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Re:Skill to Create Product Videos on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:14AM (#50349019)

How do you usually create e-comm product videos?

OpenAI halts release of Astra 6.1 over safety concerns

Posted by moinism on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:17AM
from the cbsnews.com dept.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/openai-halts-gpt-astra-safety-concerns/

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Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:02PM (#49897685)

Ok, but we need 6.1 Luna soon. 6 feels worse than 5.6 in our agentic use case.

Re:Laya the open source version of Jev on Saturday September 19, 2026 @10:49AM (#49767013)

I'm just glad to see focus being shifted (albeit slowly) to conventional ML. Enough with LLM guys

Re:Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:26AM (#49764210)

I feel like this autonomous hacking is now being used as PR for how powerful a company's models are. Google thought, hey let's get on that bandwagon.

At some point smaller company could even start deliberate hacking campaigns and then do a press release like "Oops, we hacked the pentagon"

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:51AM (#49692876)

AI agent for content creators https://chatoctopus.com

Re:4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:12AM (#49548968)

> Everything described here is a private Go repository. One-time payment, permanent access, complete source. > $699 one time · lifetime access

Not open-source apparently.

And I cant find the reddit post but I think I read that videos/assets are not actually pre-downloaded, they have to be requested through Tiktok API using the provided code. So if Tiktok patches, the code will need updates too.

Re:Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:52AM (#49342250)

I think mods are asleep, an anti-Israeli post can't stay on the homepage for this long.

Re:GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:09AM (#49296309)

Google: Here is the next iteration of our flash model series, with a discount. please use. thx.

Z.ai: Here is our next iteration, neck and neck with Fable/Sol. weights releasing in two weeks.

Re:Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:37AM (#49254624)

How do unresearched, vibe-coded projects like this reach the front page?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:56AM (#49240663)

Been building Chat Octopus (like ChatGPT but for media and content: https://chatoctopus.com) since Feb this year. Now it's available on web, ios, and android but I'm finding it hard to market it and find users.

Which is, i think, a common thing about solo devs.How do you guys deal with that?

Re:Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable... on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:12AM (#49166486)

Airtable is worth "just" $1.3B? I see (or used to see) it almost everywhere; why such a low valuation?

Re:Karpathy's Pelican on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:51AM (#49152554)

We've been building motion graphics capability (on chatoctopus.com), and "closing the loop" has been one of the hardest challenges. Coding agents have it easy; static analysis, lints, unit tests, etc.

But when visual perception and "taste" get involved, it becomes a lot harder.

Re:Neutrino-1 8B on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:40AM (#49080206)

The content on that page is too AI-generated to make sense to me; I don't understand what the model is for.

Re:A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:57AM (#48661829)

Turned this into a short video using Chat Octopus: https://chatoctopus.com/share/07b91771-abee-469c-a68f-3e4f79...

Chat transcript: https://chatoctopus.com/share/chat/135165e4-d38a-46c2-83a3-4...

Show HN: TS Package to Convert Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve and OpenTimelineIO

Posted by moinism on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @09:01AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/ChatOctopus/timeline

A small TypeScript library that imports and exports FCPXML, FCP7/xmeml, and OTIO, plus a CLI.You can use it for reading, writing, and converting video-editing timelines with frame-accurate timing.e.g: npx @chatoctopus/timeline convert edit.fcpxml --to otioFeatures:- Format conversion - Import/parse/Export - Give it clip paths (+ optional trims); it probes them with FFprobe and assembles a...

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Re:Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:40AM (#48582105)

Turned this into a short explainer video if someone wants to see:

https://chatoctopus.com/share/94ed2beb-3878-4fbe-aeee-1f86a1...

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:15AM (#48538123)

Chat Octopus: AI video creator and editor.

Made a video about PG's 'Billionaire' essay:

video: https://chatoctopus.com/share/d93d661a-0e5b-43f3-946e-a9dea0... full chat: https://chatoctopus.com/share/chat/8d044aa2-dc48-47a0-aa65-1...

Re:Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B ... on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:05AM (#48232903)

> Every AI video editor on the market assumes your footage is already labeled

Shameless plug: I'm the founder of Chat Octopus, an AI media assistant, and it actually 'looks' at the videos to understand them before creating a cut.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @04:21AM (#48092405)

Chat Octopus: Claude code for videos

https://chatoctopus.com

Re:Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of ... on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:52AM (#47845405)

and now its flagged :D

Re:Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of ... on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:53AM (#47845069)

how come an anti-Israeli post has not been flagged and removed from the front page yet? mods haven't had their coffee?

Re:Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and c... on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:41AM (#47234044)

congrats on the launch! do you guys have anything planned to test chat agents directly in the ui? I have an agent, but no exposed api so can't really use your product even though I have a genuine need.

Re:Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:12PM (#47172064)

Wow! congrats on the launch guys. client-side rendering is incredible, really. I saw your product somewhere and have it as an open tab in my chrome for ~2 weeks :D

I also saw another YC company, Mosaic, doing something similar. But your approach of chat-based editing is a lot closer to what I'm building. Shameless plug: I'm also working on a chat-based media processor. https://chatoctopus.com

But you guys are way ahead! will be looking at you for inspiration.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and... on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:24AM (#46313032)

https://ffmpeg-api.com

As the domain (hopefully) indicates, A REST API for the FFmpeg service. So far, it's been a plain API, but now it's adding MCPs and AI endpoints, so you don't have to remember ffmpeg commands.

Re:Show HN: Titan – JavaScript-first framework that compiles into a Ru... on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:51AM (#46300022)

Wait, the CLI command for the package is.. 'tit'?

Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:27PM (#46017003)

This looks good, but a bit overkill for what I'm trying to build tbh.

Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:22PM (#46016959)

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks similar to OpenAI's. What is your experience?

Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:20PM (#46016938)

I agree, technically, "sub agent" is also another tool. But I think it's important to differentiate tools with deterministic input/output from those with reasoning ability. A simple 'Tool' will take the input and try to execute, but the 'subagent' might reason that the action is unnecessary and that the required output already exists in the shared context. Or it can ask a clarifying question from the main agent before using its tools.

Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:05PM (#46016784)

Dude, it looks great, but I just spent half an hour learning about its 'CodeAgents' feature. Which essentially is 'actions written as code'.

This idea has been floating around in my head, but it wasn't refined enough to implement. It's so wild that what you're thinking of may have already been done by someone else on the internet.

https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents/conceptual_guides/int...

For those who are wondering, it's kind of similar to the 'Code Mode' idea implemented by Cloudflare and now being explored by Anthropic; Write code to discover and call MCPs instead of stuffing context window with their definations.