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If you want to build products, use React or even vibecode; you will learn higher-level issues of solutions to problems (i.e. people problems rather than machine problems), not how to push data/state/computation around. The problem is solving a need.

Neither is good nor bad; just be clear about your goals and then it’ll be easy to decide if you want to follow Zynga’s cofounder, Jonathan Blow, or Notch! And before you rush to answer… consider whether any of them are happy.

For people who recommend against learning these skills because “what Carmack did is not possible anymore.”… well, if what you look for is money then yeah! But, if you just want to learn for the love of the game, then that would be a very bad advice!

dvrpon Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

Nice dream; the world is a bit more complicated than that.

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

"it's hard to justify burning a LoRA for most uses" -> Not really, it's literally cheaper on Krea than using ChatGPT Images; NBP and GPT-Images 2.0 are quite expensive, you'd be surprised. LoRAs are one of our most stickiest features (this doesn't mean they are intuitive; this just means that customers who use it, suddenly are retained way more because of how much better their images become). But yeah, anything out there doesn't offer a nice training UIs like Krea where you can just drag-and-drop a moodboard and get a LoRA in a few minutes. It literally takes only a few minutes on Krea; definitely not "N hours for GPUs to churn".

Learn more here: https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-lora-training.

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

I know, and it’s also for LLMs, but I just delivered what they asked for!

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

here u go: https://ibb.co/XfZSJKyz

you can try it right away at krea.ai/image (warning: you need to sign-up)

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

I appreciate the skepticism but we find internally that this model is used more than Nano Banana for many cases like moodboarding (also, 4x cheaper than NBP never hurts). Agentic workflows are compatible with Krea 2 so I’m not sure I follow there. If you are talking about an edit model, that’s coming too.

Also, we are on par with them in t2i benchmarks, check the artificial analysis link I posted in my top comment.

And you cannot re-train nano banana or ChatGPT to understand your brand, which is what our customers complain about constantly.

Plus open-source! It’s hard to do an apple to apple comparison.

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

Thanks! You should definitely check out the r/stablediffusion sub-reddit; people are going crazy over it!

We also had 0-day support from people like Ostris and ComfyUI from the open source community

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

There is a lot of discourse about it on Reddit. Check the AMA link I put in the comment above for learning more. The basics is it wasn’t released when we started and we use it for internal models and hope to do further open source releases.

dvrpon Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

Hello HN,

I am Diego Rodriguez, Co-founder & CTO at Krea.

We are releasing the weights and a _juicy_ technical report---at least given current industry standards. In it we describe data curation/captioning, model architecture, post-training, RL pipelines, prompt expansion, style references, and our infrastructure in great detail.

When it comes to theweights themselves, there's actually 2 releases:

* Krea 2 Turbo. This model is both guidance- and timestep- distilled for faster inference.

* Krea 2 RAW. This model is actually meant to be hackable/fine-tunable

One of the things we think the (open) LLM community does well is release models in different sizes and also at different stages of the training pipelines; we are releasing two checkpoints at both the mid-training and post-training stage. This is rare in the image & multimedia community, so we can't help it but to feel proud of this release.

We are on par with Nano Banana in terms of image quality as per Artificial Analysis text-to-image benchmarks (https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-imag...).

We also attached a permissive license for individuals and small businesses.

Useful links:

- Marketing page around the OSS release: https://www.krea.ai/krea-2-open-source

- Huggingface model: https://www.krea.ai/krea-2/huggingface

- GitHub repository: https://www.krea.ai/krea-2/github

- Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1udnm0a/we...

- Technical report: https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report Thank you and I hope you enjoy this release---happy hacking!

Some of our team members will be answering questions since we are at the front page for now (thank you HN!).

Happy hacking!

dvrpon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Figuring out the meaning of it all.

I thought sharpening my craft in software for a decade would help; but, the more I read ancient scriptures, the more sense they started making -- and this is as someone who's been mostly agnostic.

Seeing people working on nostalgic apps, wealth-pursuing prompt management tools, or ideological open-source alternatives. I've worked myself in many types of software of similar kinds, and I've found.. not much at the other side of the pursuit.

Some call it “הֶבֶל”; “तृष्णा”; or, “تَكَاثَرَ”...

Still working on it.

dvrpon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

Krea; Fulltime; Onsite, San Francisco, CA, USA.

I'm the cofounder of Krea (https://www.krea.ai/). We build creative tools and large-scale infrastructure for multimedia teams. Users range from hobbyists to world-renowned creatives: architects behind the World Trade Center or creative teams at Apple.

We treat research, engineering, and creativity as first-class citizens; we want engineers for our research, product, and supercomputing teams.

What we value (staff writings):

- AGI: https://www.matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion

- Diffusion research: https://re-n-y.github.io/devlog/rambling/steering/

- Pragmatic LLM reflections: https://maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-...

- Low-level computing: https://gab-menezes.github.io/2025/01/13/using-the-most-unhi...

- Open-sourcing our research: https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release

Some of our projects:

- Large-scale multimodal model training (e.g. distributed training, 1000+ k8s GPU clusters, petabytes of data pipelines, ...)

- WebGL2/WebGPU for node-based tools (SideFX Houdini) & CRDTs/OTs for collaboration

- Cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability

- LLM-driven JS bundle optimization and testing

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Apply via `ssh apply@krea.engineering`

dvrpon Generative AI Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is such a bad label lol

Just say GenAI-free; organic software (written by organic agents as opposed to silicon-based ones); or, literally anything that actually means what you wrote.

dvrpon Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

Seems Mykola Grymalyuk started working at Apple 2 years after this blog post. You either die a hero..

dvrpon Working on Products People Hate

Do you want to know what God thinks about money? Look around and see who he gives it to.

dvrpon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)

Krea; Fulltime; Onsite, San Francisco, CA, USA.

I'm the cofounder of Krea (https://www.krea.ai/), a company building creative tooling and large-scale infrastructure for multimedia teams. Users range from hobbyists to world-renowned creatives: architects behind the World Trade Center or creative teams at Apple.

We treat research, engineering, and creativity as first-class citizens. We're looking for engineers to join our research, product, and infra teams.

What we value (staff & company writings):

- AGI: https://www.matthewnewton.com/blog/arc-challenge-diffusion

- Diffusion research: https://re-n-y.github.io/devlog/rambling/steering/

- Pragmatic LLM reflections: https://maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-...

- Low-level computing: https://gab-menezes.github.io/2025/01/13/using-the-most-unhi...

- Open-sourcing AI research: https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release

Current projects:

- WebGL2/WebGPU for node-based tools & CRDTs for collaboration

- Large-scale multimodal model training

- Cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability

- LLM-driven JS bundle optimization

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Please apply via `ssh apply@krea.engineering`

You can also apply via https://krea.ai/careers but that's no fun.

dvrpon HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

As suspected, this project was possible, in part, because of LLM models. I have also been exploring in using LLMs for Gameboy Color testing.

There is something quite ironic about old hardware becoming increasingly useful due to current developments in AI research. I wonder about the repercussions of this.

dvrpon Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI

An (ex-) Senior VP at Salesforce is not worried about running out of work.

thx lol -- why is this on the front page?

dvrpon Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI

¿Por qué no los dos?

dvrpon IMG_0416 (2024)