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I’m joining OpenAI

https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
714•mfiguiere•6h ago•502 comments

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
175•prophylaxis•6h ago•103 comments

Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business
29•andsoitis•2h ago•16 comments

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

https://modern-css.com
293•eustoria•10h ago•123 comments

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
327•classichasclass•11h ago•143 comments

Audio is the one area small labs are winning

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
139•rocauc•2d ago•21 comments

I gave Claude access to my pen plotter

https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter
129•futurecat•2d ago•60 comments

Error payloads in Zig

https://srcreigh.ca/posts/error-payloads-in-zig/
60•srcreigh•5h ago•11 comments

JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performanc...
30•luu•4h ago•25 comments

I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology

https://www.thesswnetwork.com/post/why-i-love-board-games-a-personal-obsession-explained-by-psych...
19•Propolice•4d ago•8 comments

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/15/david-greene-google-ai-podcast/
122•mikhael•10h ago•70 comments

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

https://microgpt.boratto.ca
141•b44•10h ago•9 comments

Transforming a Clojure Database into a Library with GraalVM Native Image and FFI

https://avelino.run/chrondb-polyglot-ffi-clojure-graalvm-native-image/
27•PaulHoule•4d ago•0 comments

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026...
822•giuliomagnifico•11h ago•574 comments

Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices

https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue
72•nikodunk•12h ago•14 comments

GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/
70•smartmic•7h ago•48 comments

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/
135•tobr•3d ago•13 comments

Language a Wood for Thought: Susan Howe's Work

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1769037/language-a-wood-for-thought
21•apollinaire•4d ago•1 comments

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

https://gwern.net/gwtar
196•theblazehen•13h ago•66 comments

Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI

https://github.com/gpasquero/voog
73•gpasquero•9h ago•18 comments

How long do job postings stay open?

https://corvi.careers/blog/job_open_days_by_category_feb_2026/
6•sp1982•1d ago•0 comments

Benchmarking Automatic Typesetting Systems

https://news.speedata.de/2026/02/10/typesetting-benchmark/
3•patrickg•4d ago•1 comments

Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/pink-noise-reduces-rem-sleep-and-may-harm-sleep-quality
76•gnabgib•4h ago•48 comments

DHS pushes social media giants to dox anonymous accounts critical of ICE

https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
24•jmward01•1h ago•4 comments

Why I don't think AGI is imminent

https://dlants.me/agi-not-imminent.html
39•anonymid•5h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

https://knock-knock.net
111•djkurlander•11h ago•44 comments

Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177
88•gmays•10h ago•47 comments

DHS has reportedly sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics online

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/homeland-security-has-reportedly-sent-out-hundreds-of-subpoenas...
10•ggm•27m ago•1 comments

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-qu...
187•bikenaga•10h ago•148 comments

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
740•mikece•16h ago•547 comments
Open in hackernews

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

https://simulate.trybezel.com/research/image_agent
67•palashshah•9mo 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•9mo ago
Quite interesting, do you have some documentation of your platform and capabilities? Your landing page is quite synthetic
palashshah•9mo ago
hey! we're working with an initial set of customers, and plan to launch full capabilities soon. stay tuned :)
ramesh31•9mo 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•9mo ago
appreciate the compliment! yep, it's definitely necessary and is the bare minimum for building image generation systems in production.
shmoogy•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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.
shmoogy•8mo ago
I actually haven't but nova from Amazon was surprisingly good at things like bounding boxes compared to some others You kind of have to test and measure so many different aspects to get the best at specific tasks Thanks for the idea
elif•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Why do you agree? I think we should outsource as much as we can to abstraction. We've been doing it forever.
dandelany•9mo ago
"Simple stochastic blob detection" is an abstraction. You write (or import) a function where the the gnarly logic lives and call `detectBlobs()`. "Use an abstraction" doesn't mean you should use the same abstraction for every task, you should use the right tool for the job.
mentalgear•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Palash this is a great post, I learnt a lot as an image gen noob! Keep writing more :)
palashshah•9mo ago
this is incredible to hear! i plan to keep writing on a weekly basis, and will be posting them on twitter.
t_mann•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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.
jacob019•9mo ago
This is all edited with gpt-image-1? The revised images are amazing. Were example logos provided or is it just working off of it's knowledge of a well known brand?