Hacker News with Generative AI: Actors

Val Kilmer has died (nytimes.com)
Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and elusive personality also made him a high-profile supporting player, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65.
Obituaries, Actors, Hollywood
150 points by handfuloflight 22 hours ago | 59 comments
Richard Chamberlain dies aged 90 (theguardian.com)
Richard Chamberlain, the hero of the 1960s television series Dr Kildare who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90.
Obituaries, Television, Actors, Entertainment
15 points by sandebert 3 days ago | 4 comments
Gene Hackman has died (theguardian.com)
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead on Wednesday afternoon in their home in the Santa Fe Summit community northeast of the city.
Obituary, Actors, Hollywood
23 points by sundaybsunday 34 days ago | 13 comments
Gene Hackman : Hollywood legend dies aged 95 (bbc.com)
Oscar-winning US actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog have been found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Obituary, Hollywood, Actors
19 points by gfortaine 35 days ago | 6 comments
Gene Hackman has died (nytimes.com)
Gene Hackman, who never fit the mold of a Hollywood movie star but became one all the same, playing seemingly ordinary characters with deceptive subtlety, intensity and often charm in some of the most noted films of the 1970s and ’80s, has died, the authorities in New Mexico said on Thursday.
Obituaries, Actors, Film, Hollywood
154 points by romaniitedomum 35 days ago | 163 comments
Watch Out for Counterintuitive Implicit Actor-Isolation (jaredsinclair.com)
I ran into some unexpected runtime crashes recently while testing an app on iOS 18 compiled under Swift 6 language mode, and the root causes ended up being the perils of using @unchecked Sendable in combination with some counterintuitive compiler behavior with implicit actor isolation.
Swift, iOS, Programming, Compiler Behavior, Actors
25 points by mpweiher 124 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Kameo – Fault-tolerant async actors built on Tokio (github.com/tqwewe)
Kameo is a lightweight Rust library for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors.
Rust, Actors, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Asynchronous Programming
105 points by tqwewe 182 days ago | 58 comments
James Earl Jones has died (bbc.co.uk)
James Earl Jones, the Hollywood actor and voice of Darth Vader, has died aged 93, his agent has said.
Celebrities, Obituaries, Hollywood, Actors, Voice Acting
73 points by mellosouls 205 days ago | 2 comments
James Earl Jones has died (variety.com)
James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday morning at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y., his rep confirmed to Variety. He was 93.
Obituaries, Actors, Star Wars
670 points by birriel 205 days ago | 182 comments
Shelley Duvall, a versatile face of 1970s film, dies at 75 (washingtonpost.com)
Film, Obituaries, 1970s, Entertainment, Actors
16 points by howard941 265 days ago | 1 comments
Actors Hit AI Startup with Class Action Lawsuit over Voice Theft (hollywoodreporter.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Entertainment, Actors, Voice Cloning
20 points by jedberg 317 days ago | 2 comments