Hacker News with Generative AI: Actors

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 49 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 108 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 130 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 130 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 191 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 242 days ago | 2 comments