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falloon··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
Well, I was confidently wrong about that. I stand corrected, thanks for the pointers.
falloon··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
Pedantic cloud enjoyer here, the article should name this a pyrocumulus not pyrocumulonimbus - the nimbus part means 'rain-bearing' in meteorology, fire clouds don't rain.
falloon··on Ten Basic Clouds
I'm something of a cloud-enjoyer. If you're interested in learning more about clouds I'd recommend the international cloud atlas website. https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/en/home.html

Personal top three clouds:

- Nacreous clouds

- Altocumulus lenticularis

- Cirrus homogenitus (what a name)

falloon··on Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw
Readme has a discord link claiming 25K online, might want to update that it's quite misleading.
falloon··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
If you were writing a promotional post for your new model, would you include benchmarks of a competitor that's spanking you across the board? This is marketing.
falloon··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Ace step 1.5 is great, only 1.5b params so very easy to run locally.

https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5

falloon··on FFmpeg 8.0
I defer understanding FFMPEG arguments to the LLMs.
falloon··on A recap on May/June stability at Neon
This is a great example of how to handle post incident communication.
falloon··on Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05
All servers will have a single thunderbolt port.
falloon··on Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
Kiri engine is pretty easy to use and just released a good update for their 3DGS pipeline, and they have one of the better 3DGS to mesh options. https://kiri-innovation.github.io/3DGStoMesh2/
falloon··on Automat
Why is this formatted like one of those wanky linkedin posts?
falloon··on Meta Movie Gen
Scam, don't click this.
falloon··on Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri
What are you spending per user on API costs? 7 days free trial seems quite generous.
falloon··on 3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Another paper building off the Inria (non commercial license) method, there are several open source alternatives out there.