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acdanger··on Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
time is the great filter
acdanger··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
If anyone has the original release still up and can post it somewhere that would be grand.
acdanger··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
the notion.so is giving me a "This page couldn’t be found" message.
acdanger··on Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
Just emphasizing that the ability to display a map with geo data on it would be a killer feature for me and for many others I work with! Hope it lands on the roadmap.
acdanger··on Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
Does DuckDB UI support spatial visualizations ? Would be great to be able to use the UI with the spatial extensions.
acdanger··on Ask HN: Who Are Your Favorite Photography and Generative Coding Artists?
Checkout out this list: https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding
acdanger··on Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
Hi, when I try to use the 70B model from the homepage, the response indicates that it's using the 34B model.
acdanger··on Shane MacGowan has died
Saw the Pogues play about 10 years. Shane was offstage most of the time and was brought on to stage in a wheelchair for a couple of songs to just sort of sit there and wave. It was sad and I thought he had days to live at the time.
acdanger··on Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year
Likely including benefits in this figure.
acdanger··on The Anthropogenic Salt Cycle
How can lowering the population == genocide ? Surely, there are many other ways of decreasing the number of the planet other than extermination.
acdanger··on Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad
Tom Waits sued Frito Lay for using his voice / musical stylings in ad: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79648/when-tom-waits-sue...
acdanger··on Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
Also made into a 2022 movie starring Nicholas Cage.
acdanger··on Amazon's Fallout TV series gets a 2024 release date
Arcane is excellent - animation is stellar. BUT I didn't even realize it was a video game adaptation until two episodes in.
acdanger··on Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users
BTC was around $65,000 a couple years back, no? I wonder how much of the current price of $28,000 is propped up by lost thumb drives , or wallets seized by authorities - limited supply rather than continued speculation.
acdanger··on Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty
They do mention confederate flags on display, which is hard to imagine not being seen as political if not racial even in the South in 2023.
acdanger··on Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil
Sorry, do you mean the “un-educated” in your first paragraph? I’m having trouble understanding how the educated are the ones who resist education.
acdanger··on Shit life syndrome
Your description immediately brought the satirical town of Scarfolk to mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk

acdanger··on Ancient Earth globe
With no other (non-human) life , humans could not exist .
acdanger··on Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole
First sentence: “ Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).”
acdanger··on Earth entering ‘uncharted territory’ as heat records quickly shatter
likely referring to Stratospheric aerosol injection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...
acdanger··on The culprit behind the 1871 vandalism of the Paleozoic Museum
Anyone else getting SSL errors visiting archive.is on Firefox?
acdanger··on Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler
It’s possible to convert a shapefile to Mapbox Vector Tiles, convert those to PMTiles and host them in a bucket in just a three commands.
acdanger··on In a Sheep to Shawl competition, you have 5 people, 1 sheep, and 3 hours
My friends mom attended this. She mentioned that the wool that was used in the later stages was dyed and clearly wasn’t the same wool they sheared at the beginning. Still a cool concept.
acdanger··on HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace
Maybe a moratorium on the Haber process though.
acdanger··on HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace
These rah rah comments aren't illuminating or helpful. There are immense costs - societal and ecological - to progress that a lot of people seem to be blind to, whether willfully or not.
acdanger··on A Whale-Oiled Machine
Fun fact , sperm whale oil was used in car transmissions until the 1970s when it was outlawed by the Endangered Species Act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_oil#Applications

acdanger··on A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder
It’s an excerpt to a book.
acdanger··on The Complete Dinosaur (2012)
What’s changed in the past 10 years?
acdanger··on Ask HN: What should I read next?
Great book.
acdanger··on New York City hiring top rat killer
Not so long ago, phrases like “rockstar” and “ninja” were pretty pervasive in software job listings.
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