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Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
80•sandslash•2h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry

https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry
194•psviderski•3h ago•48 comments

Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
135•gnabgib•6h ago•71 comments

TI to invest >$60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.

https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2025/texas-instruments-plans-to-invest-more-than--60-billion-to-manufacture-billions-of-foundational-semiconductors-in-the-us.html
9•TMWNN•1h ago•1 comments

MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/changelog
41•owebmaster•3h ago•21 comments

Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

https://github.com/charmbracelet/fang
75•bewuethr•4h ago•19 comments

The Missing 11th of the Month

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/
67•xk3•5h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

https://github.com/Snouzy/workout-cool
573•surgomat•14h ago•174 comments

My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-server/
228•hemant6488•11h ago•76 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs

https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-17-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-fuzzing
186•Bogdanp•10h ago•37 comments

Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard

https://github.com/lunchbox-computer/bento
72•MichaelThatsIt•5h ago•23 comments

The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVf7rMqnwI0
69•keepamovin•2d ago•51 comments

Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates

https://meodai.github.io/poline/
213•zdw•4d ago•44 comments

Writing documentation for AI: best practices

https://docs.kapa.ai/improving/writing-best-practices
148•mooreds•10h ago•39 comments

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening
114•sva_•3h ago•136 comments

Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorphically-encrypted-crdts/
197•jakelazaroff•14h ago•60 comments

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00239-5
5•ptrsrtp•2d ago•0 comments

Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?

https://www.tobyord.com/writing/half-life
216•EvgeniyZh•16h ago•119 comments

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/web-app/keys.htm
217•xeonmc•16h ago•73 comments

DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dropzap-world/id1072858930
23•amichail•2d ago•9 comments

A deep-dive explainer on Ink and Switch's BeeKEM protocol

https://meri.garden/a-deep-dive-explainer-on-beekem-protocol/
16•erlend_sh•5h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA

https://github.com/nirw4nna/dsc
94•nirw4nna•11h ago•17 comments

Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

https://codeneverdies.github.io/posts/gh-2/
100•LorenDB•9h ago•87 comments

Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en
5•speckx•1d ago•0 comments

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/b1w9pjE-founding-engineer
1•kbanothu•10h ago

Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/zachary-leader-richard-ellmann-james-joyce-review/682907/
68•petethomas•9h ago•89 comments

Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025

https://suthakamal.substack.com/p/revisiting-minskys-society-of-mind
84•suthakamal•11h ago•21 comments

It's true, “we” don't care about accessibility on Linux

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/
47•todsacerdoti•2h ago•16 comments

USDA Pomological Watercolors

https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&collectionId=81279629860007426
32•m_fayer•2d ago•7 comments

Framework Laptop 12 review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/framework-laptop-12-review-im-excited-to-see-what-the-2nd-generation-looks-like/
216•moelf•11h ago•284 comments
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The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVf7rMqnwI0
69•keepamovin•2d ago

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FirmwareBurner•2d ago
Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
keepamovin•2d ago
Heh :) Sydney downtown is very beautiful and very city vibe.
FirmwareBurner•2d ago
Sounds like something a giant spider would say ;)
keepamovin•2d ago
Ah yes us sydneyspiders - I mean Sydneysiders - we're always looking for delicious - I mean gullible - I mean curious tourists in Sydney, and their dollars. We really don't have enough hehehe! :)
dylan604•4h ago
Especially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me
ajxs•4h ago
We call them 'pedestrian crossings' down under! It's been sampled in a few songs actually. The sound is so ingrained in our psyche that you recognise it instantly.
dylan604•4h ago
the only one ingrained deeper for is Blade Runner's "walk now"
worthless-trash•3h ago
I was surprised to see the pedestrian crossing button right in the centre of the woman in the red dress scene.
bitwize•2d ago
The one that really baked my noodle was seeing Melbourne play the role of Boston in Knowing (2009), which it did fairly well if you don't look too closely.
keepamovin•2d ago
Like that film, but holy shit I did not know that was Melbourne! No way. Have to go back and watch. Classic Cage hahaha :)

also nice Matrix reference

wkat4242•2d ago
That's why Sydney was so popular. The CBD has a really American feel but prices and wages are Australian. Fox studios had a huge campus there. Not sure if they still do.
throwaway992673•4h ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider

The males like to wander around aimlessly looking for mates.

jeffwilcox•3h ago
Plus the Wachowskis have Chicago street names throughout.
magarnicle•3h ago
You have to go a long way to get to the "outback" from Sydney, though Hollywood has other ideas. I laughed in Mission Impossible 2 when they set up their base in the desert for their operation in Sydney Harbour. Just a short 500km (at least) helicopter ride away.
alex1138•3h ago
Neo fights giant Kangaroo Smith
wkat4242•2d ago
I'm surprised they used two real locations for the hotels. The "Heart O'The City" one at the very start, and the "Deja Vu" staircase.

These hotels look really delapidated in the film. I thought they were studio sets. I wonder how they managed to make them look so bad, tbh with late 90s tech (green screen mostly and limited CGI) it sounds like it would have been simpler to just build a delapidated staircase in a studio than to make the actual thing look rotten.

loloquwowndueo•4h ago
CGI was not as limited as you think in 1999. Look up films from that year and you’ll see.
nico•2h ago
For reference, Terminator 2 is from 1991
DidYaWipe•12m ago
Indeed. The compositing tool of choice for this movie and any other effects-heavy movie from the late '90s well into the 2000s was Shake (by Nothing Real, later bought by Apple). The only competition was Nuke, the in-house tool at Digital Domain. It is the last one standing today, since Apple gave up on the high end.

Interesting anecdote I heard: Shake was up for an Academy Award, but Apple pissed off the wrong customer when they discontinued the Windows version (which was used for The Matrix). I won't name the post house, but the owner reportedly sat on the academy's technical committee and tanked Shake's nomination as punishment. Kinda sucked for the team, who of course were blameless.

dkjaudyeqooe•3h ago
They probably were delapidated, Surry Hills has undergone a lot of gentrification in the last 25 years.
hamish-b•1h ago
My father spent a lot of time in Surry Hills in the 90s. Got the shock of his life when I told him I was moving there. I have been living around the area for the past 4 years, and he was amazed just how much had changed while I was showing him around recently!
protocolture•2h ago
I was in Sydneys chinatown a few years back and above one of the restaurants I could see into a burnt out old apartment building that 100% reminded me of the matrix. I doubt it would have been too hard to find.
DidYaWipe•18m ago
The real Heart O' the City Hotel is in Chicago, like the rest of the place names in the movie (although the real name is Heart O' Chicago). The Wachowskis wanted to film there, but Major Daley (historic asshole and scumbag, in case you're not familiar) wouldn't let them. I can't remember what the rationale was, but then of course two Batman movies shot there.

The hotel: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...

comrade1234•5h ago
I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in some rave scene.
Drunk_Engineer•5h ago
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.
andrehacker•5h ago
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
to11mtm•4h ago
Eh... I feel like they have aged better over time than a lot of 'trilogies'. They do not measure up to the original but they aren't truly terrible, at least if you're looking at them from a more philosophical standpoint.
sokoloff•4h ago
Reloaded may have been passable as a standalone film (if not seen as a disappointing sequel by comparison to the original).

Revolutions was (IMO) terrible standalone or as a sequel. It felt like more of a CGI-heavy cash-in on the series than anything else.

dylan604•4h ago
what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
echelon•4h ago
The first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past that strong debut. The second and third films were a total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche audience and was itself a mixed bag.

The surprising and unsolicited fourth film had some promise in the first third of the film - I loved how it subverted expectations and was a meta deconstruction of the series itself. After the provocative and almost blasphemous setup, the film quickly devolved into poor action, weird pacing, and overall bad plot and character arcs. In a word, it felt senile. (The action shouldn't have been that bad with Keanu helming John Wick. It was just laziness.) The denouement was just same-y slop we see in every other dialed in action movie. Such a letdown for such a shocking cold open.

If you haven't seen the fourth film, it's a bit of a mind fuck. But turn it off the minute the reveal is over. That part is a treat, but it isn't worth your time otherwise.

parpfish•3h ago
Star Wars and The Matrix anre great examples of over-explaining removing mystery and undermining your world building.
echelon•2h ago
> over-explaining removing mystery and undermining your world building.

This! Spending too long in a fictional universe waters it down. The trimmings of imagination are best when used sparingly. If you reveal too much, the magic ceases to work.

dylan604•1h ago
yeah, telling me about midichlorians and using some scientology reading of them just killed it for me.
parpfish•1h ago
not just the midichlorians, but the fact that every little knob and lever in an x-wing or on your blaster has an explanation of what they do. every single alien you saw in Mos Eisley eventually got an official name and canonical backstory (not to mention the small-world effect where it just so happens that most of those backstories intersect with the same small handful of important people).

so it's no longer a world where your imagination can run wild, it's a world where pedantic nerds get to tell you "you're wrong. here's the actual answer". and it's not even that the "actual" answers are necessarily bad... it's just the fact there is an answer at all removes some of the magic

protocolture•2h ago
>The first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars" and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past that strong debut. The second and third films were a total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche audience and was itself a mixed bag.

I dunno, I feel like people had erased the entire film up to the lobby scene. It has frontloaded pacing issues. The sequels were 100% studio, but they were solid films in their own right.

vunderba•31m ago
The second/third ones never really captured the magic of the first - part of that is because of the refreshing world building.

The rest of the trilogy felt... a bit self-indulgent for lack of a better description. Everything from the "When Harry Met Sally scene" with the drink to the interminably long fight scene with every possible "martial arts" weapon - I found myself rolling my eyes even as a teenager.

I haven't seen the most recent one. Like Star Wars, I sort of lost interest with the whole franchise.

loloquwowndueo•4h ago
Sorry, they are as canon as the phantom menace even if you don’t like them (neither do I for that matter but hey, if these creators wanted to wreck their legacy who are we to stop them).
frollogaston•3h ago
Reloaded is ok. It's not like Star Wars 1 (which btw isn't real), more like Star Wars 6.
throwaway422432•2h ago
Return of the Jedi (6) was perfectly fine. More like 7 which was ok as a nostalgic cameo vehicle, but resulted in throwing away the Rogue Squadron arc which should have always remained canon.

But not like that hadn't happened before. Anyone remember Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the original sequel to Star Wars?

chrisallick•4h ago
I remember being at the alameda skatepark and hearing them shoot the freeway scene where the twins are driving a mac truck and trinity comes to help.
reassess_blind•5h ago
My favorite of these shot-for-shot style videos is how well Last of Us 2 recreated Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukShs2qgCI
ajxs•4h ago
Very cool! I knew all of them, except for the two hotel locations! Sydney's inner city has changed a lot in the intervening years. It's surreal revisiting that Castlereigh St shot in the film, and seeing how undeveloped it looks in comparison to today.
mattigames•4h ago
I still believe the Matrix Online videogame had a lot potential, it just needed a better game loop, I think some new Matrix game taking ideas from games like Helldivers, GTA V and Cyberpunk could become a hit, where there are 2 parallel worlds, the Matrix and reality, and some things you do in one can help you in the other, e.g a way to discover from the matrix where the sentinels are in reality, the overall aim of the game would be to gain territory on "reality", and you would gain "exploits" that help you gain territory faster, meaning destroying robot bases and liberating human farms, plus recruiting some of them. On the monetization side the publisher can of course just do the popular thing and sell skins (that only show in the Matrix of course), for both cars and characters, maybe paint jobs for your ship would work fine too.
neilv•3h ago
> On the monetization side the publisher can of course just do the popular thing and sell skins (that only show in the Matrix of course)

A perfect fit. If that didn't already exist in gaming industry, it would've been invented for a Matrix game.

jeffwilcox•4h ago
Love it - was walking with a friend near Martin Place they pointed out the "Reflection" sculpture that was in the movie during the red dress training exercise.
ttmb•3h ago
I was working in Sydney and the instructions for dropping off the off-site backup tapes said "turn left at the Woman In Red fountain".
fellatio•2h ago
Ever see the military choppers doing their exercise? Amazing and scary.
tetris11•3h ago
I was hoping to see the subway location, but I guess this was just a set piece
ajxs•2h ago
Lots of sources online say it was shot on the disused platform at St James, but that was the subway scene in the second film. Some sources say it was shot at a freight siding at White Bay. If that's true then the actual station must be a set piece. You can find some behind-the-scenes footage online[1], and you can see that the staircase down to the platform is real, so that makes me doubt it was White Bay. Whatever the case, it's not at St James. You can find lots of pictures of the disused platforms online[2], and you can see the roof is totally different. I'd love to know what the actual truth is!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f79nuDTcCA

[2]: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disused_platform_S...

fellatio•2h ago
I worked in that area a while back. It is (was then) a quiet part of Sydney just commercial offices and business that supports it. Despite being a fairly central location. It's a beautiful place to hang out you can walk to harbour views.
causality0•18m ago
I love these types of videos. The ones for Jurassic Park and Jaws are also good. The problem with this type of content is that nobody has the time or money to do more than a couple of these videos so the body of work is spread over hundreds of different creators, making it next to impossible to find and watch a significant fraction of what's out there.