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How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-years-best-and-brightest-meteor-shower-peaks-this-...
1•cjbarber•6m ago•0 comments

Stop Blaming the "Weatherman"

https://developer.sealegs.ai/blog/stop-blaming-the-weatherman.html
1•mattkdev•7m ago•0 comments

Freeciv 3D – help improve it with AI

https://github.com/freecivx/freecivx
1•roschdal•8m ago•1 comments

What happens if you press 'x' in Helix in a Zellij pane running in Alacritty?

https://henry.catalinismith.se/2025/12/12/what-happens-if-you-press-x-in-helix-in-a-zellij-pane-r...
1•GardenLetter27•9m ago•0 comments

Dogspinner

https://www.pigenpalace.com/dogspinner/
2•tylersayshi•10m ago•0 comments

The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/the-dead-weight-loss-of-entertainment/
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

This Year's Hottest Toy Is Made by a Tech Startup You've Never Heard Of

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/nex-playground-toy-game-console-holiday-shopping-af...
1•kjhughes•14m ago•0 comments

Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People

https://github.com/cmontella/purrtran
1•simonpure•16m ago•0 comments

How to Revive Biopharma Productivity

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/a-manifesto-for-reviving-biopharma
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

Did humans make fire earlier than we had thought?

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2•paulpauper•19m ago•1 comments

The Prosumer Shift in B2B SaaS: Where Consumer UX Meets Enterprise Value

https://middlelayer.substack.com/p/where-consumer-ux-meets-enterprise
1•logan1085•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A distraction-free writing environment

https://github.com/andrewmd5/dawn
1•andrew_rfc•22m ago•0 comments

Sony's Interactive Ad Patent

https://insights.greyb.com/sonys-interactive-ad-patent/
2•kafkaesque•23m ago•1 comments

Gemini Live Speech Translation

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-audio-model-updates/
2•lukax•27m ago•0 comments

Deserted Racetrack Is Almost 30 Miles from the Nearest Paved Road

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Pervasive behavioral pull of sunk cost as a force shaping our material reality

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1•ambientenv•36m ago•0 comments

The AI-Native Software Development Lifecycle: Theoretical/ Practical Methodology

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03416
1•wek•37m ago•0 comments

I'll record a free demo video for your mobile site

1•admtal•37m ago•0 comments

Observational study of a lidocaine-based treatment for Long Covid

https://vu.nl/en/news/2025/observational-study-of-a-lidocaine-based-treatment-for-long-covid
1•amelius•37m ago•0 comments

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11•birdculture•37m ago•0 comments

We used Codex to build Sora for Android in 28 days

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2•aschobel•38m ago•0 comments

Ownership of the Means of Thinking

https://mcrawford.substack.com/p/ownership-of-the-means-of-thinking
2•ambientenv•38m ago•0 comments

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2•bookofjoe•42m ago•0 comments

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2•nsagheen•43m ago•0 comments

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21•Matrixik•46m ago•6 comments

Using Nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYY7V2CGT0g
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MCP Security Scanner

https://github.com/Teycir/Mcpwn
1•teycirb•48m ago•1 comments

The Emerging Market for Intelligence: Pricing, Supply, and Demand for LLMs

https://twitter.com/AndreyFradkin/status/1999630104004329940
1•anecon2•50m ago•2 comments

Why Your AI Wakes Up Every Morning with No Memory (and How to Fix It)

https://lakshminp.substack.com/p/why-your-ai-wakes-up-every-morning
1•gmays•56m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Kinkora – A creative playground for experimenting with video models

https://kinkora.fun/
9•heavenlxj•1h ago
Hi Indie Hackers We’re building Kinkora, a creative platform that brings multiple image and video AI models into one place for experimentation and creation.

Like many builders, we found ourselves constantly switching tools just to test different models or creative directions. Each platform felt limited to a single workflow or use case. So we decided to build a space that’s more modular, exploratory, and creator-first.

Kinkora focuses on:

Supporting popular generative models

Making experimentation fast and enjoyable

Laying the foundation for a creative community, not just a generator

Our long-term goal isn’t just “generate content”, but to create a place where creators can play, iterate, and discover new ideas as models and techniques evolve.

We’re early, actively iterating, and would love feedback from fellow indie builders on:

Feature direction

Community mechanics

Creator-friendly workflows

Happy to answer any questions

Comments

heavenlxj•1h ago
Hi HN,

I'm the maker of Kinkora. We built this as a creative playground that brings together multiple mainstream image and video generation models in one place, making it easier to experiment, compare outputs, and iterate on ideas.

This is a major update from an earlier version, with expanded model support, improved UX, and clearer creative workflows. We’re still early and would really appreciate any feedback from the community.

Happy to answer questions.

giancarlostoro•1h ago
I see you are intending on allowing NSFW. How do you prevent the nightmare of people doing illegal stuff?
mannanj•1h ago
Maybe they don’t, and that’s their design choice. Is that illegal or a violation of some laws?
giancarlostoro•40m ago
Generating children doing NSFW is very illegal, in several jurisdictions even cartoons depicting children in a sexual setting is highly illegal. I would not take that risk if I were them.
reflexe•1h ago
What is up with the name?

Edit: Kinkora implies that it has something to do with kinks, at least that was my first impression.

My guess is that it means something in another language, but maybe this is not a good first association that you would want for a AI image generation product that can be used in a professional setting.

dang•1h ago
Since not everyone here is a native English speaker, it would be good to explain what you mean about the name.
otabdeveloper4•1h ago
Basically everybody who speaks English will assume it's a pornography site.

(Not unwarranted because pornography is so far the only commercial niche for generative AI.)

GordonS•1h ago
I read it more as "kin-kora", TBH.
tbrownaw•1h ago
A few days ago there were a bunch of people on Twitter making fun of some ad that was apparently ai-generated.
yorwba•1h ago
They've tried a bunch of other names for various projects that failed to garner attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=heavenlxj

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=xjliu1229

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gravitywp

ttctciyf•1h ago
Also unfortunately reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincora_Boys%27_Home
giancarlostoro•1h ago
The site description says it allows NSFW.
gostsamo•1h ago
Yep, my first thought too. Substituting the "s"in Sora with "kink" definitely leads one to that conclusion.
vivzkestrel•1h ago
what is the difference between prompting nano banana directly vs using your tool?
kmoser•59m ago
Overall it works really well. A bunch of comments/feedback:

Registration/login required before you can create videos, ok, I can deal with that. But the toast message at the top right of the screen asking me to log in ("Video generation failed, authentication required") obscures the Login and Sign Up buttons on the top nav. Suggestion: in the box where the video would go, where it says "Generation Failed / Authentication Required / X Dismiss", replace the Dismiss button with Login / Sign Up buttons, and remove the toast (or make not obscure the Login / Sign Up buttons).

Once I register and authenticate, my original prompt and settings are lost. Oops, those should be retained, so when I return they are still there.

"Space" is a weird name for the page that has my videos. It's also right in the middle of a bunch of other items that are not specific to me. I suggest you rename it "My Videos" (or similar) and/or have it under the avatar dropdown.

How do I create more videos? The only way to get to the video creation page seems to be by going to the Home page, then clicking the "Try Now - Free Demo" button.

"Random seed for reproducible results" seems wrong. Wouldn't you want a fixed seed for reproducible results? In other words, if it selects a seed at random, wouldn't the results be different every time? But if I enter, say, 42 for the seed, then the results would be the same every time? That's not really clear.

Option for 4:3 aspect ratio (or others) would be nice.

ivape•38m ago
Does anyone actually know of a full length generated film yet? It should have been stitched together by now I think.