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Anthropic, an artificial intelligence research company, has issued a statement addressing concerns about its potential involvement with the U.S. Department of War. The statement emphasizes Anthropic's commitment to beneficial AI development and its intention to remain transparent about its work and collaborations.

The article discusses IDC's forecast for the global smartphone market, projecting a decline in shipments in 2022 due to economic headwinds, followed by a return to growth in 2023 and beyond. It also highlights the continued dominance of Android and iOS operating systems in the smartphone landscape.

The article discusses the meaning and origin of the term '21' in programming, which typically refers to the error code for an invalid argument or parameter. It explores the historical context and reasons behind this specific error code.

Hey HN - we're Saksham and Ishan, and we’re building Cardboard (https://www.usecardboard.com). It lets you go from raw footage to an edited video by describing what you want in natural language. There’s a demo video at https://www.usecardboard.com/share/fUN2i9ft8B46, and you can try the product out at https://demo.usecardboard.com (no login required!)

People sit on mountains of raw assets - product walkthroughs, customer interviews, travel videos, screen recordings, changelogs, etc. - that could become testimonials, ads, vlogs, launch videos, etc.

Instead they sit in cloud storage / hard drives because getting to a first cut takes hours of scrubbing through the raw footage manually, arranging clips in correct sequence, syncing music, exporting, uploading to a cloud storage to share, and then getting feedback on WhatsApp/iMessage/Slack, then re-doing the same thing again till everyone is happy.

We grew up together and have been friends for 15 years. Saksham creates content on socials with ~250K views/month and kept hitting the wall where editing took longer than creating. Ishan was producing launch videos for HackerRank's all-hands demo days and spent most of his time on cuts and sequencing rather than storytelling. We both felt that while tools like Premiere Pro and DaVinci are powerful, they have a steep learning curve and involve lots of manual labor.

So we built Cardboard. You tell it to "make a 60s recap from this raw footage" or "cut this into a 20s ad" or "beat-sync this to the music I just added" and it proposes a first draft on the timeline that you can refine further.

We built a custom hardware-accelerated renderer on WebCodecs / WebGL2, there’s no server-side rendering, no plugins, everything runs in your browser (client-side). Video understanding tasks go through a series of Cloud VLMs + traditional ML models, and we use third party foundational models for agent orchestration. We also give a dropdown for this to the end user.

We've shipped 13 releases since November (https://www.usecardboard.com/changelog). The editor handles multi-track timelines with keyframe animations, shot detection, beat sync via percussion detection, voiceover generation, voice cloning, background removal, multilingual captions that are spatially aware of subjects in frame, and Premiere Pro/DaVinci/FCP XML exports so you can move projects into your existing tools if you want.

Where we're headed next: real-time collaboration (video git) to avoid inefficient feedback loops, and eventually a prediction engine that learns your editing patterns and suggests the next low entropy actions - similar to how Cursor's tab completion works, but for timeline actions.

We believe that video creation tools today are stuck where developer tools were in the early 2000s: local-first, zero collaboration with really slow feedback loops.

Here are some videos that we made with Cardboard: - https://www.usecardboard.com/share/YYsstWeWE9KI - https://www.usecardboard.com/share/nyT9oj93sm1e - https://www.usecardboard.com/share/xK9mP2vR7nQ4

We would love to hear your thoughts/feedback.

We'll be in the comments all day :)

deff is an interactive Rust TUI for reviewing git diffs side-by-side with syntax highlighting and added/deleted line tinting. It supports keyboard/mouse navigation, vim-style motions, in-diff search (/, n, N), per-file reviewed toggles, and both upstream-based and explicit --base/--head comparisons. It can also include uncommitted + untracked files (--include-uncommitted) so you can review your working tree before committing.

Would love to get some feedback

The article discusses the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by the US Border Patrol along California's highways, raising concerns about privacy and the expansion of surveillance technologies without public oversight.

The article discusses the current state of the United States and the world, highlighting the economic, political, and social challenges facing nations globally. It suggests that the US and other countries are experiencing a period of instability and uncertainty that may have long-lasting impacts.

The article discusses the controversy surrounding Palantir's involvement in providing AI-powered humanitarian aid in Gaza, as well as the banning of several international NGOs and human rights organizations from operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Apple's iPhone and iPad have been approved by NATO to handle classified information, signaling increased trust in Apple's security and encryption capabilities for high-level government and military use.

Netflix has backed out of a deal with Warner Bros. in favor of a new agreement with Paramount, marking a shift in the streaming giant's content strategy as it navigates an increasingly competitive landscape.

The article discusses the growing trend of book ban legislation in the United States, which aims to restrict access to certain books, particularly those dealing with topics related to race, gender, and sexuality. It examines the potential impact of these laws on freedom of expression and the concerns they raise among educators, librarians, and civil liberties advocates.

The article discusses reverse dependency tracking, a technique used to identify the impact of changes in a software project. It explains how reverse dependency tracking can help developers understand the dependencies between components and make informed decisions during software maintenance and refactoring.

The article discusses the Pentagon's efforts to develop and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on Anthropic, a startup founded by former Google researchers, and its involvement in the Pentagon's AI projects. It highlights the potential benefits and concerns surrounding the military's use of AI technology.

The article discusses enforcement actions taken by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against Kalshi, an online trading platform. It outlines the CFTC's allegations of unauthorized trading and shares Kalshi's response to the enforcement cases.

Parakeet.cpp is an open-source C++ library that provides a high-performance, zero-copy GPU acceleration framework for numerical computing tasks. It aims to simplify the integration of GPU-accelerated computations into C++ applications, enabling efficient parallel processing on modern GPUs.

The article reveals that the California Attorney General has uncovered an Amazon price-fixing scheme that has been driving up costs for consumers. The investigation alleges that Amazon has been restricting third-party sellers from offering lower prices on other platforms, resulting in higher prices for customers.

I like to print, but I'm no artist. So I though of turning the full pipeline of my text -> concept images -> 3D mesh -> postprocess for the specific 3D printing workflow -> order it online into a nice UI. You can obv. also just download the STL and print it yourself!

The article discusses the concept of 'information overload' and how it can impact individuals' ability to process and make sense of the vast amount of information available today. It explores the potential negative consequences of information overload and suggests strategies for managing and addressing this challenge.

Netflix has decided to end its long-standing licensing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, which allowed Netflix to stream some of Warner Bros. Discovery's content. This move signals a shift in Netflix's strategy as it aims to focus more on its own original content.

The article discusses new seat belt cameras being installed on Australian roads to catch drivers not wearing seatbelts, resulting in hefty fines. The technology is aimed at improving road safety and reducing the number of serious injuries and fatalities from not wearing seatbelts.