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How Loud Are Cities?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/how-loud-are-cities
1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

CDC instructs researchers to end all monkey studies by year-end: Science

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/cdc-instructs-researchers-end-all-monkey-studies-year-end-...
1•JPLeRouzic•3m ago•0 comments

Pre-Cache: A Microarchitectural Solution to Prevent Meltdown and Spectre

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17726
1•bikenaga•4m ago•0 comments

Market Volatility Underscores Epic Buildup of Global Risk

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/economy/stocks-bitcoin-markets-risk.html
1•zerosizedweasle•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Idealane – Intuitive vibe coding for entrepreneurs and SMBs

https://idealane.com/
1•lluiscanadell•7m ago•0 comments

Roman fingerprints found in 2k-year-old cream (2003)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jul/28/artsnews.london
1•gradus_ad•8m ago•0 comments

Companies overpaying on employee expenses by up to 14%

https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/paytech/companies-overpaying-on-employee-expenses-by-up-to-14/
1•onpedrof•10m ago•0 comments

The Wanderer

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-wanderer/
1•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

Tips on being a kinder neighbor and fostering a sense of community

https://text.npr.org/1060464791
2•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

Lessons from testing three AI agents on the same complex task

https://prashamhtrivedi.in/ai-agent-comparison-claude-gemini-codex/
1•prash2488•11m ago•1 comments

The Return of the Viva

https://ednutting.com/2025/11/25/return-of-the-viva.html
1•EdNutting•12m ago•1 comments

You probably shouldn't block AI bots from your website

https://kerkour.com/dont-block-bots
1•randomint64•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Runner – open-source agent harness to benchmark real coding

https://www.designarena.ai/?arena=agents&harness=standard
1•grace77•15m ago•0 comments

A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421768122
1•bikenaga•15m ago•0 comments

Broken Business Processes: The Hidden Profit Killer

https://instituteprojectmanagement.com/blog/broken-business-processes/
1•ViktoriiaYarosh•15m ago•0 comments

Exploring Anthropic's Memory Tool

https://leoniemonigatti.com/blog/claude-memory-tool.html
2•vinhnx•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: For Mac users – Do you have а shoulder pinched nervе?

1•zipotm•18m ago•1 comments

Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience

https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for
2•speckx•18m ago•0 comments

I stopped using Figma and switched to Penpot

https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-figma-to-penpot/
1•jpalomaki•20m ago•0 comments

A Second Look at Geolocation and Starlink

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-11/starlinkgeo2.html
1•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

Flux2 VAE Research Report

https://bfl.ai/research/representation-comparison
2•anjneymidha•22m ago•0 comments

The AI Industry Is Built on a Big Unproven Assumption

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/the-ai-industry-is-built-on-a-big-unproven-ass...
2•wslh•22m ago•1 comments

How to keep your apps up when AWS is down

https://www.restate.dev/blog/geo-replicated-apps
1•gk1•23m ago•0 comments

Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2025/ozempic-does-not-slow-alzheimers-study-finds
3•danso•23m ago•0 comments

Is AI Eating the World?

https://philippdubach.com/2025/11/23/is-ai-really-eating-the-world/
1•vinhnx•24m ago•0 comments

Thai woman's cremation stopped as knocking on coffin heard

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq0jzw5n2o
1•onemoresoop•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What AI tool to use for coding in 2025?

1•WorldDev•26m ago•1 comments

Universal LLM Memory Does Not Exist

https://fastpaca.com/blog/memory-isnt-one-thing
1•vinhnx•27m ago•0 comments

Topas: A Convergent Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for General Intelligence

https://zenodo.org/records/17683673
1•Doug_Bitterbot•28m ago•1 comments

Return to China not an option for Taiwan's people, premier says responding to Xi

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/return-china-not-an-option-taiwans-people-premier-says-2025-1...
4•maxloh•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
44•meetpateltech•1h ago

Comments

eric-p7•28m ago
Yes yes very impressive.

But can it still turn my screen orange?

xnx•25m ago
Good to see there's some competition to Nano Banana Pro. Other players are important for keeping the price of the leaders in check.
minimaxir•23m ago
Text encoder is Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 (which is multimodal) as opposed to the weird choice to use CLIP and T5 in the original FLUX, so that's a good start albeit kinda big for a model intended to be open weight. BFL likely should have held off the release until their Apache 2.0 distilled model was released in order to better differentiate from Nano Banana/Nano Banana Pro.

The pricing structure on the Pro variant is...weird:

> Input: We charge $0.015 for each megapixel on the input (i.e. reference images for editing)

> Output: The first megapixel is charged $0.03 and then each subsequent MP will be charged $0.015

beernet•18m ago
Nice catch. Looks like engineers tried to take care of the GTM part as well and (surprise!) messed it up. In any case, the biggest loser here is Europe once again.
throwaway314155•7m ago
> as opposed to the weird choice to use CLIP and T5 in the original FLUX

This method was used in tons of image generation models. Not saying it's superior or even a good idea, but it definitely wasn't "weird".

woadwarrior01•6m ago
> BFL likely should have held off the release until their Apache 2.0 distilled model was released in order to better differentiate from Nano Banana/Nano Banana Pro.

Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 is going to be released next week. And it will be Apache 2.0 licensed. I suspect that was one of the factors in the decision to release FLUX.2 this week.

542458•22m ago
> Run FLUX.2 [dev] on GeForce RTX GPUs for local experimentation with an optimized fp8 reference implementation of FLUX.2 [dev], created in collaboration with NVIDIA and ComfyUI.

Glad to see that they're sticking with open weights.

That said, Flux 1.x was 12B params, right? So this is about 3x as large plus a 24B text encoder (unless I'm misunderstanding), so it might be a significant challenge for local use. I'll be looking forward to the distill version.

beernet•20m ago
Oh, looks like someone had to release something very quickly after Google came for their lunch. Their little 15 mins is over already for BFL as it seems.
whywhywhywhy•12m ago
comparing a closed image model to an open one is like comparing a compiled closed source app to raw source code.

it's pointless to compare in pure output when one is set in stone and the other can be built upon.

timmmmmmay•10m ago
yeah except I can download this and run it on my computer, whereas Nano Banana is a service that Google will suddenly discontinue the instant they get bored with it