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nullandvoid··on Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
How very strange, my partner was mocking up a room for our home just a few hours ago, and I asked whether an AI tool existed to rotate the incorrect angle of a sofa in a photo being used within the mock up - and here it is on hackernews just an hour later, just that tool..

Edit/ apparently I misunderstood it's only possible with vectors - getting close though to the reality mentioned!

nullandvoid··on The Simple Guide to Building and Breaking Habits
Just a heads up I had to go on VPN with a US IP for this to load, strangely a resential UK one didn't
nullandvoid··on Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVucud3ptc has good coverage of running locally and via web (https://fal.ai/models)
nullandvoid··on Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
Sure, but I think you're missing the point.

The point is that many athletes are only at their peak for one or two Olympics. How rubbish for them that they're not able to get a fair shot at the record like others have had in the past.

nullandvoid··on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Anyone have any home project ideas (or past work) to apply this to / inspire others?

I was initially thinking the obvious case would be some sort of system for monitoring your plant health. It could check for shrinkage / growth, colour change etc and build some sort of monitoring tool / automated watering system off that.

nullandvoid··on Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration
Plasmo has a messaging library you might want to explore

https://docs.plasmo.com/framework/messaging

nullandvoid··on HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI
For me it's not intimidating, it's just time consuming. I can create / iterate twice as fast when I'm styling inline with my HTML. It could be with tailwind, or other utility based libraries - tailwind has just done it the best from my experience.
nullandvoid··on Show HN: I created automatic subtitling app to boost short videos
I think it's the unnecessary insertion of emoji's next to words, and flashing of the current word that OP is talking to.

No one is is arguing subtitles are bad, it's the way this tries to increase engagement through abusing attention mechanisms, that I also agree with OP is likely damaging to us.

It's part of the many reasons I dislike the current short form media craze - horrible tactics like this are used more often than not.

nullandvoid··on Ask HN: How much to charge for an API call?
How much is it costing you? Charge a markup on that you're happy with rather than picking a number out of thin air?

Also set a healthy free limit, if people are already paying for one product, they're not going to want to pay for an API separately if they just want to make a few calls.

nullandvoid··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Yeah fair enough, I have had the occasional few months where it goes a little haywire (too skewed to a genre / style I was just curiously listening to, rather than wanting more of).

It does seem to fix itself - although a negative feedback mechanism would be nice!

nullandvoid··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
+1 discover weekly consistently delivers a few new songs to my like list - I actually look forward to it each Monday when I start work.
nullandvoid··on Stable-Audio-Demo
I was hoping to use it to generate some sound effects to use in a game I'm working on - but looks like I need an "enterprise license" (https://www.stableaudio.com/pricing)

Why does this have a different clause I wonder, and doesn't just fall under "In commercial products below 100,000 MAU"?

nullandvoid··on Stable-Audio-Demo
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nullandvoid··on Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models
Do a significant amount of people actually worry about this when booking a flight? The chances of incident, even on these models with recent incidents is still so unbelievably low, no?

I guess it's a form of being able to vote with your wallet; forcing the manufacturers to spend additional money/time on QC.

nullandvoid··on Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Headshot Generator
Yeah I am going off some "headshot" generated pics my girlfriend showed me from ~6 months or so back after discussing this thread.

I haven't actually used their app, can only attest to the results.

nullandvoid··on Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Headshot Generator
Was way off for me - as others have mentioned the competitors allow multiple images and therefore stand a much better chance at doing this correctly.

https://remini.ai/ is one such tool that actually delivers some pretty impressive results (no affiliation) just for reference.

nullandvoid··on Why I Like Obsidian
If you want to setup a zettelkasten like system for free, with minimal effort / requirement on any plugins (just "templater" will be helpful) I highly recommend https://reasonabledeviations.com/2022/04/18/molecular-notes-...

No affiliation, just a happy user for over a year now.

If you take kindle highlights when you read, the https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin plugin is amazing for auto generating source files with those highlights in (and other templated sections you wish to include in a review).

nullandvoid··on Show HN: Indiebackers – Back indie projects and earn rewards
It's a cool idea! I'm guessing you didn't expect to hit front-page, as unfortunately the bounce rate will be high right now will no content.

Some feedback:

- Personally I think The GIF's on https://indiebackers.dev/learn make it look unprofessional. There's other ways to add some excitement to that page without just posting several generic meme's.

- Your only project has typo on sub-heading "Pitch innovative ideas >togehter< with sweet deals in turn for collaboration."

nullandvoid··on Valve now allows the "vast majority" of AI-powered games on Steam
"I think that games are a medium where it's a lot harder to flood a store with garbage, since you've got to go through and actually make the game."

Have you not seen mobile app stores?

nullandvoid··on SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]
You can 100x leverage on a lot of sites, that 3% now = 300% gain.

As you say though 10 mins is a small window, but they could have easily set a Conservative stop on doubling their money with only a 1% gain.

nullandvoid··on I created a language learning method that helps you learn French in 4 months
Agreed. The litmus test for me is "would HN would be a fun place to visit if front page was filled with similar post to this (posts advertising their app idea and trying to gather an mail list)" - and the answer is nope.

Best of luck OP, but I think you should post again once your idea has more substance.

nullandvoid··on New Tech from Camera Makers Tries to Prove Photos Are Not AI Fakes
People lie about, or exaggerate their memories - often actually believing their own false interpretation, this is human nature.

To have no ability to determine whether a video, or image (or any media) is from a reliable source forever more, seems like a pretty bad place to be in - if this is what you're suggesting?

nullandvoid··on Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise
Great collection of sounds for a release!

Couple of suggestions I'd need before using properly:

- Reset button

- Save to URL so I can quickly reload with same presets

nullandvoid··on uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
That's some great tips thanks for sharing.

I've gone nuclear and just have my home perma blocked using newsfeederadicator extension (works across a few sites), and shorts blocked in subscriptions via a ublock origin rule.

Are you actually able to use home / reccomendations using this solution (I opted out of both a long time ago for many of the reasons you state), or is it just to fix the terrible search results yt gives?

nullandvoid··on Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels
My version of this is news feed eradicator extension (to block any algorithmic sections on YT), plus ublock origin to block shorts element shown in subscriptions.
nullandvoid··on Multiplayer Online Science
Could this be implemented as a Captcha? From what I've heard bots can solve current image based versions better than humans anyway.
nullandvoid··on It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
To borrow some monolith examples from Monolith to Microservices (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44144499 - fantastic read)

"Single Process" - Can be module based (Shopify), where multiple module's interact, but must be combined for deployment still, these module's can even extend to the DB's. Can still have multiple instances for performance

"Distributed Monolith" - This is one to fear the most, we have multiple services, yet there is still shared DB's meaning we have to deploy things together.

Both are monoliths but one is less susceptible to ball of mud. It's a sliding scale, with trade offs for each (and many variations still in between those listed).

I think it's a lack of common terminology surrounding monolith / micro-service that creates this binary illusion.

nullandvoid··on She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers
I reccomend the chrome / FF extension "news feed eradicator" to block youtube feed, and algorithmic content across other sites.

I consume exclusively from my subscription feed (which I review every few months).

In additionu ublock origin element blocker can be used to to remove shorts section in subscriptions - means I haven't seen shorts in a long time.

nullandvoid··on Positive news from 2023
I did indeed - thanks for correcting!
nullandvoid··on Things software developers should learn about learning
On the topic of how our "Activation" pathways (used when we recall information) stay primed for hours after learning.

This had me wondering on the power of building a "warm up" exercise when we're trying to solve a problem - can we brute force an optimal activation hot paths for better problem solving (obviously it would be highly individual - but presumably such a thing exists given this fact).

It seems you would need a routine per category of problem, but none the less there may be more value than we think in spending 5 minutes just asking/answering some probing questions around the domain in question, before trying to solve the problem.

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