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PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•3m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•4m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
2•roknovosel•4m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•13m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•13m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
2•pseudolus•16m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•16m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•17m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•18m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•18m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•23m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•25m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•25m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•27m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
7•derriz•27m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•27m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•28m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•31m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
2•edward•32m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•33m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2
220•modinfo•5mo ago

Comments

esseph•5mo ago
Ugh hate they used this name
yorwba•5mo ago
You can call it Wanxiang (万相, ten thousand pictures) if you want. Similarly, Qwen is Qianwen (千问, one thousand questions).
latentsea•5mo ago
They should just pretend it's an acronym. Wide Art Network.
CapsAdmin•5mo ago
Its original name was WanX, but the gen ai community found that to be too funny / unfortunate, so they changed it to just Wan.
bn-l•5mo ago
It’s probably a more appropriate name to be fair.
qiine•5mo ago
ha TIL, very cool names!
ProofHouse•5mo ago
HATE
diggan•5mo ago
Why "hate" this name more than any other name? At least justify your semi-spam.
esseph•5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_network
diggan•5mo ago
I'm familiar with that, but would people really confuse a video generation model for a type of computer networks?
esseph•5mo ago
That assumes you know what VEO 3 is by reading the title.

But, I guess sometimes you use a plane to build a plane while the material is aligned to a particular plane.

ProofHouse•5mo ago
How can they manage that but not the website?
cubefox•5mo ago
Arguably most interesting facts about the new Wan 2.2 model:

- they are now using a 27B MoE architecture (with two 14B experts, for low level and high level detail), which were usually only used for autoregressive LLMs rather than diffusion models

- the smaller 5B model supports up to 720p24 video and runs on 24 GB of VRAM, e.g. an RTX 4090, a consumer graphics card

- if their benchmarks are reliable, the model performance is SOTA even compared to closed source models

mandeepj•5mo ago
> - the smaller 5B model supports up to 720p24 video and runs on 24 GB of VRAM, e.g. an RTX 4090, a consumer graphics card

Seems like you can run it 2 Gpus each having 12 GB VRAM. At least, a breakdown on their GitHub page implied so.

cubefox•5mo ago
That would be a lot cheaper than an RTX 4090.
liuliu•5mo ago
Some facts are wrong:

- The 27B "MoE" are not the MoE commonly referred to in LLM world. It is not MoE on FFN layers. It simply means two different models used for different denoising timestep ranges (exactly the same as SDXL-Base / SDXL-Refiner). Calling it MoE is not technically wrong. But claiming "which were usually only used for autoregressive LLMs rather than diffusion models" is just wrong (not to mention HiDream I1 is a model actually incorporated MoE layers (in FFN layer) and is a diffusion model).

- The A14B models can run on 24GiB VRAM too, with CPU offloading and quantization.

- Yes, it is SotA even including some closed source models.

bsenftner•5mo ago
If you want to play with this, as in really play, with over a dozen variant models with acceleration loras and a vibrant community, ya gotta check out:

https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP

And the discord community: https://discord.gg/g7efUW9jGV

"Wan2GP" is AI video and images "for the GPU poor", get all this operating with as little as 6GB VRAM, Nvidia only.

diggan•5mo ago
On the other side, is there any projects focusing on performance instead? I have the VRAM available to run Wan2.1, but still takes minutes per frame. Basically something like what vLLM is for running local LLM weights, but for video/WAN?
bsenftner•5mo ago
This person here has accelerator loras that reduce the compute from 30+ steps to 4 and 8 steps with minimal quality loss: https://huggingface.co/Kijai/WanVideo_comfy

There are a lot of people focused on performance, various methods, just as there are a lot of people focused on non-performance issues like fine tunes that add aspects the models lack, such as terminology linking professional media terms to the model, the pop culture terminology the model does not know, accuracy of body posture during fight, dance, gymnastic, and sports activity, and then less flashy but pragmatic actions like proper use of tableware, chopsticks, keyboards and musical instruments - complex actions that stand out when done incorrectly or never shown. The model knowledge is high but has limits, which people are adding.

bsenftner•5mo ago
There is also a ton of Wan video activity in the ComfyUI community. Everyday for a while, about two weeks ago, ComfyUI had updates specific to Wan 2.2 video integrations in the standard installation. ComfyUI is more complex application, significantly, than Wan2GP though.
bobajeff•5mo ago
If having only 6GB VRAM is GPU poor then I must be GPU destitute.
hirako2000•5mo ago
It's hard to get an nvidia consumer having then less than 12GB of VRAM, not just these days.

By GPU poor they didn't mean GPUless or GPU of the previous decade. It's on the readme that only Nvidia is supported.

hypercube33•5mo ago
I wish they'd state suggested or required hardware upfront.

Also disappointing that I haven't seen anything target the new Ryzen AI chips that can do 96gb since they seem pretty capable. I'm not sure how much memory m4 pro on the apple side can be utilized for this but it seems like the typical machines are 48 or 64gb these days. Lot more bang for your buck than an Nvidia card on paper?

pkroll•5mo ago
Well, they sort of do: they keep referring to the 4090, on their Github and primary promotional pages (https://wan.video/).

But really all the various video models really want an 80+ gig vram card, to run comfortably. The contortions the ComfyUI community goes through to get things running at a reasonable speed on the current, dinky-sized vram consumer cards, are impressive.

giancarlostoro•5mo ago
That doesn't stop Mac / iPhone from using these models. I've build videos with Wan 2.2 on my wife's M4 Mac Mini w/ 24GB of RAM. It might take a little longer to render though ;)
zakki•5mo ago
Nice. Any reference for the installation?
giancarlostoro•5mo ago
Draw Things app in the appstore is free, open source and holds your hand.
giancarlostoro•5mo ago
Try Framepack... nevermind, even that needs at least 6GB VRAM...

https://github.com/lllyasviel/FramePack

franky47•5mo ago
Quick, someone make a UI for this and call it Obi.
tmikaeld•5mo ago
The Obi for your Wan
cuuupid•5mo ago
I’ve been using this via Replicate for a while and it’s honestly amazing while being way cheaper. China is definitely leading on open source
danielbln•5mo ago
*open weights
ahmedhawas123•5mo ago
Are there video generation benchmarks similar to how there are benchmarks for LLMs? Reason I ask is because with lots of these models you have to go through a long cycle to get them up and running before you see an output, and often they will break with basic tasks requiring physics, state, etc. Would love to see some comparison of models across basic things like that.
ivape•5mo ago
Censored?
CosmicShadow•5mo ago
Wan2.1 was great, but Wan2.2 is really awesome! Here's some samples I made locally with my 5090:

- https://imgur.com/a/VeTn4Ej

- https://imgur.com/a/CujxVX3

Those were both Image to Video and then I upscaled them to 4k. I made the images using Flux Dev Krea.

Took about 3-4 minutes per video to generate and another 2-3 to upscale. Images took 20-40s to generate.

scroogey•5mo ago
What did you use to upscale them?
CosmicShadow•5mo ago
One was with Topaz Video, the other was with SeedVR2.
scroogey•5mo ago
Thanks!