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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, introducing native 15-second video generation, improved reference adherence, stronger consistency across frames, multi-turn conversational editing, more natural speech, and cinematic camera movements. The model is now generally available via the Gemini API and Gemini for business, priced at $0.07 per second for 720p video—30% lower than its predecessor. It supports scalable workflows, including draft generation at lower resolutions, iterative edits, and upscaling to 1080p or 4K. Use cases include product explainers, social ads, virtual try-ons, and branded content, with applications across Google AI Studio, Google Cloud, Google Vids, Flow, the Gemini app, and Google Ads.

Show HN: Cerea – yet another self-hosted LLM chat front end

Here is Cerea, a self-hostable, open-source (Apache 2.0) chat+agent frontend for LLMs. It works alone with any OpenAI-compatible inference provider, but it's way better when coupled with the model gateway I'm also developing, Pystino (https://github.com/paoloviviani/Pystino).I came to this after struggling to find a hosted chat interface that was truly open source, that I really enjoyed to use, and that was simple enough to be shared and used by family. In particular, I was looking for something that could provide the smooth and integrated user experience of commercial products for the tasks needed by family (e.g., document editing, form filling, notes and knowledge management), but backed by open models hosted wherever I decide.Then it became richer, now supporting: remote coding agents (wrapping Opencode), delegation and coordination between agents, integration between chat/projects and code agents (this one to me is a pain point for Claude, which I use at work), projects, RAG, rich artifacts support, schedules, and more.You can try it yourself, either cloning the full repo and head to Cerea/kit, or just the deploy kit with a script (https://github.com/paoloviviani/Cerea#quick-start).It's just a docker compose with a ./configure script that helps to generate a sensible .env for the specific scenario. It works in the browser and as a PWA on mobile.I hope you'll enjoy, feel free to reach out for questions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384502 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Overhead – the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame

Hi HN,I've been fascinated by aviation for some time now. Inspired by Fugleramme, I wanted a framed print of a cluster of aircraft over my house or a busy airport. So I built Overhead. (Photos in the README)The hero photo shows planes departing and landing in Changi, Singapore.How it worksFlight data for a location is gathered from adsb.lol and adsb.fi as a fallback. (you can also point it to your own ADS-B receiver).The photo of the exact aircraft is gathered from planespotters.net and the photographer is credited on the page.The photo is then handed to an AI image gen service via fal.ai using your own key.It's then cut out and packed into a cluster on the page with packers adapted from Fugleramme.It costs about US$0.04 a painting but images are painted once and kept for the next time that aircraft is seen.You can also choose to only show photos.This widget is built on my open source, self-hosted e-ink platform, Tesserae. It's a one click install from the widget catalog.I'm looking for feedback and contributors.https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50390605 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The AI boom’s missing balance-sheet question: What has actually been verified?

Artificial intelligence infrastructure commitments are growing faster than the evidence connecting contracted capacity to sustained economic value. I spent 13 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. One lesson stayed with me long after the trading jackets disappeared: A transaction could be executed, documented and perfectly valid while the assumptions that made […] The post The AI boom’s missing balance-sheet question: What has actually been verified? appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Show HN: Resource Manager – Manage all resources on the computer

Hello everyone, I'm BIOcanse.Windows Task Manager has inaccurate readings and limited monitoring items. Various hardware adjustments are also very separated—CPU, GPU, and fans all require their own individual software. Their interfaces and interactions are primitive, and they often overwrite each other's configurations. Moreover, driver management of the CPU and GPU is too clumsy, and the memory usage issue on Windows is also very serious. So I made Resource Manager to view and manage all these resources in one place, making monitoring and scheduling work seamlessly together.Monitoring:This software integrates almost every possible monitoring item, letting you look at your computer from a God's-eye view!Scheduling:One of the core features. It uses algorithms I wrote to optimize memory usage and reasonably schedule processes across multiple CPU cores. It also supports GPU scheduling, which means it can switch the GPU a program uses while it is running. For example, after launching a game, if GPU usage is high or VRAM is about to overflow, it will move the remaining software to another GPU (for most personal computers, this is usually the integrated GPU).Reporting:Many times, computer performance problems are actually just caused by a single program or driver—the benefits of 100 programs optimizing themselves cannot make up for a memory leak in just one program. The reporting page reports abnormal resource usage (CPU, GPU, memory, VRAM, disk read/write, network traffic, and causing system interruptions).Hardware Adjustment:All the parameters you can think of for hardware like the CPU and GPU can be adjusted here. However, my own setup is an AMD CPU + NVIDIA GPU, so other setups still need to be verified. I do have several computers with Intel CPUs to verify Intel CPU support, but I really do not have a single AMD GPU. Although most of it uses mature open-source dependencies, there may still be risks, so please use it with caution. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380521 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: SrcWranglr

I spend a lot of time diving deep into C/C++ code bases for various reasons. Normally for Vulnerability Research. I like to get a good feel for the software, it's data structures, control flow, etc. Are all usually important.In the past we have SourceTrail, this is now defunct and its abilities were somewhat limited. If you have thousands to spend you can grab a Understand license... Wait maybe thats SourceNavigator. Either way I wrote SrcWranglr. Its my very first Rust project (congrats to the insufferable Rusteans, I finally cracked and learned Rust).Anyhow SrcWranglr is wicked free, wicked fast, has a modern UI, and features that assist in finding bugs/vulns. You can run semgrep rules over the codebase, or have a fuzz harness generated for you by the program with ease.. Its still super early in development but it already helped me discover a 0day :-).. Give it a shot if you want. I am open to any suggestions and if it is in your heart to contribute let me know. I only get to work on personal projects here and there on account of work... But yea enough babbling.https://github.com/jdefrancesco/SrcWranglr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380536 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Introducing Images 2.6

Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them against ADS-B data to find the exact location of the video based on their speed, distance, and gaps between different flights. Via Lobste.rs Tags: privacy, youtube