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by vunderba 3mo ago
After Z-Image and the original Qwen-Image - I think they've pivoted completely to closed source. From the images I've seen, Qwen-Image 3.0 is just a subpar equivalent to other proprietary models like gpt-image-2 and nb-pro.
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Show HN: Loopweave – Extract seamless loops from audio files(loopweave.specr.net)
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Yup. There have been weekly “headshot AI” generator Show HNs for practically a year at this point. A non‑insignificant portion of them claim to be suitable for passport photos. Touching up a passport photo in any way (Photoshop or AI) is
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by vunderba 3mo ago
I... don't think so but it's probably been over a decade since I last played it. Completely agree that game was tailor-made for touchscreen interfaces.
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by vunderba 3mo ago
After trying this one, I'd agree it seems mechanically identical to Flight Control but with a sort of stylistic low-res pixellated 3d look. Gameplay from 2011: https://youtu.be/WLHI5Fu--0I?t=48
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Not OP, but it looks to be AI generated which was then heavily downscaled in size, since if you zoom in you can still see the usu. telltale suspects such as weird purple/pink/blue color artifacts, etc. Here's some quick simil
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by vunderba 3mo ago
I (think) that Vast [1] did something vaguely similar a few years back where regular people could rent out their nVidia GPUs. Might be worth looking into if that's an option. [1] - https://vast.ai
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice job - it's a similar mechanic to a game I created many years ago where you steer Aladdin on a carpet up and down to the right "lane" for the correct answer when learning multiplication tables while dodging incoming rocks
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by vunderba 3mo ago
> Moreover, they have a uniform style, even though your prompt doesn’t ask for one. This shouldn’t really come as a surprise, particularly to anyone who’s used diffusion models. The same thing happens when you ask an LLM for a short st
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice job. I lived in Taiwan for years and at the time couldn't read simplified very well, so I used a relatively popular browser extension called 新同文堂 which did something similar. https://github.com/tongwentang/ton
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by vunderba 3mo ago
This is by design. Hacker News tends to frown on people who only use it as a tool to promote their own interests. When you actively participate in the community in good faith, you’ll generally get more feedback and engagement when you do wa
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Yeah and CRT emulation can be a pretty deep rabbit hole. The amount of work that goes into making things skeuomorphic is pretty wild. If you want to see a neat example, check out cool-retro-term, it’s been around for a while but is still su
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by vunderba 3mo ago
I don't think they updated it - it still looks a very simplistic combination of slightly high frequency noise + artificial horz scanlines. I grew up in the era, and a couple of my buddies still keep a few CRTs for playing NES games so
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by vunderba 3mo ago
It seems like it’s partially based on LeanChess [1], which is 288 bytes long. I’d be curious to know whether this program was AI-assisted or written entirely from scratch, since Lean Chess was written at a time predating the era of LLMs. An
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by vunderba 3mo ago
As somebody who grew up in the era of MS-DOS and QBASIC - it's pretty amusing to see two AI-assisted GORILLA.BAS web games in the past week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856350 Can also play the original as w
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice job. A lot of early “fantasy word” generators worked in a similar way - by using n-grams at a character (or character chunk) level rather than the word level even if the breaks didn’t align with syllables. I don't know if it was e
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice job! In case you're interested in this area of research, there was a related paper/demo by one of the researchers who did a lot of work on ControlNets back in the day. Scroll down past the anime examples to see more tradition
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by vunderba 3mo ago
At this point it'd be worth creating an old-school webring [1] for all the HN clock enthusiasts. :) The clock at: https://clocks.dev/clock/lock-screen is kind of similar to one of my clocks: the Filling Digit cloc
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by vunderba 3mo ago
I don't think it's quite that simple - but I'd recommend reading up on the Whorf hypothesis. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/linguistics/whorfianism.h...
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice job. I'm starting to think we need an old-school webring for all the HN clock enthusiasts. :) The clock at: https://clocks.dev/clock/lock-screen is kind of similar to one of my clocks: the Filling Digit clock
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice. I need to go check them out again. I really liked their original Retro Diffusion models but this a while back in the SDXL days. It felt like it was trained on more natural language, so prompting it was quite nice for that era. But if
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Thanks for the info! I'll give this a shot. Most of my knowledge is from over a year ago, when I would set up OpenPose-style positioning with a controlnet at a high strength to guide an image-to-image workflow in comfyui. But it was pr
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Yep. Additionally having experimented pretty heavily in this space, I'll state that even with state-of-the-art models (like NB Pro or GPT-Image-2), good luck getting them to generate sprite sheets with consistent frames for animation p
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by vunderba 3mo ago
There was a pretty popular video showing this exact concept (hiding shapes/text in high frequency noise ) about a year ago, for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice I've seen this one before - it's great! Get Nintendo to do a physical crossover in a "Zelda themed Triforce Clock".
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by vunderba 3mo ago
As someone working on something in an adjacent space, this is super cool. Have you ever heard of MartyPC? I think you’d find it pretty interesting as well. It’s an IBM PC XT emulator that supports a bunch of essentially 8088-based systems,
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Thanks toast0 - that's my bad, there was an old dev button that was shifting everything over causing the issue because I always mix up "visibility hidden" with "display none" in CSS. Should be fixed now!
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Nice - I've done similar things with some of my music [1]. I have a classical piece I wrote over a decade ago for piano [2] (it’s the instrument I play), but it was always intended to be an orchestral work. Using AI allowed me to sonic
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by vunderba 3mo ago
This. Whenever I hear somebody defending the US healthcare system (or criticizing another country's healthcare plan), my immediate questions are: 1. Where are you from? 2. Have you actually LIVED in another country and thus have some
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by vunderba 3mo ago
Sure but its a good news bad news kind of thing. Yay I hit my deductible I only need to shell out the co-pay! Translation: 1. I spent the absolute maximum amount of money which can be substantial if you're on a high deductible plan 2.

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