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ChatGPT Images 2.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/
116•vertigoruntime•42m ago•91 comments

Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/
348•utiiiD•4h ago•88 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03
285•tosh•5h ago•116 comments

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/
131•stared•4h ago•75 comments

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
605•tedsanders•2h ago•441 comments

The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/the-helicopter-with-radioactive-blades/
97•zdw•1d ago•22 comments

Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization

https://ishamf.dev/p/llm-attention-visualizer/
48•ifz•2h ago•12 comments

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus
306•sbulaev•3h ago•179 comments

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd
156•domhudson•5h ago•128 comments

Connecting the Machines

https://herdr.dev/blog/connecting-the-machines/
42•collinmanderson•2h ago•16 comments

The two Christian saints who are the Buddha

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/30/the-two-christian-saints-who-are-secretly-the-buddha/
145•surprisetalk•4h ago•79 comments

Y Combinator Early Access Network

https://events.ycombinator.com/yc-early-access-fall-26
42•tosh•2h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

https://copperhead.sh/
167•animeshchouhan•5h ago•64 comments

Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas)

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-09-05.html
10•uecker•3d ago•0 comments

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02246
42•rramadass•3h ago•31 comments

100s of flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6x2z0yy32ejt
16•contingencies•54m ago•6 comments

Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-25-replacing-a-rust-enum-with-a-64-bit-word/
27•metrofun•3d ago•11 comments

AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-map-of-every-possible-dna-letter-chan...
62•fady0•5h ago•8 comments

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/zx-spectrum-experimenting-with-1-bit-sound/
63•ibobev•4h ago•20 comments

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
636•procedurecall•13h ago•327 comments

Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/08/paramount-caught-using-astroturf-group-to-drum-up-fake-suppor...
250•hn_acker•4h ago•76 comments

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/science/92-year-old-mathematician-apprentice.html
58•robinhouston•1d ago•6 comments

Getting your hands dirty is good for you

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260904-how-getting-your-hands-dirty-boosts-your-health-withi...
181•HatchedLake721•9h ago•155 comments

DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial...
253•abraham•4h ago•127 comments

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

https://weirdgloop.org/blog/google-jail
472•pizzaiolo•17h ago•196 comments

Disappointed Optimists

https://cwodtke.com/disappointed-optimists/
46•adrianhoward•4h ago•2 comments

FreeBSD 14.5-Release

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.5R/announce/
72•joshcsimmons•7h ago•10 comments

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics
204•patadune•9h ago•70 comments

Extracting Steering Vectors from J space

https://darshanmakwana412.github.io/2026/09/extracting-steering-vectors-from-j-space/
52•martianvoid•2d ago•12 comments

Mistral raises €3B

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
773•kuberwastaken•14h ago•552 comments
Open in hackernews

ChatGPT Images 2.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/
115•vertigoruntime•42m ago

Comments

mudkipdev•28m ago
Did they fix the noise gradient?
wrcwill•19m ago
doesn't look like it, looking at the motocross photo (0:19 in the "Structure your prompts for better results" video)
mattbettinson•27m ago
I hope my local kebab shops switch to this for their signs.
coffeebeqn•20m ago
I see a lot of the slop posters in real life now and I hate them
arrowleaf•19m ago
I still don't know if I hate them because they are visually slop, or that the businesses farmed out sign creation to the slop machine
rexskimmer•15m ago
All of the above for me.
infecto•13m ago
I love them because while not perfect it’s a good way to filter out businesses that don’t have good taste.
tyjen•13m ago
I think every restaurant on Uber Eats in my area uses AI slop or, minimally, AI "enhanced" food pictures.
Insanity•10m ago
Probably some other type of ads '[..] in your area' will use this as well.
Betelbuddy•13m ago
If they wanna loose customers...
steve_adams_86•8m ago
Not OP but my guess is that they're already using bad AI images for their kebab business, and OP wants them to use better AI for their images (so they may actually lose fewer customers because the AI imagery isn't so awful)
yoz-y•7m ago
It would be an improvement, probably, because they are still using Dall.e 1 apparently.
sanid•6m ago
I can't disagree more. A lot of shops in our city have done this and I actually miss the shitty photoshopped images that did not even look like the real life dish anyway. AI signs are way worse.
embedding-shape•2m ago
I thought that was parents point, that currently they're using so shitty AI generated logos, that even if we despise that as a concept, at least better models output slightly less sloppy shit. But re-reading it, I'm not sure that was the right initial reading.
charcircuit•27m ago
Does multi turn image consistency mean they have solved the yellow tint issue?
gottagocode•25m ago
Composite party photo...this is going to revolutionize tinder profiles.
pelzatessa•25m ago
The "composite party photo", while impressive, shows that still the miniscule details are being lost, like the teeth structure of the guy in the middle or the fact that the guy on the left is holding the cup with three fingers. Wondering why they chose this edit for the showcase.
nzach•21m ago
And don't forget the 'Thing' from Addams Family in the shoulder of the guy on the left.
pllbnk•15m ago
The guy on the left in that same photo only has three fingers (and a thumb, I suppose). I thought image generation has already outlived that.

Edit: I feel stupid I didn't see the original OP already mentioning three finger issue. I'll just leave it here.

headz•21m ago
> Wondering why they chose this edit for the showcase.

They probably didn't care to check those images in detail.

polytely•12m ago
I'm guessing if you work on these images the whole day you start to lose the ability to judge image quality. like your brain becomes slopified
vunderba•6m ago
The OpenAI PR/doc team seem to have a history of this kind of attention lapse - their 4-panel comic strip using gpt-image-2 was an absolute mess too.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/gen-failures

clement_b•24m ago
Ah. Another 3 months delay for gemini-3.5-pro.
bearjaws•24m ago
Surprised to see no acknowledgement of how "AI Menu Slop" has become deeply associated with ChatGPT.

Everywhere I go now I see places that blatantly used ChatGPT for their menus or posters and they all look the same.

It feels almost existential to the service, I know its a bit of survivor bias but so many images you can tell immediately are ChatGPT vs other image providers, and I feel many people are sick of them.

mickeyp•23m ago
It's not like a lot of these small-time outfits used their own photography to begin with.

They'd pick a kebab from a menu of professionally made kebab pictures the printer has in stock. Or worse, they'd take pics of their own plated food with a dead-centre point flash in a dark cupboard or something and you end up with awful-looking food, no matter how good.

core_dumped•15m ago
It's still more honest than generating virtual kebab.
infecto•11m ago
Is it though? I don’t find using stock art to be any better myself.
breezybottom•7m ago
Stock art food doesn't usually look unappetizing and bizarre.
shagie•8m ago
I'm not sure if I'm working with ChatGPT Images 2.5 or 2.0 here...

The original photo I took was at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_pa... - it's a cheeseburger meatloaf with potato wedges taken with a phone camera. And I was going for a consistent documentation approach for the photograph, not trying for menu proper.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa05d33-3e6c-83ea-9e32-f1371c1ad6... ( https://imgur.com/a/fPB5VKP for just the image)

I suspect that someone doing a menu could take a properly plated meal from the kitchen (rather than me photographing on top of my oven) and have it get redone for a good image for a menu without fundamentally changing what is being served.

iLoveOncall•23m ago
ChatGPT Images is for me the most impresive of all models, but also the one I hate the most, because of what it's used for: either funny wasteful use, or nefarious use, basically nothing else.
leokennis•7m ago
Just like WordPerfect enabled your mom to create a professional-enough cover letter, ChatGPT allows your mom to send you a more or less visually pleasing virtual birthday card of you wearing a party hat.
_pdp_•23m ago
Is this even public?
AyanamiKaine•22m ago
Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.

The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

echelon•19m ago
This is such a modern world imagined problem.

For thousands of years people would tell embellished stories and humanity thrived on it. Tall tales and fish stories. Heck, that's still the average person's experience unless they've worked their critical thinking muscles.

Now that we're used to the short thirty year safe space of smartphones and internet - a temporary meta stability - we're complaining that the physical world is amenable to storytelling and imagination once again.

Cry me a river. Because this is awesome and this is everything I wanted the future to be. I wanted to graduate into the world that is emerging now rather than spend the first third of my career in incrementalism.

2008 - 2020 sucked. AI is healing things. It's taking us back to a creative world without shitty platforms controlling what we say, do, and reach.

It feels like every day we're unwrapping a new present. Not small things, but reality shattering things that fill me with inspiration to build and explore. It's so much fun.

RobRivera•14m ago
[Cry me a River]

No thank you

AyanamiKaine•11m ago
To tell a story, to even exaggerate one is something completely different from providing "prove" it did really happen exactly the way it was told.

There are many many people that will take an image as an undeniable fact of the real world. While before you could fake(photoshop) things it took more time then 30 seconds.

I wouldnt regulate these aspects, because I believe pandoras box is already wide open. Regulating anything wouldn't change much.

conradludgate•19m ago
> Every week, people create more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API

Most depressing thing I have read today

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•13m ago
Having a lot of fun with my son using an image of him and dressing him in all kinds of costumes. How is that depressing to you?
davidweatherall•12m ago
Didn't you hear? you must hire a real artist to do that for you or you're exploiting the industry
ksd482•11m ago
I think @conradludgate was alluding to that we have so much of AI slop these days.

But I see your point too. I too like to generate cute and funny images and share it with my friends and family.

But this being done at scale can lead to overall degradation of the online experience.

paimapi•9m ago
plus the energy cost - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-a...

>Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car. In contrast, the least carbon-intensive text generation model they examined was responsible for as much CO2 as driving 0.0006 miles in a similar vehicle

pllbnk•16m ago
Do all Silicon Valley corporations use the same jingle for their product promotional videos? The creator must be really rich by now.
bufbupa•16m ago
Still can't make sprite sheets :(
RobinL•6m ago
Interesting. I'm surprised they haven't prioritised/deliberately trained for this more because of how useful it is to ask codex to generate some images/assets/sprites when building sill games. It would dramatically enhance how polished it's games were.

That said for single images the old model was already okayish for prototypes

vunderba•3m ago
You can get semi-decent sprite work out of GenAI models, but you still have to put in some manual work (scale normalization, palette reduction, grid alignments, etc). It's definitely not "out-of-the-box" yet.

https://mordenstar.com/other/hobbes-animation

srott•14m ago
Where is Dall-e?
Sivart13•13m ago
Great idea, get an AI art tattoo so you can always be reminded how AI art looked in 2026.
hspeiser•11m ago
the clothing examples are super odd because its not actually useable. the clothes will not look like that on you, it just fits them to your body.
minimaxir•7m ago
A big wtf at the LM Arena scores: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

gpt-image-2.5-sunburst: 1421

gpt-image-2.5-flare: 1399

gpt-image-2 (medium): 1381

mai-image-2.6: 1331

Even with LM Arena being flawed, this is significant. I was planning to do a writeup on the original gpt-image-2 as it crushed every complex image comprehension benchmark I had...I'm glad I procrastinated since ChatGPT Images 2.5 seems like an even better starting point to test out what these models can actually do nowadays.

Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis.

yoz-y•4m ago
> Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis.

Last time I used a frontier image model it made me a seal with three hands so…

teaearlgraycold•7m ago
The AI tattoo. Hope you don’t have any ragrets.
vgalin•7m ago
The introductory video is a bit... daring. Generating tattoos that clearly look AI-generated is not one of the use-cases I'd try to sell.
starone99•6m ago
feels this something backhanded
tyjen•5m ago
The Facebook Marketplace experience for used items has depreciated considerably with the widespread adoption of LLMs. Between placing attractive models in photos to help sell items to "improving" the visual condition of items that completely misrepresent the real condition of the item, it's becoming a trickier landscape to navigate to find what you're looking for.
raincole•5m ago
I feel it's more like a Nano Banana 2 update. It's much faster than gpt-image-2 but the quality isn't much different.
TomGarden•2m ago
The societal hurt coming out of public releases of image/video generation models must surely outweight the gain. That said, this is super impressive.
UltraSane•2m ago
Trump is going to have so much fun with this!
kfarr•2m ago
I've also found the OpenAI image models to lose fine detail on image edits compared to Nano Banana or Flux models which faithfully retain input source image geometry and details. I was hoping this might be different but it sounds similar to previous OpenAI image models where something is lost in translation during image editing.
ieie3366•17m ago
What if I told you.. the average person LIKES ai slop images and prefers them to "regular" ones. The same way the average person prefers McDonalds food to healthy food
sebzim4500•14m ago
I think quite a lot of people can distinguish between AI and real (maybe 30%?) but almost no one is worried about distinguishing between ChatGPT and other image generators
onion2k•16m ago
Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.

Except you need to have taken a photo of the unmade bed, uploaded it to ChatGPT, prompted for the 'fake made bed' version, and downloaded the image.

Surely it's less effort to just make the bed?

jampekka•8m ago
Not in the past I guess?
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•12m ago
>The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

How is that sad? Why is your mothers joy sad?

breezybottom•8m ago
Memory already declines with age. AI slop threatens to warp those memories further.
AyanamiKaine•6m ago
Because she will pounder in old memories that never existed in the first place. Instead of cherrying the current times. Past moments of long gone time will be elongated beyond their actual existence.

Imagine a time where a small moment is actually a smaller amount experienced then the remixed one. At one point you will have more memories of fake events, and more emotional beats for said fake events than real ones.

AI videos showing you a second life if you just had chosen a different path.

People will be depressed from it.

bakhlawa•10m ago
Is that 5 pillows on the original (messy) bed down to 4 pillows in the clean version?
cobolcomesback•7m ago
Seriously, are these really the best examples they could come up with?

What is the point of having a fake picture of your dog in a costume? What’s the point of having a fake picture about being at a party?

The only use case I can think of for this is for someone who likes to make up stories and lie about what they’ve done. Is that really the target market?

AyanamiKaine•4m ago
That was exactly my first reaction!

Mark where you at the party today? Yes of course look at these pictures I took (╥﹏╥)

whatisthiseven•6m ago
1000 images is worth 4miles?

Ours cars are atrocious. We can have the most powerful artificial minds imagine 1000 images from simple prompts, and that takes as much energy as moving a human being 4 miles.

And that will get more energy efficient. Gas cars have barely budged.

Gas cars are the problem, not AI.

applfanboysbgon•2m ago
This is an embarrassingly idiotic article. They're comparing against the least intensive text model, ie some million parameter model nobody uses. Stable Diffusion is a 3.5 billion parameter model, while the GPT models a billion people are using for text generation are 10 trillion parameters. To say nothing of the differences in average context size usage. The actual ratio of SDXL to text generation pollution is probably literally reversed from what the article claims by lying with statistics.

(Note, however, that OpenAI's image model is much much larger than SDXL; however, we don't have precise numbers for it. Nonetheless, misinformation js misinformation.)

simianwords•9m ago
Its a simple way to feel superior - to sneer at normal people having fun and using technology.
iwjej•7m ago
Rename your account to ‘iloveAI-booster’.

It’s annoying to see your name come up - I already can predict what will be said.

minimaxir•5m ago
It's poor Poster's Bushido to post like that on a throwaway account.
PUSH_AX•2m ago
4 minute old account, wonder what you should rename yours to?
handbanana_•1m ago
If you're not familiar of the pitfalls of this tech, and the fact that there are more ethical tools with which to do those things, I'm not sure what to tell you.
recitedropper•12m ago
The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying.

I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely better, right?

vlyan•9m ago
would you like a carbon receipt for your video gaems, netflix, and reddit sessions?
cinntaile•7m ago
Sure, why not.
apitman•7m ago
I personally would love them
recitedropper•5m ago
Someone needs to name this fallacy. The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms. I propose naming it the "GenAI Defender Fallacy".

Separately--yes, I would love carbon receipts for everything. Such a system would be fascinating and do real good in this world.

ndarray•5m ago
even the whataboutism is slop
uludag•5m ago
If said game, video, or social media site used 1-2.5 kWh of electricity for every 10s of content then I'd say definitely!

Thankfully web browsing is no where near that.

xmprt•5m ago
reddit used to shared how much gold purchases went towards their server costs (pretty sure it wasn't 100% accurate but at least good to an order of magnitude). It was approximately $1/hour and they served ~100M monthly active users. So I don't think those metrics would demonstrate how wasteful traditional data centers are like you think it would.
numlock86•4m ago
that would be actually pretty cool and would cause more awareness for a lot of people. but something like this would go in both directions i am afraid, as with everything there surely would be people trying to do carbonmaxxing just for the sake of it, kind of like breaking a highscore. i am sure people like this already exist anyway, though.
embedding-shape•4m ago
I'd love that. What if anything entertainment was required by law to have some value like that, with a standardized calculation?
handbanana_•3m ago
Absolutely, I'd love to see how tiny they are in comparison.
arrowleaf•1m ago
this would be amazing, absolutely. Especially if they were able to see specifically where my power comes from, the embedded carbon in the chipsets used to serve my requests, all the costs associated with the datacenter(s), etc. A weekly breakdown would be excellent.