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Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos
by tareq_ | 2026-02-07 16:31:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I built FamilyMemories (https://familymemories.video) to solve a personal problem: I had hundreds of old family photos sitting in a digital folder, forgotten.

I wanted a way to make them "alive" again without manual video editing. The tool uses AI to generate a 5-second cinematic motion from a single static image. It’s optimized for vintage photos (sepia, B&W, polaroids).
by xp84 | 2026-02-07 16:32:28+00:00
“Once ready” they’ll save (somewhat) on licenses, what about paying for it during the years it will take to build it, while it’s not ready?

When any random company makes a Build vs. Buy decision the question is “is this a core competency?” Most companies use a package from MS or GOOG because it’s unlikely that they’ll be so good at productivity software that it’s (A) worth distracting themselves from their actual job and (B) good enough. The same caveats apply here.
by wtcactus | 2026-02-07 16:33:17+00:00
Well, life isn't that easy then, because you failed to comprehend URSSAF's simulation tool.

On a €2500 gross salary you take home €1651 (which is a very low salary in France very close to the minimum salary). But I guess you think the gross salary is what the company, by law, has to say they pay you, instead of what the total cost for the company of your salary.

See, in France, even if you are getting close to the minimum salary, the state is taking 33% of the cake for themselves. This is for people that earn very little. For people that earn average salaries of €2669 liquid (€5000 gross for the company), the French state takes 47% of the cake.

It's a normal mistake for people that don't actually have to support the costs themselves. Once people actually start a small business or pay more attention to their own wages and how much is being taken away, they figure out how it actually works.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-02-07 16:33:28+00:00
> As usual this is set up as a tax farming scheme for the government to make money. They will make tonnes of money off forcing people to reapply for an overpriced licence every three years.

This is zero-evidence bullshit. On and after the age of 70, all UK drivers have to renew their licence every three years anyway - it's been like that since 1976. This new change just adds a requirement to get an eye test (which the government doesn't "make money" from) as well, rather than self-certifying.
by sowbug | 2026-02-07 16:34:23+00:00
That is what's hard about transitioning from coder to lead. A good coder makes full use of a single thread of execution. A good lead effectively handles the coordination of multiple threads. Different skills.

An LLM coding assistant today is an erratic junior team member, but its destructive potential is nowhere near some of the junior human engineers I've worked with. So it's worth building the skills and processes to work with them productively. Today, Claude is a singular thing. In six months or a year, it'll be ten or a hundred threads working concurrently on dozens of parts of your project. Either you'll be comfortable coordinating them, or you'll nope out of there and remain an effective but solitary human coder.
by enraged_camel | 2026-02-07 16:34:31+00:00
Incidentally, I've been using AI to deal with the weird bugs, cryptic errors and generally horrendous complexities of a framework we've been using at work (Elixir's Ash). It's really nice to no longer have to read badly organized docs, search the Internet for similar problems and ask around in the developers' Slack/Discord.
by chongli | 2026-02-07 16:34:37+00:00
I don’t know the answer to that but a quick search shows lots of examples of people complaining that their developer certificate has been revoked, demonstrating a willingness by Apple to revoke certificates if they believe the developer violated their terms of service. I doubt Apple would go out of their way to include language in the agreement that binds developers to their own sanctioned platform if they didn’t intend to enforce it.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-07 16:35:10+00:00
I started closing any web page that had an ad on it, even if I wanted the content, right when they appeared. I loath ads. Yet, I disagree with you.

While I pay for software, music, movies, etc, I think the vast majority of people either can't or won't. The internet would be vastly different if there were no ads because the amount of content would be greatly reduced.

I still want no ads. I just don't think it'd be as small of a change as you suggest.
by ksec | 2026-02-07 16:35:36+00:00
if ChartGPT was the iPhone moment for AI, then Claude Code may the iPhone 5 stage, and as the article points out there will be another explosion point likely the iPhone 6 Plus stage, where the usage really explode.

And to think we are limited by Compute Power even when we throw money at it, along with so many improvements in the pipeline and low hanging fruit. Scary to think what the future will be like, especially in terms of jobs. I have already seen some of our department cutting down 10-15% simply because something like dashboard now requires far less time to do.

HN often focuses on whether LLM cane take over or replaces the job of programmers, it is actually outside tech world which is getting hit the hardest.
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by burnte | 2026-02-07 16:35:56+00:00
> if only they had the resources.

My point isn't that the resources are fixed, I can do more with less than the vast majority of people, it's that the job holder had no say in what resources were allocated. When you're not part of the planning, you're not part of leadership, and that entire meeting was a fraud because no one there actually had the proper agency to succeed.
by ThinkBeat | 2026-02-07 16:35:59+00:00
The big problem EUs continuous big talk on digital sovereignty,
which is a good and vital concept, is that funding is ridiculously
lacking.

Terms used like;
“European hyperscale cloud”
“Sovereign infrastructure”
“Strategic autonomy”
“European data centers for critical workloads”

Which ended up in various efforts and projects

Digital Europe Programme,
Recovery and Resilience Facility,
IPCE

(I am not deeply familiar with EU projects)

I believe funding was around low hundreds
of millions (€) total

To build one hyperscaler region might cost around €10 billion.

The second problem is that systems that were suggested
out of it still relied on US software stack, US computers,
etc.

It is not like the EU member states could not fund it,
some estimates say aggregated EU and member states have
spent €350 billion in Ukraine.

That is not to say they should not do that,
nor to suggest you have to chose one or the other
but it is demonstration
that EU+Member states can fund massive efforts,
If deemed important enough.

and EU+Memberstates so far have not felt an urgency or will
to really invest in digital sovereignty.
by quanto | 2026-02-07 16:35:59+00:00
What are the techniques (and the papers thereof) that you consider to be spectacularly good before 2021 for depth estimation, monocular or not?

I do some tangent work from this field for applications in robotics, and I would consider (metric) depth estimation (and 3D reconstruction) starting to be solved only by 2025 thanks to a few select labs.

Car vision has some domain specificity (high similarity images from adjacent timestamps, relatively simpler priors, etc) that helps, indeed.
by pydry | 2026-02-07 16:36:44+00:00
To be fair ms word is rooted in a world paper once ruled and the paper/document metaphor is becoming increasingly less relevant.

I used to use it all day every day and now i use it once a year maybe (often for government related things, coz theyre often the only ones still asking me to fill out and sign PDF forms).

Most office functions are better supplanted with a decent cms, spreadsheet, email and something to let you create forms for people to fill in.
by esbranson | 2026-02-07 16:36:58+00:00
There is no evidence this is a moral panic.

> But nobody has been able to provide evidence of these things.

Universities are able to provide such evidence, and are the only ones who can.

> that everybody is getting access

There is no evidence that this is actuality, or ever will be.

The "little or no evidence" line to defeat premises is cheap.
by fvdessen | 2026-02-07 16:37:22+00:00
That's the point of the loop, (the prompt is in another comment) start with a fresh context at every step, read the whole code base, and do one thing at a time.

Two important part that has been left out from the article is 1) service code size, our services are small enough to fit in a context + leave room for implementation of the change. If this is not the case you need to scope it down from 'read the whole service'.

The other part is that our services interact with http apis specified as openapi yaml specs, and the refactoring hopefully doesn't alter their behaviour and specifications. If it was internal apis or libraries where the spec are part of the code that would potentially be touched by the reafctoring I would be less at ease with this kind of approach

The service also have close to 100% test coverage, and this is still essential as the models still do mistakes that wouldn't be caught without them
by zamalek | 2026-02-07 16:37:36+00:00
Agree, but to an even further degree.

At one point there were issues with LLMs regurgitating licensed code verbatim. I have no doubt that Claude could parrot a large portion of GCC given correct prompting.

Being able to memorize the various C compiler implementations, alongside the sum of human knowledge, is an incredible feat. However, this is in a distinctly different domain to what a human does when writing a clean-room compiler implementation in the absence of near perfect recall of all C compiler implementations. The way that Claude solved this is probably something a human can't do, the way a human would solve this is definitely something Claude can't do.
by purplepatrick | 2026-02-07 16:37:37+00:00
SaaS’s competitive advantage is not tech but distribution.

Just because the stock market dips, and a bunch of media outlets ascribe this to AI doesn’t mean that AI ‘caused’ the dip.

If people really think non-tech businesses will start running their own software organizations and maintain all these tools themselves is an idiotic assumption at best.

The “building” of software has never been and will never be the bottleneck.
by xaduha | 2026-02-07 16:37:37+00:00
[user@nixos:~]$ which grep
/run/current-system/sw/bin/grep

[user@nixos:~]$ ls -l /run/current-system/sw/bin/grep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 65 Jan 1 1970 /run/current-system/sw/bin/grep -> /nix/store/737jwbhw8ji13x9s88z3wpp8pxaqla92-gnugrep-3.12/bin/grep

Basically, it is still in your environment, so I don't see how he can claim that this problem doesn't exist in Nix, unless you use flakes like a proper Nix afficionado.
by bdcravens | 2026-02-07 16:38:46+00:00
You still "find most stuff by building/struggling". You just move up stack.

> there will be a shift when all of these vibe code only folks get cooked in a way that's closer to existential than benign

For those who are "vibe code only", perhaps. But it's no different than the "coding bootcamp only" developers who never really learned to think holistically. Or the folks who learned the bare minimum to get those sweet dotcom boom dollars back in the day, and then had to return to selling cars when it call came crashing down.

The winners have been, and will always be, those who can think bigger. The ones today who already know how to build from scratch but then find the superpower is in architecture, not syntax, and suddenly find themselves 10x more productive.
by II2II | 2026-02-07 16:39:02+00:00
They won't test everyone on a regular basis due to the cost and because it would be politically unpopular. Heck, I saw someone in their 30's go ballistic about losing their license after having two seizures while driving (both of which resulted in collisions).

Enforcement is another issue. I don't even bother reporting being hit by cars anymore because the police refuse to do anything about it. That is after an incident and with a plate number. Enforcement of people driving without a license would be next to impossible unless there is an incident.

As for "don't bother looking", well, you cannot really test for that since it is usually the result of some form of distracted driving or carelessness. Both of which are unlikely to show up when someone knows they are being assessed.
by fibonachos | 2026-02-07 16:39:21+00:00
I’m still a couple decades off from “senior”, but I have already reached a point where most day to day driving feels like a chore. If/When Waymo finally arrives in my smallish Bay Area city I can see myself using it a quite a bit. Hopefully self-driving cars are ubiquitous by the time I reach “shouldn’t be driving” age.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-07 16:39:40+00:00
“Of all the points the other side makes, this one seems the most incoherent. Code is deterministic, AI isn’t. We don’t have to look at assembly, because a compiler produces the same result every time.”

This is a valid argument. However, if you create test harnesses using multiple LLMs validating each other’s work, you can get very close to compiler-like deterministic behavior today. And this process will improve over time.
by krd8ssb | 2026-02-07 16:40:02+00:00
Man, I didn't see hackers for the first time until probably 5 years after I wrote my first line of code. I still watch it to this day but I got started when I saw "wavy colored text" in an AOL chat room. Yup, colored sup and sub text. Fascinated me as an 11/12 year old and I picked up Visual Basic 5. Good times
Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips
by ssslvky1 | 2026-02-07 16:40:26+00:00
The world's first AI assistant(OpenClaw) on a $5 chip. No Linux. No Node.js. Just pure C

MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant. Plug it into USB power, connect to WiFi, and talk to it through Telegram — it handles any task you throw at it and evolves over time with local memory — all on a chip the size of a thumb.

Meet MimiClaw
Tiny — No Linux, no Node.js, no bloat — just pure C
Handy — Message it from Telegram, it handles the rest
Loyal — Learns from memory, remembers across reboots
Energetic — USB power, 0.5 W, runs 24/7
Lovable — One ESP32-S3 board, $5, nothing else
by mcswell | 2026-02-07 16:40:28+00:00
> ...he should have been able to laugh at a funny project but he saw it as
> insulting an important deity.

He may have been an outlier. I know that I've heard god-jokes from the pulpits of evangelical (using that in the sense it was used 30 years ago). The one I remember best is about the difference between a dog and a cat (based on evidence of how their master treats them, the dog thinks its owner is god, the cat thinks he is god--that's a synopsis, it was much funnier in the full version).
by nuancebydefault | 2026-02-07 16:40:36+00:00
What they are basically saying : a framework built up from bash-or-makefile-ground by an LLM, is better than any existing framework. I don't agree. When I use LLMs to generate scripts for me, I often have to adapt them to fit in the bigger picture. The more scripts I have, the more blurred becomes what that framework as a whole stands for. Then to become a usable framework, refactoring is needed, which means the calls to those scripts need rewriting and retesting as well.
by perrygeo | 2026-02-07 16:41:39+00:00
This. Historically there's been a lot of resistance to the idea of refactoring or refining features. The classic "It works, just ship it" mentality that leaves mountains of tech debt in its wake.

And there _was_ a good reason to resist refactoring. It takes time and effort! After "finishing" something, the timeline, the mental and physical energy, the institutional support, is all dried up. Just ship it and move on.

But LLMs change the equation. There's no reason to leave sloppy sub-optimal code around. If you see something, say something. Wholesale refactoring your PR is likely faster than running your test suite. Literally no excuses for bad code anymore.

You'd think it didn't need to be said but, given we have a tool to make coding vastly more efficient, some people use that tool to improve quality rather than just pump out more quantity.
by mancerayder | 2026-02-07 16:41:44+00:00
Help me understand this 'embedded in developer teams' in a larger company. Do you have no central infrastructure with centralized tooling, alerting, standards and knowledge?

Team A has a devops engineer, Teams B through F have one, how do they have any capacity to pursue long term strategical projects, save money and operational effort with centralized hosting and tooling, and basically have some autonomy, when they are enslaved to a Scrum Master and some hokey pokey Fibonacci numbers and T Shirt Size nonsense having to argue priorities in every Sprint against people who don't care about operations?

That's what embedded devops is to me - an operational role enslaved to dev leads, the poor guy who has to troubleshoot a failed release while the devs are at the bar.

Unless my straw man is wildly off, no thanks to that embedded stuff.
by seabrookmx | 2026-02-07 16:41:46+00:00
In Instagram's case, they do not use the ORM or Admin, and have an internal fork of the request handling/middleware stack that is 100% async (before the recent async bits were added to Django)[1].

It's great that Django's API design allowed them to move this way easily, but they aren't actually using Django in the traditional sense because it can't handle their scale.

I've found that with the Django ORM and DRF especially, it's very easy to create a poorly performing app by following the established patterns (N+1 queries being a huge problem created by DRF serializers). You need to be extremely diligent to create something performant in this ecosystem. Not every dev team has Armin Ronacher :P

Where I work we found this exhausting, and moved on to FastAPI and ASP.NET. We make our queries much more explicit using tools like Dapper, and now a senior engineer can have a much better idea how a particular route will perform just by reading the code (obviously, we still do some profiling).

[1]: https://djangochat.com/episodes/django-instagram-carl-meyer
by bdangubic | 2026-02-07 16:42:15+00:00
after 3 decades as SWE I mostly found both i) and ii) to not be true, for the most part. a lot of frameworks are not built from the ground up as “i am building a thing to solve x” but “i had a thing and built something that may (or may not) be generally useful.” so a lot of them carry weight from what they were originally built from. then people start making requests to mold the framework to their needs, some get implemented, some don’t. those that don’t good teams will build extensions/plugins etc into the framework and pretty soon you got a monster thing inside of your codebase you probably did not need to begin with. i think every single ORM that i’ve ever used fits this description.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-07 16:42:46+00:00
Agreed over 70s are safer than younger drivers, but consider young drivers in most jurisdictions face restrictions while elderly drivers do not.

Further I’d say anecdotally that past a certain point, certainly by 80s, elderly drivers are not accident free. It’s that they have an increasing number of small accidents until someone takes away the keys. If they do not have someone in their life to do that it’s probably reasonable that the government make that determination.

At some point the reduced vision and reflex speed makes them too hazardous on the road to others, even if they are driving slowly and carefully. Parking lot accidents, hitting kids, slamming the gas instead of the brakes, etc.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-07 16:42:48+00:00
> You mentioned the NYT in particular — they're paid a lot to shill political positions.

No. As discussed in (Epstein friend, but the research is still sound) Noam Chomsky's work, the money comes from access. The positions taken are to gain access (they don't take positions that will cause them to lose access).

Paid to report something? You sound like a conspiracist. The real conspiracy is how the system is aligned to generate the outcome. That's capitalism.

Money and power serves money and power.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-07 16:42:53+00:00
It kinda does. Not completely, but close enough that it leads to certain people whining about the wrong things being on their hacker news.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

I also think it's a dumb rule.
by dlubarov | 2026-02-07 16:43:03+00:00
None of this resembles what we normally call "evidence" at all. It's like accusing someone of being a Mossad spy because they're holding an iPhone, which relies on a bunch of Israeli IP.

> "As you probably know I represent the Rothschilds".

What would this have to do with Mossad anyway? It's not surprising that a Jew had some Jewish acquaintances. You probably have Jewish acquaintances too, does that make you a Mossad spy?
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-02-07 16:43:25+00:00
You can anonymously report your concerns to the DVLA at [1]. Select "driver's medical". I had to do this with an elderly family member who refused to stop driving despite being manifestly physically and cognitively incapable. Its a difficult call but you may be saving someone's life.

[1] https://contact.dvla.gov.uk/driver/capture-transaction-type
by michaelchicory | 2026-02-07 16:43:35+00:00
I think it's cool that prompts are checked-in to version control, so the thought behind the action is captured. Also, there's a clear distinction between AI-generated and 'organic' code, which allows you to explicitly decouple core business logic from trivial grunt work. Although this particular implementation is likely not valuable, I feel there is value hiding somewhere in the concept. Certainly, the way humans currently collaborate with AI on code more often than not leads to unmaintainable software.
by kube-system | 2026-02-07 16:44:08+00:00
Only in lower density areas.

In high density regions, vehicles on surface roads can’t meet the passenger demand required. Even if you banned human drivers, the other human users introduce too much variability and delay (passengers loading and unloading, errant objects, cyclists and pedestrians, etc). Roll a dumpster in the street, and have a couple of jaywalkers, and the entire system crawls to a stop.

Controlled access is required to get even medium-high throughput. But these systems already exist, they are called personal rapid transit systems.
by vessenes | 2026-02-07 16:44:13+00:00
Totally agreed! Conceptually I think of the radian/length distribution as having uniformly increasing density closer to the origin - you could imagine a whole bunch of discs concentrically stacked ending in the circumference of the circle - each of them - if a constant "radius length" - will have the same "number" of points but spread out over a larger total area.

It's been a lonnnng time since my geometry university courses, but my vague memory is there are some tricky differential geometry historical problems that founder on this precise imprecision.

Fun site, thank you for the write up. I skimmed each and every matrix and assumed you did a great job.