely the main one. Many do in-video product placements, which are not affected by being able to get audio only or having an ad blocker, and many have things like a Patreon, Tipeee, Ulule, of some sort. I pay monthly directly to the creators I watch the most on these platforms and who do not have millions of followers, because that's what they say help them the most.

Really, thinking Google worsening our user experience is even remotely something they do in favor of content creators having a hard time at the end of the month is beyond naive.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-31 12:23:11+00:00
> The are not IT people.

They are not farmers - but it's their job to make sure that their countries have secure supplies of safe food, long-term.

They are not electricians - but it's their job to make sure that their countries have...

They are not soldiers - but it's their job to make sure...

The are not ...

...

(Yes, I suspect that we have rather different concepts of the role of gov't, and the responsibilities of gov't leaders.)
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-31 12:23:18+00:00
I understand how linacs and even small compact syncrotrons can have practical medical and industrial applications, and I understand that in the past CERN has developed technology and produced research which is relevant to hardon therapy.

What I don't understand, and maybe you can clarify, is how the very largest gargantuan accelerators can ever have practical relevance. How can effects and products which can only be studied with accelerators that are many miles large ever have application in hospitals unless those hospitals are also many miles large? Not going to lie, I get "NASA invented Tang" vibes whenever this subject comes up; like the medical applications of small accelerators are obvious and parsable to the public, so they are used to sell the public on accelerators the size of small countries.
by manmal | 2026-01-31 12:23:53+00:00
My experience is that such one-shotted projects never survive the collision with reality. Even with extremely detailed specs, the end result will not be what people had in mind, because human minds cannot fully anticipate the complexity of software, and all the edge cases it needs to handle. "Oh, I didn't think that this scheduled alarm is super annoying, I'd actually expect this other alarm to supersede it. It's great we've built this prototype, because this was hard to anticipate on paper."

I'm not saying I don't believe your report - maybe you are working in a domain where everything is super deterministic. Anyway, I don't.
by flexagoon | 2026-01-31 12:23:57+00:00
> However, task management apps are so unbelievably common nowadays.

And yet, there are still basically no good task management apps for desktop. Todoist is the only one that comes to mind, but it's closed source and cloud/subscription based.

I'm really waiting for the desktop tasks.org client to come out. Until then, I can only manage my tasks from my phone, because no other FOSS apps come even close.
by pjerem | 2026-01-31 12:24:04+00:00
Except 95% of companies have no need of ultra scalable super cloud.

If you are a very big SaaS company that is not Google or Apple, you are probably serving hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of unique users. AWS may be convenient, but you don't /need/ it, you can build an infrastructure that will handle such workload with any of the big european providers.

You'll just lose in comfort what you'll gain in data sovereignty and infrastructure costs.

I worked for a 7M€ MRR company that had maybe a million of users who used the software every day. The thing ran on a dozen of OVH servers, including multi-site redundancy.