Hacker News: jfil

Making AI Movies

jfil — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:24:25 +0000

Article URL: https://dawndrain.notion.site/Making-AI-Movies-39cbb81dad798077b43adcd96e3ebe75

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000228

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jfil in "1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored"

jfil — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:17:03 +0000

"The plates were originally engraved in steel to ensure fine lines before being hand-colored on the small prints which measured only approximately 4 × 6 inches...

Once the black-and-white images were printed, they were passed to teams of colorists who applied watercolors by hand."

New comment by jfil in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

jfil — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:28:07 +0000

Your portfolio site is neat! Let me know when you launch your blog - I'm a fellow Torontonian and will add it to my RSS reader.

New comment by jfil in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

jfil — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:45:46 +0000

In the cyber bowels of Neo Tokyo, there is only one rule: real hackers speak Navajo

New comment by jfil in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

jfil — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:58:00 +0000

Ooh, sharp eye ;-) You are correct.

New comment by jfil in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

jfil — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:08:16 +0000

I'm glad it hit the spot. There is a piece by Christian Miles that got me thinking in this direction, which you might enjoy: https://ammil.industries/i-know-you-didnt-write-this/

Proof of care in the age of AI

jfil — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:56:25 +0000

Article URL: https://jacobfilipp.com/care/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48906125

Points: 185

# Comments: 110

New comment by jfil in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

jfil — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:06:39 +0000

I took quite a few accounting courses in University. For every topic we covered, our business school ensured that we wrapped up by examining a case of fraud involving that mechanism. I am grateful that now I know what not to do, and that professional accountants are well versed in all the lates types of fraud so that they can stay away from it.

New comment by jfil in "Is There Any End to the Atlantic's "End-Ism" Fetish?"

jfil — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:40:44 +0000

I asked Google AI what I should think about this piece, and it told me that if a writer can't write without constantly asking Google AI things, then I should probably go read something else.

New comment by jfil in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

jfil — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:02:31 +0000

https://knuckleheads.club/ <- more info for anyone who wants to go deeper

New comment by jfil in "Lucky young couple lands gig taking care of uninhabited Irish island"

jfil — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:16:53 +0000

There is an episode of Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild (S18 E2) where you can see what it's like to be a caretaker on this island.

New comment by jfil in "Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata"

jfil — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:37:45 +0000

I love that!

New comment by jfil in "Weak hands and blurry vision: Is your tech giving you 'phone body'?"

jfil — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:05:12 +0000

Thankfully, our body is already compensating by growing sturdy protective skull spikes to repel predators (https://www.earth.com/news/looking-down-phone-skull/)

New comment by jfil in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

jfil — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:58:47 +0000

Regular end-consumers didn't pay them anything. The people paying were corporations that advertised online. Through Google's publisher network (Adsense), their Doubleclick acquisition and the DART For Publishers middleware, and the ad buying tool (Google Ads), they completely price-fixed the market. Add to that "Jedi Blue", their non-compete cartel with Meta, and you can see Google is built on crime.

New comment by jfil in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

jfil — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:36:08 +0000

A free market with functioning anti-monopoly enforcement is a simple solution. Why trust in a government enforced Supply Management system when the same government can't manage to punish a clear criminal conspiracy to price-fix?

Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata

jfil — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/heikki/blog/004-december-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770291

Points: 216

# Comments: 50

New comment by jfil in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

jfil — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:52:54 +0000

I just thought of an interesting thought experiment. Inagine a politician who kowtows to racists and does their bidding for his whole career and then, just before grabbing the presidency, he has a heart attack and dies. How would you see his legacy? What can you say about the essence of this person?

New comment by jfil in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

jfil — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:29:24 +0000

Reminds me of a forecasting book I read. The author highlighted that services such as The Weather Network are entertainment/ad-media services first and foremost, and they'll serve you inaccurate forecasts to make sure you return. This isn't the same goal as something like the gov. of Canada forecasts.

Now, despite that, for some reason the Weather Network forecasts do tend to reflect reality than the Govt. ones. Maybe their hype is working on me.

New comment by jfil in "Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art"

jfil — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:44:43 +0000

I was going to reach out and share the Japanese type art of the Grand Opera House, but looks like you already found my site :-)

Also check out RTTY art (radio teletype) http://taipeisignalarmy.blogspot.com/2010/09/teletype-art.ht... And Stigmatypie (moving type art, with mostly periods) https://stewf.tumblr.com/post/81162862081/stigmatypie-19th-c...

New comment by jfil in "When The C/C++ Users Journal Disappeared"

jfil — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:46:30 +0000

I encourage 'yall to reflect on how the content of the CUJ disappeared as Dr. Dobbs' magazine was shut down (along with Dr. Dobbs' own content). If this reader base - tech savvy and archival minded - will not save copies of these classic magazines, then what hope of archival do other communities' magazines have?

You can still find a CUJ archive in a secret corner of my website.