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Same.energy: Image Search by Similarity
- mprime1 4y agoJust click on an image that you like. Then keep clicking. Hit the lightning at the top of the page to restart from scratch. I lost a very enjoyable hour going down random rabbit holes of beautiful images. -- Previously on HN ~2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24434165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24434165 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsame.energy https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsame.energy I'm not associated with this project in any way.
- pr337h4m 4y agoUnfortunately, this has been abandoned :( Since more than a year, uploading an image or signing up just leads to a server error. Was really amazing when it worked. The creator hasn't been active on Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, HN, etc. either.
- robertheadley 4y agoYeah. It was a very promising tool. Creator is unresponsive.
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoMaybe he passed away?
- dinobones 4y agoNo way he passed away. Running a service like this costs quite a bit of money to host all these images and pay for all their bandwidth. He's still probably shelling out $200+/month on this. * Just saw that they are served by Cloudfront. Probably not that expensive, but still.
- forsythe_ 4y agoOh no. I never understood why the upload didn't work but had no idea it was abandoned. That really sucks. For a while now I've been using it a few times a week to find reference images for drawing. I find it beats Pinterest in terms of speed and relevance for most of my searches. I really really don't want it to go down. --- I just browsed the creator's inactive social media pages. I wonder if they've passed away..?
- danuker 4y agoEither that, or got hired by top-secret image-processing government/private agencies requiring complete silence.
- nness 4y agoI've done as best of a search as I could and can't find anything which indicates they've passed — but they have been inactive for a few years now. Maybe someone at Tabnine knows...
- swyx 4y agohis instagram is private. maybe there? i hope he's ok.
- naillo 4y agoStill works though (mostly) and still a pretty cool service.
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- 01ce8c91872dd6d 4y agoask HN: what is state-of-the-art perceptual hashing tech for images?
- bobosha 4y agoperceptual hashing is one approach to image similarity, there are many others. The au courant way of doing ANN search is to use embeddings from the powerful pre-trained models. In this tool the creator uses OpenAI's CLIP.
- swyx 4y agoTIL of "au courant". the author mentions CLIP, but it looks like he made his own variant. i wish i knew what it was since it seems he is now AWOL
- heipei 4y agoLook at the papers of Andrew Zhai (Pinterest) and how they do it.
- higginsc 4y agoCheck out SSCD from Meta https://github.com/facebookresearch/sscd-copy-detection https://github.com/facebookresearch/sscd-copy-detection (full disclosure: I am an employee who has worked with this team before internally, but I was not associated with this paper)
- loxias 4y agoWhat's the math behind this? There's plenty of possible image embeddings/spaces.
- mcint 4y agoThe about page mentions, https://same.energy/about https://same.energy/about Same Energy's core search uses deep learning. The most similar published work is CLIP by OpenAI. He worked at OpenAI, and has written a few blog posts on ML topics. https://jacobjackson.com/ https://jacobjackson.com/
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoFantastic for NSFW content.
- rajnathani 4y agoI wasn't the only one to discover the same, lol.
- dvt 4y agoThe website is long-gone, but I built something similar-ish ~10 years ago[1] using simple histogram analysis. I was surprised at how far you got with just comparing buckets with certain tolerances. Was a super fun project, but got very little traction. Open sourced it here[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WswSywx6TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WswSywx6TI [2] https://github.com/dvx/skrch https://github.com/dvx/skrch
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoThere used to be a porn website like this that scraped all of the porn subs.
- Birkeholm 4y agoI have been using this site for a while, however it seems the creator has gone AWOL. You are not able to sign up nor actually upload images as starting points, which is a shame. The creator does not respond thruogh the site nor twitter. Hasn’t been active either.
- ramoz 4y agoBelow is an OSS alternative, originating from same engineering as stable diffusion. There is other awesome work in rom1504's Github I recommend exploring as well. https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/ https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/ (usually performant) https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval
- azinman2 4y agoThe images are very different, and the UX is totally missing.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoI searched "boobs" in both (my litmus test). The posted one delivers nice boobs, as expected, very fast. This one delivers medical images of breast surgery, some bizarre pictures, and very slowly (tight budget maybe?). When did we lose our way?
- Llamamoe 4y agoIt's great but has all the UX of early DOS programs.
- rom1504 4y agoHehe, well you know, PR welcome, the front end is 500 lines https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/blob/main/front/src/clip-front.js https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/blob/main/front/sr... Other people have done a few alternate front ends already This one is meant to be functional, but could sure be made prettier
- jeadie 4y agoYou should try https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo instead. Does all this and more and still very active development.
- bil7 4y agoso awesome
- KRAKRISMOTT 4y agoIt's not that hard to build nowadays. A vision transformer + vector database will get you 90% of the way there.
- Icons8 4y agoWe've built a very similar feature across https://icons8.com https://icons8.com content. What keeps exciting me when you upload a photo of a building and find tiny icons with a somewhat similar architecture, or illustrations, or realistic renders/other photos.