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Ask HN: Do we need "metadata in source code" syntax that LLMs will never delete?

1•andrewstuart•3m ago•1 comments

Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-says-its-cutting-ties-with-woke-harvard-discontinuing-milit...
2•alephnerd•5m ago•1 comments

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [pdf]

https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf
1•northlondoner•6m ago•1 comments

Kessler Syndrome Has Started [video]

https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge/video/7602634355160206623
1•pbradv•8m ago•0 comments

Complex Heterodynes Explained

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/02/07/Complex-Heterodyne.html
3•hasheddan•9m ago•0 comments

EVs Are a Failed Experiment

https://spectator.org/evs-are-a-failed-experiment/
2•ArtemZ•20m ago•3 comments

MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges from Human Feedback with Scalable Memory

https://www.databricks.com/blog/memalign-building-better-llm-judges-human-feedback-scalable-memory
1•superchink•21m ago•0 comments

CCC (Claude's C Compiler) on Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/z/asjc13sa6
2•LiamPowell•23m ago•0 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
3•duxup•26m ago•0 comments

Actors with Tokio (2021)

https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/
1•vinhnx•27m ago•0 comments

Can graph neural networks for biology realistically run on edge devices?

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8645211/v1
1•swapinvidya•39m ago•1 comments

Deeper into the shareing of one air conditioner for 2 rooms

1•ozzysnaps•41m ago•0 comments

Weatherman introduces fruit-based authentication system to combat deep fakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVbZwJ9gPE
3•savrajsingh•42m ago•0 comments

Why Embedded Models Must Hallucinate: A Boundary Theory (RCC)

http://www.effacermonexistence.com/rcc-hn-1-1
1•formerOpenAI•44m ago•2 comments

A Curated List of ML System Design Case Studies

https://github.com/Engineer1999/A-Curated-List-of-ML-System-Design-Case-Studies
3•tejonutella•48m ago•0 comments

Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•52m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
2•g1raffe•54m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
2•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
3•rolph•1h ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•1h ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•1h ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•1h ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
2•cedel2k1•1h ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
37•chwtutha•1h ago•6 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
4•osnium123•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•1h ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•1h ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

More than one hundred years of Film Sizes

https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/filmsize.html
86•exvi•3w ago

Comments

Lammy•3w ago
I think this is the earliest-born person I've ever seen have a personal website like this — 1929 ! https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/amsterdam1.html

R.I.P. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rogge

I went ahead and mirrored this entire site, and his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelRogge

croisillon•3w ago
i went down this rabbit hole and in fact Tim Berners Lee is/was not old (b. 1955), though one can argue George HW Bush (b. 1924) had the White House website running he evidently didn't have a personal one

and then there is Olive Riley (b. 1899) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Riley

dcminter•3w ago
I'd imagine there are a good few, but that for a lot of them their websites expired when the owner did. For example my Dad's is gone now and he was only a bit younger. Wayback machine likely has a lot of them in its index if you can find them.
keiferski•3w ago
It’s amazing to think that film / moving images as an art form is only a little over a century old. Painting, sculpture, drawing, etc. are orders of magnitude older.

It also makes me wonder what the future of the form will be. Historically speaking we’re still at the very beginning of it.

justincormack•3w ago
The oldest surviving photograph is 200 years old this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gra...
lordwiz•3w ago
Film formats still rule, but I’m curious what comes next. What I’m seeing in the mainstream is large-format 65 mm / IMAX 70 mm film, which feels like a premium big-screen experience, almost too premium to access nearby.
greekrich92•3w ago
One Battle After Another was shot and released on VistaVision. Sideways 35mm basically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistaVision

mmcwilliams•3w ago
VistaVision is being used more often as a cheaper way to get to IMAX or 70mm projections sizes. The gear and filmstock is less expensive for production and you can laser out to the other formats at roughly the same resolution you capture at.
flipthefrog•3w ago
There are far less working VistaVision cameras than 70mm. It wasnt used at all, or just for shooting vfx, for 50 years until recently
mmcwilliams•3w ago
This is true but it is far cheaper to scan and develop. Labs have to reset the machines to switch over to 65mm/70mm but are running 35mm every day.
SoftTalker•3w ago
I'm sure there are still some stubborn old directors shooting movies on film but aren't most shot digitally today? And even those shot on film are surely immediately scanned so post processing can be done digitally? Can't imagine anyone is still sitting with razor blades and splicing tape putting scenes together.
flipthefrog•3w ago
Stubborn old directors like Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorcese... https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/shot-on-film/

Films are mostly post processed digitally - but some, like Oppenheimer, are color graded the old optical way. While Dune was shot digitally, printed on film, then scanned back in again!

rurban•3w ago
Film formats are out for a long time already. No cinema has film projectors, everybody went digital only already. Only very very few still can do 70mm for the tiny percentage of superstar vintage directors.

Super 16 was one of the best formats. All the film schools had only 16 mm cameras, certainly not 35mm. And all the best revolutionary 70ies productions were shot on cheap 16mm in natural light. This changed with Spielberg and the new blockbuster approach, and then the depressing Reagan years when everybody went back into the studio with huge lighting efforts and psychological dramas.

Mumblecore and Dogma 95 brought back some pure 16mm with post blowup efforts (cinemas only had 35mm projectors then), but digital with the Arri Alexa and Red killed that. Next is better projector technology for cheap. The format and camera wars are over.

fallinditch•3w ago
It's great to see Vistavision making a comeback, a perfect format IMHO, exemplified by Hitchcock's Vertigo - https://youtu.be/95o-QM-lz8g
marssaxman•3w ago
Interesting that 35mm seems to be the only film format which crosses over between the movie and still photography worlds.