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New comment by plastic3169 in "Seedance 2.5"

plastic3169 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:59:48 +0000

Often in making art you need to love the process. Otherwise you’ll never get good enough. Most filmmakers don’t even watch their films after they have spent years with it discussing, planning, shooting, editing etc. There is lots of travelling, new friendships, comradery involved and in a way it becomes the whole scaffolding of your life. Replacing this with prompting is probably not interesting to this particular group of people, but might be appealing to completely new set of people.

There are people who love coding and really dislike vibecoding, but atleast coding and prompting are the same mode of activity (typing in to a computer) so you don’t have to change your whole life to move from one to another.

Aztec Experiments

plastic3169 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:47:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vbuterin/aztec_experiments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981369

Points: 3

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New comment by plastic3169 in "The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic"

plastic3169 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:53:44 +0000

> Since I am well aware how my mind fills in gaps in the visual field with attempts to map what I would expect or want to see

Your mind also creates the visual field. It is not real even though it is usually quite consistent. Brain fills the gaps after it has filled all the rest.

Just a handy visualization of a world that is likely to be a lot more chaotic.

New comment by plastic3169 in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

plastic3169 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:47:02 +0000

Yes cli and tui are not the same, but I expect TUI to work decent in general terminal emulator and not acitvely block copying and pasting. Having to install supported terminal emulator goes against the vibe.

New comment by plastic3169 in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

plastic3169 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:26:52 +0000

I’ve been testing opencode and it feels TUI in appearance only. I prefer commandline and TUIs and in my mind TUI idea is to be low level, extremely portable interface and to get out of the way. Opencode does not have low color, standard terminal theme so had to switch to a proper terminal program. Copy paste is hijacked so I need to write code out to file in order to get a snippet. The enter key (as in the return by the keypad) does not work for sending a line. I have not tested but don’t think this would work over SSH even. I have been googling around to find if I am holding it wrong but it feels to break expectations of a terminal app in a way that I wish they would have made it a gui. Makes me sad because I think the goods are there and it’s otherwise good.

New comment by plastic3169 in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

plastic3169 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:49:06 +0000

Yes and it was a massive manual effort. In a way they acknowledged that keying does not really work all the way and having that unnatural color everywhere in the set is not worth it. It’s a massive production with heavy VFX work so not something you can apply to your own production. Sand screen and roto sections of this discussion are interesting.

https://youtu.be/UARrOsNPviA

New comment by plastic3169 in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

plastic3169 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:44:29 +0000

Anyone have recommendations on EU services where one could run open models before buying expensive hardware?

New comment by plastic3169 in "Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments"

plastic3169 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:12:00 +0000

Great work! I have been wondering what would it take to train with higher image bit depth (10 or 12b) and/or using camera footage only, not already heavily processed images? The usefulness of video generation in most professional use cases is limited because models are too end to end and completely contaminated with stock footage. Maybe quantities of training material needed is simply not there?

Not blaming you, but asking as I don’t usually have access to professionals working with video training.

New comment by plastic3169 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

plastic3169 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:15:55 +0000

Hate to say this, but manufacturing bitcoin would make the most sense. And hard to see how even that would work.

New comment by plastic3169 in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

plastic3169 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:13:08 +0000

I have started to use it to write small throwaway things. Like write a standalone debug shader that can display all this state on top of this image in real time. Not in a million years would I had spent time to mess with fonts in a shading language or bring in immediate gui framework or such. Codex could oneshot that kind of thing and the blast radius is one file that is not part of the project. Or write a separate python program that implements this core logic and double check my thinking. I am not a professional programmer though.

New comment by plastic3169 in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

plastic3169 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:53:22 +0000

The credit card tapping option should be required by law. This registering apps and fobs flow is the worst ux imaginable. And while we are at it the car should hold the payment info. Plugging it in should be enough. I know it’s all coming.

New comment by plastic3169 in "enclose.horse"

plastic3169 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:28:25 +0000

Great game, I returned back to play next day.

> I don’t think the gates should animate up into the air. It breaks the visual logic of 2D for no benefit.

I also feel it would make more sense either for everything to be 2.5D or pure top down. Having appear / disappear animation is nice feedback to user though.

Other thing is that maybe the hitbox should change when the wall comes up. Now to remove it you need to press the grid, essentially the root of the wall. Unintuitive to me.

Thanks for the game, looking forward to when there is multiple horses or sheep to enclose.

New comment by plastic3169 in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

plastic3169 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:39:14 +0000

> The reason nukes have been good is because it makes it clear that war is unwinnable which effectively ended direct conflict between world powers. Yet of course proxy wars are alive and well with Ukraine being the king of them all.

Not looking forward to being your proxywar or small regional conflict. It’s amazingly frustrating to be dragged into this without any provocation or possibility to actually affect the situation. Just unfortunate geography I guess.

I don’t think nukes stopped the direct conflict between world powers. They made it possible for the first time. There is no reach to US without them.

War in Europe or parts of Asia is easy the old fashioned way and seems to happen on a regular basis.

New comment by plastic3169 in "The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary"

plastic3169 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:41:48 +0000

”What a way to show them. You rock! Unfortunately I can’t create the musical art you requested as you reference multiple existing musical acts by name. How about rephrasing your request in a way that is truly original and unique to you”

New comment by plastic3169 in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

plastic3169 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:32:07 +0000

It counts as an attack, but how close was US to actually being taken over? Usually when you fight a war the real risk is that you cease to exist as a country. I know nothing about war strategy, but seems to me US is in a great position as long as you get along with Canada and Mexico.

New comment by plastic3169 in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

plastic3169 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:19:29 +0000

Could China attack US? Why would US try to attack China in asia? Not an expert but that feels like losing proposition. I think people confuse proxy wars with wars. US is under no threat of being actually attacked.

New comment by plastic3169 in "Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]"

plastic3169 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:30:16 +0000

> Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman.

Considering the Warren Buffett wisdom-industrial complex this might be the best place to share these nuggets. And I know his heart is in the right place, but the fact that you need to spell this kind of thing out is somehow extremely depressing.

Galaxy Brain Resistance

plastic3169 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:43:45 +0000

Article URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859803

Points: 4

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New comment by plastic3169 in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

plastic3169 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:17:44 +0000

> Even in the dot-com era, the early internet was already changing media and commerce in fundamental ways.

I agree that AI is overhyped but so was the early web. It was projected to do a lot of things ”soon”, but was not really doing that much 4 years in. I don’t think the newspapers or commerce were really worried about it. The transformation of the business landscape took hold after the crash.

New comment by plastic3169 in "No Socials November"

plastic3169 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:58:34 +0000

Also history can be turned off. Added benefit that after that it only shows few shorts before blocking them.