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Show HN: ImgDetect – AI Image Detector to Identify Fake and AI-Generated Images
by imgdetect | 2025-04-27 05:31:25+00:00
Hi HN community,

I recently built an app called *ImgDetect*, an AI-powered tool that detects AI-generated, manipulated, or fake images.

How it works: - Upload an image (or paste a link). - ImgDetect analyzes the image using multiple AI models. - It provides a probability score and highlights possible manipulations.

Why I built it: With the rise of AI-generated content, it's becoming harder to distinguish real from fake. I wanted to create a lightweight, privacy-focused tool that anyone can use without technical knowledge.

Link: - App Store / Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-image-detector-imgdetect/id...

Features: - Fast AI detection - Privacy-focused: No image data is stored - Available on mobile and web

I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions! If you find any bugs or have ideas for improvement, please feel free to share.

Thanks a lot for checking it out!
by doright | 2025-04-27 05:31:47+00:00
So if it took a few months and an email the researchers themselves chose to send for the mods at CMV to notice they were being inundated with AI, maybe this total breach of ethics is illuminating in a more sinister way? That from now on, it's not going to be possible to distinguish human and bot, even if the outcry for being detected as a bot is this severe?

Would we had ever known of this incident if this was perpetrated by some shadier entity that chose to not announce their intentions?
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-27 05:31:56+00:00
>Regardless of the specifics, making it more of a celebration (because that's how the vast majority of PTO is perceived) will make it seem like it's more important beyond the lipservice that, frankly, has been ineffective.

Why? Political ads are everywhere in election season and the news constantly talks about elections. If this isn't sufficient to make people think it's important why would making it a celebration?

I'm trying to understand why this would work.
by o11c | 2025-04-27 05:32:05+00:00
I got distracted following the references to RFCs and noticed a nice number:

2*7*24*60 = 047300 # two weeks, in minutes

This is not a coincidence. Ignoring the trailing zeros, we have:

5*7*011 = 5*077 = 5*0100 - 5 = 0473
by pengaru | 2025-04-27 05:32:48+00:00
> people are buying “funds” of gold and driving up the price, not actually stockpiling the metal itself.

Says you. A month ago I was trying to buy 1oz bars as gifts for my niece and nephew, from Costco of all places. They were often sold out by noon, sometimes queues for the stuff.

I wasn't even trying to buy something that was going to appreciate in value quickly, it's already gone up >10% from the Costco price at the time.

USD seems doomed right now, through the lens of the price of gold in USD.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-27 05:33:00+00:00
> let’s be honest, people are buying “funds” of gold and driving up the price, not actually stockpiling the metal itself.

Is there data or is this speculation? After the Gamestop saga, I would 100% believe that the gold market is being driven by a liquidity crunch as lots of random individuals buy gold bars to stuff in their sock drawers.
by edg5000 | 2025-04-27 05:33:26+00:00
It may be. Generally stimulants (legal, soft ones such as cafeiine and nicotine, as well as stronger ones) stimulate parts of the brain that facilitate productivity and focus, but at the cost of "warm" things such as empathy, romance, comradry. Whereas depressants, such as THC and opioids, lower productivity but facilitate these "warm" behaviours. Due to coffee being relatively light, the effect may not be as obvious as the behaviour you see when people take large amounts of stimulants.

This may also tie in to work, as more mentally taxing office work I believe is much easier to do while on a mild stimulant such as caffeine. I could let go of cafeeine, but I think I'd struggle to make money.

It is indeed a hot take, an argument you don't hear often.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-27 05:34:09+00:00
> Academia is a tiny proportion of people. "Business" is larger but I think you might be surprised by just how much of business you can do on a phone or tablet these days, with all the files shared and linked between chats and channels rather than saved in the traditional sense.

And this is exactly what is meant by generational skill atrophy. You no longer own your own files or manage your own data, it's all handled in cloud solutions outside of your control, on devices you barely understand how they work and in channels controlled by companies looking to earn a profit.

When any of those links break, you are suddenly non-functional. You can no longer access your files, you can no longer work on your device. This skill atrophy includes the ability to correctly analyze and debug problems with your devices or workflow in question.
by tzs | 2025-04-27 05:34:17+00:00
Watch and learn.

This is what it looks like when you are waving to crowd or gesturing and your arm goes out without it being identical to a Nazi salute: https://x.com/ExposingNV/status/1881647306724049116?t=CGKtg0...

This is what it looks like when what you are doing is exactly like a Nazi salute: https://x.com/BartoSitek/status/1882081868423860315?t=8F0hL-...

If you think these are exactly the same, seek optometrist help.
by smaddox | 2025-04-27 05:34:31+00:00
Gold/M2SL(Billion USD) is currently around 0.12. In 1980, it peaked around 0.45. Monthly average since 1960 is 0.11. In late 2011 it peaked around 0.18.

Gold / Global M2 would be a better metric, but I haven't analyzed that yet.
by cbogie | 2025-04-27 05:34:40+00:00
it’s just ai llm snooping amd doing big ol compute just like we have access to now. but advertisers had it years ago cuz they paid and at large, ads sold.

became so prevalent no differentiable value so the algos etc sought new omg human public users. magic baby. but just hungry ip sw gobbling up new worlds.

maybe. just thinking outloud.
by vunderba | 2025-04-27 05:35:07+00:00
As someone who avoids purchasing anything from Amazon like the plague - B&H is great alternative. I have a set of "shops" that I rotate through depending on the product type:

Electronics - B&H

Computers - Microcenter

Musical Gear - Sweetwater (even though they got bought out by private equity, my sales agent always tries his best to do right by me)
by int_19h | 2025-04-27 05:35:49+00:00
If US economy collapses - and given the people who are now in charge, it doesn't feel all that unlikely anymore - this very economic dependency means that the crash will likely be global. On top of that, I think that it makes a major war that much more probable.

The nice thing about physical gold compared to just about everything else is that it has a non-zero bottom. You put money there not because you expect growth, but because you want to still be holding something once this is all over.
by TheTaytay | 2025-04-27 05:38:14+00:00
I have been using TSV a LOT lately for batch inputs and outputs for LLMs. Imagine categorizing 100 items. Give it a 100 row tsv with an empty category column, and have it emit a 100 row tsv with the category column filled in.

It has some nice properties: 1) it’s many fewer tokens than JSON. 2) it’s easier to edit prompts and examples in something like Google sheets, where the default format of a copied group of cells is in TSV. 3) have I mentioned how many fewer tokens it is? It’s faster, cheaper, and less brittle than a format that requires the redefinition of every column name for every row.

Obviously this breaks down for nested object hierarchies or other data that is not easily represented as a 2d table, but otherwise we’ve been quite happy. I think this format solves some other things I’ve wanted, including header comments, inline comments, better alignment, and markdown support.
by godelski | 2025-04-27 05:40:07+00:00
> Blaming the tool only avoids the harder truth: we were never debating cleanly to begin with.

Yes, the problem is we humans are susceptible, but that doesn't mean a tool used to scale up the ability to create this harm is not problematic. There's a huge difference between a single person manipulating one other person and a single person manipulating millions. Scale matters and we, especially as the builders of such tools, should be cautious about how our creations can be abused. It's easy to look away, but this is why ethics is so important in engineering.
by edg5000 | 2025-04-27 05:40:14+00:00
For the first 22 years of my life I was spending my hours in crowded school buildings. It turns out that most of my productivity happens in solitude. Learning through doing and self study. But now that I finally don't have that terrible rigid school structure anymore (for over a decade), the tables have turned. I am in complete isolation for entire days, most days. I found that I do want and need a bit of interaction, but not much is needed, and certainly not in the way that school provided that.
by brigandish | 2025-04-27 05:42:11+00:00
There would appear to be two poles of explanation - that either the media is reflecting desires and not influencing it, or that the media is influencing desires and not reflecting them - or somewhere in-between.

The reflection of biological reality appears easier to justify: that men remain fertile for longer, that the attractive qualities that women care about most (e.g. wealth and personality) tend to improve with age; and that a women's attractiveness is most tied to her skin, which we all know shows aging the most on the body, and is a sign of her reproductive health or ability.

I'm not sure what the argument for the media being able to influence males to the extent suggested would be? Older men were marrying younger women before the printing press, so where did this pressure originate? And what is its mechanism of action?
by doright | 2025-04-27 05:43:48+00:00
> It would be great if I could go back to how things were, but unfortunately I've changed.

I'm in agreement. I do think it would be a nice thing for friendship to work out, but I've been burned one too many times and the motivation just isn't there any longer.

I sometimes view this as a positive. I used to very much be a people-pleaser and thought that I was going to suffer and die if I didn't come out of one of my social outings with an acquaintance at some point. I was always told humans are tribal, we have a need to feel listened to, and not having friends leads to premature death. In practice I was just forcing myself to socialize based on that doomerism and that rubbed off onto the people I met, so it wouldn't have helped anyone.

When I turned inward and chose to put my own needs in front of those of others, I did become more comfortable with being myself. That's a prerequisite to having healthy relationships anyway (though I still wouldn't say I have any). Since then I've had lots of great conversations with people I've met at outings and large gatherings. I sometimes have conversations that go on for hours about all sorts of topics I may or may not know about and they're satisfying in hindsight.

...But I don't feel like being friends with any of those people anymore. I just let them pass and cherish the moments we did have together. I decided that the only person I have the capacity to fight for is myself from now on.

Nobody said you had to have friends in order to have a source of socialization to stave off bad health outcomes. "Having friends" and "being a bit social occasionally" are two different beasts.
by yalok | 2025-04-27 05:44:45+00:00
Last 1 year I’ve been working full time on an integration layer between an end-user service and a few realtime LLM models that are part of that service.

The amount of code needed to achieve stability/predictability and address all kinds of edge cases is huge, and I have yet to see at least 1 use case where we can rely on LLMs answer 100% if it concerns any fixed state machine implementation etc.

Yes, these models are really good (just amazing!) at what classical CS approach can’t do around media and text processing, but they have such a hard time playing by specific strict rules…

So, CS focus will change, but it’s not going away… it’s more like we will end up with a better abstraction layer - like in 50-60s it was all in pure machine codes, then assembly, then C/etc, OOP, etc - here we will probably figure out even more elegant way to express unambiguous algorithm in a very succinct and very readable/maintainable way - and let LLM-based compilers convert it deterministically into some c++ code… (and those compiler may end up still having tons of classical code for speed/reliability/etc)
by mayama | 2025-04-27 05:44:47+00:00
> Everyone holds long term USD instruments. Nobody wants to lose their money. The US is still the world's largest economy - by a lot.

Sure US share of world gdp is hovering around 25% for decades. But, world gdp share of what I would call US adjacent economies, like EU, JPN, UK etc., is decreasing with rise of chinese economy. US could comfortably run petrodollar and global reserve currency with the help of these adjacent economies by exporting US deficit, by forcing these adjacent economies to make concessions like plaza accords when running deficit dollar becomes tough.

China on the other hand is making moves to make maintaining deficit dollar impossible in long run, non-floating yuan, export dumping, belt road etc. We are running in to situation where deficit dollar and global economy decoupling could happen from both sides US and other countries. This is one way triffn dilemma could get resolved.
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 05:46:10+00:00
Thanks for the comments.

Where we get it wrong, I'm happy for it to be pointed out so we can improve. That's always been the case with HN moderation, and it's what I like about the work. The community demands that we operate to a high standard, and is quick to call us out when we get things wrong. That's the way it should be.

Where it stops being OK is when people make false (or extrapolated-to-the-point-of-absurdity) claims about YC’s actions/intentions, and its influence on HN moderation (and thus HN’s integrity).

Where this happens, the least I can do is (a) provide some balancing context when claims/insinuations are made of, say, YC's leaders being in cahoots with the administration and HN moderators enabling it because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it, and (b) ask people who accuse us of censorship to provide details of their claims so we can explain it or investigate further.

I know I'm not going to please or win credibility from everybody, especially those who seem motivated to portray HN moderation and YC management in the worst possible light.

But the problem is that if we let these claims/accusations sit there without any balancing context, people who are open-minded will read them and think they are accurate, then form a negative opinion of YC and HN, based on incomplete information or falsehoods.

I realised just how damaging this can be when I spent time around the YC offices in SF in the past month, for the first time in a few years, spending lots time with dang and in staff meetings and having casual chats with YC staff and partners and startup founders. I realised just how different the vibe and attitude is, and how different the orientation towards politics is, compared to how it is so often portrayed in HN comments.

I also saw how frustrated and dispirited dang is by being subjected to these accusations for so long. And it hit me that these kinds of comments have become so pervasive on HN for so long that even I – who has been behind the scenes at HN for years (but not in the office) – had started to believe them, and become disenchanted about YC. And only when I spent time in the office and in the meetings did I realise just how much of an inaccurate portrayal they are.

I don't for a moment think YC is perfect, and I have plenty of my own ideas about how it can be doing better. And it's still very much the case that HN is an independent arm of YC, and it's not the moderators' role to defend or advocate for YC management.

But I think it’s important that we can provide balancing context when assertions are made about HN moderation and YC's influence on our moderation practices.

(Edited 5th par to be less dismissive/accusatory.)
by edg5000 | 2025-04-27 05:47:39+00:00
It depends on how they respond and how it goes. If the attitude is great and the time together is great, all is well. There are two sides to the coin. Being the inviter means you get to choose who to invite. Of course you have to invite people you really want to spend time with. And times change, things could always flip around, maybe one day you'll be in a position where people are reaching out. It's dynamic, like the wind.
by neilv | 2025-04-27 05:48:40+00:00
> Advertisers can then use this information to learn more about consumers and target ads more effectively.

Stop writing like that.

For decades, this prompted the consumer to say, Why would I care about advertisers showing me ads that are more relevant to me?

And so consumers didn't care about privacy.

Not realizing that that's not the entirety of what the surveillance will eventually be used for.

Hopefully everyone isn't about to learn, the hard way, one of the worst case scenarios.
by Riverheart | 2025-04-27 05:49:19+00:00
I’m no anarchist, I simply acknowledge that civil disobedience exists. People are responsible for the risks they take in violating the laws they feel are unjust. Frankly, I have little reason to believe a city, state, or person would take that risk to protect people who would harm them so I don’t worry much about it. In my mind, the ones committing crimes will be caught committing those crimes and those aren’t the ones people are trying to protect.

I don’t support the wall for reasons I’ve already given but I do support border control as I think most of these people do, it’s just different with folks already here.

Even if I was worried about illegal immigrants more-so than other current issues, I’d still take issue with the cruelty in which it seems to be carried out such as in the story I posted. Surely you realize that stories like that promote civil disobedience because even if they committed a crime they aren’t all hardened criminals, some are just people looking for a better life. Not everyone believes they’re all murderers and gang members simply because Trump thinks so and especially not women and children.

In terms of the Alien Enemies act it is not the role of the executive branch to interpret the law and one could argue they are breaking the law by taking a non-literal reading of the words ”invasion” and “predatory incursion” to avoid due process for these individuals. They may argue and win in court that the interpretation should change but that doesn’t excuse them from taking liberties in the first place.

All that said. I’m going to leave it here, you’re free to respond if you wish but I don’t think we’ll change each other’s minds. I do appreciate your civil discussion despite the controversy of the topic.
by jdiff | 2025-04-27 05:50:06+00:00
Working on extending the [Zdog](https://zzz.dog) library, adding some new types and tooling, patching bugs I run into on the way.

All the quirks inherit from it being based on (and rendering to) SVG. SVG is Y-down, Zdog only adds Z-forward. SVG only has layering, so Zdog only z-sorts shapes as wholes. Perspective distortion needs more than dead-simple affine transforms to properly render beziers, so Zdog doesn't bother.

The thing that really throws LLMs is the rendering. Parallel projection allows for optical 2D treachery, and Zdog makes heavy use of it. Spheres are rendered as simple 2D circles, a torus can be replicated with a stroked ellipse, a cylinder is just two ellipses and a line with a stroke width of $radius. LLMs struggle to even make small tweaks to existing objects/renderers.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-27 05:50:42+00:00
Im talking about intent: knowingly and intentionally breaking the law.

I understand that honest mistakes happen due to inaccurate information, understand, ect.

- e.g. you thought a cop was a burglar.

These are different from poor and regrettable choices, also sometimes referred to as "mistakes".

- I beat my wife because I caught them cheating.

There may be an interpretation of this situation where judge did not understand their situation and actions, but I don't find it very probable. It seems clear that they were trying to help the target of a legal warrant evade law enforcement apprehension, and knew exactly what they were doing.
by brigandish | 2025-04-27 05:54:37+00:00
All the best. I had a check up for prostate cancer recently, and fortunately have been told I don't have it, but until that moment I felt the stress of wondering and worrying, so you have my sympathy.

I'm also glad you found a good doctor, the first I found did no checks at all. Told me I'm too young to have any problems (I'm definitely not) and sent me away with some herbal medicine and all that stress I mentioned. The second doctor I found was thorough and reassuring, and shocked by the behaviour of the first.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-04-27 05:55:46+00:00
The articulated restrictions could be defined as a creative commons license too. With cc-by-nc-nd (attribition-noncommercial-noderivative), people would be free to use the songs for any non-commercial purpose and would have to aquire a license for everything beyond. The fact that moby is rolling out (and enforcing?) his own thing makes it untrustworthy.
by intended | 2025-04-27 05:56:04+00:00
Yep. They 100% do not share an interest in ear wax removal, or had a medical need of that nature.

Why do you think I would put up a comment on HN of all places, with this degree of confidence.

> tested with other ads… If I knew that this, was going to be needed to study, 5 years into the future, I would have conducted a double blind study. Sadly I could not, however, it’s still fun, so we can always replicate.

The question is, have you found a horrid ad yet? Side note, this was in the UK
by 01100011 | 2025-04-27 05:56:27+00:00
Probably nowhere. Despite what crypto maximalists, Sino-apologists or Eurofetishists will have you believe, there is nothing like the USD in terms of function. That isn't to say that gold won't go higher in USD terms or that USD won't further weaken against some other currencies, but we are still decades away from the end of king dollar.

As bad of a president as trump is, he will not destroy America. Things have been bad before, and they got better. We will see better times again.

Edit: And, yes, central banks have as of late been increasing gold reserves. Expect some of those gold reserves to be liquidated in the event that those countries currencies need support. Gold can have amazing periods like we've just witnesses and then just sit there for ten years. It's good for diversification though and from what I've heard from smarter people than me, something like 10% of your portfolio in gold isn't a terrible idea. Just DCA into it instead of panic buying at a potential top.

Oh and this is HN. Most of us have no clue when it comes to economics and are merely parroting our favorite twitter guru or Peter Zeihan. Trust us when we talk about software but take everything you hear in these economic related threads with a huge grain of salt.