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Voyager is an interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 14:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 10:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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The Middle Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 18:09:29

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education at a number of different schools in the last decades of the 19th century – a time when the opportunities available to women, and ideas about how girls should be educated, were changing very rapidly. Though she came from a scholarly and successful family (her father was a bishop), Peck’s chequered ed

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We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-18 05:15:39

This summer’s 28 Years Later ended on a maddening, disturbing cliffhanger. Spike (Alfie Williams) decided to leave his family and its safe village to explore the world, only to run into the insane Jimmy (Jack O’Connell) and his jumpsuit-wearing gang. What did this have to do with the film we’d been watching? What did it have to do with what’s coming next? We finally have some answers. Those answers are coming in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which opens in theaters January 16, 2026. That’s a

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The tariff apocalypse is here

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-10-18 05:34:13

As President Donald Trump’s August 29th deadline for new tariffs rolled around, the first thing that I thought of was 2026 planners. In July, Trump signed an executive order essentially killing a little-known but highly consequential trade rule, which meant that purchases coming from abroad — like $100 in planners and accessories — could enter the US duty-free. My preferred planner, the Hobonichi Techo, is printed and shipped from Japan. With the de minimis exemption removed, my tax bill could b

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'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

news.ycombinator.com John Pavlus 2025-10-18 07:53:29

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the environment that an AI carries around inside itself like a computational snow globe. The AI system can use this simplified representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying them to its real-world tasks. The deep learning luminaries Yann LeCun (of Meta), Demis Hassabis (of Google Dee

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'World Models,' an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

news.ycombinator.com John Pavlus 2025-10-18 12:53:29

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the environment that an AI carries around inside itself like a computational snow globe. The AI system can use this simplified representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying them to its real-world tasks. The deep learning luminaries Yann LeCun (of Meta), Demis Hassabis (of Google Dee

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Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-19 01:01:04

A mockup of Tesla Inc.'s planned humanoid robot Optimus on display during the Seoul Mobility Show in Goyang, South Korea, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The motor show will continue through April 9. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that Optimus robots, which have yet to hit the market, will eventually make up more than three-quarters of his automaker's value. In a post on X on Monday, Musk wrote, "~80% of Tesla's value will be Optimus." In mid-

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Why Runway is eyeing the robotics industry for future revenue growth

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-21 05:00:00

Runway has spent the past seven years building visual-generating tools for the creative industry. Now, it sees a new opportunity for its technology: robotics. New York-based Runway is known for its video and photo generation AI world models, or large language models that create a simulated version of the real world. Most recently, the company released Gen-4, its video-generating model, in March and Runway Aleph, its video editing model, in July. As Runway’s world models started to improve — an

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Making Minecraft Spherical

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 18:12:34

Blocky Planet is a tech demo I created in the Unity game engine that attempts to map Minecraft’s cubic voxels onto a spherical planet. The planet is procedurally generated and fully destructible, allowing players to place or remove more than 20 different block types. While much of the implementation relies on common techniques you’d expect from your average Kirkland brand Minecraft clone, the spherical structure introduces a number of unique design considerations. This post will focus on these

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The First ‘Tron’ Movies are Finally Getting Modern Releases

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-21 15:50:26

If Tron: Ares has you wanting to watch the first two movies again, you’re in luck: they’re getting new and improved versions on September 16. During its Destination 23 showcase, Disney announced full remasters of the original Tron and its 2010 sequel Legacy are coming to Ultra 4K HD and digital. (It’s been a long time since either had physical versions, the last edition was a two-movie Blu-Ray bundle back in 2014.) Physical versions of the two films will come with fancy new steelbook editions s

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China is eating the world

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 17:55:49

The thing that surprised me most about traveling to China back in 2019 was how quiet it was. I expected chaos, noise, pollution—all the stuff you associate with a developing country. Instead, I found electric bikes gliding silently through tree-lined streets. We lived there for five months until COVID hit. About a week ago, I went back to visit Yunnan. Walking through the ancient towns another reality hit me: China doesn't need us anymore. These towns were packed with only Chinese tourists, I c

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Kirby’s new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge

theverge.com Autumn Wright 2025-10-25 04:00:00

So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There’s pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses have more health, varied attacks, and phases. In Star-Crossed World, the promise of a more difficult Kirby

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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Close 2025-10-23 07:43:55

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience Dan Nixon Mar 1st, 2021 ‘How is the social fabric being rendered digital? How does a particular ‘currency of ideas’ shape how we see ourselves and others on social media platforms, and what might we experiment with here? How do our egos come to take centre-stage in our online spaces? What options do we have, amidst the algorithms and incentives underpinning our media ecosystem, for getting a more expansive view of what’s

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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Close 2025-10-23 12:43:55

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience Dan Nixon Mar 1st, 2021 ‘How is the social fabric being rendered digital? How does a particular ‘currency of ideas’ shape how we see ourselves and others on social media platforms, and what might we experiment with here? How do our egos come to take centre-stage in our online spaces? What options do we have, amidst the algorithms and incentives underpinning our media ecosystem, for getting a more expansive view of what’s

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The Download: introducing: the Security issue

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-28 09:10:00

It would be naïve to think we are going back to a world without AI. We’re not. But it's only one of many urgent problems we need to address to build security and prosperity for coming generations. The latest print issue of our magazine is all about our attempts to make the world more secure. From missiles. From asteroids. From the unknown. From threats both existential and trivial. We’re also introducing three new columns in this issue, from some of our leading writers: The Algorithm, whic

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All the world’s polygons

news.ycombinator.com Alice Bucknell 2025-10-27 20:35:41

How real is your world? How do you know? Maybe it’s the gentle sway of leaves in the wind. Or the sound of crickets chirping at dusk. Or the softness of the light in the summer. Take a step back, blink. Turn your head to the side. Are you sure? From the earliest 8-bit bush in The Legend of Zelda (1986) to the peatbog sublime of Death Stranding (2018), video games have long been on a quest for perfect simulation. The benefits are obvious: more convincing worlds equals more immersive gameplay; mor

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All the Polygons

news.ycombinator.com Alice Bucknell 2025-10-28 01:35:41

How real is your world? How do you know? Maybe it’s the gentle sway of leaves in the wind. Or the sound of crickets chirping at dusk. Or the softness of the light in the summer. Take a step back, blink. Turn your head to the side. Are you sure? From the earliest 8-bit bush in The Legend of Zelda (1986) to the peatbog sublime of Death Stranding (2018), video games have long been on a quest for perfect simulation. The benefits are obvious: more convincing worlds equals more immersive gameplay; mor

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Trump Says China Convinced the World ‘Let’s All Do Magnets’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-31 12:45:44

Donald Trump was all over the place during two press conferences at the White House on Monday, where he rambled about his fascist vision for the country. But there were some points of levity, including when the president tried to explain how China became a leader in rare earth minerals. Or at least that’s what we think he was talking about. “China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets,” Trump said. “Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20

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Pixel-art cyberpunk platformer Replaced delayed again, this time until spring 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 20:29:08

The long-awaited cyberpunk platformer Replaced has been delayed once again. Now it's not coming out until next spring. Developer Sad Cat Studio apologized for the delay and said that this is simply "what's right for the project" and that the team remains dedicated to creating a "truly special experience." This isn't the first time the game has suffered a delay. It was originally announced back in 2021, with a pending release date of 2022. That didn't happen. In 2024, the company announced a rel

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Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Maev Kennedy 2025-11-01 00:31:34

At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today. The 3,700-year-old broken clay tablet survives in the collections of Columbia Unive

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Your Guide to the Latest Details on Disneyland and Disney World: New Rides, Lands, Shows and Attractions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 05:15:03

Disneyland is now celebrating its 70th anniversary since opening the gates to the original Disney theme park. And as Walt Disney himself once predicted, the park will "never be completed" as long as imagination remains in the world. It's continuing to grow with new rides, experiences and entertainment planned for 2025 and beyond. New experiences coming include a new entry experience, a Coco ride for the beloved Pixar movie and what old attraction will be closing down so the Avatar attraction ca

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Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 15:54:44

I'm what you might call a "Stone Age" programmer. Not because I code with rocks and sticks, but because my toolkit is filled with ancient relics like LISP and OCaml - functional programming languages that are about as popular in today's enterprise world as flip phones at a tech conference. I spent three glorious years in the industry writing functional code, and let me tell you, it was like being a minimalist artist in a world of reality TV. Those languages taught me to appreciate the elegance

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World Wide Lightning Location Network

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 17:40:44

About WWLLN The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN - pronounced 'woollen'), is a network of very low frequency (VLF) radio lightning sensors operated by the University of Washington in Seattle. Most ground-based observations in the 3 - 30 kHz VLF band are dominated by impulsive signals from lightning discharges called “sferics”. Significant radiated electromagnetic power exists from a few hertz to several hundred megahertz, with the bulk of the energy radiated at VLF. With our world w

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Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-02 14:25:30

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small packages, have resulted in postal services across the world simply choosing not to ship to the United States until things get sorted out, according to Bloomberg. Central to th

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Workers need better protections from the heat

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-02 18:03:12

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Expect record-breaking temperatures to change the workplace, the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today in a new report. When workers don’

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is coming to PS5 on November 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:26:56

We learned in July that Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl would come to PlayStation later this year. On Thursday, developer GSC Gameworld gave us a specific release date: November 20. That's exactly a year after its PC and Xbox launch. The PS5 version will support adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, gyro aiming and more. Meanwhile, PS5 Pro users will see upgraded resolution, shadows and reflections (among other enhancements). The game will be available in a $60 standard edition, an $80 deluxe one a

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Oh No, ‘World of Warcraft’ Is Getting Me Elf-Pilled Again

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-06 14:56:42

As someone who has played World of Warcraft on and off for what now qualifies as a significant portion of my life over the last 21 years, I’ve come to learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate about Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMO. The first is the way Warcraft has sat with, and handled, the evolution of its world and characters over those two decades as an ongoing entity. Well, that’s not really the first. Because the actual first is that I just really love Warcraft‘s elves.

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10 Creepy Tales to Stream for Free on Tubi

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-08 09:15:05

The sheer amount of content on free streamer Tubi is both exciting and a bit intimidating. However, if weird horror is what you seek, you need only dig past the overstuffed landing page to find some surprisingly intriguing selections. Here are 10 picks we recommend to get you started. Eden Lake Writer-director James Watkins’ Speak No Evil remake might’ve been a bust, but his 2008 directorial debut starring Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Michael Fassbender (X-Men), and Jack O’Connell (Sinners) is

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The 50 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-11-08 16:00:00

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of Cards, the burgeoning streamer premiered The Morning After, a pop-culture-focused news show that ran for 800 episodes over three years. Hulu has continued to make TV history in the years since, most notably in 2017 when it became the first streamer to win an E

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Voyager is an interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model

The Middle Earth

We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

The tariff apocalypse is here

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'World Models,' an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus

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The Download: introducing: the Security issue

All the world’s polygons

All the Polygons

Trump Says China Convinced the World ‘Let’s All Do Magnets’

Pixel-art cyberpunk platformer Replaced delayed again, this time until spring 2026

Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

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Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense"

World Wide Lightning Location Network

Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

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