<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gyan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gyan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:48:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gyan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Three constraints before I build anything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How big is this page and what's the font size?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:03:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918555</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Show HN: I fixed FFmpeg's subtitle conversion (the bug from 2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you do open PRs at code.ffmpeg.org, remember to disclose and describe the AI contribution. You will also need to add FATE tests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467248</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "FFmpeg 8.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Changelog:<p>ffprobe -codec option<p>EXIF Metadata Parsing<p>gfxcapture: Windows.Graphics.Capture based window/monitor capture<p>hxvs demuxer for HXVS/HXVT IP camera format<p>MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding via mpeghdec<p>D3D12 H.264 encoder<p>drawvg filter via libcairo<p>ffmpeg CLI tiled HEIF support<p>D3D12 AV1 encoder<p>ProRes Vulkan hwaccel<p>DPX Vulkan hwaccel<p>Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoder<p>Add vf_scale_d3d12 filter<p>JPEG-XS parser<p>JPEG-XS decoder and encoder through libsvtjpegxs<p>JPEG-XS raw bitstream muxer and demuxer<p>IAMF Projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing<p>Add vf_mestimate_d3d12 filter<p>xHE-AAC Mps212 decoding support (experimental)<p>Remove the old HLS protocol handler<p>Vulkan compute codec optimizations<p>swscale Vulkan support<p>LCEVC metadata bitstream filter<p>Add vf_deinterlace_d3d12 filter<p>ffprobe: only show refs field in stream section when reading frames<p>ProRes Vulkan encoder<p>LCEVC parser<p>LCEVC enhancement layer exporting in MPEG-TS</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:51:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413526</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FFmpeg 8.1]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1">https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413525">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413525</a></p>
<p>Points: 438</p>
<p># Comments: 65</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:51:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare" has been released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My earlier flotsam: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404142">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404142</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409400</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "FFmpeg 8.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Changelog:<p>ffprobe -codec option<p>EXIF Metadata Parsing<p>gfxcapture: Windows.Graphics.Capture based window/monitor capture<p>hxvs demuxer for HXVS/HXVT IP camera format<p>MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding via mpeghdec<p>D3D12 H.264 encoder<p>drawvg filter via libcairo<p>ffmpeg CLI tiled HEIF support<p>D3D12 AV1 encoder<p>ProRes Vulkan hwaccel<p>DPX Vulkan hwaccel<p>Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoder<p>Add vf_scale_d3d12 filter<p>JPEG-XS parser<p>JPEG-XS decoder and encoder through libsvtjpegxs<p>JPEG-XS raw bitstream muxer and demuxer<p>IAMF Projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing<p>Add vf_mestimate_d3d12 filter<p>xHE-AAC Mps212 decoding support (experimental)<p>Remove the old HLS protocol handler<p>Vulkan compute codec optimizations<p>swscale Vulkan support<p>LCEVC metadata bitstream filter<p>Add vf_deinterlace_d3d12 filter<p>ffprobe: only show refs field in stream section when reading frames<p>ProRes Vulkan encoder<p>LCEVC parser<p>LCEVC enhancement layer exporting in MPEG-TS</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404143</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FFmpeg 8.1]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1">https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404142">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404142</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> with ffmpeg you need to make two temporary videos and then concatenate them<p>It can be done in a single command, no temp files needed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402920</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> These guys did not even bother with an official huggingface space<p><a href="https://huggingface.co/sarvamai" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/sarvamai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:21:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286619</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The dupe is what I linked.
The orig is <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/601972" rel="nofollow">https://superuser.com/questions/601972</a><p>The orig wants a mono output with one of the original channels as signal source. This involves downmixing i.e. rematrixing the audio.<p>The dupe want to just mute one of the channels, not repan it. One can't apply map_channel to do what the dupe wants.<p>One can use a couple of methods to achieve the dupe, including pan. But the syntax of pan needed for the dupe case is not the same as the orig, or deducible from it. They need to consult the docs (fortuitously, the dupe case is an illustrated example) or get a direct answer. The 'technique' shown in the orig is not intuitively adaptable to the dupe - one needs to know about the implicit muting that pan applies, which is not documented or evident in the orig answer. So it's not a duplicate of the source Q.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:20:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491204</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But if you had a personal experience, it will be easier to look within your questions on your profile page.<p>I answer Qs on this topic, not post them.<p>----<p>Here's an example I found:<p><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/1929615/" rel="nofollow">https://superuser.com/questions/1929615/</a>
(the canonical q is about extracting as mono, the closed q is about muting one channel)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:41:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486471</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Please feel free to cite specific examples. I'll be happy to explain policy.<p>How do I search for Qs closed as duplicates with a certain tag?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:16:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486025</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are positing that only questions with cosmetic or extraneous differences are marked as duplicates.<p>That's not the case. As a maintainer of a popular project who has engaged with thousands of Qs on SO related to that project, I've seen many Qs marked as duplicate where the actual answer would be different in a non-trivial manner. When I look at who all moderated on those Qs, they are usually users who haven't contributed to that topic at SO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:30:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485793</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "FFmpeg 8.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>corrected</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 05:05:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993327</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44993327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FFmpeg 8.0]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0">https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985730">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985730</a></p>
<p>Points: 987</p>
<p># Comments: 200</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:22:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FFmpeg 8.0]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/src/tag/n8.0/Changelog">https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/src/tag/n8.0/Changelog</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983282">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983282</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:39:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/src/tag/n8.0/Changelog</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital [video]Tape Guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/Digital-Tape-Guide">https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/Digital-Tape-Guide</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707311">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707311</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:49:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/Digital-Tape-Guide</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except for their immune systems or lactose tolerance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708927</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "How Kerala got rich"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remittances for 2023 made up 23% of state GDP.<p>Table 5.2, pg 51 of <a href="https://iimad.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/KMS-2023-Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://iimad.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/KMS-2023-Report...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 04:49:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512829</link><dc:creator>gyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gyan in "A letter to open-source maintainers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can’t solve the problem of understanding norms by writing copy<p>You can mitigate the problem by adding a short summation <i>before or in between</i> something they're likely to read.</p>
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