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Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
93•nl•1h ago•32 comments

Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsa...
42•firloop•1h ago•14 comments

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

https://www.anthropic.com/news/accelerating-scientific-research
30•gmays•2h ago•13 comments

No knives, only cook knives

https://kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com/p/no-knives-only-cook-knives
18•firloop•6h ago•0 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
22•bkudria•3h ago•1 comments

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
928•alexharri•18h ago•112 comments

jQuery 4.0.0 Released

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
43•OuterVale•1h ago•6 comments

Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/
13•seanwilson•3h ago•6 comments

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
152•nhatcher•8h ago•49 comments

Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024

https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2024/
61•barishnamazov•5h ago•7 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
365•glimshe•15h ago•295 comments

Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/podcasting-could-use-a-good-asteroid/
9•zdw•2d ago•3 comments

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
407•iamwil•5d ago•229 comments

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design

https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
358•lateforwork•5h ago•156 comments

Xous Operating System

https://xous.dev/
105•eustoria•3d ago•30 comments

Raising money fucked me up

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
195•yakkomajuri•11h ago•64 comments

How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-unde...
33•beardyw•4d ago•7 comments

The Olivetti Company

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
152•rbanffy•6d ago•32 comments

Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue

https://www.royalbhati.com/posts/js-array-vs-typedarray
14•howToTestFE•6d ago•5 comments

The relentless rule of my fitness tracker

https://timharford.com/2025/10/the-relentless-rule-of-my-fitness-tracker/
8•Arnt•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases

https://github.com/chunkhound/chunkhound
66•NadavBenItzhak•8h ago•16 comments

The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/01/09/bennett-cerf-biography-nothing-random-feldman-boo...
5•benbreen•4h ago•1 comments

Light Mode InFFFFFFlation

https://willhbr.net/2025/10/20/light-mode-infffffflation/
178•Fudgel•7h ago•133 comments

IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator

https://polysoftit.co.uk/irisc-web/
21•rtybanana•5h ago•2 comments

Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
73•stefanvdw1•6d ago•10 comments

U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-order-against-annas-archive-spells-more-trouble-for-the-site/
28•t-3•1h ago•12 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm
128•Tachyooon•12h ago•146 comments

The thing that brought me joy

https://www.stephenlewis.me/blog/the-thing-that-brought-me-joy/
86•monooso•10h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game

https://speedminers.fun/
18•nickponline•7h ago•2 comments

M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php
102•rasz•6d ago•8 comments
Open in hackernews

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

https://simulate.trybezel.com/research/image_agent
67•palashshah•8mo 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•8mo ago
Quite interesting, do you have some documentation of your platform and capabilities? Your landing page is quite synthetic
palashshah•8mo ago
hey! we're working with an initial set of customers, and plan to launch full capabilities soon. stay tuned :)
ramesh31•8mo 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•8mo ago
appreciate the compliment! yep, it's definitely necessary and is the bare minimum for building image generation systems in production.
shmoogy•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•7mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Why do you agree? I think we should outsource as much as we can to abstraction. We've been doing it forever.
dandelany•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
Palash this is a great post, I learnt a lot as an image gen noob! Keep writing more :)
palashshah•8mo ago
this is incredible to hear! i plan to keep writing on a weekly basis, and will be posting them on twitter.
t_mann•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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?