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Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0
279•ilreb•4h ago•124 comments

New US homeownership measure puts people first

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026/new-homeownership-measure-puts-people-first
91•throw0101a•1h ago•83 comments

Python 3.15's Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode – Ken Jin's Blog

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/ultra-fast-tracing.html
44•rbanffy•6d ago•0 comments

Incremental – A library for incremental computations

https://github.com/janestreet/incremental
268•handfuloflight•9h ago•51 comments

Who's afraid of Chinese models?

https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/
769•mfiguiere•1d ago•581 comments

The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%

https://boilingsteam.com/the-great-steam-deck-volume-crash/
18•ekianjo•33m ago•11 comments

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

https://jelly-ui.com/
575•baldvinmar•20h ago•167 comments

Kimi Work

https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work
611•ms7892•20h ago•251 comments

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/
400•artninja1988•18h ago•186 comments

Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/arduino-launches-plug-and-play-modules-for-long-range-senso...
48•WaitWaitWha•3d ago•16 comments

Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

https://www.armaangomes.com/blogs/doom/
100•arghunter•9h ago•21 comments

How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes

https://compilade.net/blog/ternary-packing
51•JoshTriplett•6d ago•30 comments

Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras

https://www.wired.com/story/best-motion-sensors-private-alternatives-security/
5•joozio•2d ago•0 comments

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/
317•aratahikaru5•19h ago•108 comments

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/
212•akanet•17h ago•45 comments

A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste

https://www.instructables.com/A-Koi-Pond-Mosaic-Made-From-10-Pounds-of-3D-Printe/
49•sudo_cowsay•9h ago•38 comments

VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/vtubing-how-a-japanese-phenomenon-is-going-worldwide
65•pwim•9h ago•50 comments

I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

https://numerlab.org/2025/07/20/bashumerate-enumerator/
166•wallach-game•17h ago•150 comments

Agent swarms and the new model economics

https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics
236•jlaneve•19h ago•104 comments

The Psychology of Software Teams

https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Teams/Hicks/p/book/9781032963389
131•dcre•5d ago•40 comments

You only need the frontier model for one single edit

https://stencil.so/blog/prewalk
193•jxmorris12•6d ago•60 comments

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/
1158•benwerd•23h ago•867 comments

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

93•alexsouthmayd•21h ago•93 comments

I Stopped “Creating Content”

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/why-i-stopped-creating-content/
220•mtlynch•21h ago•184 comments

Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

https://exsitu.app/map
43•hbyel•8h ago•27 comments

Shinjuku Station in 3D

https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/
254•Gecko4072•23h ago•57 comments

Perfection is not over-engineering

https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html
259•var0xyz•23h ago•114 comments

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism

https://www.scottrlarson.com/presentations/overcoming-surveillance-capitalism-with-awareness/
131•trinsic2•17h ago•25 comments

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes
300•swat535•14h ago•262 comments

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/
673•speckx•1d ago•375 comments
Open in hackernews

Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0
277•ilreb•4h ago

Comments

xiaoyu2006•4h ago
The blog write-up style is so casual haha.
embedding-shape•4h ago
Not a single word about when/if they'll actually release the weights for this, or am I missing it somewhere?
user43928•4h ago
Considering Qwen-Image-2.0 weights have not been released either, it unfortunately looks unlikely.
vachina•2h ago
Why release it just so Cursor/Azure/Amazon can profit off of it? Unless OpenAI actually opens it up fat chance.
Mashimo•4h ago
> Supports up to 4.5k token input, effortlessly generating complex layouts such as newspapers, storyboards, and exam papers.

Impressive.

Btw, what is currently the best model to run locally on a 16GB Vram? Is it Z-Image Turbo?

woadwarrior01•4h ago
Krea-2-Turbo. I've even got it working locally on my M5 iPad Pro.
Mashimo•4h ago
thanks mate. Sadly not supported yet by Invoke, but I will take a look.
Izmaki•2h ago
> We implemented safety measures across the full model development lifecycle.

Any suggestions for the best open, non-opinionated model?

woadwarrior01•43m ago
It is a reasonably non-opinionated model. My usual test is to ask these models to generate comic book and cartoon characters that hosted image generation models refuse to generate. I think that text is just CYA legalese.
bitexploder•39m ago
You can also ablate it.
spwa4•4h ago
Appears to be closed-weights entirely. No word at all on any weights release.
weird-eye-issue•4h ago
The meta keywords in the HTML is very interesting. 100+ references to NSFW topics such as hentai, nudes, etc.
walrus01•4h ago
Wow you really weren't kidding. Fully automated AI slop tentacles for everyone!

https://pastes.io/uenL6X9K

It also seems to have an obsession with this celebrity, based on how many times ctrl-f for "stefani" turns up a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani

Mashimo•4h ago
> total drama qwen hentai

Do you want to know more?

[ ] Yes [x] no

jpfromlondon•3h ago
Qwentai
weird-eye-issue•4h ago
> spider qwen thicc, spider qwen tied up, spider qwen toddler costume, spider qwen trans, spider qwen wallpaper, spider qwen xxx hentai
walrus01•4h ago
spiderman pointing at spiderman meme trans wallpaper xxx thicc hentai
rvz•4h ago
Midjourney already knew that image generation was going to zero. Again yet another reason why the model was never a moat in the first place.
treetalker•4h ago
The red-dress woman's vestigial pinkie toes …
postalcoder•4h ago
They must have trained on GPT Image 1 outputs. The yellow tint is unmistakable.

https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Image/i...

https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Image/i...

https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Image/i...

https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Image/i...

yorwba•3h ago
GPT Image 1 ended up with a yellow tint without training on another image-generation model's output. It's just that humans like pictures with a soft sunset glow, and this is a very easy global signal for a preference model to pick up on, and for a image-generation model to imitate. So optimizing for aesthetic appeal makes everything slightly tinted by default, unless you make sure to countersteer.
postalcoder•3h ago
Fair point!
Grimblewald•3h ago
Didnt the piss tint come after their big studio ghibli heist?
dannyw
jdw64•3h ago
Wow, it displays Korean properly without breaking. But there are still a lot of typos. Haha, it's good that Korean displays properly, but there are a lot of incorrect sentences
sheept•3h ago
I find it mildly interesting how your comment repeats itself but with different phrasing
jdw64•3h ago
It's because of the structure of Korean. I think in Korean first, so I end up translating it directly.

When I want to emphasize something, I tend to repeat it

mahimai•3h ago
interesting
mynti•3h ago
To me it feels so weird that people are trying to push these model for online shopping like "here is how this dress/shirt/pants would look on you". But these models will always make the clothes fit your body and show you in flattering light and so on. How the actual garment fits is still as elusive as before these tools
walrus01•3h ago
The cynic in me says this is just an advancement and logical continuation from the known problem of sycophantic behavior in text-to-text chatbot format LLM, to image generation models.
inerte•1h ago
To me the tools are newer, but fit people in a controlled context to sell clothing is as old as photography itself.
number6•3h ago
Sounds exactly like something the marketing department would use to up the convertion rate
viraptor•3h ago
There's definitely a predatory "everything will look good", but you can also leverage exactly that part for your own purposes - I've done pre-shopping a couple of times by asking for something like "a grid of 9 versions of my photo, wearing different types of X that look good". Definitely helped with choosing a good style.
khurs•3h ago
viridir•3h ago
This looks impressive!
pal9000i•3h ago
How long until we get rid of the AI "plasticness" in portrait kind of generated images?
aitchnyu•3h ago
There is an IRL phenomena, glass skin skincare and makeup, where the person's skin is evenly flat and toned and glossy. Did you think they are more plasticky than IRL models?
numpad0•2h ago
That's supposed to make skin appear lively. Human skins in AI images tend to look clouded, opaque, and overall un-alive, so to speak.
jrs100000•3h ago
The right models and LORAs can get rid of it right now. People apparently really like everyone to look like over exposed over filtered mannequins, so the big companies target that look.
saltysalt•3h ago
It will be interesting to compare this to Flux 2.
Oarch•3h ago
I assume Van Gogh didn't paint enough hands to train from!
gpjanik•3h ago
The real performance is nowhere close to what is presented in the marketing materials, which is pretty annoying. Especially text rendering and accuracy.

Try asking it for a plot of Polish GDP growth over the past 20 years. It's slop.

viraptor•2h ago
This model isn't supposed to contain all the numerical data. It will give you a (usually) matching graph transformed from one you provide or from a table of information you provide. Or you can pipeline from an LLM doing research on that data first. But expecting an image gen model to get you GDP info has got to be one of the worst possible approaches.

> Especially text rendering

That's true though. I still got some completely fried letters in headings.

yorwba•2h ago
Giving it numerical data in an LLM-generated prompt doesn't seem to help much: https://imgur.com/a/KFhczOd

It included the table verbatim and even managed to hallucinate a reasonable heading for it, but then the graph doesn't even manage to align the data points with the time axis, leading to an unfortunate collision in the middle.

I guess you should use a traditional graphing library for your presentation slides for now.

spwa4•1h ago
... but if you want an accurate graph, why not ask the LLM model to put the data points into a graphing library?
dsrtslnd23•3h ago
Seems that this will not be open weights?
gchokov•3h ago
It failed to create a simple overlay on a map - something ChatGPT had no issues with.
maxloh•3h ago
I am curious whether the model requires a font to be installed. Does it also generate the glyphs for the text?
simonw•2h ago
Yes, it generates the text without using a font. Same is true of other image models like ChatGPT Images and Gemini Nano Banana and Midjourney.
feverzsj•2h ago
The "piss filter" is still everywhere.
dhbradshaw•2h ago
The generated latex pdf!
hessammehr•2h ago
Very cool but the Arabic text in the title image is obviously and hopelessly broken, which is oddly not the case when actually using the model. Could it be that the hero image was not generated by Qwen Image 3.0?
amrrs•2h ago
that's a very interesting point to test new models. I speak an Indian language called "Tamil" and have always tested new models with Tamil but also have tried little bit of Arabic (quranic verses) with previous GPT image 2 and Nanobanana pro and they have nailed it. Don't know if it was because of extensive training data.
bejd•2h ago
I wonder if they got permission to generate that (admittedly impressive) Berserk image.
arslan9063•2h ago
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR
ninjagoo•2h ago
The examples posted on their launch blog page are quite impressive, especially for fine details, multi-panel/multi-page and text rendering.

But: not open-source/open-weights, and no indication that weights/source will be released either.

simonw•1h ago
> to precisely describe the full 3×3 grid takes a full 3.7k tokens

It's a shame they didn't share that prompt - it would make that demo more convincing.

tarcon•1h ago
I am surprised by the rather bad output. It doesn't achieve qwen image 1 quality in composition or anatomical correctness. Tested on chat.qwen.ai

I am seeing third legs and glowing eyes. It's a Microsoft Lens level of quality and that one was pulled.

sajithdilshan•1h ago
I truly wish these models were available when I was in University. As a visual learner it would have been much easier for me to understand certain topics with illustrative diagrams rather than reading a wall of text.
DaiPlusPlus•1h ago
…but the illustrative diagrams are a simulacrum; if you ask Qwen, or any image-generator, for an “accurate” poster-design featuring a representation of a model of an atom and explaining its constituent parts I expect you’ll get an imitation-airbrush rendering of red, blue, and grey table-tennis balls orbiting in perfect circles; you might get an electron-shell diagram if you’re lucky. What you won’t get is anything remotely related to probability-clouds.

Edit: just to test myself I asked Nano Banana 2 to generate “an undergraduate infographic poster about how atoms work” - and the result was something right out of a middle-school science textbook and very Bohr…

sajithdilshan•54m ago
This is the image I got for the same prompt: https://jumpshare.com/s/mqqBdl7U59FWPiEXjwoM. It's more like high-school level, but not bad. I can imagine a collage professor can improve the prompt the create a more accurate and detailed diagram
zarzavat•53m ago
This seems like something that could be solved by asking an LLM to write the prompt for the image model. You can also feed in the output of an image model into an LLM and ask it to check it/make improvements.
lifthrasiir•1h ago
> In the three examples below, the model accurately renders Japanese, Korean, and Spanish respectively.

And yet the Korean text is not accurate... [1]

[1] E.g. "드레스 컬렉션 dress collection" has vowels ㅔ mixed with ㅐ, "초웜한" should be "초월한 exceeding", "신키한" should be "실키한 silky", "디자언되다" should be "디자인되다 have been designed", "로얼" should be "로열 royal", and so on.

ndom91•1h ago
Again not released on huggingface immediately?
timedude•57m ago
Zooming in on mobile on that website causes a large white area to obstruct the page. Might wanna look into that.

As for the image model, wow...

yoshitha2010•53m ago
Estate agents are also doing it; making interiors of houses look very different to how they really are.
Smaily•51m ago
why I cant submitte new posts here ? My account since 2016
WithinReason•4h ago
probably due to misspellings as qwen stefani
alex_suzuki•3h ago
> ben 10 hentai game where qwen gets drunk

erm... what?

walrus01•3h ago
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bbor•3h ago
Whelp today’s a unique day on hacker news, wow! Didn’t expect to read that at my desk lol
archon1410•3h ago
Surely it was meant to be "Gwen" (the protagonist's cousin and the other main character in the show). I guess it was somehow (incorrectly) assumed to be a misspelling of Qwen and included in the tags. Or perhaps many people were misspelling Gwen as "Qwen" and it was all hoovered up.
pdpi•3h ago
Keyword typosquatting I guess?
goobatrooba•2h ago
Wow, crazy things - "shemale porn", "spider fucks venom", and various porn URLs like tushy.com. What the hell did they do to their AI? Is that the training corpus or intended use case?
walrus01•1h ago
> Is that the training corpus or intended use case?

[whynotboth.gif]

chmod775•4h ago
Bonus points for also covering misspellings like "pregbant".
QuantumNomad_•3h ago
how is prangent formed

Am i gregnant?

https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg

gchamonlive•2h ago
Can you even get pregnato
Mtinie•1h ago
qregnant
Geee•1h ago
how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent?
jmuguy•37m ago
mothers who kill thier babby. becuse these babbys cant frigth back?
user_7832•21m ago
If a women has starch masks on her body does that mean she has been pargnet before.?
yewenjie•56m ago
how do i stop my son from looking at pikachu porn
timedude•54m ago
Stork bring baby
isoprophlex•3h ago
show bobs and vegana!
walrus01•3h ago
For those unfamiliar.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bobs-and-vegana

marginalia_nu•1h ago
This reddit slop is unbecoming of HN.
gchamonlive•33m ago
Is there such a thing as Reddit "unslop"? Thought it went without saying.
user_7832•20m ago
That's racist!

(See kids, it is possible to fight memes/racism with memes! And well... yeah, this really is racist.)

lukan•4h ago
That is hilarious as porn is illegal in China. But I guess pron SEO is allright, if it is against the west.
weird-eye-issue•4h ago
Western search engines simply ignore the meta keywords tag for over a decade now
lukan•3h ago
So what is the point then?
weird-eye-issue•3h ago
There is no point. It's from people that have no clue which is most people that do search engine optimization

That said it's possible search engines in China or other countries might use it, but it's very easy to game so it doesn't really make sense

vitalyan8184•2h ago
uh, are you implying that porn is bad somehow? I can show you a hundred articles that say only nazi incel chuds believe so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/hate-groups-porn-consp...

porn is as American as apple pie.

lukan•2h ago
Incels are probably the biggest porn consumers.

Apart from that, I made no judgement about porn in general, just about porn tags in Chinese backed AI websites.

Lio•30m ago
> porn is as American as apple pie

So not at all then as Apple Pie is a traditional English desert. :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie

postalcoder•3h ago
That's hilarious. These keywords are applied globally, even on pages like https://qwen.ai/usagepolicy, where they very kindly ask you not to use their products for sexual content.

Run this in console to see all the tags:

  document.querySelector('meta[name="keywords"]').content
khurs•3h ago
WTF lol

    who made qwen stefani's dress

    spiderman into the spider verse did qwen meet Peter

    qwen stacey porn

    do blake shelton and qwen stafani have children together
OkWing99•2h ago
Some of it is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Woman_(Gwen_Stacy)

(i.e. the porn references)

LoveMortuus•2h ago
Why would they added URLs for porn websites to their keywords? Like literally the names of websites with ".com" and such at the end.
WhereIsTheTruth•3h ago
Brainrot is the new opium war
cyanydeez•3h ago
how the turn tables
user43928•2h ago
I assume they use a SEO tool that automatically adds these meta keywords to optimize for some search engines.

It apparently adds common search terms that contain words like "qwen". This evidently includes possibly mistyped searches for "gwen" or "ben" in a NSFW context.

Maybe someone knows more about how such SEO tools work, and where they pull the data from.

spiderfarmer•1h ago
Sounds like “keyword shitter” (genuine tool)
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2h ago
AI-generated images are part of the web now, if you're doing ordinary web scraping, you can't avoid training on generated images.
As long as the Product Manger gets a bonus/promotion then it's a success.
TylerE•3h ago
To be fair in many cases the actual clothes aren't much better. I've had two pair of the same pants, same brand, same size fit noticeably differently.
morningsam•2h ago
Maybe this will lead to more business for tailors doing alterations, assuming the clothes people end up buying are expensive enough to justify it.
jimnotgym•2h ago
I understand they are already doing decent business since the advent of the magic weight loss pen
epolanski•2h ago
I have a similar use case at work for previewing construction material and such in our catalogue applied to user uploaded images.

Results are mixed, expensive, but it really feels you're few months off the next improvement to really nail it. It's already good enough.

Wonder what Qwen image will provide over nano banana.

k2enemy•2h ago
I've noticed something similar in Facebook marketplace ads for used furniture. Most of the images are AI generated to look like a Pottery Barn catalog, then the last image will be the actual item, full of scratches and other damage, sitting in a messy garage.
aembleton•1h ago
Estate agents are also doing it; making interiors of houses look very different to how they really are.
jeremyjh•1h ago
Yes and even if all they do is ask it to stage an empty room picture with furniture and decorations it will make improvements like adding a doorway to a room that doesn’t exist.
agile-gift0262•1h ago
The worst I've seen changed the view out a window from an alley to a private garden. Most also add natural light that isn't possible, and in some cases I'm convinced the generate image is depicting the space as larger than it actually is, with furniture and spaces that wouldn't fit in reality
skinfaxi•40m ago
Seems like false advertising.
QuantumGood•1h ago
And knocking out the messy garage background to replace it with a showroom is the easiest prompt.
jliptzin•2h ago
If it doesn’t fit, then you must have gained weight while the item was in transit
agile-gift0262•1h ago
You can fix it through our partner, Ozempic
jareklupinski•1h ago
i'd like it to notice things i would miss, like "this is ring-spun shirt, so it will sit like this on your torso" or "these pleats will require you to iron them" etc
pwillia7•1h ago
I bet if you had a way to easily train a LORA on you trying on various clothing types the models would do pretty well but I agree without that I can't think of a way to get it to work. Reminds me of the flattering mirrors scam https://finance.yahoo.com/news/company-swears-controversial-...
brookst•1h ago
The more honest ones are “how it looks on you” and don’t promise fit that depends on so many measurements that aren’t even visible in pics.

Sure, it’s idealized, but some people benefit from seeing color / neckline / etc on themselves as a visual reference.

Me, I’m a text-learner so I don’t get it at all. But I know people who get value.

therealpygon•46m ago
Good or bad, I’m pretty sure showing things in the best light has always been the point of “marketing”. There is a reason ads aren’t filled with ugly people with misshaped bodies, and it isn’t because the intention is to reflect reality, so what you allude to as problematic is what a lot of businesses call a feature.
LogicFailsMe•36m ago
I use nanobanana 2 to test changes in paint and flooring/tiling to great success. And the real pro move is taking those images to a designer to tweak the remaining 20% or so.
qwertox•35m ago
> But these models will always make the clothes fit your body and show you in flattering light and so on

This is something that can be fixed over time. And if this forces clothing manufacturers to stick more to their advertised "specs" (width/length), then it's a win for us.

victorbjorklund•11m ago
Is it gonna be less distorted than just seeing the shirt on a model photographed by a professional in the perfect light?