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Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019]

https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element
32•nixass•1h ago

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WalterGR•1h ago
(2019)
sschueller•1h ago
Off topic but Milla Jovovich just released an AI memory called mempalace:

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace

dmos62•56m ago
Interesting to see programming and acting worlds cross-pollinate.
electroglyph•38m ago
nah, a crypto grifter released one with cooked benchmarks
grenoire•1h ago
I love this movie so much it's _unreal_. What an experience, every single time.

And each time I see an article like this, I simply marvel at the immense love for art and life it has. What an incredibly talented crew, what product of mastery and care.

sixtyj•58m ago
He continued with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

The Fifth Element has similar cinematic feeling as the first Blade Runner.

And now it is clear. There is the same person behind it :)

metalman•43m ago
waterworld
Joel_Mckay•16m ago
Adam Savage covered the Mondoshawan props on his channel last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5dPrmBvwE

It was a fun film, but Chris Tucker broke the pacing too many times for a general audience. Even now on rottentomatoes his role still distracts focus from the character arcs.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fifth_element

Was a cult classic for sure, but nowhere near Blade Runner as a film. =3

tomaytotomato•6m ago
I have fond memories of the Fifth Element, as one of my first PG-13 movies at the cinema that I was allowed to see as a 9-10 year old.

Looking back, the whole story gives a different futuristic feel to the usual gloomy polluted dystopian earths, and feels a bit, "near-future".

Seeing hover cars getting drive through McDonalds will forever be a future hope for me (my inner 10 year old self)

Sam6late•1m ago
I was in Paris years ago and took these photos of the actual cab models that were on display. Enjoy https://imgur.com/a/txIHpJT

LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
791•pluc•10h ago•272 comments

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0/apr26-1e/donate/
99•playfultones•3h ago•55 comments

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
1618•blkhp19•19h ago•285 comments

Open Source Security at Astral

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral
211•vinhnx•6h ago•41 comments

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019]

https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element
32•nixass•1h ago•10 comments

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-month-claude-spend/
30•kisamoto•2h ago•29 comments

C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don't Use

https://darkounity.com/blog/c-in-unity-2026-features-most-developers-still-dont-use
33•hacker_13•2d ago•15 comments

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

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6•eigenspace•59m ago•0 comments

Haunted Paper Toys

http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
103•exvi•3d ago•7 comments

Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK

https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and-thats-not-ok.html
87•sixhobbits•1h ago•67 comments

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6
57•kristianp•4d ago•15 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/
313•WerWolv•15h ago•38 comments

Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

https://botctl.dev/
46•ankitg12•5h ago•10 comments

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

https://kalmanfilter.net
354•alex_be•17h ago•46 comments

They're made out of meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
556•surprisetalk•23h ago•151 comments

The Importance of Being Idle

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
200•Caiero•2d ago•115 comments

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
510•jfirebaugh•1d ago•620 comments

ML promises to be profoundly weird

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508•pabs3•22h ago•508 comments

Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting

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13•JKCalhoun•2d ago•4 comments

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
2066•grepsedawk•1d ago•450 comments

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
349•chabons•19h ago•333 comments

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/improving-storage-efficiency-in-magic-pocket-our-immutable-bl...
15•laluser•5d ago•0 comments

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

https://www.perfectlynormal.co.uk/blog-kl-divergence
86•jxmorris12•1d ago•11 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
303•chrsw•22h ago•54 comments

I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit

https://oseifert.ch/blog/linux-kernel-pgit
133•ImGajeed76•3d ago•21 comments

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/
120•frizlab•15h ago•57 comments

Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands

https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/
31•hebelehubele•4d ago•5 comments

Understanding Traceroute

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/
134•stonecharioteer•3d ago•22 comments

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

380•e-topy•3d ago•564 comments

Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

https://github.com/meribold/btry
52•meribold•2d ago•14 comments