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"The watermarks are embedded across Google’s generative AI consumer products, and are imperceptible to humans."

I'd love to see the data behind this claim, especially on the audio side.

And while you're at it, start speaking Esperanto, use the metric system, and switch to a Dvorak keyboard.

Yes...and it's LOUD!

In case the site is down when you read this (as it is now): https://web.archive.org/web/20250819061343/https://annas-arc...

Very surprising that you're offering this without subscription. Huge selling point. Next time the need arises, I'll come back for WithAudio.

Nah…We would have attempted to squeeze even bigger things into 18- and 36-bit address spaces that would have been equally short-sighted. But this is a tragedy of successes :)

I understood the article just fine, despite the spurious hyphen. The HN title could be improved immensely if it just said 7 microseconds.

Wow, very nice! Interestingly, uses a completely different set of player libraries compared to https://chiptune.app (chiptune2.js and libopenmpt vs. libgme and libxmp, etc.) Also was started way back in 2015. And yet there are many similarities.

I hope the PMs are reading this thread. They misjudged the tradeoffs

Wow, nailed it. I take it this is a collaborative fiction project? Not to worry, Gemini explained it to me:

> The core conceit is that you, the reader, have gained access to the internal database of a secret organization. The articles are presented in-universe as if they were written by anonymous researchers, agents, and AI constructs employed by the Foundation.

It's very hard to figure out what resource is incurring charges – and get to a page where you can press "Cancel" on that resource – from the Billing Page. I had to open a support ticket to shut down my Cloud Workstation because I simply couldn't find it in the labyrinth. I gave up and deleted my project.

Right, Sabine's channel is the modern version of that "ancient" show.

I love the switcheroo thought experiment: imagine we have always had transparent glassy user interfaces; for whatever reason, that's what the techology allowed. And in 2025 we have made a breakthrough and finally achieved opaque buttons. Would this change be just as controversial?

No, it would be a massive net positive. Everyone would love these new opaque buttons that obscure the noise underneath so that you can easily read foreground text.

In light of AR glasses, this thought experiment is even more relevant...

It's really beautiful, but I don't want it on my device.

Could easily extend the idea to zoom in on the map, constraining to various region sizes... The information gets a little "washed out" when you combine all the timezones into one blob.

You’ve got me beat by 1. Congratulations

When I was in design school, the dean roasted me for slapping cartoon flowers on a brochure for a female audience. It was hackneyed in retrospect. Kinda like this

nit: Renoise; good stuff, thanks for sharing.

I think the site just went down.

Really awesome UI. Is there a quick YouTube demo?

Anybody else reminded of the old Sony logo?

https://tixy.land/?code=y%3C7%26%26%28x%2Bsin%28y%29%3C6.4%2...

edit: much better with a negation :)

Spend five minutes on webcomponents.org for a depressing ride. Broken links, broken demos, ghost town community and shuttered chat servers. Sponsored and abandoned by the Google Polymer team, or so it appears. Just sad.

There are caveats and warnings already by the time we've added an `<x-header>`, and the attribute boilerplate seems onerous right from the start. It pains me to say that almost a decade on, I'm still not a fan of web components.

"Trix"

Wha... I need to look into this. Grim.

The experimental section was most interesting: https://ace-step.github.io/#Experimental

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IWNO, thanks.

Thanks, the original article is unreadable on mobile due to the ads.

Thank you, I would have mentioned this myself, but forgot the name of it.

Yes... IMO, the WebAudio synthesis primitives are not particularly useful. You are so much better off discarding these primitives and rolling your own for an audio project of any significance.