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akanet commented on YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push bbc.com/news/articles/crk... · Posted by u/1659447091

drnick1 · 2 days ago

> He said YouTube Premium - its service letting users pay to remove ads between videos, or songs on its music service - had helped boost paid subscriptions across Google consumer services to more than 325 million in 2025 overall.

325 million people that don't know about Firefox and uBlock Origin?

akanet · 2 days ago

It is very amusing to read HN comments that complain about the "enshittification" of free platforms while simultaneously mocking those who would pay for stuff they like. YT is dollar for dollar the best digital subscription I pay for and I pay it gladly.

akanet commented on Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis eletric-vehicles.com/waym... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

tengbretson · 6 days ago

I was once in a waymo stopped at a red light. Prior to the light turning green I felt a split second where the car's brake had been released, anticipating the change and then accelerating immediately when the light changed.

Since this experience I've just assumed all waymos have some warehoused human drone pilot actually controlling it.

akanet · 6 days ago

Waymo remote operators cannot drive the car

akanet commented on Photographing the hidden world of slime mould bbc.com/news/articles/c9d... · Posted by u/1659447091

akanet · a month ago

A couple years ago I became obsessed with getting slime mold to grow on a cast 3-dimensional substrate. I finally got it working on an agar mold of Donald Trump's face, which you can see here: https://youtu.be/pxEN-YKDDVM.

akanet commented on Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2h... · Posted by u/notgloating

Animats · 2 months ago

If you like that sort of thing, see "AGV Garden".[1]

(This is the port of Rotterdam, ten years ago. Sped up about 3x. Most big ports look like that now. Automated driving works really well when all those pesky humans are out of the way.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_rlLyelQo&

akanet · 2 months ago

Very nice, quite enjoyed that.

akanet commented on Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2h... · Posted by u/notgloating

akanet · 2 months ago

Most of it is not drone, but you have to think a bit about the angle and duration to realize this. Merry Christmas

akanet commented on Legal win ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/... · Posted by u/pentagrama

photomatt · 5 months ago

Happy to answer any questions from HN folks, to the extent I can. I love this community and have been here since 2007.

akanet · 5 months ago

Matt do you guys still use the office in the US Bank Building in the mission?

akanet commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

jedberg · 6 months ago

> and it's worth calling out that the SSO tax has mostly nothing to do with technology or with support costs

I'm surprised this is at the top. My experience, and the experience of nearly all the commenters below, is that SSO is by far the biggest support burden they have.

SSO costs extra because it costs extra to support them. Market segmentation is a nice side effect though.

akanet · 6 months ago

I ran a company that did price segmentation on SSO, and it's the other way around. The burden of supporting the buggy piece of crap that is SAML SSO is the cost of the privilege of being able to perform such sharp segmentation.

akanet commented on Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction zju3dv.github.io/freetime... · Posted by u/trueduke

nomel · 8 months ago

So, what you're saying that there's a a business opportunity not only on the software service side, but the logistic/equipment side as well!

> and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight

I think there's a misunderstanding of the industry here, if you think the viewing audience will be concerned about some poorly disguised cameras at the edges of the scene.

akanet · 8 months ago

The ones paying $20 for the viewing? I think so.

akanet commented on Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction zju3dv.github.io/freetime... · Posted by u/trueduke

cchance · 8 months ago

i hate to be that buy... but the adult video industry is sleeping if they dont implement this lol

akanet · 8 months ago

People often say this about vr, but I think the truth is that consumers of adult videos are not motivated enough and the production costs outweigh the benefits. The demo scenes here were each captured on about 20 cameras, each carefully synchronized and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight. Add the expertise and time to train the models (still more like pets than cattle) and we're getting into movie ticket territory and away from tube site

akanet commented on Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded? · Posted by u/throwaway03902

akanet · a year ago

Bluntly, if you have to ask on hacker news, you are not equipped to handle this situation and should look to either exit or enlist more capable help. Your quandary is so contingent on the specifics of you, your cofounder, and the competing directions of the company that no good advice regarding a direct action to take is possible here. That you would ask in this forum is a very bad sign that either communications have broken down or you have not attempted a conciliation.

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