Mockbuster Review โ€“ How to Survive the Nightmare of Directing a Terrible, Low-Budget Horror Film | film

Mockbuster Review โ€“ How to Survive the Nightmare of Directing a Terrible, Low-Budget Horror Film | film

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Horror films,Film industry,Business,Culture,Australia news,World news ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 'A โ€œBetter a bad movie than no movieโ€ is the tagline for this behind-the-scenes documentary, which charts director Anthony Frith's quest to make his first feature film at the ultra-modern studio The Asylum; It's also a nice tribute to the skill of filmmaking.Stuck producing corporate videos to support his young family, Adelaide-based Freeth is in danger of letting his artistic ambitions fade away. So he chose professional shock therapy by cold-calling The Asylum (of Sharknado notoriety) in…
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Alex Yang – Making ASCII art in Vim

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I like using barebones Vim to make ASCII art. Vim has a couple of built-in features that I find particularly useful for this task, which I'll document here. This article is for people who have made ASCII art before and want to see what other tools are out there. If you've never tried making ASCII art before, I recommend you don't read this article! You don't need any of this information to make great ASCII art. Instead, just open up your favorite text editor and…
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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Itโ€™s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), ChatGPT disproved Erdล‘sโ€™ Unit Distance conjecture in discrete geometry. This is now old news but I had to start somewhere. The announcement was accompanied with testimonies by human mathematicians, many of whom I knew and a few of whom I trusted, saying that they…
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Sex, Family and Horrific Executions: What Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Changed and Invented – and Then Was Axed | film

Sex, Family and Horrific Executions: What Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Changed and Invented – and Then Was Axed | film

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,The Odyssey,Christopher Nolan,Homer,Film adaptations,Matt Damon,Anne Hathaway,Books,Culture โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TTurning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour movie has always required some trimming. This is proven by the movie โ€œThe Odysseyโ€ by Christopher Nolan, which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homerโ€™s ancient Greek epic. The director also changed the focus on some of the story's most famous episodes and made some additions of his own. Here we make the most important adjustments.What Nolan left outGodsHomer's Odyssey…
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An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement

An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A rule like "run the full test suite before committing" looks simple until an AI coding agent edits a source file after the last test run and then calls git commit. The kernel sees an ordinary process writing a commit object, while the harness sees one more tool call, yet the decision depends on which test result is still fresh, which edit invalidated it, and whether this commit is allowed now. The ActPlane paper measures the gap between the behavioral rules developers write and…
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Trent Park House of Secrets review – The bugged stately home where German prisoners gushed their secrets | Museums

Trent Park House of Secrets review – The bugged stately home where German prisoners gushed their secrets | Museums

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Museums,Art and design,Culture,London,UK news,Second world war โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: History happened here. I mean history happens everywhere. But serious and important world-shaping history happened at Trent Park.Built on the grounds of Enfield Chase, an area of โ€‹โ€‹the Hertfordshire countryside used as hunting grounds by royalty, this country house has lived many lives. It has been a Georgian retreat, a Victorian mansion, a post-Edwardian retreat, and then, during World War II, a place of secrets. It later became a university campus, before falling into disuse. Now it…
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Hyprland 0.55 is here and you don’t want to miss it!

Hyprland 0.55 is here and you don’t want to miss it!

โœจ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes. Highlights With 0.55, there are tons of changes, letโ€™s bring the highlights first. Lua configs As weโ€™ve announced a while back, the Hyprland config is now done in Lua. This does not mean your hyprlang config is now broken - it will still work, for a few releases. The entire wiki has been updated to reflect new Lua configs and…
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Apple Crumble: A delicious Knives Out-inspired puzzle that lets you snoop on your family | games

Apple Crumble: A delicious Knives Out-inspired puzzle that lets you snoop on your family | games

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture,PC ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: SSomeone wants to kill grandma. At this he took out the knives-Inspired puzzle game, each member of your family is suspicious in their own way: your uptight mother, your โ€œuncle having a midlife crisisโ€ and especially that stranger in your bedroom. Yikes!Although Apple Crumble remains a mystery, it is mechanically different from Happy Broccoli Games' previous game, Duck Detective, in which the player solves crimes in a small office. Here you are pretty much intruding into your family home. โ€œI love the…
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Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) โ€“ AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

โœจ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hi HN, Iโ€™m Alex Southmayd, the founder of Bloomy (https://bloomylearning.com) โ€“ an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 students. Bloomy provides students with an AI tutor alongside adaptive curriculum (right now Math, English Language Arts, and Writing).How it works: we diagnose studentsโ€™ skill gaps, place them on personalized learning paths, and give them standards-aligned lessons and a Socratic AI tutor that scaffolds their learning without just giving away the answer.The goal is to solve the Bloom 2-sigma problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem) with AI.Short launch video: https://tinyurl.com/bloomylearningLonger product demo:…
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BBC beats ITV again in World Cup final viewing figures | BBC

BBC beats ITV again in World Cup final viewing figures | BBC

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: BBC,ITV,World Cup 2026,BBC One,ITV1,Television industry,Media,World Cup,Television,Football,Culture ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Their World Cup studios have been scrutinized, and their pundit line-up has been analyzed almost as much as the matches. But when it came to the final match of the tournament, the outcome was clear: the public once again chose the BBC over ITV.Four times that number of people turned to the BBC to watch Spain's win over a combative Argentina, very similar to its win over ITV four years ago.The BBC enjoyed an average audience of…
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