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A Definition of AGI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212
49•pegasus•1h ago•39 comments

Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/10/26/msg033327.html
328•jaypatelani•6h ago•174 comments

10k Downloadable Movie Posters From The 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/search
281•bookofjoe•1w ago•53 comments

The bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it

https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2025/the-bug-that-taught-me-pytorch/
216•bblcla•3d ago•47 comments

Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/alzheimers-disrupts-circadian-rhythms-of-plaque-clearing-brain-ce...
51•gmays•1h ago•5 comments

Show HN: FlashRecord – 2MB Python-native CLI screen recorder

https://github.com/Flamehaven/FlashRecord
16•Flamehaven•2h ago•6 comments

Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time

https://adventofcode.com/2025/about#faq_num_days
295•vismit2000•11h ago•161 comments

Making the Electron Microscope

https://www.asimov.press/p/electron-microscope
17•mailyk•2h ago•0 comments

Formal Reasoning [pdf]

https://cs.ru.nl/~freek/courses/fr-2025/public/fr.pdf
86•Thom2503•7h ago•16 comments

Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
124•Bogdanp•5d ago•14 comments

A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZ...
571•nvahalik•18h ago•415 comments

Ask HN: Second generation of intro to software dev for 3rd graders

9•xrd•6d ago•9 comments

Pico-Banana-400k

https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k
321•dvrp•17h ago•57 comments

Asbestosis

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html
177•zeristor•10h ago•120 comments

Validating Your Ideas on Strangers

https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/validating-your-ideas-on-strangers
24•tacon•2d ago•10 comments

You Already Have a Git Server

https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/
295•chmaynard•8h ago•233 comments

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel

https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/
377•0xkato•20h ago•79 comments

Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people

https://apnews.com/article/scam-centers-cybercrime-myanmar-a2c9fda85187121e51bd0efdf29c81da
76•bikenaga•4h ago•19 comments

Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust

https://book.rvemu.app/
79•signa11•11h ago•36 comments

Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks

https://clojure.land/
132•TheWiggles•11h ago•30 comments

Ask HN: How to boost Gemini transcription accuracy for company names?

15•bingwu1995•6d ago•14 comments

Connect to a 1980s Atari BBS through the web

https://www.southernamis.com/ataribbsconnect
51•JPolka•9h ago•2 comments

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes

https://theconversation.com/smartphones-manipulate-our-emotions-and-trigger-our-reflexes-no-wonde...
6•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
223•benzguo•20h ago•56 comments

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering ICs and Managers in Europe

https://bitmovin.com/careers
1•slederer•12h ago

Books by People – Defending Organic Literature in an AI World

https://booksbypeople.org/
42•ChrisArchitect•2h ago•44 comments

LaserTweezer – Optical Trap

https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=578
59•o4c•11h ago•5 comments

The Journey Before main()

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main
279•amitprasad•23h ago•106 comments

PCB Edge USB C Connector Library

https://github.com/AnasMalas/pcb-edge-usb-c
137•walterbell•16h ago•57 comments

Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re...
231•bookofjoe•3h ago•86 comments
Open in hackernews

Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good
231•bookofjoe•3h ago

Comments

alephnerd•2h ago
Ghana, not Africa.

When will Westerners stop treating Africa as a monoculture.

TheCraiggers•2h ago
The article says it's from Ghana in the second sentence and other places throughout. Is that not enough?
zdragnar•2h ago
To be fair, it would be rather odd to use Asia in the title only for the article to refer more oe less exclusively to China or Vietnam.
Barbing•2h ago
Good comparison, thanks, helps put it into perspective.

Either of these better titles or no?

“…from Ghana, Africa…”

“…from Africa’s Ghana…”

(China, Asia & Asia’s China don’t really fit so probably not?)

em500•2h ago
Or how about just “from Ghana”?
cogman10•2h ago
My guess is the editor is banking on people not knowing where Ghana is. Hence the "Africa".

The Asia comparison would work better if instead of talking about China we were talking about Laos.

prmph•59m ago
Really? I don't think that's the real reason why.
mitthrowaway2•2h ago
Definitely not. Ghana, Africa is phrased as though Ghana were a city in the country of Africa.
TheCraiggers•2h ago
True, although Asia is also nearly twice the size of Africa, which might have something to do with that.
ozgrakkurt•2h ago
And Africa is more than twice the size of Europe, it is fair to complain that they don’t just put Ghana in the title. It is not that the title is unacceptable but it is just wrong and weird
exFAT•1h ago
Africa's GDP is also 1/10th of Europe's...
sometimes_all•1h ago
And Canada's population is 1/20th that of Europe, yet we all know where that is.

No need to cherry-pick some random metric and try and justify a point that's not worth justifying.

exFAT•1h ago
Maybe the English-speaking world. I think most people couldn't place Canada on a map. More people than Ghana or any African country, certainly, but that's because it's more famous. GDP is more correlated to this than population or landmass.

I'm not justifying anything. I also think it's more polite to say "Ghana" rather than "Africa". I just don't agree with the arguments.

sometimes_all•1h ago
I am fairly certain that most people in the non-English speaking world will also be able to place Canada on the map - I'd assume the French know exactly where Canada is. But I digress; it's not about placing a country on a map. It's more about we know that Canada is a separate country, and it has an identity distinct from other countries in its continent.

This goes beyond mere politeness; that you used this word is a bit suggestive. Refusing to acknowledge an identity is far more than just a lack of politeness.

vitus•46m ago
Canada is the second-largest country in the world, so if you know that it's in the north and, um, not Russia, you stand a pretty good chance at picking it out. (Doubly so if you just know it's in the Americas.)

Now, if you asked the same about Pakistan or Nigeria (#5 and #6 in terms of population, but far smaller and with far shorter sea borders), I'd bet that far fewer people would be able to pinpoint those with the same accuracy (whether in the English-speaking world or not).

f17428d27584•1h ago
Do not use the Mercator for area comparison. You are off by 15 million square kilometers.

Asia is only ~50% larger than Africa.

croes•2h ago
You only see that after the click.

I expected different posters for the same movie from different African countries.

Imagine buying a cook book of European cuisine only listing UK dishes.

Elidrake24•2h ago
I can appreciate where you're coming from in general, but this article isn't that. All Headlines suck, by their nature they have to cater to the lowest common denominator in who they assume their audience is, so we're using the headline to place an unfamiliar country in a continent that is familiar enough, at least in name.
alephnerd•2h ago
That is not an acceptable reason for clickbait.
jchw•2h ago
How exactly is that clickbait? You might not like it, but that doesn't make it clickbait. That's like saying it's clickbait to say Europe in a headline instead of Austria.
croes•2h ago
If you claim to show the art of a continent but only show art from one country it’s misleading.

Like a tour guide for the US and you only list places in Texas.

jchw•42m ago
A tour guide for the U.S. definitely implies that you are going to see a variety of places in the U.S. That's implied by the word "tour" which means something roughly akin to "a journey through several different places".

This is merely an example where the writer of the headline believes that the average reader may not be familiar with the country of Ghana. If the demographics include Americans, I'd have to guess they were spot on. (I'm American, I know how Americans are.)

Would it really be similarly offensive if a headline referred to something happening in "South America" when actually it happened in Guyana? Or, a headline about something happening in "Europe" when actually it happened in Andorra? None of these headlines are inaccurate. They're just not specific.

I can obviously see why this is frustrating but to me it's a complete misunderstanding to blame the person writing the headline.

sometimes_all•30m ago
> Would it really be similarly offensive if a headline referred to something happening in "South America" when actually it happened in Guyana?

Yes. It's like saying that the art and culture in Georgetown is very similar to the art and culture in Santiago. Especially when you claim to be an arts-and-culture website. Would a Texan like being stereotyped by a tourist who thinks all of America is just like New York City?

> Or, a headline about something happening in "Europe" when actually it happened in Andorra?

What many people here are trying to point out is that the chances of seeing such a line about a European country (even a relatively unknown one) is waaaay less than the chances of seeing such a line about African/South American countries.

cogman10•2h ago
It's not clickbait. The article provides exactly what it says.

The only debatable part is that it's not all of Africa. But otherwise it's a very accurate description of the whole article.

Clickbait is "You won't believe the art that came out of this continent!" or "Look at the wild things artists did to attract an audience!".

sometimes_all•1h ago
That's not an excuse.

A sample from the website's About page:

> this site is my attempt at creating something that’s dedicated to discovering the hidden gems of the online realm (whether they be in the form of academic discourse, cutting-edge technology, cultural commentary, or artistic expression) and sharing them with care and consideration.

How is treating a country in the second largest continent in the world - which contains more than 50 countries, most of which have very distinct cultures - as representative of that continent showing care and consideration? Ghana is not an unfamiliar country, and most people, at the very least, know it's in Africa. If I confused Mexico with Canada, or Germany with Albania, I'd be treated as a dimwit, but somehow it's totally fine if I don't know the difference between Ghana and Kenya.

I agree with the parent comment; this "unfamiliar country" business needs to stop.

prmph•44m ago
This is spot on. The real reasons the headline is "Africa" and not "Ghana" are:

- To sensationalize the story by positioning it as a another manifestation of a supposed "African" nature/character.

- The idea that African countries by themselves are too insignificant to seek/need to know about, but an entire continents? OK, maybe. Many people are comfortable in ignorance, real or feigned.

Putting Ghana on the title would have been just fine. I'm Ghanaian btw.

hiccuphippo•1h ago
A lot of people say America as if it was a country and not a whole continent or two.
ndsipa_pomu•1h ago
And Canadians tend to get upset if you refer to them as an American, though technically they are.
fart-fart-FART•1h ago
are you lost? tumblr is down the hall and to the left.
ALM•1h ago
The original commenters critique is valid, as the discussion illustrates and ultimately vindicates. This comment you have left in response is dismissive, childish, and lacking of any meaningful contribution. Although, I suppose with a username like yours it should be of no surprise this is all you could meet them with. It is nevertheless disappointing to see such low-brow low-effort commentary on HN, and it is ironically your comment that is misplaced rather than the original commenter.
fart-fart-FART•57m ago
words, words, words.

a shit stirrer shows up and now 2/3 of the comments in the thread are offtopic. is that the kind of commentary you seek?

Razengan•52m ago
Wait till you hear about Asian people!
Reubend•2h ago
These are wonderful. They're so full of character. But I must imagine a "screening" on a TV would be a terrible experience to watch. I guess if you had never been to a full movie theater, you'd never know what you were missing out on.
Arubis•2h ago
It’s a much more communal experience. Less screen, sure, but a lot more audience participation
wingerlang•2h ago
I grew up with VHS tapes on CRT screens. It was totally fine, I watched more movies back then than I do today.
inglor_cz•2h ago
In Czechoslovakia ~ 1988, video players were rather expensive and complicated to acquire, so we as kids watched movies from cassettes together as well, at the homes of the few who were rich enough to afford them.

One of those parents was a truck driver who was able to cross the Iron Curtain and always smuggled something interesting back.

edge17•1h ago
Yea, also often the movies were cams from people that recorded in the theater so you can see the audience walking around etc.

Quality hardly matters when the real treasure was getting the movie in the first place.

duxup•2h ago
Tons of life in these.
edge17•1h ago
My best movie experiences were probably watching hard to acquire bootlegs in the pre-digital age. The barriers were just so much higher, half the excitement was just getting a crappy copy.
ggambetta•1h ago
I had Star Wars in VHS, with the most ridiculously awful Spanish subtitles you can imagine. I wish I still had it, or had some pictures at least :_)
dvh•2m ago
In my language we call it "insitné umenie" (or naive art), it usually means self-taught. https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Insitne+umenie&FORM=HDR...
xeromal•2h ago
The robinhood one is fantastic.
NoboruWataya•2h ago
That and the Terminator 1 one[0] are genuinely great IMO.

[0] https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5cc5f_5c451a5882264776a4...

xeromal•2h ago
Yeah that one hooked me as well
daveguy•2h ago
The Robinhood one is a direct copy of one of the original movie posters. The others are a lot more interesting, imo.
mrec•2h ago
How could they leave out the classic Paddington one?

https://deadly-prey-gallery.myshopify.com/cdn/shop/files/D18...

fullshark•2h ago
I smiled at this, then immediately wondered if it was a knowing parody, then immediately wondered if was AI generated and got sad.
donatj•1h ago
I had the exact same human experience.
dfxm12•1h ago
Look up deadly prey gallery, the website hosting the picture. They commission some OG artists & some new artists to make new posters specifically in this style. It's legit. This one is signed by Nana Agyq.
mrec•46m ago
Definitely not AI, but if these are new commissions it's not unreasonable to suspect an element of self-parody, playing up the aspects of the originals that amuse people.
dfxm12•1m ago
Instead of suspecting, please read up on deadly prey gallery, as I has suggested.
sota_pop•2h ago
All of the ones with Arnold are actually good.
gorbachev•2h ago
I was just about to comment the same. The Terminator 1 poster is really good!
voidfunc•2h ago
Yea that would be awesome framed and on my living room wall.
fainpul•1h ago
Umm, scroll further down until you come to "Terminator 2" :)
gjm11•2h ago
The text claims "Always at least one exploding head" and the number of exploding heads in the 20 posters shown is zero. It lists a number of "favourites from the genre" not one of which is actually shown. The text, as you might surmise from the previous two points, has the definite scent of LLMs about it.

The net effect of this is that, while I can look at the pictures and admire them (if that's the word) I have no idea whether I can trust anything in the actual text, since any given claim might just be an LLM confabulation.

(Which is too bad, since on the face of it it seems quite interesting, and probably many of the things the LLM has generated are in fact true.)

Less of this, please.

latexr•2h ago
And six of the seven links in the “sources” are dead. For an article published last year. I searched them in the Internet Archive and didn’t find a single match. And we’re talking CNN, BBC, The Guardian, amongst others.
malfist•2h ago
This is really disappointing. Did any of these things actually exist?
latexr•2h ago
> Did any of these things actually exist?

The single live link suggests that they do.

https://deadlypreygallery.com

zahlman•1h ago
Agreed, and "definite scent" is underselling it. I didn't even attempt any deep analysis; I just skimmed a bit and found this bit and noped right out:

> The posters were typically painted on used flour sacks, sewn together and primed for colour. These weren’t just any flour sacks either — they were durable, easy to roll up, and ready for reuse.

> And the designs? Let’s just say they didn’t rely too heavily on accuracy.

LLM writing tropes that are so bad, they're good.

dmurray•25m ago
I thought the writing was banal but fine. The stars of the show are the images, not the text. Assuming it's largely LLM written, this seems like a good use of that technology.

The text adds some pieces of information you wouldn't get from the images alone: they were painted on flour sacks, used at mobile cinemas, now exhibited at galleries in the West, etc. And it provides citations and artists' names for those who want to learn more.

The art criticism is unsophisticated, the images don't completely match the descriptions, and some of the facts might well be hallucinated or at least taken out of context. But you got that with traditional media and human writers/editors too.

For what it's worth, I'd guess there is a real author, whose command of the English language is worse than ChatGPT, though his personality is more interesting, and who asked the LLM to rewrite his work in the right style for the website.

zahlman•8m ago
> For what it's worth, I'd guess there is a real author, whose command of the English language is worse than ChatGPT, and who asked the LLM to rewrite his work in the right style for the website.

Sure. But if the author doesn't notice the nonsense that the LLM is introducing, it harms as well as helping.

"Primed for colour" is a strangely uninteresting thing to be saying about the sacks. If this requires any non-trivial effort, it would make more sense to describe the process. If the author actually wanted to talk about that, chances are the LLM removed useful information.

And putting aside that "These weren’t just any flour sacks either — they were durable, easy to roll up, and ready for reuse." is three "classic LLM tropes" in a row ("not just any"; a gratuitous emdash where any dash at all only becomes necessary because of that introduction; an ascending tricolon), it's just a bizarre thing to say. First off, if the sacks were sewn together to make a larger banner, then it doesn't make sense to talk about rolling up the individual sacks. Second, the phrasing suggests something exceptional, but these are all totally ordinary and trivial properties of pretty much any sort of flour sack. Many different materials are used, but all of them would be "easy to roll up" when empty, and making them durable and reusable is just common sense in that environment. The artists were clearly just using a fairly obvious material they had at hand, so this sudden bit of marketing-speak is entirely out of place. Third, the features highlighted all have to do with the sacks, but not with either each other nor the banners. In particular, a sack being "ready for reuse" is ready for reuse as a sack, not for its material being repurposed for something completely different (we typically call that "recycling", not "reuse").

The bit about "the designs" may well even be true, but it's a complete non-sequitur here, a point that doesn't really merit deeper explanation.

The writing isn't just "banal" but nonsensical in context, veering off into free-association. There's more potentially being hallucinated here than just the "facts". Never mind the accuracy or truth of what's written; this sort of thing makes it hard to accept that the prose even reflects the author's intent.

mock-possum•1h ago
Yeah it’s sadly obvious this is llm-generated
low_tech_love•53m ago
The worst part of this is how it has this kind of buzzfeed-like style of semi-tongue-in-cheek-but-still-politically-correct aesthetics. Is this what regression to the mean is in the future of AI writing? Are we doomed to read buzzfeed everywhere now?
Mistletoe•2h ago
A shop near me sells these and they are amazing. Lots more on the instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/losone_african_arts/

RRWagner•2h ago
No comments here about the odd non-standard "say yes to say no" sliders for data collection and selling? I've only seen this a few times in privacy settings windows but enough times that I'm now wary of just assuming that gray means opt-out.
latexr•1h ago
Not sure what you’re seeing, but I’ve seen that particular window several times (and no sliders). Very easy to “Disagree” or “Reject All”.

Anyway, those are usually avoided in comments unless they are particularly egregious, because as per the guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

RRWagner•45m ago
Got it! Thanks!
ChrisMarshallNY•2h ago
Looks like MOBA needs to add a new wing: https://museumofbadart.org
softfalcon•1h ago
The Kevin Costner Robin Hood one is really well done though
5-•1h ago
bonus: soviet star wars posters: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-poste...

(the bbc seem to have lost the body of their original article)

newobj•1h ago
if they're so bad they're good ... they're actually just good. probably because they capture something increasingly rare: the human and personal touch of an artist who's not straight jacketed by "safe mode" marketing, editorial norms, analytics, blah blah blah
gitremote•55m ago
Yes, they're amazingly good given they didn't have copies of the original posters, Internet access to get reference images, or even VCRs at home to play the movies themselves.

The clickbait title is about "Africa" and "bad", but it's specifically about Ghana and awesome.

prmph•1h ago
Why not just say movie posters from Ghana? What is connection between these and the concept of African, I wonder?

Anyway, I'm Ghanaian, and you can AMA. There's a lot of such art, many on walls of the erstwhile movie houses. Most of them are very realistic and collectible, but I guess only the garish ones command attention and so are easier to make into a story.

As a kid I once watched an artist paint one of these on a wall in a few hours, was very cool.

sigwinch•50m ago
There are some Ghanaian movies trending right now on streaming. And part of the marketing is that Ghana produces way more per capita than Nigeria.
prmph•38m ago
Are you talking about movies per capita or general production per capita?
cm2012•42m ago
Are there any Ghana-made movies or shows you would recommend?
113•11m ago
There's a weird way of engaging with cinema from a few African countries that requires wrapping yourself in irony before you enjoy them.
kelvinjps10•1h ago
The jursssick one looks sick https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5cc5f_1dadcd401b9e43c083...
scuff3d•1h ago
The Sister Act one is the greatest thing I've ever seen
JKCalhoun•1h ago
Is some ways, that poster for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is more violent than the actual film.
low_tech_love•58m ago
Amazing images, shitty lazy meaningless AI text.
fart-fart-FART•54m ago
the matrix has fallen.

billions must die.

29athrowaway•54m ago
Looks like the US box art for Mega Man 1.

I like this movie poster art. I think it conceptually reflects what you will see in the movie. It also looks genuine and authentic.

ru6xul6•42m ago
This is intriguing! Reminds me of an old movie theatre in Taiwan that still uses hand-painted posters, until the theatre closed down earlier this year.

A BBC article on it: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20181107-the-last-film-po...