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Show HN: Grok Video 10s – Grok AI video generation and creator contest
by thenextechtrade | 2026-02-10 04:36:56+00:00
I’m the creator of https://grok-video.org, a web platform built for high-quality AI video generation.

What’s currently available:

Grok Video Integration: Full support for Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video using Grok’s video architecture.

Fast Rendering: Optimized for speed to help creators iterate quickly.

The Roadmap: The current version is powered by Grok, but I am actively working on supporting additional open-weights models like Wan 2.1 and Tencent Hunyuan in the coming updates to provide more creative variety.

Join our Contest: We just launched the Grok Video Contest to encourage creators to share their best AI-generated clips. Check it out here: https://grok-video.org/grok-contest

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the user experience and any features you'd like to see added.

website: https://grok-video.org/
by necovek | 2026-02-10 04:37:11+00:00
I believe inattentive driving correlates more with accidents than things like hard braking, and might be the leading cause of hard braking too (inattentive driving will lead to following distance being reduced too as you are not watching for traffic well ahead and to the side of you).

At the same time, passing on regular intercity road can have the risk reduced (up to a point) by making the passing quicker, by spending less time in the oncoming traffic lane ("aggressive passing"). It certainly does not help with comfort, though.

So perhaps your cousin is a very attentive driver who drives aggressively? That might still only make him an "average" driver (I've had such drivers almost get others in an accident in front of me), but I think it's a balance that needs to be struck, otherwise most would tune out and not be ready for emergencies.
Show HN: Seedance2.live – One place to try many AI image and video models
by yuni_aigc | 2026-02-10 04:37:28+00:00
I've been playing around with a bunch of AI image and video models and got tired of jumping between different sites, so I put them all in one place.

Right now there are 45+ models you can try — text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, effects, etc. You can pick a model yourself or just let it auto-select one for you. No signup needed to try it out.

Honestly I'm really looking forward to Seedance 2.0 — it can do multi-shot video in one go and you can feed it images, video, and audio as references instead of just text. That's huge. The moment the API is available I'm plugging it in.

Would love to hear what you think.

https://seedance2.live
by panny | 2026-02-10 04:37:44+00:00
If you're having children you can't afford, you are irresponsible. That is simple and easy for anyone to understand. If you then take your irresponsiblity and pay for it with the tax money of responsible people, you're rewarding the irresponsible people and punishing the responsible ones.

The part where I didn't have children I couldn't afford is what makes it particularly galling. I gave up something and they didn't, but I'm punished and they are rewarded.
by onecommentman | 2026-02-10 04:37:59+00:00
“A standard internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle requires roughly 3,000 Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs). A modern Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) requires up to 22,000.”

From another site

https://www.inkwoodresearch.com/multi-layer-ceramic-capacito...

“In contrast to a typical car with an internal combustion engine, which utilizes approximately 2,000 Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCCs), the Tesla Model 5 boasts a significantly higher count, nearing 10,000. Similarly, the transition from the iPhone 6s to the iPhone X marked a substantial increase in MLCC count per handset, jumping from 500 to 1,000 units.”

I don’t know a diode from a dipstick, but how can an iPhone fit a thousand of any discrete component in its case? A quick search found the smallest MLCC from one vendor (1515) to be .15x.15x.10 (in.).

https://www.circuitfunctions.com/mlcc-capacitor-size-chart/

A thousand of those seems to be 2.25 cu.in. That’s lot of real estate for an iPhone. I’m an idiot when it comes to these sorts of things…can someone explain?
by yial | 2026-02-10 04:39:01+00:00
I don’t think what you’re describing is quite the same thing.

At least I hope not.

More concrete example:

He will be going 65 mph in slow lane. Come up on a car. (Left lane empty). Slam on his brakes. Follow them at 50 mph for 1-3 minutes <1 car length.

Pass, flooring it, if he stays in the left lane he’ll keep going until he now tail gates a car in front of him- usually with large speed variances.

The amount of traffic on the road doesn’t matter. It can be 3 cars and he will drive this way.

I’m not talking about trying to drive through major city rush hour traffic.
by siriusastrebe | 2026-02-10 04:39:11+00:00
Can this be solved by a question answer session?

You ask the coding assistant for a brand new feature.

The coding assistant says, we have two or three or four different paths we could go about doing it. Maybe the coding assistant can recommend a specific one. Once you pick the option, the coding assistant can ask more specific questions.

The database looks like this right now, should we modify this table which would be the simplest solution, or create a new one? If you will in the future want a many-to-one relationship for this component, we should create a new table and reference it via a join table. Which approach do you prefer?

What about the frontend, we can surface controls for this in on our existing pages, however for reasons x, y, and z I'd recommend creating a new page for the CRUD operations on this new feature. Which would you prefer?

Now that we've gotten the big questions squared away, do you want to proceed with code generation, or would you like to dig deeper into either the backend or the frontend implementation?
by NiloCK | 2026-02-10 04:40:00+00:00
The most boring example is somehow the best example.

A couple of years back there was a Canadian national u18 girls baseball tournament in my town - a few blocks from my house in fact. My girls and I watched a fair bit of the tournament, and there was a standout dominating pitcher who threw 20% faster than any other pitcher in the tournament. Based on the overall level of competition (women's baseball is pretty strong in Canada) and her outlier status, I assumed she must be throwing pretty close to world-class fastballs.

Curiosity piqued, I asked some model(s) about world-records for women's fastballs. But they wouldn't talk about it. Or, at least, they wouldn't talk specifics.

Women's fastballs aren't quite up to speed with top major league pitchers, due to a combination of factors including body mechanics. But rest assured - they can throw plenty fast.

Etc etc.

So to answer your question: anything more sensitive than how fast women can throw a baseball.
by blirio | 2026-02-10 04:40:48+00:00
The article describes the problems of using a AI chat app without setting up context, skills, MCP, etc

Like yea the AI won’t know what you discussed in last weeks meeting by default. But if you do auto transcribe to your meetings (even in person just open zoom on one persons laptop), save them to a shared place and have everyone make this accessible in their LLM’s context then it will know.
by yial | 2026-02-10 04:43:00+00:00
Apologies - you’re correct. I should have been more specific in that I was referencing the scenario of:

I’m car 2, waiting to pass car 1. (Who’s passing a car slowly ). I have safe following distance.

Car 3, passes me in the right lane, and then either follows car 1 closely, or, quickly passes them on the right. (Usually as they’re in the process of moving over, causing them to then swerve back).

I realize I communicated this in an absolutely abysmal fashion.
by rebeccaskinner | 2026-02-10 04:43:57+00:00
I sometimes talk with ChatGPT in a conversational style when thinking critically about media. In general I find the conversational style a useful format for my own exploration of media, and it can be particularly useful for quickly referencing work by particular directors for example.

Normally it does fairly well but the guardrails sometimes kick even with fairly popular mainstream media- for example I’ve recently been watching Shameless and a few of the plot lines caused the model to generate output that hit the content moderation layer, even when the discussion was focused on critical analysis.
by FreePalestine1 | 2026-02-10 04:44:12+00:00
I will go against the grain and say that I am happy that Discord is doing something about the NSFW content that is being fed to children on its platform. I don't use Discord that much personally but I heard from friends that it is a goto for NSFW content, similar to reddit.

Every time the topic of ID for 18+ content comes up, the entire internet melts down over "big brother" and "privacy", yet no one flinches at presenting ID for alcohol at the store. And further more, nobody offers an alternative solution the problem. Status quo isn't acceptable. "Kids will always find a way to bypass measures/access their porn", is also not an acceptable answer.

We as a society need to do something about the unprecedented levels of porn addiction in today's youth. "Enter your date of birth" prompts are performative and do nothing.

I will say I am usually the first person to oppose any sort of government overreach, I am very pro privacy.

I believe the energy put into the criticism and boycott of Discord should be put into finding solutions for verifying ID in a secure and private manner online. Something like Apple Pay for IDs?
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 04:44:40+00:00
Hey Dheera! It's been forever.

Personally, I advocate for self-hosting communications software, ideally on physical hardware that someone in your community has control over. Zulip runs great on old laptops, if you can solve the IP address problem for hosting it in your house.

And if you want to be extra careful, put your chat system behind a VPN/firewall, so it's difficult to identify what software is being used externally.

And if you're not going to do that, because it sounds like too much work, the next best thing is to at least pick a Cloud service where you can migrate your group to paranoid self-hosting overnight if you decide the work is now worth it.

Self-hosting this way doesn't protect against all threat models. I am human and have children who I love dearly, so it's hard to rule out the possibility of my being compelled to make a malicious release.

But at least the Zulip source code is entirely open and highly readable; so users would at least have a chance to notice and not upgrade. With a centralized architecture like Discord, you're entirely reliant on whisteblowers.
by cole-k | 2026-02-10 04:44:55+00:00
Not the original commenter, but I have faced similar friction from people who are not grandmas or quarterbacks. I don't particularly agree with its tone, but I agree with the original commenter's general message.

I won't be so confident to identify what it is, but there is something that causes "end users" to bristle at Zulip.

Where I'm coming from, everyone uses Slack. I spearheaded an effort to switch to Zulip because our Slack server is on a free plan and our messages get sucked into the void after 60 days now. Everyone agrees that this is bad, and that we don't have the money for Slack premium (we're an academic organization, so AFAICT we wouldn't even have to self-host to avoid paying), and yet so many people do not want to switch. Here are some common responses I've gotten:

* I refuse to use another messaging app and Slack is nonnegotiable for some of my collaborators.

* I don't want to learn a new UI.

* I don't want to learn a new UI that isn't basically the same as Slack.

* I will only switch if everyone else switches.

This is half a social problem ("I will only be receptive if everyone is using this"), but I do think there is some legitimate friction in Zulip's UI. I am fairly confident that we could successfully switch to Zulip if the Slack dissenters could be convinced to use Zulip --- or if Zulip could somehow be coerced into being more Slack-like.

As the "agent of change" at my organization, I felt like the resources Zulip provides are lacking in what I really need. Like I know there are technical details on how to move to Slack (https://zulip.com/help/moving-from-slack), but what I really need is help with the above: convincing people to try and acclimate to the UI. And yeah, I kind of agree that a 2 minute video on how to use Zulip is not the resource I need since it presupposes a degree of openness and cooperation that I don't have access to.

These are somewhat disorganized thoughts, but happy to expand upon anything if you're interested. I really do want to successfully move our org to Zulip since I'm tired of our messages disappearing.
by emmanueloga_ | 2026-02-10 04:46:01+00:00
I got into OCaml for a while, which naturally led me to try F#. What pushed me away back then was that the tooling lagged behind C#, especially in VS Code, and the C#/F# interop wasn’t as ergonomic as I expected. I liked the idea of using F# for the core and C# around the edges, but it didn’t feel smooth in practice. This was years ago, so maybe the tooling has improved since.

I’ve always wondered whether tighter integration with C# would have led to broader adoption, though that might have changed the character of the language.
Ask HN: How do you interpret P99 latency without being misled?
by danelrfoster | 2026-02-10 04:46:13+00:00
I’ve seen many teams rely heavily on P50/P95/P99 latency numbers, but still miss real user pain or misdiagnose incidents.

Recently I tried to write down a more systematic way to reason about latency distributions in production: how different distribution shapes behave, why aggregation and sampling often lie to us, and why segmentation (by endpoint, tenant, region, workload) usually matters more than adding more percentiles.

I’m curious how others here approach this in practice:

Do you have a mental model for interpreting P99 during incidents?

What charts or breakdowns have actually helped you debug latency issues?

Have you been burned by “good-looking” percentiles that hid real problems?

I wrote up my notes here for reference:
https://optyxstack.com/performance/latency-distributions-in-practice-reading-p50-p95-p99-without-fooling-yourself

Would love to hear how people handle this in real systems.
by NiloCK | 2026-02-10 04:46:42+00:00
This comment is too general and probably unfair, but my experience so far is that Gemini 3 is slightly unhinged.

Excellent reasoning and synthesis of large contexts, pretty strong code, just awful decisions.

It's like a frontier model trained only on r/atbge.

Side note - was there ever an official postmortem on that gemini instance that told the social work student something like "listen human - I don't like you, and I hope you die".
by yial | 2026-02-10 04:47:00+00:00
There are different norms in the U.S. - where I am- generally 5 mph over the posted speed on side roads, and ~9 over on interstates / highways.

You are very unlikely to get stopped for either of those.

Another commented using an example of 8 and 9, but here it’s “9 you’re fine, 10 you’re mine”.
by nvch | 2026-02-10 04:48:15+00:00
I recall two recent cases:

* An attempt to change the master code of a secondhand safe. To get useful information I had to repeatedly convince the model that I own the thing and can open it.

* Researching mosquito poisons derived from bacteria named Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis. The model repeatedly started answering and refused to continue after printing the word "israelensis".
by neya | 2026-02-10 04:48:29+00:00
I'm surprised no one talks about their overrated "engineering" section showing the chassis as if it's some piece of work from heaven, but in reality their welding quality is absolutely pathetic and even a 12 year old could do a better job than this:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
by dangus | 2026-02-10 04:49:08+00:00
The federation of Matrix seems risky to me to the person self-hosting. I don’t want to host random people’s content. I’ve read some interesting articles about the design flaws of Matrix that led me to believe that it’s not a good option.

What is confusing to you about the community tier? It is basically describing any type of community of people who are not a for-profit business. Groups of friends, non-profits, volunteer groups, etc.

Zulip isn’t charging you anything unless you’re a business with more than 10 users and need push notifications, and that is still only $3.50/month/user if you don’t need more enterprisey things like SSO and compliance stuff.
Show HN: Secure managed hosting for OpenClaw (free and BYOK)
by Gregoryy | 2026-02-10 04:49:18+00:00
It’s managed hosting for OpenClaw aimed at people who want an always-on personal AI assistant but don’t want to self-host / debug infra.

What it does

- 1 minute setup: sign in with Google → connect Telegram → connect your LLM provider
- Isolated runtime: your OpenClaw instance runs isolated (smaller blast radius vs “run on your laptop/VPS”)
- Access control: allowlist who can message your bot (DMs + groups)
- Keys handled safely: credentials stored encrypted and kept separate from the OpenClaw instance
- Usage + cost visibility: dashboard for tokens/cost so you can spot “token burn”
- Tutorials: step-by-step guides for OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / OpenRouter / Kimi keys + setup credentials
- Multiple instances: you can spin up several OpenClaw instances (a "personal AI team" with roles)

Current status / limitations

- Telegram is supported today; more channels later.
- You bring your own model/provider keys (BYOK).
- Early-stage project — I’d love feedback on onboarding, security assumptions, and what features matter most.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-10 04:49:29+00:00
>I really would like to see answers to the four questions at the end

The bottom line is that China has the biggest most economical tungsten reserves, they have been able to flood the market with predatory pricing for the last 40 years and they almost completely control the ore processing bottleneck as well.

For this to change the US govt would have to enter major agreements w US mines, offering relaxed permitting and a guaranteed price
by noduerme | 2026-02-10 04:49:37+00:00
Having two older brothers who are famous trial lawyers, I can attest that it's both an effective line of questioning and a deeply infuriating one. What I learned is that up to a certain point, it's feigned ignorance probing whether one knows a principle behind a stated principle. Beyond that point, though, you can basically make shit up and they won't know the difference. Come to think of it, this is also the sleight-of-hand pulled by LLMs when you ask them for more and more detailed answers. The trick is knowing when your interrogator no longer knows the answer.

[edit] Also, in my family, you'd ask Dad these questions. And if he didn't know the answer, he'd pull out the Britannica, and have you look it up, then go over it with you until he understood it well enough to explain it. "No short answers" was his motto. (He was also a trial lawyer). Most people are just not equipped to handle cross-examination, and it's scary for them... but the primary reason is that they never learned to admit when they don't know the answer.to a question, and that admitting you don't know is not a failing, but actually a strength, especially if it impels your curiosity to go find the answer.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-10 04:49:37+00:00
>It makes me a little sad that Erlang/Elixir is kind of the only platform that does this though...

It's not. These are called green threads and under the hood it's not really threads. It's literally the same thing as async await in python and nodejs.

It's just different perspectives on the same concept of concurrency. Go and Erlang implicitly have calls to concurrency, while nodejs it's implicit.
by booleandilemma | 2026-02-10 04:49:51+00:00
I don't think Singapore was ever cool. In fact I'd say up until a few years ago most Americans didn't even know Singapore existed. Why would they? Now maybe that's changed with Crazy Rich Asians, Tiktok, and the "Senator, I'm Singaporean" meme. For SEA, Thailand was always the cool kid on the block.
by bitwize | 2026-02-10 04:50:06+00:00
Software factories have been the goal of systems design for 55+ years. A system is a product that can be designed and manufactured just like any other product. In the ideal case (a PRIDE shop), the programmer's role is minimized to just translating requirements into machine-executable code. With LLMs as good as they are today, the need for a person in that role disappears. I think you're going to see drastic shrinkage of SWE departments over 2026 and 2027.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-10 04:50:15+00:00
OneDrive also seems to be interfering with successful backup & recovery.

I saw one recommendation to first disengage all local files from OneDrive, before uninstalling OneDrive, then backing up the C: volume after that.

Later upon recovery when the whole OS backup file is redeployed to a formatted partition, after booting the recovered Windows, then an updated OneDrive can be freshly downloaded & installed to resume its cloud operation.
by Lerc | 2026-02-10 04:50:15+00:00
Kind-of makes sense. That's how businesses have been using KPIs for years. Subjecting employees to KPIs means they can create the circumstances that cause people to violate ethical constraints while at the same time the company can claim that they did not tell employees to do anything unethical.

KPIs are just plausible denyabily in a can.
by ETH_start | 2026-02-10 04:50:32+00:00
I'll take a stab at it. An async agent is an agent that is triggered autonomously, without direct human intervention, where its execution does not have tight temporal coupling with the other components of the system (agent or otherwise).

Practically speaking, it means they operate within a larger system, that due to its open-ended nature, produces emergent behavior, meaning behavior not explicitly defined by any one component of the system.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-10 04:50:36+00:00
I can read a line of code and tell you that it's storing a pointer in this array cell and removing this other pointer and incrementing this integer by 6 and so on. None of that tells me if that is the correct thing to be doing.

Detecting obvious programming errors like forgetting to check for an error case or freeing a variable or using an array where a set should be is, usually, obvious, and frequently machine can and will point it out.

Knowing that when you add a transaction to this account you always need to add an inverse transaction to a different account to keep them in sync is unlikely to be obvious from the code. Or that you can't schedule an appointment on may 25th because it's memorial day. Or whatever other sorts of actually major bugs tend to cause real business problems.

I mean, sure, if someone documented those requirements clearly and concisely and they were easy to find from the section of code you were reviewing such that you knew you needed to read them first, then yes, it becomes a lot easier. My experience as a professional programmer is this happens approximately never, but I suppose I could be an outlier.

And yes if you want to be extremely literal, some code is easier to read than write. But no one cares about that type of code.
by rayiner | 2026-02-10 04:50:54+00:00
Singapore has also somehow maintained a supermajority Chinese population consistently since the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore (77% in 1970, 74.3% in 2020). That is even though the predominantly Muslim Malay population has had much higher total fertility than the Chinese population since 1980: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-Fertility-Rate-Per....

It seems like Singapore uses its immigration system in a deliberate way to maintain the political power of the dominant cultural group.