Hacker News with Generative AI: Dune

Nobody Wanted to Publish Frank Herbert's Dune Except a Car Repair Manual Company (jalopnik.com)
In case you've recently returned from years of self-exile, or awoken from a decades-long breakdance-related coma: Welcome! The year is 2021, and just last week visionary director Denis Villeneuve released his take on Frank Herbert's classic novel Dune. While Dune the movie is the absolute center of the current zeitgeist, we're here to talk about Dune the book — and its interesting ties to automotive history.
1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune (openculture.com)
Even if you’ve nev­er read Frank Her­bert’s Dune, you may well have encoun­tered its adap­ta­tions to a vari­ety of oth­er media: com­ic books, video games, board games, tele­vi­sion series, and of course films, David Lynch’s 1984 ver­sion and Denis Vil­leneu­ve’s two-parter ear­li­er this decade. But before any of those came Dune, the jazz-funk album by key­boardist and band­leader David Matthews.
Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game (wheybags.com)
Dune ornithopters flap their blades in the wrong plane for vertical takeoff (twitter.com)