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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
190•theblazehen•2d ago•54 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
678•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
953•xnx•20h ago•552 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
125•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
25•kaonwarb•3d ago•20 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
61•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
233•isitcontent•15h ago•25 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
226•dmpetrov•15h ago•121 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
38•jesperordrup•5h ago•17 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
332•vecti•17h ago•145 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
498•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
384•ostacke•20h ago•96 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
360•aktau•21h ago•183 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
20•speckx•3d ago•10 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
291•eljojo•17h ago•181 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
413•lstoll•21h ago•279 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
6•matt_d•3d ago•1 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
20•bikenaga•3d ago•10 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
66•kmm•5d ago•9 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
93•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
259•i5heu•17h ago•200 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
38•gmays•10h ago•12 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1073•cdrnsf•1d ago•457 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
60•gfortaine•12h ago•26 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
291•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•71 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
154•SerCe•10h ago•144 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•14h ago•14 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
186•limoce•3d ago•102 comments
Open in hackernews

Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others

https://elevenlabs.io/iconic-marketplace
21•obiefernandez•2mo ago

Comments

flkelfe•2mo ago
Classic shovel mentality.

> Request licensing for ...

Translation: "We'll be your middle man..."

I find it hard to believe they already have the 'Ok' from Maya Angelou. Maybe I'm wrong.

JasonFPath10•2mo ago
Agreed.

Regardless of getting the "ok" or not, this use of AI just feels morbid.

a2dam•2mo ago
An enormous bummer of a fact is that Majel Barrett, who was the voice of the computer on Star Trek (along with a number of other roles), did phonetic voice recordings specifically to reproduce her voice, yet nobody has used those recordings to do so. I'd love to see her on this list.
squigz•2mo ago
You mean Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Riix, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed?
IAmBroom•2mo ago
No, they meant Nurse Chapel.
sillywalk•2mo ago
Or Lady Morella, the psychic third wife of Centauri Emperor Turhan.
KetoManx64•2mo ago
There's plenty of open source tools out there that you can use to do this. Why wait for someone else to make something that you're passionate about?
rocmcd•2mo ago
Maybe I'm getting old, but, I have to say, seeing stuff like "Alan Turing™" (a legend and titan of computing history, followed by a ™) really bums me out. I don't believe for one second that any of the deceased people listed here would want their likeness emulated in such a hollow, mechanical, and inhuman way for all of eternity.
inhumantsar•2mo ago
blame their heirs I guess?
serf•2mo ago
absolutely. I felt total disgust. 'Lana Turner (tm)' takes all of the humanity out of the person and reduces them down to an IP and it's gross.
vagab0nd•2mo ago
> I don't believe for one second that any of the deceased people listed here would want their likeness emulated in such a hollow, mechanical, and inhuman way for all of eternity.

Would the mummy in the Egyptian exhibition want their lifeless body shown to the public for all of eternity? Isn't this how the world always works: once you are dead, nobody really cares about you except maybe your trust and immediate descendants.

rocmcd•2mo ago
The mummy example is interesting, but we're not trying to reanimate mummies in an artificial way so I'm not sure it poses the same issue. There's also an educational and historical aspect with mummies that is missing here.

This also allows for the creation of a kind of "anti-history", where someone could create a fictional history for nefarious purposes.

In fact, a common undercurrent I see with many AI use cases is accelerating the breakdown of trust in society. You can no longer trust anything you read, see, or hear.

AIorNot•2mo ago
Yikes
andrewstuart•2mo ago
It makes sense to allow people to license their own voice on a per project basis.

Voices of dead actors? Feels wrong.

rasse•2mo ago
I'd personally want to hear new voices, not more of the same. I wonder if products like this take away from the opportunity for new talent to arise.
_qua•2mo ago
They have hundreds of new voices in their library
linksnapzz•2mo ago
Of varying quality; I am not at all convinced by their "Boston" or "Yorkshire" accents.
mentos•2mo ago
Won’t this just lead to these iconic voices becoming a commodity and being played everywhere and losing their value?
theothertimcook•2mo ago
These are not all iconic voices, people definitely but what about:

Bootsy Collins, Snoop Dogg, Gilbert Gottfried , Arnie, Christopher Walken, Matt Berry....

Imagine the cast of Futurama voice acting the Bhagavad-Gita, or Vincent price reading twilight, this is the cutting edge shit the world needs.

zamadatix•2mo ago
The Eleven Labs list seems to be almost all deceased, if not retired. This is likely easier than licensing the voice of someone actively selling it already. For the others in your list that match this criteria, probably just a matter of demand.
DiabloD3•2mo ago
This is kind of disgusting. I hope they're pushed out of business for this gross violation of the dead. The families and estates of the dead should also be ashamed for trying to ride that corpse for a few more dollars.

I'm kinda weirded out that there are sibling comments that think this is okay.

mickeyfrac•2mo ago
I, and presumably my genes, would be very pleased if my descendants could benefit more from my work today.
simian1983•2mo ago
I’ll bet these are licensing deals with the families and estates of the actors. These synthetic voices will provide ongoing income, long after the actors are gone.
linksnapzz•2mo ago
I understand that James Earl Jones licensed his voice to Disney for future portrayals of Darth Vader.
jansenmac•2mo ago
Michael Caine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY
paradox242•2mo ago
Gross.