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NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition
398•lldb•31m ago•281 comments

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard

https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
172•AriFordsham•3h ago•68 comments

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately

https://www.reuters.com/live/nvidia-live-board-meets-fate-ceo-jensen-huang-after-affair-reports-2...
90•ksec•27m ago•30 comments

Jane Street: Socratic Tutor

https://github.com/janestreet/agent_skills/blob/master/socratic-tutor/SKILL.md
443•tosh•2d ago•99 comments

A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console

https://codeberg.org/wvhulle/bootvine
205•orhunp_•3d ago•74 comments

Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/researchers-discover-rare-star-system-that-emits-rad...
41•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•14 comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of second affair deepened scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6zjry11v8w1t
43•cognoboffin•27m ago•12 comments

Tim Peters has died

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028
1308•ayhanfuat•1d ago•154 comments

93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
505•zenincognito•15h ago•64 comments

Anthropic IPO

https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/
243•josephljohnston•2h ago•278 comments

Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cve-2026-119618-rce-apache-http-server-vulnerability
290•soheilpro•12h ago•137 comments

AWS emulator

https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator
903•super_linear•20h ago•250 comments

Making a €40 USB-C hub work as a Nintendo Switch 2 dock

http://blog.nozomi.space/posts/sw2_dock/
76•mkopec•2d ago•25 comments

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/
526•mbac32768•21h ago•255 comments

Gemini Decisions API

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/
494•iamdelirium•19h ago•148 comments

Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
1167•jbredeche•15h ago•1560 comments

I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

https://www.getlazarus.org/forums/topic/17/
82•sysrpl•8h ago•28 comments

United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/
601•herpderperator•16h ago•627 comments

Lock Your GitHub Actions

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/lock-github-actions/
299•gslin•16h ago•59 comments

Grote Reber and the 'Square Kilometre Array' Near Bothwell, Tasmania (2017)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319702287_THE_HISTORY_OF_EARLY_LOW_FREQUENCY_RADIO_ASTRO...
16•NaOH•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Build a PC in 3D in the Browser

https://www.buildcores.com
11•ozaiworld•3d ago•3 comments

Emacs in the Age of Magic

https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt
274•ggcr•17h ago•127 comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after reports of extramarital relationships

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-resigns-reports-extramarital-relat...
14•sonabinu•22m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser

https://aircad.com
61•peetle•1d ago•24 comments

The Utah Teapot

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
173•cobbal•18h ago•42 comments

Legocam: My Lego webcam from 2000, working on a modern Mac

https://blog.benjamin.ie/legocam
38•benkelly•2d ago•28 comments

Hyper-realistic sand with WebGL2

https://av.github.io/safe-sand/
423•everlier•1d ago•77 comments

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?

https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site
1015•eyvindn•1d ago•373 comments

A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs

https://github.com/tylertms/Stela
126•iceboundrock•15h ago•52 comments

Jensen Huang resigning effective immediately

https://www.stocktitan.net/news/NVDA/nvidia-announces-ceo-03al5m45ne1p.html
18•chrisss395•31m ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

https://simulate.trybezel.com/research/image_agent
67•palashshah•1y 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•1y ago
Quite interesting, do you have some documentation of your platform and capabilities? Your landing page is quite synthetic
palashshah•1y ago
hey! we're working with an initial set of customers, and plan to launch full capabilities soon. stay tuned :)
ramesh31•1y 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•1y ago
appreciate the compliment! yep, it's definitely necessary and is the bare minimum for building image generation systems in production.
shmoogy•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Why do you agree? I think we should outsource as much as we can to abstraction. We've been doing it forever.
dandelany•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Palash this is a great post, I learnt a lot as an image gen noob! Keep writing more :)
palashshah•1y ago
this is incredible to hear! i plan to keep writing on a weekly basis, and will be posting them on twitter.
t_mann•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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?