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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
663•haunter•4h ago•213 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
343•diebillionaires•4h ago•114 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
114•stevekrouse•2h ago•49 comments

Ted Turner has died

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
143•pseudolus•5h ago•101 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
54•unforgivenpasta•2h ago•40 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
56•elonlit•1d ago•12 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
22•benanne•1h ago•5 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
413•Anon84•2d ago•281 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4

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43•s1291•45m ago•2 comments

Life During Class Wartime

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime
46•AndrewDucker•3h ago•9 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
54•oahmadov•3h ago•16 comments

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2
411•hakonjdjohnsen•2d ago•50 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
51•zdw•1d ago•34 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
109•jandeboevrie•9h ago•32 comments

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
52•maxutility•15h ago•13 comments

Knitting bullshit

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383•ColinEberhardt•15h ago•160 comments

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
210•notsentient•13h ago•53 comments

Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

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94•PaulHoule•3h ago•61 comments

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css
288•cheeaun•15h ago•39 comments

Going Full Time on Open Source

https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/
92•thunderbong•2h ago•8 comments

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

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224•neilfrndes•16h ago•160 comments

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit

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1•botacode•8h ago

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors
175•gnabgib•3d ago•68 comments

Proton Meet

https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet
51•Einenlum•1h ago•14 comments

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

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149•doener•1h ago•206 comments

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

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120•ksymph•2d ago•25 comments

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304•veeti•19h ago•102 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
600•rolph•17h ago•347 comments

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

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49•benbreen•2d ago•12 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

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10•jonbaer•3h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

https://simulate.trybezel.com/research/image_agent
67•palashshah•11mo 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•11mo ago
Quite interesting, do you have some documentation of your platform and capabilities? Your landing page is quite synthetic
palashshah•11mo ago
hey! we're working with an initial set of customers, and plan to launch full capabilities soon. stay tuned :)
ramesh31•11mo 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•11mo ago
appreciate the compliment! yep, it's definitely necessary and is the bare minimum for building image generation systems in production.
shmoogy•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Why do you agree? I think we should outsource as much as we can to abstraction. We've been doing it forever.
dandelany•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Palash this is a great post, I learnt a lot as an image gen noob! Keep writing more :)
palashshah•11mo ago
this is incredible to hear! i plan to keep writing on a weekly basis, and will be posting them on twitter.
t_mann•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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?