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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
387•iambateman•2h ago•105 comments

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/
64•dtj1123•1h ago•28 comments

Software Survival 3.0

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/software-survival-3-0-97a2a6255f7b
55•jaybrueder•1d ago•22 comments

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf
134•vinhnx•5h ago•65 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-net...
46•cdrnsf•1d ago•27 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
1161•teej•18h ago•559 comments

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of...
81•gnabgib•3d ago•7 comments

Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report

https://bsky.social/about/blog/01-29-2026-transparency-report-2025
60•emschwartz•22h ago•50 comments

Building docs like a product

https://emschwartz.me/building-docs-like-a-product/
31•emschwartz•1d ago•2 comments

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
229•UltraSane•3d ago•34 comments

Self Driving Car Insurance

https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/
51•KellyCriterion•6h ago•143 comments

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
581•ed•16h ago•296 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/
104•surprisetalk•8h ago•20 comments

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/silver-gold-fall-price-usd-dollar-fed-warsh-chair-trump-metals.html
44•pera•1h ago•23 comments

Email experiments: filtering out external images

https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/email-experiments-image-filtering.html
19•todsacerdoti•10h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox
103•souvik1997•7h ago•65 comments

Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

10•item007•5h ago•2 comments

The Home Computer Hybrids

https://technicshistory.com/2026/01/25/the-home-computer-hybrids/
26•cfmcdonald•5d ago•9 comments

Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray

https://github.com/kristianaryanto/Quack-Cluster
58•tanelpoder•3d ago•11 comments

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
130•ghostfoxgod•10h ago•115 comments

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/
203•tobr•6h ago•42 comments

Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/implementing-a-tiny-cpu-rasterizer-part-1.html
94•PaulHoule•4d ago•17 comments

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
377•vismit2000•16h ago•292 comments

Pangolin (YC S25) is hiring software engineers (open-source, Go, networking)

https://docs.pangolin.net/careers/join-us
1•miloschwartz•9h ago

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026

https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-design-convergence-review-2018-2026/
41•surprisetalk•3d ago•28 comments

Painless Software Schedules (2000)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-schedules/
47•MonkeyClub•4d ago•31 comments

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

https://www.blender.org/press/netflix-animation-studios-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-cor...
434•vidyesh•15h ago•75 comments

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-...
606•franczesko•13h ago•328 comments

Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

https://www.wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-communities-signed-secrecy-deals-billion-dollar-data-centers
302•sseagull•8h ago•328 comments

A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/
97•qingcharles•2h ago•78 comments
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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
376•iambateman•2h ago

Comments

yetihehe•1h ago
Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.
dbacar•59m ago
Apart from some lucky places, most of the world cities looks like this or worse.
aaronbrethorst•28m ago
That’s the Joke!
abraxas•27m ago
Before the dystopian black and gray fad arrived most buildings that went up were sort of OK. And I didn't mind the pastel paint on commie blocks either. But a decade ago someone decided that gray cuboids with asymmetric windows were an improvement...

Even so, I think North American cities are on average uglier than most Polish ones.

Overall we're not doing that bad but I want the memes to continue lest we get Prague or Amsterdam level tourist invasion.

zdragnar•19m ago
Pretty much any place with brutalist architecture, really. I'll happily take pretty much any revival or classical style over "modern" or brutalist style.

There's nothing more depressing than walking by beautiful historic old buildings only to turn a corner and see a monstrosity of concrete and glass somehow reaching the epitome of bland and uninviting.

OsrsNeedsf2P•1h ago
Looks beautiful tbh. I prefer the greyness
yawnxyz•1h ago
That's funny, the second example is the Peace Bridge in Calgary.

On a nice day the render actually looks close to the real thing!

shermantanktop•1h ago
Maybe a real picture of the actual bridge was in the training set? Similar to how prompting for a story about a boy wizard can result in verbatim Harry Potter passages.
iambateman•1h ago
I think they use their eyes to see the Peace Bridge and were saying it's fairly close to their experience. :D
b450•1h ago
I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol

https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

Toutouxc•1h ago
Looks like Machinarium. I like it.
sebmellen•1h ago
What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!
eps•1h ago
Yeah, it's really a masterpiece. It's utterly fantastic.
yokljo•34m ago
I really enjoyed "Samorost 3" by the same developers. Machinarium still takes the cake though.
rollinDyno•1h ago
This is just Moscow
smsm42•1h ago
Ugh, this looks way too real...
palmotea•1h ago
For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if
lloydatkinson•58m ago
Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked
Analemma_•42m ago
If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.
0x3f•24m ago
I wish the UK looked this good.
RealCodingOtaku•30m ago
The rimigo proxy works for me: https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/nFQN5tx
fredley•57m ago
As someone in the UK, this was especially chilling.
egorfine•1h ago
This is ingenious and actually useful. I'm looking for a new apartment and I always wanted to know how do these places look in a bad weather, because that's when I need beautiful surroundings the most.
wizzwizz4•1h ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't actually tell you that information: it just turns a dial. What you want is to know how much that dial would be turned by bad weather.
egorfine•1h ago
It's infinitely better than nothing.
wizzwizz4•35m ago
Fortunately, you have one of the world's most powerful supercomputers sitting between your ears, so we don't need to compare this to nothing.
Retr0id•1h ago
As long as it's not changing the form of the buildings, it seems valid. Although, the first two examples both add random telecom cabinets in places that don't make much sense.
Jolter•53m ago
I figure that’s an architectural in-joke. The engineers will add ugly stuff because you didn’t consider stuff like HVAC or electricity.
ziml77•1h ago
They still look great on a rainy November day. A nice cozy, quiet vibe.
poly2it•1h ago
This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.
Tiberium•1h ago
It's not a filter, it's an image editing model
poly2it•1h ago
This drink is not a smoothie, it is a blend of fruits and berries.
Tiberium•1h ago
In my mind "filter" is some specific algorithm that does a single expected transformation
tomasphan•1h ago
Right, filtering is the reduction of information while diffusion/generation is creation.
viraptor•1h ago
It doesn't have to be a reduction. Swapping the colour channels would be a filter, but it's perfectly reversible.
its_ethan•1h ago
There's a pretty clear expected transformation here though? It takes an image and then reduces the "shiny-ness" of it by giving it the same transformation: change the sky to overcast, add material degradation like rust, reduce the landscaping by adding weeds/puddles, and remove the happy looking people.
superb_dev•44m ago
Also adding random electrical infrastructure and random signs, also removing a statue in the distance in one of the images
henryfjordan•51m ago
"Filter" is a Tik-tok / snapchat / instagram parlance for any kind of overlay / transformation. It's grown larger than just sepia filters and similar. All the ones that do facial tracking and overlay a mustache or w/e is funny in the moment are also referred to as filters.

See https://www.snapchat.com/lens

Applejinx•1h ago
How is it not just a midjourney prompt? The liberties it takes seem to be better described by 'upload a picture, and AI will be told to make it dingier'. Can't people already do that ad nauseam?
mckirk•1h ago
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
netsharc•38m ago
Huh, I wonder if they trained it by feeding it architectural renders and "what actually got built" photos...
lucaslazarus•1h ago
Au contraire, in a rather realistic way
nickandbro•1h ago
I am very curious if this app is making money or are users just using the two generators and then leaving? If so I am very impressed with your wrapper around the image gen models.
luckydata•1h ago
this landing page is a lead gen tool for the architect at the bottom
nickandbro•1h ago
Ahh, I see that. Thanks
londons_explore•1h ago
I can imagine the reverse model could be very profitable with every real estate agent using it to make dreary photos look great.
joshuaissac•1h ago
Reverse model aimed at estate agents already posted in this thread by someone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829566
Tiberium•1h ago
Nano Banana is indeed a powerful model :)
haunter•1h ago
Used it on some Fortnite screenshots, I'd play that depressing version!

https://files.catbox.moe/i8tfkl.jpg

https://files.catbox.moe/mw8vbc.jpg

Then I thought what would it make from an already dark and grim scene, like HL2 Ravenholm

https://files.catbox.moe/d7z77h.jpg

but nothing really? Just made the whole thing a different color scheme + changed some architecture

dasil003•1h ago
Halfway to The Last of Us conversion for Fortnite
assaddayinh•1h ago
They stole the ravenholm sign
crazysim•1h ago
It really tied the place together.
nicbou•1h ago
That looks like a specific level in Left for Dead 2
ksherlock•1h ago
Sandy Strip is a low rent strip club right? Based on the name and logo it can't be anything else... Anyhow, that looks like GTA to me.
Applejinx•1h ago
Nice, it made it back into PUBG :)
chrysoprace•34m ago
I mean now they just look like early Fortnite!
Nevermark•1h ago
And the real killer app of contact lens AR will be ... this in reverse.
viraptor•1h ago
That's black mirror level content.
mkturkcan•59m ago
One of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth books features this as a whole chapter, the first of the Cugel books I believe. I don’t know of an earlier appearance of the concept.
netsharc•55m ago
It feels Snapchat already has beauty filters as standard. Or you can also spot the beauty filters glitching out all the girls dancing on Tiktok/IG, e.g. their eyelashes would be somewhere else for a split second...

Hah, like connected cars talking to each other, the AR goggles/lenses will talk to each other so each person can broadcast a unified beautifed version of their face to others.

Maybe the Grok AR goggles will have Grok features...

colechristensen•46m ago
Can we re-engineer LSD so the only effect we can get is how colors look 12 hours afterwards?
DrPhish•35m ago
Very “futurological congress” thought
tart-lemonade•15m ago
Like HYPER-REALITY? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
IshKebab•1h ago
Ha this is great - I always thought this would be a brilliant application for AI.
PenguinRevolver•1h ago
Wow. Umm, the "free generations" limit is running on a client-based honour system...
niyazpk•1h ago
It would be great if I can run this as a browser extension that works on Zillow and Redfin.
raffa667•1h ago
I did exactly the opposite with https://prontopic.com
willguest•56m ago
thanks for helping people to lie
netsharc•35m ago
Geez, I'm reminded of a business student's idea of "Uber for photoshoppers" (this is ~20 years ago): you upload your picture, you say what you want changed, and I guess you pick which photoshopper's work looks convincing from a marketplace of them...

He had a website, and the sample pic is a girl lying on her back, and in the "after" picture she's wearing a bigger cup-size..

wateralien•4m ago
Works great. I hate it.
assaddayinh•1h ago
Used it on the line. That got dark fast..
purplecats•1h ago
does this work on people
wbobeirne•1h ago
Getting a 402 error payment required when I try to run this, I'm guessing all of the credits for the API account have been used up. Great idea though!
gedy•55m ago
It's some Loveable app thing. Fun idea though
archy_•1h ago
I keep getting "Edge Function returned a non-2xx status code." Run out of tokens?
Gracana•1h ago
Same here. Disappointing. I wanted to run it on that picture of a church that looks like a chicken.
leoh•12m ago
I wanted to run it on renders from the owner's website
mxfh•1h ago
What is it with people?

Is there some weird force dropping electrical enclosures on bridges (the cables on top even?) and random places in the street.

Those random protruding manholes next to two other drainage gates nowhere near a slope?

Why are these even the examples.

This is just like turning the HDR tone mapping up to 200%

hbs18•1h ago
It's not that bad actually. Over the years stuff like electrical installations, cables and random manholes often get retrofitted in an ugly way to existing architecture.
TheJoeMan•47m ago
I was actually going to comment on the main post, how well tuned the AI seems with it's placement of random electrical wires and junction boxes that seem to match my impression of renderings-vs-reality.
xg15•1h ago
The absolutely 100% leafless trees stretched my suspension of disbelief a bit. They look less like "end of fall/beginning of winter" and more like "dead".

Also, the model goes a bit overboard with the electrical appliances. I had to laugh at the bridge one.

Apart from that, it's a great idea!

c-fe•25m ago
I have to say both the leafless trees and electrical box spawning is very on point for what you would find in eg Belgium. Check this full blown ugly building/container that spawned in the beautiful Liege Guillemins station https://maps.app.goo.gl/T1J7WwCCYDvBgJEc7
xg15•20m ago
Yeah, both are good additions - in moderation. I think the model just went into extremes with them.
c-fe•9m ago
Maybe.. or maybe you underestimate the insanities you can find in real life too (the model isnt that creative unfortunately). See here, 5 different no-parking signs for the same 2 spots: https://maps.app.goo.gl/S74r7eawH2vL24CX7
throwway120385•17m ago
That's like every new building I've seen around here. Developers plant trees directly into compacted soil and then they grow half a foot within 10 years and then die in a hot summer. The building owner then just leaves them in because it's easier than taking them out.
James_K•1h ago
British filter.
ronsor•55m ago
This does more than remove shine. It makes every building look like it's in the UK!
83•44m ago
The rust stains in realistic locations on the bridge is very well done.
Onavo•38m ago
It's because of Autodesk BIM no?
GaggiX•35m ago
This is just a Nano Banana wrapper I imagine.
chromanoid•33m ago
I am patiently waiting for LARP AR glasses that have all kinds of these filters.
abraxas•31m ago
Excellent idea. So many modern buildings age so poorly. Maybe this will give some starchitecs a bit of a pause...
TrainedMonkey•27m ago
Aha, make it drab, soviet, and raining filter. Peak hipster, I love it.
throwawayk7h•25m ago
I like how it adds random electrical boxes everywhere.
throwway120385•23m ago
And water meters too. And the rust on all the welds is chefs kiss.
leoh•12m ago
And the trash cans
modeless•16m ago
This would be useful if it actually did some reasoning about the effects of aging on different materials, consequences of certain design decisions, etc. It's not doing that at all, and so it's just misleading instead. If you actually built these things and took pictures years later it wouldn't look like this. Some things would look better and some would look worse. So you can't use this to make decisions about what to build.
wateralien•10m ago
This was exhausting to read. Don’t you ever have fun?
fluoridation•10m ago
No, it would look like this, just not exactly like this. Say, the fancy bridge example has some rust runoff but no obvious metal for it to come from. Other than that, the guess is quite believable, and certainly much more so than the render.
Lerc•9m ago
This would be really useful if it came in a real estate photo version. Turn the photos that agents post back into the photos they took.
xd1936•8m ago
POST https://fjtwtlaryvoqohkwnbwd.supabase.co/functions/v1/transf... 402 (Payment Required)

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drsalt•6m ago
please take this down before architects find this forum
AceJohnny2•5m ago
It's like a dream come true!

I've been thinking of something like this for decades, as I mentally compared the utopian displays at construction sites to the existing buildings next to them. Like "wow you fancy new building is going to be so perfectly white and clean, but what will it look like after 10 years exposed to the elements and no cleaning, like the one next door?"

New construction is sold on a blue-sky promise. How does it really look like a decade down the road? All construction has a decades- if not centuries-long lifespan. It's worth thinking about them long-term.

I absolutely love the streak of rust coming off the saddle of arches on the bridge example. That's exactly what I'm talking about.