(2020)

Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883788

And notably, there's some dissent there that the modern Disney/Pixar versions are wrong (there's an arbitrariness to scanners, plus no particularly objective recordings of what you'd actually see at theaters back then) IIUC.

> Worlds first Ai generated font

For a brief moment I thought the title was referring to Adobe Illustrator.

Related: “A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports” – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520122

Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854

(2023)

Probably not that related, but the article reminded me of a shadow casting implementation on the PICO-8: https://medium.com/hackernoon/lighting-by-hand-4-into-the-sh...

> They're still eating stuff from their host

They aren’t. Apart from DNA replication, transcription, and translation, their genome lacks elements encoding for even the most simple metabolic pathways.

Then where are they getting the materials to replicate? Where are they getting the energy? Magic? No, they're pulling pre-metabolized materials and energy from the host.

Which is exactly what I said.

A nitpick: Although similar in some aspects, archaea are not bacteria; they are classified under their own phylogenetic domain.

Unsurprisingly maybe, DPANN archaea can also host viruses: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02149-7 (Paywalled, but there’s a preprint at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.15.638363v1)