[HN Gopher] Frinkiac - 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
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Frinkiac - 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
Author : GlumWoodpecker
Score : 162 points
Date : 2025-12-02 20:28 UTC (4 days ago)
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| milchek wrote:
| "Medium Setting!" -
| https://frinkiac.com/gif/S03E22/319309/322862/
|
| The GIF generator works well. Nice work!
|
| You could probably delete some of the frames that have credits
| shown over them - since you have plenty of material already
| anyway, for example: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S17E16/137763
| or https://frinkiac.com/caption/S16E09/162162
| monkpit wrote:
| Frinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)
| reaperhulk wrote:
| We launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of
| course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it's
| been slightly over a decade at this point.
| hemmert wrote:
| Congratulations, really nice! I wasn't aware of this.
| MBCook wrote:
| Has it been that long? I remember having a ton of fun with
| it when it first launched.
|
| Great job.
| jasongill wrote:
| I've always wished the GIF generator could embed the subtitle
| like the single frame "make a meme" feature can, but it does
| work surprisingly well
| ChrisKnott wrote:
| You can do this [0] just press Add Meme after Make GIF.
|
| [0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1
| M82...
| jasongill wrote:
| doh!
| dan-g wrote:
| See also: https://morbotron.com/ for Futurama!
| Jordan-117 wrote:
| And https://masterofallscience.com/ for Rick and Morty.
|
| edit: Though it seems to be somewhat outdated.
| evan_ wrote:
| and https://funcooker.fun/ for 30 Rock. (I think the Frinkiac
| people used to run a different 30 Rock page but it went away
| at some point)
| thejazzman wrote:
| https://amphetamem.es/ For everything else!
| TZubiri wrote:
| You know, I tried to look for source code or a downloadable
| database, to play with a local fork, but I haven't found much.
| balls187 wrote:
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E16/277226
|
| LOL
| TYPE_FASTER wrote:
| mmmmm cromulent
| Zee2 wrote:
| Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue -
| not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some
| CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.
| adzm wrote:
| How would someone go about doing this, just curious?
| wincy wrote:
| You'd just run every picture through CLIP, essentially you
| run an image generator backwards. Instead of text to image
| like most end users use when using something like stable
| diffusion (been awhile since I've done this), it can do the
| exact opposite and generate tokens (just words in this case)
| to describe the input image.
|
| I'd guess famous characters like Bart and Marge and other
| Simpsons characters would likely be known by the tokenizer so
| it'd be pretty easy. So then you'd be able to guess.
|
| Feel free to correct me on small details if anyone has this
| more fresh in their mind but I'm roughly correct here.
| petercooper wrote:
| Agreed. If you search for Barney, say, none of the top ten
| picture him at all and is mostly people speaking to or about
| him. Even running them through a vision LLM for a list of
| keywords would yield better results than the subtitles, I
| suspect.
| aizk wrote:
| Very cool. Maybe add some image embeddings for additional
| metadata for the search results?
| martythemaniak wrote:
| For enjoyers of classic simpsons, I highly recommend
| /r/simpsonsshitposting, a delightful blend classic simpsons,
| absurdist/surrealist/dadaist art, multilayered inside jokes and
| often NSFW content. It could not exist without The Frinkiac.
| uza80 wrote:
| My primary news source.
| UncleSlacky wrote:
| Also /r/The_Leftorium...
| mparnisari wrote:
| I love this website. I wish I could search it in Spanish. I grew
| up watching the Simpsons in Spanish and I sometimes struggle to
| find the right clip because I don't know the exact translation
| j45 wrote:
| Very cool.
|
| "Max Power" -
| https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...
|
| Can't find other clips by quote.
|
| Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is
| important.
| j45 wrote:
| "Max Power" -
| https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...
|
| Can't find other clips by quote.
|
| Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is
| important.
|
| It would be great to add the meme mode to the gif rendering so it
| was captioned.
| acomjean wrote:
| We used this Max Power quote at work.
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E13/786535
| greekrich92 wrote:
| Possibly the best and most important website on the internet
| wyldfire wrote:
| > Inflammable means flammable?
|
| > What a country!
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S12E18/437896
| paulsmith wrote:
| I'm glad you shared this because, in my head this Dr. Nick
| quote is so canonical it must be from the original golden 8
| seasons, so it's nice to be reminded there are occasionally
| good things after! ;^)
| wyldfire wrote:
| "Bake him away, toys"
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/1285083
| wyldfire wrote:
| > No one who speaks German can be an evil man.
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/566865
| horsellama wrote:
| shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I've
| been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)
|
| https://asdfasdf.fyi
| sefrost wrote:
| FYI - https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/
| ChrisKnott wrote:
| This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a
| week.
|
| I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching
| quote below the matching frame, and it doesn't seem to support
| phrase queries.
|
| A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character
| too.
| JeremyHerrman wrote:
| shameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for
| dozens of TV shows and movies:
|
| https://amphetamem.es/
| AmbroseBierce wrote:
| No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a
| policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also
| missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.
| thejazzman wrote:
| Pre-AI it's tedious to find/fix/verify the subtitles -- and
| there are a lot of episodes of South Park. Literally the
| reason why it's not there :|
| GlumWoodpecker wrote:
| Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this
| four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this),
| yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.
| zote wrote:
| Your post was chosen for the second-chance pool
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
| GlumWoodpecker wrote:
| Thanks for the clarification!
| kotaKat wrote:
| sometimes you'll also get an email from hn as well letting
| you know you got a second chance submission ;)
|
| SUBJECT "Your submission <name> will be re-upped"
| OisinMoran wrote:
| Some funny related cultural trivia is that often Americans find
| the hardest thing about integrating into Irish culture is how
| much we reference the Simpsons in day to day life.
| quotemstr wrote:
| The span of Simpsons meme literacy is identical to the span of
| western civilization.
| OisinMoran wrote:
| Span? Yes. Density? Not as much. I only say it as I've been
| surprised on several occasions by American friends living
| here voicing the same thing. I think it may have been in part
| due to some fortuitous scheduling making it so that literally
| every Irish person above a certain age has seen a heap of
| episodes. That and possibly that there wasn't much else on.
| dalyons wrote:
| Same as Australia, if you're a millennial/genx. Only 4 tv
| channels and one of them was showing endless simpsons repeats
| in the after school time slot. Almost everyone knows s1-11
| references.
|
| Kids these days with their on demand streaming don't understand
| the monoculture :)
| ares623 wrote:
| TIL i'm part Irish
| dirtybirdnj wrote:
| The gif maker workflow is fantastic, amazing how smooth it was an
| the output is clean and crisp. Beautiful UX I practically tripped
| over this feature without even thinking about it and it worked
| great.
| ThrowawayTestr wrote:
| I prefer comb.io, it has full clips
| reaperhulk wrote:
| Maybe for our tenth anniversary we should update the codebase and
| finish some features we haven't touched in a decade...
| philsnow wrote:
| Is the reason there isn't a perfect show/movie-to-meme site with
| All the features and All the shows, that such a site would
| attract notice from rightsholders and then implode from fending
| off spurious legal complaints?
| brigham wrote:
| Playphrase is pretty good
|
| https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=spurious&language=en
| echo42null wrote:
| cool; https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E02/tcqDQyGgz-
| EeKltdDceypD3NHA...
| seg_lol wrote:
| > I have wasted my life
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E04/211961
| Theodores wrote:
| This really works!
|
| I wanted the scene where Homer is pulling an all nighter and
| orders Marge to put the coffee pot on. Search terms 'coffee pot'
| and hey presto:
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S15E22/1142350
| hatmanstack wrote:
| Had no idea this existed and IMHO what the internet was made for.
| Well played sir.
| https://frinkiac.com/video/S12E09/5fI0bxc31gXMaJNjLhbIeyRQP6...
| kristianp wrote:
| MONEY CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR GOODS AND SERVICES
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/145628
|
| https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/147696
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