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An AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai
1•rglover•46s ago•0 comments

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33797
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

An Affectionate but Clear-Eyed Close-Up of Parfit

https://dailynous.com/2025/05/21/an-affectionate-but-clear-eyed-close-up-of-parfit/
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Rent Seeking for Four Generations

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/rent-seeking-for-four-generations.html
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: livekit-microcontroller-bridge stream audio/video from a tiny device

https://github.com/Sean-Der/livekit-microcontroller-bridge
1•Sean-Der•3m ago•0 comments

Wisk Aero and NASA sign 5y partnership to advance sustainable autonomous flights

https://electrek.co/2025/05/21/wisk-nasa-sign-five-year-partnership-advance-sustainable-autonomous-flights/
1•gnabgib•3m ago•0 comments

Drugs currently in clinical trials will likely not be impacted by AI

https://www.owlposting.com/p/drugs-currently-in-clinical-trials
1•abhishaike•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mydeep.work – Free Deep Work Productivity System

https://www.deeproductivity.com/
1•FlorinDobinciuc•8m ago•0 comments

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5B

https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-buys-jony-ives-design-startup-for-65-billion-173356962.html
1•mgh2•9m ago•1 comments

A Billion Streams and No Fans: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bots-streaming-music/
2•kevinsync•12m ago•1 comments

Insights into DeepSeek-V3: Scaling Challenges on Hardware for AI Architectures

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09343
2•tanelpoder•12m ago•0 comments

LMArena

https://beta.lmarena.ai/
3•RyanShook•15m ago•0 comments

College English majors can't read

https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read
1•sebg•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a tool to analyze reviews in seconds

https://www.recensia.io/
2•rostyslav_kh•17m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Acquires AI Devices Company Founded by Jony Ive for $6.5B

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/openai-acquires-io-iphone-designer-jony-ive-1236405936/
1•andraskindler•20m ago•1 comments

Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong (2024)

https://zdimension.fr/everyone-gets-bidirectional-bfs-wrong/
1•stopachka•22m ago•0 comments

Recent Disruptive Changes from Setuptools

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1020576/8d9fd4513b1b25e6/
1•jwilk•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Exosphere – Platform for async/batch AI agents

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Show HN: Find underpriced properties within a zip code

https://www.propertydealfinder.com/
3•HelpHumanity•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GCP-ops-bot – Ask your GCP infrastructure questions in natural language

https://github.com/Retailogists/gcp-ops-bot
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Show HN: Padding images to custom sizes, pain free. (padsnap.app)

https://padsnap.app
2•shayanbahal•28m ago•0 comments

Disrupting Lumma Stealer

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/05/21/microsoft-leads-global-action-against-favored-cybercrime-tool/
1•Anumbia•30m ago•0 comments

'Machines don't work ': The problem of getting digital ID photos in Germany

https://www.thelocal.de/20250513/how-is-the-transition-to-digital-id-photos-progressing-in-germany
1•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

https://github.com/rept0id/ratatoi
2•rept0id-2•31m ago•1 comments

Universities help make the Central Valley a hub for agtech innovation

https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/05/21/universities-propel-agtech-innovation-in-the-central-valley
1•mooreds•31m ago•0 comments

Blue Land of Enchantment lures unhappy Texans

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5327452
3•mooreds•32m ago•0 comments

Introduction to Obsidian Bases

https://help.obsidian.md/bases
1•boolean•33m ago•0 comments

This is Water

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
2•zafka•33m ago•0 comments

Microsoft's Aurora AI foundation model goes beyond weather forecasting

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/microsofts-aurora-ai-foundation-model-goes-beyond-weather-forecasting/
1•wslh•34m ago•0 comments

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI, now rejected from 800 jobs

https://fortune.com/2025/05/14/software-engineer-replaced-by-ai-lost-six-figure-salary-800-job-applications-doordash-living-in-rv-trailer/
2•txcwg002•35m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

https://simulate.trybezel.com/research/image_agent
50•palashshah•6h ago
Hey HN! We recently graduated from YC, and have been building customer personas for large e-commerce companies. We recently expanded into the image generation space, and have been working on research about how to automatically improve the quality of generated images.

Comments

average_r_user•6h ago
Quite interesting, do you have some documentation of your platform and capabilities? Your landing page is quite synthetic
palashshah•4h ago
hey! we're working with an initial set of customers, and plan to launch full capabilities soon. stay tuned :)
ramesh31•6h ago
This is a wonderful writeup of building a simple agentic system in general. What OP describes is more or less the bare minimum you should be doing at this point to get good (consistent) results from an LLM; single-shot prompting is a thing of the past.
palashshah•4h ago
appreciate the compliment! yep, it's definitely necessary and is the bare minimum for building image generation systems in production.
shmoogy•5h ago
I'm surprised you landed on using o3 as the judge - we found it way too expensive. I use llm as a judge for generating color variations of products, definitely hoping for some improvements - it can be brutal to get non hallucinated features along with proper final rendering.
omneity•4h ago
Have you tried open weights vision models such as Qwen VL, MiniCPM, PaliGemma...?

I'm also curious how usable are simpler vision models such as Florence in case you explored this direction.

palashshah•4h ago
we're currently in the process of doing this. i think something that could potentially work is to iterate upon the initial image composition / structure using cheaper models, and then upscale at the end. this way you're saving on that iteration cost, but eventually land on a higher-scale image.
elif•5h ago
This is great and provides a good starting point for any similar efforts.

However I think the temptation to lean all tasks on AI is perhaps a little naive if not lazy.

For mask generation, there is really not much reason to use AI. In this example, simple stochastic blob detection, a trivial function you could get from openCV or ask a college sophomore to write would generate much better quality masks.

palashshah•4h ago
totally agreed here. i think my goal primarily with the mask generation was to test out how effective openai's capabilities were.

we're currently working on pipelines that limit the the involvement of AI to various tasks. for example, when generating an ad there's usually logo, some banner text, and background image.

we can use gpt-image-1 to generate the background image, another LLM to identify the coordinates of where we place the logo, and just add the logo onto the image. this is just one example!

jackphilson•2h ago
Why do you agree? I think we should outsource as much as we can to abstraction. We've been doing it forever.
mentalgear•4h ago
Again another example of "the unreasonable effectiveness of LLMs in a loop". At with time, the tasks for loop become bigger and more complex, until we find ourselves "outlooped" at least job wise.
ramoz•3h ago
Nice retrospective but I guess this process is no longer needed as model's get better; esp as they start enabling features like consistent subjects. Seems like a lot of overhead to correct text for inspirational images, but I can imagine you need to always present some form of _quality_ to your clients.

Feel like control nets and some minimal photoshop work would've been better.

palashshah•2h ago
totally. it got to a point where most of the text generated in our images was incorrect, and so it wasn't a great look showing that to our clients.

we're actually working on some form of what you described where we take images generated from LLMs + add consistent logos discretely rather than generatively.

abshkbh•3h ago
Palash this is a great post, I learnt a lot as an image gen noob! Keep writing more :)
palashshah•2h ago
this is incredible to hear! i plan to keep writing on a weekly basis, and will be posting them on twitter.
t_mann•3h ago
I was kind of hoping this would be in the 'Dreambooth mold' of finetuning open weights models. I have used that with some success some ~2 years ago, does anyone know what improvements there have been in that direction since Dreambooth?
zahlman•2h ago
It's frankly amazing to me that "ask another LLM to evaluate the image" actually produces useful feedback that results in actual improvement from the first LLM.

But then, I guess it's not much different of an idea from the earlier use of GANs, or of telling LLMs to "stop hallucinating", etc.

palashshah•2h ago
totally. the way i think about it (purely based on intuition) is that asking an LLM to do understanding + image generation is too complex for it to be effective. if we separate out the tasks into discrete steps, the evaluation becomes better, and the generation simply becomes instruction following.