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Related article on indexing videos but with a local text description and using Gemma4: https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:42PM (#47746162)
My wife and I have been working on a platform for close to year now, called The Influencer AI (https://www.theinfluencer.ai) that helps you generate a consistent AI person, and use them for images and talking video. We've been growing and polishing it based on user feedback since then. You can go from idea of a person in your head, to the finished video of her doing or saying anything you need, all on one platform, with the best ai models for each step leveraged for you.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:57PM (#46579332)
I'm working on The Influencer AI(www.theinfluencer.ai), a platform that lets you create realistic and consistent AI personas('ai influencers') to use on social media or as your brand ambassador. You can use this unique AI person in photos and talking videos, for use cases like talking about your product, creating a high quality Instagram persona, photos for your e-commerce site, etc.
Re:Steam Frame on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:18PM (#45906860)
Google has also agreed to officially open up to competing app stores from the next version(https://www.theverge.com/policy/813991/epic-google-proposed-...), so the time is ideal for this. Valve, if you're reading this, please release Steam for Android.
Re:FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @06:38AM (#44886766)
Does this finally enable dynamically generating subtitles for movies with AI?

Show HN: The Influencer AI – consistent AI "models" for photos and talking video

https://www.theinfluencer.ai

Hi HN, We’re a two‑person team (Anika & Zeeshaan) and we’ve spent the last 8 months building The Influencer AI: https://www.theinfluencer.aiWhat it does: Spin up a consistent AI persona from either a handful of trait sliders or~10 photos of a real person (yourself, a model, a client).Use that same "AI influencer" to generate:- photos & virtual try‑ons- talking‑head video reels...

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Re:Using the internet without IPv4 connectivity on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:23PM (#44417553)
Why not just add the VPS to the Tailscale network and use it as an exit node?
Thanks for trying it out!

Show HN: I built a web app to edit photos with a prompt using Flux Kontext

https://www.theinfluencer.ai/ai-photo-editor

Built this to show off the recently released Flux Kontext model which is great at making edits based on your description, while keeping everything else the same. Eg. "make him wear a suit", "change the background to the beach", etc. No mask, etc needed.I've used Nextjs 15, and this page is static and fully client side. I'm still torn between the value of RSC, and the downside of it not being...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:09AM (#44096200)
We're building a service to generate consistent AI personas, and create any media you need with them, photos, videos, tryons, product photos, etc.

- Works by selecting traits, which then trains a model(flux) OR uploading your own photos.

- Hopefully useful for shopify/ecomm store owners, digital agencies, or just about anyone to drastically speed up the time and reduce the cost to test creatives, create media content, or just do what you want with a model of yourself.

- Web with Nextjs, DB with Supabase, marketing with nothing.

- Happy to share more details into how we built this, and hear feedback and thoughts.

https://www.theinfluencer.ai/

I wish scientific papers would have their conclusion at the top of the page.
I got a 7/10. I have a 70% chance of telling the Terminator apart from a regular guy who works out a lot when Skynet attacks.