Blindsight Sci-fi Short Film on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2026.
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A five-minute CG sci-fi short film by Danil Krivoruchko, based on Peter Watts's novel Blindsight. It follows a revived crew member recalling a first contact mission, and took four years to make with artists worldwide.
Shared as a fan-made teaser for Blindsight in threads about the novel or alien intelligence.
“Some fans of the book put together a short teaser trailer for it”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
In addition to all the other recommendations, I recommend Blindsight. You can buy it where all good books are sold, or the author also gives it away on his website ( [link] ) but considers it good form to send a donation his way if you enjoy it. Some fans of the book put together a short teaser trailer for it: ▶ this video
in “Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock” · View on HN
There's a fan-made short film/trailer for Blindsight : ▶ this video Also, "just an AI probe" and "It would be amazing" in the context of Blindsight ... <insert mad laughter>.
in “More evidence of life on Mars but still no life” · View on HN
▶ this video This is notably also adored by Watts [link] In case you want to fall down into the rabbit hole then [link] Now I just wish that some serious producer like Nolan would get a hint.
in “Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders” · View on HN