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New comment by ArcaneMoose in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

ArcaneMoose — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:09:11 +0000

More scenarios:

- AI generated VFX on top of non-AI video

- AI upscaling of low res footage

- AI frame interpolation for synthetic slow-mo

- Modified / composited AI video

- Footage created by "Extend Scene" features in Premiere Pro and others

- Word correction from tools like Descript

- AI relighting or colorization

- Reaction video to a video containing AI-generated content

And in general, what amount of combination of any of these applications constitutes as "AI generated"? If I have a 30 minute video with a 3 second AI generated clip, do I get the same label as full-blown AI slop video?

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

ArcaneMoose — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:01:46 +0000

I absolutely hate those full-blown AI 'explainers' that just have AI voiceover and a bunch of auto-placed b-roll. I don't want to see them. But I don't think that falls in the same bucket as a creative short film with some AI-generated SFX or someone doing a tutorial with an AI-generated lofi track in the background.

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

ArcaneMoose — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:31:41 +0000

I'm curious where the line is.. several ambiguous but common scenarios:

- Occasional AI b-roll during explainer videos

- AI generated backing track (music)

- AI generated shots sprinkled in a short film

- Showing examples of AI video as an AI capability update or commentary

Skills Folder Is a Junk Drawer

ArcaneMoose — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:17:19 +0000

Article URL: https://james-pritchard.com/blog/skills-junk-drawer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289145

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "MCP is dead; long live MCP"

ArcaneMoose — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:16:22 +0000

I still think MCP is completely unnecessary (and have from the start). The article correctly points out where CLI > MCP but stops short on 2 points:

1. Documenting the interface without MCP. This problem is best solved by the use of Skills which can contain instructions for both CLIs and APIs (or any other integration). Agents only load the relevant details when needed. This also makes it easy to customize the docs for the specific cases you are working with and build skills that use a subset of the tools.

2. Regarding all of the centralization benefits attributed to remote MCPs - you can get the same benefits with a traditional centralized proxy as well. MCP doesn't inherently grant you any of those benefits. If I use AWS sso via CLI, boom all of my permissions are tied to my account, benefit from central management, and have all the observability benefits.

In my mind, use Skills to document what to do and benefit from targeted progressive disclosure, and use CLIs and REST APIs for the actual interaction with services.

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

ArcaneMoose — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:04:34 +0000

Beautiful work!

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

ArcaneMoose — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:37:07 +0000

I was surprised by my own feelings at the end of the post. I kind of felt bad for the AI being "put down" in a weird way? Kinda like the feeling you get when you see a robot dog get kicked. Regardless, this has been a fun series to follow - thanks for sharing!

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

ArcaneMoose — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:51:31 +0000

Extensions have too many security risks for me. At this point I'd rather just vibe code my own extension than trust something with so much access and unpredictable ownership.

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

ArcaneMoose — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:08:45 +0000

Great write-up! Thanks for sharing your journey

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters"

ArcaneMoose — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:09:21 +0000

This model is awesome. I am building an infinite CYOA game and this was a drop-in replacement for my scene image generation. Faster, cheaper, and higher quality than what I was using before!

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models"

ArcaneMoose — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:02:21 +0000

I've been really impressed with this model specifically because of how insanely cheap it is: https://replicate.com/ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.3-2b

I didn't expect IBM to be making relevant AI models but this thing is priced at $1 per 4,000,000 output tokens... I'm using it to transcribe handwritten input text and it works very well and super fast.

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful"

ArcaneMoose — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:46:36 +0000

Not necessarily true! I think this interactive game applies: https://ncase.me/trust/

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others"

ArcaneMoose — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:58:30 +0000

Asking ChatGPT Agent to try doing this is hilarious

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone"

ArcaneMoose — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:50:07 +0000

This is exactly how I've been building software with AI lately. Getting AI to create a detailed plan with phases, then implement and use a separate AI to review the code. It works quite well! Curious to see how well it works when implemented directly in the IDE

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite"

ArcaneMoose — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:31:52 +0000

I recently struggled with PGlite for a while and ended up using full postgres via https://github.com/leinelissen/embedded-postgres which worked like a charm!

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Type-constrained code generation with language models"

ArcaneMoose — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:58:50 +0000

I think TypeScript is uniquely positioned to be the optimal language for LLMs. Tons of training data (benefiting from all the JS examples as well) plus the structure of types for LLMs to follow and tools to enforce.

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "3K free SVG icons for popular brands"

ArcaneMoose — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:10:17 +0000

Don't tell the guy who paid $70k for icons about this!

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Cursor tutorial: How I code 159% faster using AI"

ArcaneMoose — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:19:05 +0000

Highly recommend trying out Cursor. This tutorial goes through many of the key features; I figured it would be useful to anyone considering it.

I arrived at the 159% (~2.5x) by building the same app with Cursor and without it (happy to share that link if interested)

Cursor tutorial: How I code 159% faster using AI

ArcaneMoose — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:19:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk9lXobJ95E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321278

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ArcaneMoose in "Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?"

ArcaneMoose — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:05:33 +0000

My wife really loves Monarchs so we have planted a garden of milkweed and butterfly bushes. Monarchs will lay their eggs and then we make sure the caterpillars are doing well and have plenty of food. When they reach 5th instar and look for a place to turn into a chrysalis, we put them in a mesh enclosure to keep them safe and then release them once they emerge as butterflies!

It's been such an exciting thing to do every year and the kids love helping out too. It's a fun, satisfying, and easy way to help out! Highly recommend :)