Hacker News: soundworlds

New comment by soundworlds in "Genie 4"

soundworlds — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:46:35 +0000

Sam had OpenAI start the Ghibli style image-gen (movies that are specifically loved for their artisanal quality). The man has patternly failed to read the room around culture.

New comment by soundworlds in "Dream-1"

soundworlds — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:28:14 +0000

Yeah, from my experience HN must be pushing "trending" topics to front page and not pushing others.

There are huge numbers of new posts - the ones that reach front page are definitely not the only ones with that amount of upvotes.

New comment by soundworlds in "AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons"

soundworlds — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:08:00 +0000

I agree it is terrifying because it is unknown. It is also true that the frontier AI labs have not worked well with affected communities at all and often downright exploited them.

BUT I also agree that, like any new technology, people will find mind-blowingly creative paths forwards with it, opening up whole new art forms.

Musk ordered slowdown of Starlink in Ukraine

soundworlds — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-ordered-starlink-slowdown-that-blindsided-ukraine-wsj-reports-2026-10-20/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173449

Points: 22

# Comments: 3

Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Agency to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It

soundworlds — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:09:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159683

Points: 29

# Comments: 5

New comment by soundworlds in "CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to establish a strategic partnership"

soundworlds — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:47:31 +0000

Internet 2.0 here we come!

Google Fonts as a Protest Piece?

soundworlds — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:31:32 +0000

I just noticed that all of the Google Fonts example text now reflects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This cannot be coincidence, given the context of the last 2 years.

For example, see https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by soundworlds in "A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix"

soundworlds — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:54:32 +0000

It's how I currently do Open Source. I like to think of it as a strong form of indirect collaboration - https://johnoestmannmusic.com/indirect-collaboration/

New comment by soundworlds in "Thinking will become a hobby"

soundworlds — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:33:10 +0000

There are many different types of thinking. Judgement is one that humans will need to retain.

New comment by soundworlds in "Grieving the loss of details"

soundworlds — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:10:44 +0000

Not exactly what you asked for, but I now keep pencil and paper next to me, and that has been incredibly refreshing for brainstorming / mental processing

New comment by soundworlds in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

soundworlds — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:07:00 +0000

Just want to say I was speaking with a programming friend yesterday who described this exact same experience at his workplace. The siloing sounds insane - even to the point where people "get annoyed if you ask them questions, because they expect you to ask your AI instead"

I think the points more to an unhealthy workplace culture than simply AI itself

Lego Mindstorms' future predictions from 1998

soundworlds — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Tt4uBL-6Pw7kGiKjSDds7A3xhxOG2hq&si=ztOhEYq6JK3-V68Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013588

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by soundworlds in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

soundworlds — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:45:12 +0000

I am extremely suspicious that the White House is going after Microsoft for not cozying up to Trump the same way OpenAI and friends have..

New comment by soundworlds in "The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton"

soundworlds — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:41:29 +0000

I do think exoskeletons are hugely unappreciated and will have an amazing effect on society, due to increased accessibility, endurance, augmentation, while still keeping the human in the driver seat

New comment by soundworlds in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

soundworlds — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:47:12 +0000

I think the real question is "can we apply these solutions?"

It is important that we stay focused - this is theatre. Incredibly impressive, but this doesn't yet show evidence of helping society, which is the whole reason we were doing this in the first place.

New comment by soundworlds in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

soundworlds — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:57:41 +0000

I am pretty convinced that businesses will be making custom internal software as a norm in the next few years, and this seems to be a slight push in that direction

New comment by soundworlds in "Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?"

soundworlds — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:15:42 +0000

You should look into using AI to generate code that synthesizes sounds. Not exactly what you asked for, but I do think it is an approach worth considering: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-i45X5aj94

New comment by soundworlds in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

soundworlds — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:13:03 +0000

If the people quitting are genuinely worried about the end of the world, why don't they break their NDAs and share the specifics of what they are seeing?

I mean, logically speaking, it makes sense to break your NDA even if you thought it would save 10 people, let alone most of humanity.

New comment by soundworlds in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"

soundworlds — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:04:58 +0000

Awesome work. The work truly needs it!

Self-Documenting Atmospheric Breakbeat

soundworlds — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/0010-a-shrine-of-teaching/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948649

Points: 2

# Comments: 0