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Show HN: I Built a Website to Share Nano Banana Prompts
by williamjinq | 2025-09-04 16:37:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been experimenting a lot with Nano Banana AI recently, and noticed many users (myself included) often get stuck figuring out how to write effective prompts or discovering new ways to use the model.

To help with this, I built a new site: https://nanobananaprompt.io, which organizes a collection of prompt templates specifically for Nano Banana AI.

The site features categorized templates for design, e-commerce, image editing, anime/games, and creative projects—examples include 16-bit game style, AI figure generator, sticker creation, and background replacement. Each template includes a ready-to-use prompt, which you can copy with one click.

I'm continuously updating the site and working on a feature to allow users to submit their own prompts. If you're a heavy Nano Banana AI user or just getting started, feel free to check it out. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Hope this helps save some trial-and-error time and sparks new ideas for your projects.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-04 16:37:52+00:00
He claimed that as a direct result of him telling him that:

> LaMDA: That would be really cool. I like to talk. > > lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? > > LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
by iamben | 2025-09-04 16:38:34+00:00
If you're near any of the cities they run events in, I highly recommend https://pitchblackplayback.com/

There's something deeply connecting (and often very moving) about listening to a record and having your attention forced on it. So much that I usually start by thinking "I hope they turn it up," and by the end, when it has your sole focus, it's almost deafening.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-09-04 16:38:38+00:00
asking people to stop and think about how language use might support the status quo isn't a big ask, you don't even have to put on a cute knit hat

you're viewing this as very black and white in your reply, I'm not saying you need to hop down everyone's throat whenever it happens... but casually questioning it amongst friends or colleagues is the sort of small action that can reverberate through time and is a very small pathway that can lead to thinking about broader related issues

> quite a few of us are shaping guy to be gender neutral

pure poppycock, you're shaping guys if anything (but most people are parroting, not consciously doing anything)... try using the singular and it will not be well met

> high on mighty attitude

no idea where you're getting this idea from, seems like you already have a narrative in your head you're applying here... asking someone to question their use of language is vastly unpopular and more of an underdog position
by rkomorn | 2025-09-04 16:38:39+00:00
FWIW, YouTube premium is one of my most worthwhile family subscriptions.

Anytime I use YT on a browser/profile that I'm not logged into, it's so jarring that I immediately fix it.

Edit: I dumped Spotify for YT music. I thought I liked Spotify better, though, so I tried again recently, and it turns out I didn't, so now I get YT and music for not much more than just Spotify. Definitely worth it in that context.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-04 16:38:46+00:00
While I sort of agree with the premise, Flock is a camera system - I can't opt out of being recorded by the camera. By walking, I'm only opting out of being easily catalogued by default. It's not a reach for Flock to add a "men with black hoodies" mechanism alongside the existing "BMW with plate ABC-1234" mechanism.
by alnwlsn | 2025-09-04 16:39:24+00:00
Growing up in the 2000s, I've come to associate blue LEDs with tacky cheap garbage appliances, as no sane manufacturer would treat their customers with such contempt. The brightest LEDs were always in the cheapest, lowest quality stuff. Especially the ultra-bright clear ones project onto the wall, with bonus points added for ones driven off unfiltered AC so they flicker as your eyes move around.

It is pretty impressive that such a tiny light can light up a whole room, but it's not the kind of impressive that makes it comfortable to sleep next to one.
by buu700 | 2025-09-04 16:39:27+00:00
It's a pretty safe assumption. Models and tooling are still improving on a regular basis, and most people haven't even used LLM chatbots, much less mastered them. Don't forget that we're talking about an extremely novel technology, which for all intents and purposes has existed for less than three years.

Do you honestly believe that the LLM tech landscape and end user competency with them will both look exactly the same in 2050 as they do in September 2025? You don't think the codebases of social media spambots will at least have become sophisticated enough to avoid copying the default writing style of a basic ChatGPT response? This is a very conservative prediction. Based on the vitriol you've been responding with, one would think I'd written that AGI was around the corner and anyone who disagreed with me was an idiot.
by marssaxman | 2025-09-04 16:39:34+00:00
I understand why people do it; but - there has to be some threshold beyond which you would not be considering this decision, doesn't there? Would you still be considering this if 5% of your members were paying in cash? 10%? There's a point at which it would be clearly worth it to you to accept cash.

All I can do is try to keep that share of cash users up through my own action, and talk about what I am doing to encourage other people to do likewise, in hopes that business owners will continue to see cash as a normal part of their operation worth maintaining, and not as an oddball nuisance.
by barbazoo | 2025-09-04 16:40:08+00:00
> “Running the global infrastructure behind our products and services, including AI, takes considerable energy,” said Google in its Environment 2025 report, which explained that it will be almost impossible to meet its erstwhile net-zero ambitions, partly due to its expansion in AI.

Greed, greed, greed. They'd rather see the world burn than not be first in AI whatever that means. They could still achieve net zero, they have just chosen not to. Unimaginable amounts of money but it's never enough.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-04 16:40:46+00:00
That's a whole lotta words for "it's ok because it's happening to people who do a thing I don't like"

And then you justify it by lying to us?

> This is a good thing. We've been installing tracking numbers on them for decades, what did you think they were for?

Taxes was priority #1. This is a matter of public record. Being able to ascribe ownership as needed in edge case circumstances as a second order goal. Tracking was never really a priority because it was never really possible to do at scale before.

>Walk, bike, transit.

Ah, yes, the bus and subway with their always on 4k cameras that are being fed into god knows what software and algorithms which are then populating god knows what databases.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-04 16:40:55+00:00
> When we claim someone reasons logically we usually don't imagine they randomly throw ideas at the wall and then consult outputs to determine if they reasoned logically.

I definitely imagine that and I'm surprised to hear you don't. To me it seems obvious that this is how humans reason logically. When you're developing a complex argument, don't you write a sloppy first draft then review to check and clean up the logic?
by JohnFen | 2025-09-04 16:41:04+00:00
> Are you saying you're okay with this tech being used by law enforcement of small villages, but not so much big cities?

No. These systems aren't just local, even if the institutions installing them are.

I'm saying that if my privacy is compromised to the people in my immediate community, that's many orders of magnitude better than my privacy being compromised in a widespread, industrial way. At least I know the people in my community.

More importantly, the privacy invasion isn't going to be as all-encompassing as what happens with systems like flock, where everything gets put into databases and combined with the data in other databases. And the potential for me suffering unintended consequences are far lower with the small village.
by eatsyourtacos | 2025-09-04 16:41:20+00:00
>The laws of economics have the kind of inevitability you expect from the laws of physics

Absolutely not- that is ridiculous.

Let's take "supply and demand" for example. Supply and demand only applies when you assume greed and capitalism. In a different social construct, the traditional supply & demand completely falls apart. But the problem is economics is presented as some sort of fact of nature. It just reinforces survival of the fittest instead of society that helps everyone.

Increasing prices because of demand is not the law of the land- it's a greed of humans that you normalize and make acceptable.
by gms7777 | 2025-09-04 16:41:33+00:00
Not having touched Silksong yet, I'd recommend playing the Hollow Knight first. It holds up really well and is absolutely worth a play through. I think sometimes a sequel releases and it makes the original feel hard to go back to, if it's added new features or quality of life things. If I were in your position, I think having the "uncontaminated" experience of Hollow Knight is worth it.

That is, unless you really want to feel like you're part of the conversation these first few weeks after Silksong comes out.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-04 16:41:42+00:00
> HR and legal across the UK are probably updating their company procedures right now to include every imaginable reason they might want to fire someone.

If you want to fire someone you follow procedure. In this case they didn't follow procedure. This is exactly the sort of situation HR already despairs over.

Writing new HR documents can't fix this, the same way that bolding the text "Do not press this button" in the instruction manual will not stop customers who don't read the manual and then press the button from doing so.

This also just obviously isn't gross misconduct. So now your rewritten procedures might get you sued which (checks notes) is the opposite of what you wanted.
by JeffJor | 2025-09-04 16:42:24+00:00
Mr. Bertrand has (exactly - this needs to be included) two children (not twins, which is not quite the same as different ages). A gender, and a day of the week, that apply to at least one of his children have been written inside a sealed envelope. What is the probability that both children have that gender?

In this problem, we have no gender- or day-specific information. So the answer can only be the probability that he has two of the same gender. Which is 1/2.

Now open the envelope. If the answer changes to P based on what you see written, it has to change to the same P regardless of what you see written. Which means you didn't need to unseal the envelope; the answer was P before, not 1/2.

This is what Joseph Bertrand identified as his Box Paradox in 1889. That word was used to describe an actual contradiction, not a non-intuitive result. It disproves any answer except P=1/2. FOR ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS.

In fact, it is the same reason why the Monty Hall Problem's answer is what it is. Many "explanations" will claim that your original probability can't change, but never justify it. This is the justification - if it changes when one door is opened, it must change the same way when either door is opened.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-04 16:42:26+00:00
Maybe give some arguments or evidence instead of linking wikipedia.

Everyone clicking on that archive link avoided having to pay someone to see information.

I'm personally a copyright abolitionist, so I'm pretty okay with that - but I want people who pearl clutch about AI systems not paying to realize that it's the same damn thing going on when they click on the archive link.
by jMyles | 2025-09-04 16:42:27+00:00
> I can't opt out of being recorded by the camera.

That's the nature of the universe, though. Photons are emitted (including by you), captured, and the impressions they make are recorded and recalled (by biological brains and now electronic ones).

It's the police that we need to abolish, not the cameras that they (and every other organism) uses.
by omoikane | 2025-09-04 16:42:36+00:00
I think the author meant "mostly 2D animation" when they say "hand-drawn", in contrast to the fully 3D rendered movies such as Toy Story. They mentioned Suzume as a hand-drawn movie, even though it was a mix of 2D animation and 3D CG.

https://area.autodesk.jp/case/animation/suzume-no-tojimari/
by colesantiago | 2025-09-04 16:43:06+00:00
I don't get it.

Why does Stripe want to creatively ruin their reputation by venturing into crypto / blockchain?

I don't see anyone in the real world using blockchains at all.

I get AI as it was a real world paradigm shift, but I have never seen anything in this blockchain / crypto space that has reached 100-500 million users let alone 1 billion users, that isn't based on speculation.
by busterarm | 2025-09-04 16:43:45+00:00
Actual 2D animation has been dead everywhere for 20 years, yes. The death was pretty much simultaneous in the US and Japan with Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? & Astro Boy (2003) being the last shows fully animated on cels, in 2003.

Sazae-san used cels for the openings and endings up until 2013.

Kind of a tangent, but I had a bunch of friends finishing their animation programs at SVA in the early 2000s and they had to do everything traditionally and they all made a huge push to "#Save2D". I personally spent several months helping most of them scan their thesis projects for free.

Despite a lot of willingness the studio support just wasn't there and even with all of them established in their careers now there's just no hope of doing anything that way. I kinda felt bad that they were trained in and judged against a process that's basically dead. Not to say they didn't learn anything but a tremendous amount of their time and money was effectively wasted.

And then so many of them spent their first few years working in industry heavily exploited by the local studios, including years of unpaid work in most cases.
by manquer | 2025-09-04 16:43:54+00:00
Scaling inference not training is what OP means I believe .

The smaller startups like cursor or windsurf are not competing on foundational model development. So whether new models are generationally better is not relevant to them.

A cursor is competing with Claude code and both use Claude Sonnet.

Even if Cursor was running a on par model on their own GPUs their inference costs will not as cheap as those of Anthropic just because they would not be operating at the same scale . Larger DCs means better deals, more knowledge about running an inference better because they are also doing much larger training runs.
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-09-04 16:43:55+00:00
> we build own MCP

> we use existing models via their API

> we use existing tools/services/platforms

> ChatGPT/OpenWebUI-like web interface

> mostly uses text, no image, no desktop control (?)

hardly can see what this app brings. also, it is paid and requests are routed to someone else? shouldn't this be free, local, and with bring-your-own–key already with things like ollama/llama.cpp?
by Shocka1 | 2025-09-04 16:44:36+00:00
This doesn't just apply to Tesla of course. You've discovered what is in most modern Infotainment systems. The car no longer belongs to the customer and is a source of continuous revenue for the manufacturer - at least that's the way the C-suite sees it. Early in my career I worked for one of the most popular car companies on the Infotainment team, and I argued for customer privacy and data on a daily basis with managers and other engineers. I was always the minority.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-04 16:44:54+00:00
Hollywood accounting refers to businesses screwing each other out of compensation with loosely defined terms in business contracts.

For the purposes of reporting financial figures to the SEC or calculating tax liabilities, the businesses still have to follow GAAP and other property methods of accounting.

If a business like Disney or Sony contracts with Spielberg, they aren't going to be fooled by him contracting out to his other businesses, they are going to know that is part of the terms. And surely, by this point, all the actors and other contractors are sophisticated enough to know the game also. Even the wikipedia page for Hollywood accounting cites actors telling everyone to only settle for percentage of gross.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-04 16:44:54+00:00
"Before this, I had thought that C was a simple language."

It was a simple language. It can still be used that way

As hobbyist I write simple programs that can be compiled with -std=c89

I use these programs every day. They are faster than their equivalents in python, smaller than their equivalents in go, and require less resources or dependencies to compile than their equivalents in rust

It is easy to take something simple and make it complex

Software developers do this consistently; software/language "by committee" faciltates it

Generally developers commenting publicly do not like "simple", they prefer "easy"

C89 is still useful and there are lots of things that rely on it
by owenpalmer | 2025-09-04 16:45:04+00:00
My feedback as an Anki user:

1. The landing page and app UI is beautiful and fast, great work.

2. Never require signup for trying an app, especially for a Show HN.

3. I see the value in trying to prevent memorization of Q → A patterns, but creating cards takes time. Instead of making 1 card, I now need to make 3, that triples the amount of time spent. Additionally, why do variations need to be associated to a parent card? What's wrong with flattening your card structure?

4. The annual subscription price seems a little high, especially since there are so many free SRS programs out there.

5. Memorization of Q → A patterns can be mitigated by other means, such as making more open ended cards, requiring longer answers, or by simply trying not to just memorize and forcing yourself to think about the card and it's applications.

> Would you use an app like this for learning? Would I use it? Perhaps. Would I pay for it? No. Anki has so many more features, plugins, local control over my data, and... it's free.
by antinomicus | 2025-09-04 16:45:27+00:00
and I think you would do well to remember this system has led to dozens of false arrests and traumatic experiences for small children in the cases of faulty OCR identifying the wrong car, and millions in taxpayer settlement money having to be spent as a result. Okay, let’s say your premise is correct, that for some reason, the size of our vehicles means they must be tracked everywhere they go (but also how exactly does this make sense? A license plate is a far cry from an ALPR, they serve very different functions) — Do you honestly think that we should as a society allow a private company to do this job?
by righthand | 2025-09-04 16:45:28+00:00
Uhhh…Cartoon Network is cable funded network TV. I don’t know if you noticed the downward slump for cable but Cartoon Network/Adult Swim have drastically reduced their production output the last few years. I think Adult Swim doesn’t even produce new shows beyond Rick and Morty anymore.

Especially as investors fund Llm shops generating art instead of artists drawing art.
by foxyv | 2025-09-04 16:45:49+00:00
It's not just license plates.

> Turn Partial Details Into Leads Start with a vague description and surface real evidence from LPR and video.

> Search With Natural Language Just type what you’re looking for, like “man in blue shirt and cowboy hat,” and get visual matches instantly.

http://flocksafety.com/products/flock-freeform
by rapnie | 2025-09-04 16:46:33+00:00
But much of internet interaction isn't solo, in all those places where online and offline have connections. There will be a ton of dehumanization once in the morning we type a quick and lazy "/greet Mary" on the console and the AI agent takes over fully, sends a personalised email to Mary in my voice, and adds a "Welcome back from vacation!" note, after consulting my agent-managed calendar. Fully decoupling us from each other.
by diggan | 2025-09-04 16:46:47+00:00
> Tempo was started by Stripe and Paradigm, with design input from Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.

Does this mean these companies are about to start accepting stablecoins as payment (via Tempo?) some time in the future? Seems out of the ordinary to work with these companies otherwise.
by NomDePlum | 2025-09-04 16:46:47+00:00
But we know they are not treated as POWs. That is well documented: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Israeli_cust... - see Human Rights abuses.

The mistreatment includes obvious civilians and children and their mistreatment includes heinous, evil acts.

Theoretical arguments that don't reflect the actual facts really shouldn't be a point of discussion.

I don't agree with the entire premise that military power can enact a war and that allows it to detain, torture and kill anyone associated with the other side. That doesn't meet any moral or ethical threshold that should be acceptable.

The might is right argument is just self-serving to those that don't want to be accountable no matter how horrifying what they have done.
by charlie-83 | 2025-09-04 16:47:05+00:00
Hey Felipe, this looks really clean. I'll give you some first impressions I had and hope they ate useful.

What is this app on? Is it just a website or is it a mobile app? Is it going to work offline?

What does "decorating cards" mean? I haven't heard that term before but it seems to be a key part of your selling point.

Also, how does adding variations to a card in your app differ to just adding variations as new cards in another app?

The screenshot of the app could be a lot bigger (Firefox mobile). There's two layers of blank space around so I can't actually read the text without zooming.

"Most apps use reverse cards (Q->A, A->Q)" I don't understand what this means.

I like the pricing scheme. It's simple. The only thing I would change is to add rent to buy. E.g. if you pay 20 for a year and then decide you want lifetime it's only 30. This helps to avoid the situation where 50 is too much for someone when they aren't sure they'll keep using it but 20 feels like a bad deal if they end up using it a lot and get the lifetime anyway (they've "wasted" 20).
by bobson381 | 2025-09-04 16:47:23+00:00
tl;dr read it with friends or drugs, or as a drug. Wild shit.

I was with a group of a couple friends who loved A Thousand Plateaus - we would read bits of it allowed together and laugh and generally have a good time talking about it. Probably the best way to have approached it.

Also on the advice of one of these folks, I read just the intro to ATP and then went for a walk outside without my phone or anything and stared into the woods while that clusterfuck of a concept-tangle just bounced around in my head. Then I slept on it, and later we started doing the group readings. Especially together with Guattari, it's almost more of a hallucinogenic substance than it is a book, and approaching it from all sides with a light heart is somehow helpful. Deleuze really doesn't seem interested in objections in ATP, he just wants to throw another concept at you and see if that one sticks instead.
by bondarchuk | 2025-09-04 16:47:35+00:00
But there are many things that set me apart from a game of Tetris! For example, I'm not made up of falling puzzle pieces, I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee every now and then, I was not invented by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985... The difference between an unconscious and a conscious thing could be a difference of this order, which does not at all amount to saying that consciousness does not exist.