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Show HN: Doubao Seedream 4.5 – next‑gen image creation and editing model
by Viaya | 2025-12-03 10:57:18+00:00
Hi HN — we just open‑sourced/released (or “publicly launched”, depending on whether it's open‑source) a new image generation & editing model called Doubao‑Seedream-4.5, by Volcano Engine.

Compared with 4.0, this version delivers:

Better editing consistency — the subject’s fine details, lighting, and color tone are preserved even after edits;

Improved portrait retouching & beautification, yielding more natural, high‑quality human images;

Much improved small text generation, allowing clearer and more readable embedded text (e.g. signage, interface labels, captions);

Stronger multi‑image compositing — you can combine multiple input images / prompts more reliably to produce coherent, aesthetically pleasing results;

Enhanced inference performance and overall visual aesthetics — results are more precise and artistic.

For creators building AI‑powered creative tools (image generators, illustration pipelines, concept‑art workflows, etc.), Doubao‑Seedream-4.5 offers a substantial upgrade over most 4.x‑era image models.

We’d love feedback from the community — edge‑cases discovered, prompts that fail or succeed especially well, compositing tricks, retouching workflows, anything you find interesting.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-03 10:57:43+00:00
The thing is, nobody else wants trade wars. Both sides of a trade war lose in a system of otherwise free commerce, the "winning" party is the party that is willing to sacrifice the most to make a point. Everyone but maybe the super wealthy are worse off. Americans are paying the price for their government's idiotic tariff game, but the real cost will come over the following years, and in some cases decades.

The EU is trying to minimize the damage for its constituents, they're not interested in a stupid power play. Threats of reciprocating in trade wars are meaningless if the leadership you're threatening doesn't care if their people starve.

Playing tough doesn't matter anyway, the American voting public will just blame the EU for all the bad things that happen if the EU's actions do have an impact, laugh at the EU if a diplomatic solution is found, and the American leadership will repeat whatever the last guy to verbally jerk off Trump said for at least the coming three years.

In a way, it's kind of impressive. The EU was not ready for America to devolve into this level of clown politics this fast, and that left them unprepared.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-03 10:58:27+00:00
Black Mirror shit. Prices change subtly on e-paper signs depending upon who's nearby within the store aisle, moment-to-moment. Just imagine some poor brown mother begging a pretty white lady to buy some infant formula for her since she gets a much lower price. (Yes, the catastrophization.)

But in reality, coupons are offered to people selectively to accomplish the same thing without leaving clear evidence to rage against.
by acatton | 2025-12-03 10:58:31+00:00
"When Congress passes new emission standards, [Honda] hires 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers."

The quote is attributed to Soichiro Honda, in the book Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company by Jeffrey Rothfeder

Why solve hard problems when you can just lobby your way out of it?
by madflo | 2025-12-03 10:58:52+00:00
I do operate DMARC report processing service and I have to agree that outdated reporting addresses living in DNS records (in my case, previous customers of mine still using their reporting addresses) are an issue.

Although the RFC 7.1 section regarding External Domain Validation [1] addresses this topic, I've found that lots of final hosts disregard this step and blast their reports to whatever reporting address is provided.

1: https://www.dmarctrust.com/email-dns/fundamentals/dmarc-dns-...
by timpera | 2025-12-03 10:59:03+00:00
The French gouvernement doesn't seem to agree:

> The 2024 visitor and revenue figures speak for themselves: over 100 million international visitors welcomed to France (+2 million) and €71 billion in international revenue (+12%). An encouraging and promising outlook for 2025.

https://www.campusfrance.org/fr/actu/2024-annee-record-pour-...
by nephihaha | 2025-12-03 10:59:21+00:00
Those 4000 are bellwethers for whatever other impressionable idiots will follow them. (I'd forgotten it was that many, I thought it was a fraction of that.) Then it becomes mandatory, then compulsory, like so many other things.

You mention crack addicts there. Yeah, they're kind of similar. With a new drug like cocaine, it starts with a handful of impressionable people who get given it cheap. Then they influence other people who take it up, and before you know it you have drug epidemic on your hands. (As most developed countries do.? The difference is that the ruling class doesn't openly encourage cocaine use, because it doesn't benefit them in anyway (other than doping up potential troublemakers).

You should read some of the Fourth Industrial Revolution material that governments and their advisers put out. They are quite plain about where they want this to head. Transhumanism is sold as a means to improve us, but it can also be used as a means of control. (There is a lot of hypocrisy in such documents — how can one argue that we need to lower carbon emissions and at the same time engage in project which increase electricity usage? That seems contradictory at least for now, because even renewables generate have environmental issues. These data centres will gobble up more energy than people's homes do.)
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-03 10:59:51+00:00
And then progressively banned in public places.

Which won't work. The model isn't an exact match.

I'd rather see hard content filters in certain contexts than a complete ban.

No social media sites, games, or messaging would remove most of the problem.

But the ultimate driver of addiction is ad-tech, and all of these measures would cause a significant hit to the ad industries.

So in practice it's easier simply to ban phones.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-12-03 11:00:33+00:00
> It is hopeless to read every one by any author,

It was a paper posted on HN a few days ago and someone asked for the evidence of my statement. I supplied it.

Now if they actually read it and disagreed with what it was saying, I'd be more than happy to continue the conversation.

Dismissing it just because you don't understand is a terrible thing to do to yourself. It's basically sabotaging your intelligence.

Sometimes papers are garbage, but you can only make that statement after you have read/understood it.

Use an LLM if you want.
by oblio | 2025-12-03 11:00:39+00:00
Watch his videos.

At some point he basically says: "I don't even love bikes, but they're useful. If I could choose, I would go by public transit everywhere, especially trams". And he has tons of videos where he explains exactly why:

0. Most of everything he publishes refers to urban areas.

1. Bikes are better for society.

2. Public transit is even better for society.

3. Trams are probably the best form of public transportation (again, for society).

He's not a recreational cyclist (light road bike, lycra - sports/racing), he's a utility cyclist (big heavy upright bike, regular clothes - take kids to school, commute, do grocery runs).
Show HN: Plimsoll Line, an iOS to-do app that prioritizes mood over productivity
by tunaoftheland | 2025-12-03 11:00:56+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m the developer of Plimsoll Line, an iOS app that tries to solve the anxiety I feel when my to-do list gets too long.

I built this to scratch my own itch. I’ve found that most productivity apps optimize for "getting things done," which often just leads to me feeling overwhelmed and guilty about what I haven't done. My wife struggles with this too, so I wanted to build an alternative that prioritizes mental bandwidth over raw output.

THE CONCEPT

The app integrates with Apple Reminders but adds an emotional layer. You assign an "impact" score to tasks (positive or negative). The app visualizes your net emotional load as a water line. That water line hopefully won't reach the "Plimsoll Line", currently the top edge of the app viewport.

If the water gets too high (too much negative load), the app implies (I need to make the app suggest instead) adding positive tasks or taking steps to reduce the negative impact rather than just grinding through the list.

It’s designed to stop you from overloading your "ship" before it sinks (it won't, at least not in the app).

TECHNICAL / PRIVACY

* Stack: Native Swift/SwiftUI.

* Integration: It reads/writes directly to the built-in Reminders database (EventKit). This means you can keep using the default Reminders app and Siri alongside this.

* Privacy: The reminders and emotional impact data are 100% local. No accounts. There is device ID that gets saved on a backend server that tracks whether you've made an in-app purchase for a tip jar. But your emotional data stays on your device.

* Feedback Request: I’m currently experimenting with "actions" to take when the water line gets too high (e.g., a "quick journal" context menu). I’d love to hear your thoughts on:

1. Does the metaphor of a "load line" click for you?

2. What immediate actions (besides journaling) actually help you decompress when you see your to-do list is overwhelming? E.g., a quick physical activity such as taking a walk outside?

It’s free to use (with optional tips). Here is the direct App Store link if you want to try it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calm-to-do-list-tasks-plimsoll...

Thank you HN!
by aa-jv | 2025-12-03 11:00:56+00:00
I mean, sure, it implies things. But we all know that devs have a hard time reading between the lines when the compiler is boiling away.

You get it, I get it, but I guarantee you there are a thousand developers for each one of us who won't get it and wonder why the heck things change now and then, without realizing they also need to test their timer-dependent code under less than hygienic conditions in order to validate the results ..

I think that this technically is a distasteful situation and whoever wrote those technical docs kind of wanted to avoid having to admit the painful truth, and just out and out state that changing the timer resolution will have a system-wide impact, because .. really .. why should it? There is no good reason for it. Only bad reasons, imho. Ancient, technical debt'ish kinda reasons.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-12-03 11:01:32+00:00
Huang said that many years ago, long before ChatGPT or the current AI hype were a thing. In that interview he said that their costs for software R&D and support are equal or even bigger than their hardware side. They've also been hiring top SWE talent for almost two decades now. None of the other companies have spent even close to this much time and money on GPU software, at least until LLMs became insanely popular. So I'd be surprised to see them catch up anytime soon.
by fatbobman | 2025-12-03 11:01:36+00:00
As the creator of MarkdownView and RichText, LiYanan has not only resolved numerous pain points regarding SwiftUI Markdown rendering and mixed text layout, but his solutions have also been adopted by heavyweight products like X (Grok). In this post, I invited him to unreservedly share his technical evolution—from initial experiments based on the Layout Protocol and the pitfalls of TextRenderer, to ultimately achieving a flawless interactive experience through the underlying TextKit.
by xela79 | 2025-12-03 11:01:57+00:00
> A perpetual license doesn't mean that Filezilla should be a free hosting provider for installation media for eternity.

exactly. If you buy a music CD and lose that CD, while you have the license of the music on that CD, you should not get a free CD as replacement.

if you buy a software license, at least store the install binary?
by leobg | 2025-12-03 11:01:57+00:00
Answering my own question:

Artificial Analysis ranks them close in terms of price (both 0.3 USD/1M tokens) and intelligence (27 / 29 for gemini/mistral), but ranks gemini-2.0-flash-lite higher in terms of speed (189 tokens/s vs. 130).

So they should be interchangeable. Looking forward to testing this.

[0] https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=o3%2Cgemini-2-5-pro%2C...
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-03 11:02:16+00:00
Thanks to the ossification of the internet, every new protocol or protocol extension needs to be over HTTPS.

DoT works fine, it's supported on all kinds of operating systems even if they don't advertise it, but DoH arrived in browsers. Some shitty ISPs and terrible middleboxes also block DoT (though IMO that should be a reason to switch ISPs, not a reason to stop using DoT).

On the hosting side, there are more options for HTTP proxies/firewalls/multiplexers/terminators than there are for DNS, so it's easier to build infra around DoH. If you're just a small server, you won't need more than an nginx stream proxy, but if you're doing botnet detection and redundant failovers, you may need something more complex.
by Angostura | 2025-12-03 11:02:30+00:00
I keep getting e-mails containing a ZIP file with subject lines like:

Dmarc Aggregate Report Domain: {mydomain.com} Submitter: {Amazon SES} Date: {2025-11-16}

From postmaster@amazonses.com

Nothing in the body, no idea idea what they are. I've always assumed malware, so left them untouched. But if anyone can enlighten me, I'd be grateful
by wouldbecouldbe | 2025-12-03 11:03:18+00:00
So tired of current trend in Europe, the Goverment should solve every issue & every day everyone wants a new rule.

We have now so many rules either they are not enforced or they are making everythingn slow or expensive.

Now to solve those issues, they will call for new legislations, but again they will be enforced only for the first 2 weeks. And then again a call for new rules will be made.

Take for instance FAT bikes in Netherlands, these are e-bikes with big wheel that young kids like. They drive like madman, harrass women in parks & everybody wants to ban them. But there is already enough legislation to take care of these kids, they are just not enforcing them. And probably rightly so, because they have bigger issues to deal with.

Not everything can be solved with a pill.
by biztos | 2025-12-03 11:03:32+00:00
> as someone from western Europe I have more in common with people from Thailand

As someone with experience in the US, Europe and Thailand, I feel qualified to say: nope, you most definitely do not, at least not on that basis.

Actually, truck culture is one of the points on which Thailand and the USA share a lot of values. That notwithstanding, I’m afraid you’re stuck with your New World cousins just as they are stuck with you, there’s nobody closer.
by mothballed | 2025-12-03 11:04:03+00:00
It would work beautifully for the last 10% of my journey. The only reason why there are no private roads for the las 10% is the county tax funds that road, and only a complete and utter moron would build a road when their "competitor" has a price of zero at the point of use. People commonly ask why the public road has a monopoly; it's not that they are a natural monopoly but rather that it's literally impossible to compete with someone with zero costs (tax costs already sunk) so places with public roads have ~no competition.

The second that road gets defunded by the public coffers, guy with tractor would show back up.
by lconnell962 | 2025-12-03 11:04:48+00:00
The answer you get will depend on how much a person has to travel or has traveled in the US. If someone lives, works, and never travels outside (for example) a 100 KM radius then what they do every day will play a big part. Frequent road travel for work, family, or other reasons probably will look towards the smallest or most efficiant car that can fit their need.

The average weather pattern of the region a person lives in plays a part, the amount of public transportation avaliable plays a part, how densely packed cities near you are plays a part. What car is avaliable is obviously a big part. All that stuff will be probably be considered before the "overall safety" of the car you want (and can afford) to get.

The people who can afford to think about safety will most likely be considering "passanger safety" rather than at the societial level. The more big cars around them the more someone concerned about safety will feel the need to own and drive in a big car. Sometimes you need the bigger car for the larger range a bigger gas tank allows. There are still places where you can find around 400 km between gas stations, especially if you are driving outside normal buisness hours.

One topic for the American car market has been how the "mid-sized" or "mid-range value" car space has been vanishing. That the options are increasingly moving towards either minimal passanger/storage Eco-Cars or the larger Trucks and SUVs. That plays a part, the used car market plays a part, and other world events play a part.

So at least from one point of view here all that leads to a lot of topics like this where there are people who have only lived in the US (and often not even moved around to other parts of the US) pushing their world view on others. You also have people who "have been to the US" claiming qualified expertiese based off their point(s) of reference, valid or not. The "US needs better public transportation" crowd will usually come out as well with sometimes more militant views against car use and ownership.

But all this circles back to the idea that the "normal American" has time to think about this or try to act on any of this. Some do, some don't, most won't really think about this unless a headline prompts something from their brain. The hard thing for the "normal European" to understand is the economics of distance and scale at play in the US given just how much space between cities and towns there can be.

People can blame the "American Dream" or the auto-industry, or whatever else you might want to imagine has contributed to the damage done in the last century of road construction and sprawl. The end result is that most Americans don't have a choice but to own a car, and may be far too tired to be trusted at the wheel of a vehicle. Multiple people driving less than a few miles to work may be involved in an accident with someone who had driven hundreds. Miles driven in a year is part of insurance calculations for a reason.

This was much more comment than I intended to give.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-12-03 11:04:56+00:00
Nvidia has everything they need to build the most advanced GPU Chip in the world and mass produce it.

Everything.

They can easily just do this for more optimized Chips.

"easily" in sense of that wouldn't require that much investment. Nvidia knows how to invest and has done this for a long time. Their Ominiverse or robots platform isaac are all epxensive. Nvidia has 10x more software engineers than AMD
by baq | 2025-12-03 11:05:55+00:00
tax should be applied to things we want less of:

- low visibility of little people directly in front of the car: huge tax

- low visibility in the rear: tax (yes, rear camera = no tax)

- too big to comfortably fit a standard parking space: tax

- too big to fit a standard parking space at all: huge tax

- too heavy: tax

- way too heavy: huge tax

- not fuel efficient: tax

- emits lots of dark/smelly/toxic smoke: tax/tax more/huge tax

etc.
by mattkevan | 2025-12-03 11:06:09+00:00
What a wild take. Might as well ask why anyone should pay for anything once it's been made.

While it's possible to commission a custom font and many companies do eg. Apple, IBM, Airbnb, Bytedance, Vercel, Github, Mozilla etc. Some even make them open source. However it's not really a viable option for anyone other than the largest organisations as it's far more expensive and time-consuming than just getting a licence unless your scale is such that a commission would be cheaper.
by aa-jv | 2025-12-03 11:06:13+00:00
I still have the brainwash/muscle-memory to type:

$ gunzip -c somefile.tar.gz | tar xvf -

.. because there was, once, a day when the terminal buffer available for this pipe was bigger than available memory offered to a process by default, meaning the thing would unpack faster if I did that versus:

$ tar zxvf somefile.tar.gz

Admittedly, this discrepancy of available memory was usually because the BOFH hadn't realized there was also an allocation for pipes-per-user, so it was a neat trick to get around the hard limits that BOFH had imposed on some of my processes in terms of heap allocation ..
by maratc | 2025-12-03 11:06:42+00:00
My issue with GHA and other "dead simple" systems is that my CI is complicated. Having a real programming language for stuff like "calculate what date it was a week ago" or "concatenate these three strings but only under some conditions" or "parse the output and build an object out of it" is really helpful while a bastardised YAML-based Jinja template simply can't hold up.

But yeah, if all there is to do is "git clone && build && deploy" then Jenkins is an overkill and it probably wasn't warranted in the first place.
by GolDDranks | 2025-12-03 11:07:05+00:00
That's NEAT! I live in Japan myself, and I am a passionate Japanese learner (and used to be a teacher too) of multiple decades. Besides, I'm interested in natural language processing and language related technology, and used to study second language acquisition research back in the university. If you ever take part into any tech / language events or meetups, it would be nice to hang out and hear about the development of that app.
by epolanski | 2025-12-03 11:07:29+00:00
> So it was pretty irresponsible of the Europeans to leave themselves beholden to the US for so long.

> Which is it?

The answer is complex.

Europe's dependence on US is not much on the military front (again, there are no realistic threats in a conventional war that European countries have) as it is on a political and diplomatic one.

Europe is made of 27+ countries that have different foreign policies, goals, and whose word in a war of real defence has never been tested.

Under that situation US is an absolutely critical reference as in times of difficulties even countries with different interests will still realistically rally around US guidance.

You can thus understand why the group of Baltics and Poland are absolutely much more leaning into playing friends with Washington than they are with Brussels.

Europe is absolutely dependent as of now, and likely will be forever for these very reasons, on US.

The answer is complex, but it should never read as "Europe does not have enough weapons or soldiers to defend itself", rather than "Europe is not taking their own defence under its own responsibility".

It is difficult to tell Italians: "stop producing your own rifles, tanks, mines, etc, let's all agree on a single design". It is hard to tell the Portuguese "look, you're gonna deploy two brigades in Estonia for the next 10 years". It is hard to tell the Belgians they have to follow the command of an Austrian in a war fought in Eastern Europe.

Europe is plagued by differences that the common alliance with the US flattens out. Without US, it's a borderline disaster. It's not a matter of money being spent.
by dmurray | 2025-12-03 11:07:41+00:00
Presumably there's some level at which this can be solved in a purely monetary way.

If the average Dodge Ram causes X millimorts of deaths per year (per km? per km on suburban roads?) and every dollar spent on public healthcare (drug interventions? road safety? Fire departments?) saves Y lives, you can increase the tax by X/Y, trust the government to spend the extra revenue in the most effective way, and everyone comes out better off.