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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
289•theblazehen•2d ago•95 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
20•alainrk•1h ago•10 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
34•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
14•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
717•klaussilveira•16h ago•217 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
978•xnx•21h ago•562 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
94•jesperordrup•6h ago•35 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
11•tosh•1h ago•8 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
138•matheusalmeida•2d ago•36 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
74•videotopia•4d ago•11 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
16•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
46•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
242•isitcontent•16h ago•27 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
242•dmpetrov•16h ago•128 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
4•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

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https://vecti.com
344•vecti•18h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
510•todsacerdoti•1d ago•248 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
393•ostacke•22h ago•101 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
309•eljojo•19h ago•192 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•187 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
437•lstoll•22h ago•286 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
32•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•31 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
73•kmm•5d ago•11 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•13 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•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/
278•i5heu•19h ago•227 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...
43•gmays•11h ago•14 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/
1088•cdrnsf•1d ago•469 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
312•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
36•romes•4d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

https://frinkiac.com/
175•GlumWoodpecker•2mo ago

Comments

milchek•2mo ago
"Medium Setting!" - https://frinkiac.com/gif/S03E22/319309/322862/

The GIF generator works well. Nice work!

You could probably delete some of the frames that have credits shown over them - since you have plenty of material already anyway, for example: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S17E16/137763 or https://frinkiac.com/caption/S16E09/162162

monkpit•2mo ago
Frinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)
reaperhulk•2mo ago
We launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it’s been slightly over a decade at this point.
hemmert•2mo ago
Congratulations, really nice! I wasn’t aware of this.
MBCook•2mo ago
Has it been that long? I remember having a ton of fun with it when it first launched.

Great job.

deanputney•2mo ago
Have you written about the tech behind Frinkiac and Morbotron at all? I'm super curious how it works (although I'm sure I could guess), and also how it might be generalized for other shows. Hosting infrastructure and cost to run would be interesting too!
jasongill•2mo ago
I've always wished the GIF generator could embed the subtitle like the single frame "make a meme" feature can, but it does work surprisingly well
ChrisKnott•2mo ago
You can do this [0] just press Add Meme after Make GIF.

[0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82...

jasongill•2mo ago
doh!
dan-g•2mo ago
See also: https://morbotron.com/ for Futurama!
Jordan-117•2mo ago
And https://masterofallscience.com/ for Rick and Morty.

edit: Though it seems to be somewhat outdated.

evan_•2mo ago
and https://funcooker.fun/ for 30 Rock. (I think the Frinkiac people used to run a different 30 Rock page but it went away at some point)
thejazzman•2mo ago
https://amphetamem.es/ For everything else!
TZubiri•2mo ago
You know, I tried to look for source code or a downloadable database, to play with a local fork, but I haven't found much.
balls187•2mo ago
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E16/277226

LOL

TYPE_FASTER•2mo ago
mmmmm cromulent
redrix•2mo ago
You’ve really embiggened this post with your cromulent comment.
Zee2•2mo ago
Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.
adzm•2mo ago
How would someone go about doing this, just curious?
wincy•2mo ago
You’d just run every picture through CLIP, essentially you run an image generator backwards. Instead of text to image like most end users use when using something like stable diffusion (been awhile since I’ve done this), it can do the exact opposite and generate tokens (just words in this case) to describe the input image.

I’d guess famous characters like Bart and Marge and other Simpsons characters would likely be known by the tokenizer so it’d be pretty easy. So then you’d be able to guess.

Feel free to correct me on small details if anyone has this more fresh in their mind but I’m roughly correct here.

petercooper•2mo ago
Agreed. If you search for Barney, say, none of the top ten picture him at all and is mostly people speaking to or about him. Even running them through a vision LLM for a list of keywords would yield better results than the subtitles, I suspect.
redrix•2mo ago
I actually prefer it this way.

When I use Frinkiac, I already know the quote (or at least a few words from it), and I simply want a still or short gif of it (with a customized caption typically).

YMMV of course.

aizk•2mo ago
Very cool. Maybe add some image embeddings for additional metadata for the search results?
martythemaniak•2mo ago
For enjoyers of classic simpsons, I highly recommend /r/simpsonsshitposting, a delightful blend classic simpsons, absurdist/surrealist/dadaist art, multilayered inside jokes and often NSFW content. It could not exist without The Frinkiac.
uza80•2mo ago
My primary news source.
UncleSlacky•2mo ago
Also /r/The_Leftorium...
mparnisari•2mo ago
I love this website. I wish I could search it in Spanish. I grew up watching the Simpsons in Spanish and I sometimes struggle to find the right clip because I don't know the exact translation
j45•2mo ago
Very cool.

"Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...

Can't find other clips by quote.

Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.

j45•2mo ago
"Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...

Can't find other clips by quote.

Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.

It would be great to add the meme mode to the gif rendering so it was captioned.

acomjean•2mo ago
We used this Max Power quote at work.

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E13/786535

greekrich92•2mo ago
Possibly the best and most important website on the internet
wyldfire•2mo ago
> Inflammable means flammable?

> What a country!

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S12E18/437896

paulsmith•2mo ago
I'm glad you shared this because, in my head this Dr. Nick quote is so canonical it must be from the original golden 8 seasons, so it's nice to be reminded there are occasionally good things after! ;^)
wyldfire•2mo ago
"Bake him away, toys"

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/1285083

wyldfire•2mo ago
> No one who speaks German can be an evil man.

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/566865

horsellama•2mo ago
shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)

https://asdfasdf.fyi

sefrost•2mo ago
FYI - https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/
ChrisKnott•2mo ago
This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week.

I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching quote below the matching frame, and it doesn’t seem to support phrase queries.

A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.

JeremyHerrman•2mo ago
shameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for dozens of TV shows and movies:

https://amphetamem.es/

AmbroseBierce•2mo ago
No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.
thejazzman•2mo ago
Pre-AI it’s tedious to find/fix/verify the subtitles — and there are a lot of episodes of South Park. Literally the reason why it’s not there :|
AmbroseBierce•2mo ago
If you sort the top 50 best rated episodes of all time on IMDb you would already have 90% or the quotes people search for, so I would focus on your those if you ever try to take a stab at it.
GlumWoodpecker•2mo ago
Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.
zote•2mo ago
Your post was chosen for the second-chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
GlumWoodpecker•2mo ago
Thanks for the clarification!
kotaKat•2mo ago
sometimes you'll also get an email from hn as well letting you know you got a second chance submission ;)

SUBJECT "Your submission <name> will be re-upped"

OisinMoran•2mo ago
Some funny related cultural trivia is that often Americans find the hardest thing about integrating into Irish culture is how much we reference the Simpsons in day to day life.
quotemstr•2mo ago
The span of Simpsons meme literacy is identical to the span of western civilization.
OisinMoran•2mo ago
Span? Yes. Density? Not as much. I only say it as I've been surprised on several occasions by American friends living here voicing the same thing. I think it may have been in part due to some fortuitous scheduling making it so that literally every Irish person above a certain age has seen a heap of episodes. That and possibly that there wasn't much else on.
dalyons•2mo ago
Same as Australia, if you’re a millennial/genx. Only 4 tv channels and one of them was showing endless simpsons repeats in the after school time slot. Almost everyone knows s1-11 references.

Kids these days with their on demand streaming don’t understand the monoculture :)

redrix•2mo ago
Absolutely! Australian Millennial year. Grew up watching S2-8 every night over dinner on Channel 10 (IIRC), and I sometimes think I could communicate exclusively in Simpsons quotes from that era.
ares623•2mo ago
TIL i'm part Irish
dirtybirdnj•2mo ago
The gif maker workflow is fantastic, amazing how smooth it was an the output is clean and crisp. Beautiful UX I practically tripped over this feature without even thinking about it and it worked great.
ThrowawayTestr•2mo ago
I prefer comb.io, it has full clips
redrix•2mo ago
IMO Frinkiac is hard to beat if you just want to caption a Simpsons image (or gif) and share it directly; particularly with a few words modified to fit the situation.

comb.io is good for those occasions where you need the actual clip with audio.

Just my own opinion of course!

reaperhulk•2mo ago
Maybe for our tenth anniversary we should update the codebase and finish some features we haven’t touched in a decade…
redrix•2mo ago
Thank you for putting together and maintaining Frinkiac!

I use Frinkiac multiple times a week to share memes with friends. We all grew up watching S1-8 weeknights over dinner and can quote those episodes almost flawlessly.

Would love to read some blog posts on how the site works, anecdotes from 10 years of maintaining it, legal troubles faced (etc)!

davnicwil•2mo ago
A friend of mine uses frinkiac all the time, I wasn't sure where he was sourcing all these quotes/memes from until he told me about it a few months ago.

Awesome to see you're on HN. I'll take the opportunity to say thanks for this service! We're of that cohort who grew up on the simpsons and it formed a large part (a majority?) of our humour.

Brings joy and laughs to my friend group at least!

philsnow•2mo ago
Is the reason there isn't a perfect show/movie-to-meme site with All the features and All the shows, that such a site would attract notice from rightsholders and then implode from fending off spurious legal complaints?
brigham•2mo ago
Playphrase is pretty good

https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=spurious&language=en

echo42null•2mo ago
cool; https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E02/tcqDQyGgz-EeKltdDceypD3NHA...
seg_lol•2mo ago
> I have wasted my life

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E04/211961

Theodores•2mo ago
This really works!

I wanted the scene where Homer is pulling an all nighter and orders Marge to put the coffee pot on. Search terms 'coffee pot' and hey presto:

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S15E22/1142350

hatmanstack•2mo ago
Had no idea this existed and IMHO what the internet was made for. Well played sir. https://frinkiac.com/video/S12E09/5fI0bxc31gXMaJNjLhbIeyRQP6...
kristianp•2mo ago
MONEY CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR GOODS AND SERVICES https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/145628

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/147696