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Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model

https://huggingface.co/joe-gibbs/terrainsr
12•joegibbs•1d ago
This is a model that I made for a historical game. I wanted to have a 1:1 scale model of Europe, but my problem was that 100m data was too low-res while 10m LIDAR data was patchy, took hundreds of GBs to store and was full of manmade objects like mines, buildings and so on.

I trained this model on undeveloped landscape so that it can quickly add plausible erosion features, rocks, etc to the low-resolution height data and sort of reconstruct what the terrain would look like before any human interference.

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dvt•1d ago
On my phone but very interested in this (hence leaving a comment so I can find it later). What’s the variation, can we generate different maps from the same low res seed?

I’m interested in this because “macro maps” can be hand built in a way that may want to preserve gameplay balance while individual games can still feel broadly unique.

joegibbs•1d ago
Thank you! Yes as well as the input image you can pass in a seed value (otherwise the result is deterministic). I hadn't tried it with pure noise rather than satellite data but it does pretty well: https://jgibbs.dev/assets/terrainsr-noise.png

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
349•gmays•4h ago•81 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
167•jonotime•21h ago•131 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
117•kbyatnal•3h ago•60 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
62•NaOH•2h ago•21 comments

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501
38•mfiguiere•2d ago•9 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
188•soheilpro•1d ago•14 comments

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
6•ray__•31m ago•0 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
194•ck2•1d ago•100 comments

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
45•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•1 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
38•chabad360•1d ago•13 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
67•AnneWodell•4h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
59•scottbez1•4h ago•11 comments

Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)

https://github.com/p10node/k10s
55•pierreneter•2h ago•34 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
37•Michelangelo11•11h ago•5 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
221•speckx•7h ago•138 comments

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

https://theconversation.com/the-dawn-of-the-age-of-the-exoskeleton-281804
30•speckx•1d ago•11 comments

OLED burn-in test: 30-month update

https://www.techspot.com/article/3178-oled-burn-in-test/
61•baal80spam•10h ago•39 comments

US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

https://thequietus.com/news/us-man-given-prison-sentence-for-bot-farming-music-streams/
41•cdrnsf•19h ago•66 comments

Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI

https://github.com/thesnarkitecht/rembrandt
7•thesnarkitecht•17m ago•2 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
77•saikatsg•1d ago•8 comments

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/
319•stared•9h ago•163 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
84•Hooke•23h ago•40 comments

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea
738•alephnerd•6h ago•1275 comments

Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU

https://github.com/ymcrcat/rgpu
17•boxstream•1d ago•1 comments

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/open-ai-revenue-nvidia-oracle-coreweave.html
312•mfiguiere•4h ago•199 comments

New gTLD Application for .lan

https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications/CD2694T-T26351/summary
78•mzajc•5h ago•75 comments

Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/10/06/vanillin-provides-a-sweet-solution-for-chronic-wound...
20•geox•9h ago•2 comments

I think we might lose public key cryptography

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108278850555674975
8•meken•29m ago•0 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/
110•andreynering•7h ago•75 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
233•benbreen•2d ago•102 comments