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Show HN: Imagens.app – Free AI image generator and enhancer for creators
by zifeng | 2026-02-05 07:38:45+00:00
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by ggm | 2026-02-05 07:39:20+00:00
Reverse address lookup servers routinely see escaped attempts to resolve ULA and rfc1918. If you can tie the resolver to other valid data, you know inside state.

Public services see one way (no TCP return flow possible) from almost any source IP. If you can tie that from other corroborated data, the same: you see packets from "inside" all the time.

Darknet collection during final /8 run-down captured audio in UDP.

Firewalls? ACLs? Pah. Humbug.
by n_u | 2026-02-05 07:39:24+00:00
> Nobody knew what firms were going to still exist in a week so nobody was willing to lend any money at all.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this another way of saying it was too risky for people to invest? That seems to be the same concept as the quote you cited from the parent comment: "either the return wasn't commensurate to the risk".
by bigyabai | 2026-02-05 07:40:02+00:00
> previous presidential terms

Term, not plural. There was one (1) interceding administration following Epstein's death.

Trump promised that the Epstein files would be released if he was reelected, and then withheld files. Congress passed a bill remediating this, hence the newer tranche of files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_Files_Transparency_Act
by roenxi | 2026-02-05 07:40:54+00:00
> We don't know what the other options look like. A broader collapse of the economy, runs on banks? If the government stayed out then the outcome could have been worse for the average taxpayer.

What courses of action does that argument not justify? "We had a predictable emergency and decided to panic and hand out money. Don't expect us to really think about alternatives." is not the course of action that really speaks to me for getting good results for taxpayers, or anyone except the people directly getting the money.

We have a playbook for getting a statistically good outcome when people run out of money. It is called bankruptcy. I can see how a banker could confuse that with a bailout because they both start with a "b" and there are a lot of letters - but the stark truth is they are different words.
by haritha-j | 2026-02-05 07:41:07+00:00
Yes and OpenAI was a not for profit and look how that’s going. Now it’s a PBC. So Anthropic won’t even be the first PBC AI company pretending that they’re doing it for the good of the world and then trying to shove in porn and Add for wealth maximisation. Also most companies that go big have an IPO, and it’s mostly just about short term strategies to make share price go up after that.
by gignico | 2026-02-05 07:41:26+00:00
I see your point about pragmatic software engineering not being valued enough in university programs. Somehow the incentives are not aligned properly, which is unfortunate. I try to be as pragmatic as possible when I happen to teach courses where this makes sense. Next semester I'll probably teach "C programming" again after a few years, which is always fun for the students, who will never see a raw pointer again in their career.
by kaizenb | 2026-02-05 07:42:14+00:00
Absolutely! (:

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.
Recent advertising campaigns from Anthropic.

Violation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA

Betrayal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSam25u8O4

Deception
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-_wQpKw0s

Treachery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sVD3aG_azw
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-05 07:42:21+00:00
At scale (like comma.ai), it's probably cheaper. But until then it's a long term cost optimization with really high upfront capital expenditure and risk. Which means it doesn't make much sense for the majority of startup companies until they become late stage and their hosting cost actually becomes a big cost burden.

There are in between solutions. Renting bare metal instead of renting virtual machines can be quite nice. I've done that via Hetzner some years ago. You pay just about the same but you get a lot more performance for the same money. This is great if you actually need that performance.

People obsess about hardware but there's also the software side to consider. For smaller companies, operations/devops people are usually more expensive than the resources they manage. The cost to optimize is that cost. The hosting cost usually is a rounding error on the staffing cost. And on top of that the amount of responsibilities increases as soon as you own the hardware. You need to service it, monitor it, replace it when it fails, make sure those fans don't get jammed by dust puppies, deal with outages when they happen, etc. All the stuff that you pay cloud providers to do for you now becomes your problem. And it has a non zero cost.

The right mindset for hosting cost is to think of it in FTEs (full time employee cost for a year). If it's below 1 (most startups until they are well into scale up territory), you are doing great. Most of the optimizations you are going to get are going to cost you in actual FTEs spent doing that work. 1 FTE pays for quite a bit of hosting. Think 10K per month in AWS cost. A good ops person/developer is more expensive than that. My company runs at about 1K per month (GCP and misc managed services). It would be the wrong thing to optimize for us. It's not worth spending any amount of time on for me. I literally have more valuable things to do.

This flips when you start getting into the multiple FTEs per month in cost for just the hosting. At that point you probably have additional cost measured in 5-10 FTE in staffing anyway to babysit all of that. So now you can talk about trading off some hosting FTEs for modest amount of extra staffing FTEs and make net gains.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 07:42:49+00:00
I mean, a jelly is just broadly any thickened sweet goop (doesn't even have to be fruit, and is often allowed to have some savoury/umami, e.g. mint jelly or red pepper jelly). Usually a jelly also is relatively clear and translucent, as it is made with puree / concentrate strained to remove large fibers, but this isn't really a strict requirement, and the amount of straining / translucency is generally just a matter of degree. There are opaque jellies out there, and jellies with bits and pieces.

Ketchup has essentially all the key defining features of a jelly, technically, just is more fibrous / opaque and savoury than most typical jellies.

But, of course, calling a ketchup "jelly", due to such technical arguments, is exactly as dumb as saying "ayktually, tomato is a fruit": both are utterly clueless to how these words are actually used in culinary contexts.
by atmosx | 2026-02-05 07:43:02+00:00
I bought a SynologyNAS and I have regretted already 3-4 times. Apart from the software made available from the community, there is very little one can do with this thing.

Using LE to apply SSL to services? Complicated. Non standard paths, custom distro, everything hidden (you can’t figure out where to place the ssl cert of how to restart the service, etc). Of course you will figure it out if you spent 50 hours… but why?

Don’t get me started with the old rsync version, lack of midnight commander and/or other utils.

I should have gone with something that runs proper Linux or BSD.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-05 07:43:22+00:00
No excuse for not having trainings in place for Windows native development, for those new hires.

You don't see Apple and Google doing the same Webviews all over the place on their OSes, with exception of ChromeOS, which appears to be on the death row to be replaced with Android anyway.

In fact, at WWDC 2025 Apple executives even spoke publicly on the matter against that approach.
by Aardwolf | 2026-02-05 07:43:23+00:00
> Gaming was supposed to be one of the best drivers for 8K adoption.

While the step from 1080p 1440p to 4K is a visible difference, I don't think going from 4K to 8K would be a visible since the pixels are already invisible at 4K.

However the framerate drop would be very noticeable...

OTOH, afaik for VR headsets you may want higher resolutions still due to the much larger field of vision
by Msurrow | 2026-02-05 07:43:58+00:00
But doesn’t your argument that the principal risk [with ssh] is vulnerabilities also apply to the alternatives you say is best practice? Firewalling off ssh (but not http(s)) has the risk of vulns in the FW software. Tailscale, wireguard etc also has the risk of vulns in that software?

So what’s the difference in risk of ssh software vulns and other software vulns?

Also, another point of view is that vulnerabilities are not very high on the risk ladder. Weak passwords, password reuse etc are far greater risks. So, the alternatives to ssh you suggest are all reliant on passwords but ssh, in the case, is based on secure keys and no passwords. Should “best practices” not include this perpective?
by j-pb | 2026-02-05 07:44:37+00:00
German here, with little stakes in your shitshow. At no point during the obama years did I think:

"Wow this looks just like the rise of the nazis!"

Which was covered extensively during my history classes.

Why did you even have all the school schootings if you don't use that stupid second ammendmend thing you have? This is the tyranical government you've all been waiting for.
by bandrami | 2026-02-05 07:45:22+00:00
I guess you could say that but the underlying problem was that the risk was entirely opaque so it couldn't actually be quantified and hedged against. The TARP loan ("shakedown" might be a better term honestly) gave financial firms time to sort out what their actual positions and exposure were; there wasn't time to let the market sort that out over months and at the cost of every major company (even non-financials) failing because of lack of access to credit.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-05 07:45:56+00:00
No, your understanding is incorrect - please do your homework and learn about lightning - you will be amazed. Lightning is zero-trust just as bitcoin is, there is no central instance. There is no "publishing" either. You can chose to not run your own lightning node (custodial vs. self-custodial wallets), then this becomes true. But that is the same as not running your own bitcoin wallet but using Exchanges, Banks etc. to hold your Bitcoin for you.

Lightning uses so called hashed time locked contract (HTLC) between nodes backed by bitcoin 2-of-2 wallets, with punishment options baked into the transaction script if people try to unilateraly reallocate funds from the channel. The channels between nodes form a payment network, where each node forwards funds (in return for a small fee).

To use a metaphor: bitcoin is the gold, lightning are green dollar notes with a guarantee to exchange those notes for gold anytime - just as our monetary system was before 1971 when Nixon broke that promise. Lightning is built in a way that it is decentralized and that promise can never be broken. And you can send those notes via the internet in sub-seconds.
by hbogert | 2026-02-05 07:47:52+00:00
Yeah but the article makes it sound as if lower is better, which it is definitely not. And yeah you need to control humidity, that might mean sometimes lowering, and sometimes increase it by whatever solution you have.

Also this is where cutting corner indeed results in lower cost, which was the reason for the OP to begin with. It just means you won't get as good a datacenter as people who are actually tuning this whole day and have decades of experience.
by abalone | 2026-02-05 07:49:37+00:00
> We don't use fibre optics on earth rather than lasers because of some specific limitation of the earth's surface being in orbit would avoid.

That's incorrect. Lasers can suffer from atmospheric interference and fogging on earth.

Here is a post from NASA explaining why they like laser communications better than RF in space.[1]

[1] https://solc.gsfc.nasa.gov/modules/kidszone7/mainMenu_textOn...
by Muromec | 2026-02-05 07:51:28+00:00
If anything, Stalin-era commie blocks are better than the Khruschov-era commieblock I lived in. That particular brand of communism had a tendency to paperclip-optimize everything in a weird way. Like it's really the opposite of capitalism where you go from an MVP to a fully usable product, but in reverse. You would thing it's optimization, but then you regulate the temperature in winter by opening the window.

In terms of housing and speaking only from personal experience, European brand of social democracy seems to get it.
by roenxi | 2026-02-05 07:51:37+00:00
So the government has negotiated from a position where the average taxpayer could be buying $10 worth of assets for $1 and have a go at managing it properly and creating some wealth, to a position where the taxpayer pays $1, the government buys the $10 in assets and gives it to some wealthy idiot, and there is a nominal return which at that time I imagine went into killing people in Iraq because Muslims, amirite? All those bombs cost a bomb.

And then we see 20 good years of economic prosperity where the US predictably got even wealthier than it previously was and there is great political stability and well-loved presidents like Mr Trump who represent the satisfaction US citizens feel for the economic highs they have reached!

What a fantastic deal for the average taxpayer. Let the confetti fall. Well done government, saved the day there.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-05 07:52:10+00:00
I agree with what you're saying, but shunning has to be selective to be effective. People have to believe that you won't shun them if they avoid the terrible things you're trying to stop. It's too much to simultaneously beef with ICE, adtech in general, Tesla, $8 donuts, and anyone who lives in a trendy neighborhood.
by Doublon | 2026-02-05 07:53:13+00:00
> While the step from 1080p 1440p to 4K is a visible difference

I even doubt that. My experience is, on a 65" TV, 4K pixels become indistinguishable from 1080p beyond 3 meters. I even tested that with friends on the Mandalorian show, we couldn't tell 4K or 1080p apart. So I just don't bother with 4K anymore.

Of course YMMV if you have a bigger screen, or a smaller room.
by lampe3 | 2026-02-05 07:53:27+00:00
Oh I have seen this story and was the one who caused this story when I was younger.

In a lot of cases the "new guy" thinks its an easy software and does it on his free time and thinks he did a great job.

In reality the specs are never 100% done correctly. The "new guy" misses some edge cases everybody but him knew because its just company knowledge. A lot of info in the specs was missing since they are not complete and so on.

This over the weekend never works in the long run. The ORM worked for all the happy path and written down cases but then you have cases were the ORM just is not good enough or fast. So you start to add strange code to work around the ORM. The same for the web framework or the validation lib.

To me the author of this comment sounds like the typical "Freelancer" coming in into a company knowing everything better then all the people and then leaving after a few months and now everybody else has to deal with his code.
by n_u | 2026-02-05 07:53:33+00:00
Yeah it seems there's a bit of asymmetry between a normal lender and the federal government here where as a normal lender you might not be able to lend enough to guarantee the debtor survives. Also what the gov decides to do may significantly influence the lender's behavior. If the lender thinks there's a chance the gov will bail them out, they would probably prefer that and not give a loan.

Whereas the federal government can write a check for $633.6 billion and be much more certain the debtors will survive and pay it back.
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-05 07:53:33+00:00
I'm not good at office politics, but I got better at not caring. Understanding what is erroneous stimuli, as an employee you don't have to respond especially if you aren't noticed. This is fairly easy for engineers, even lead engineers. Anywhere there is a buffer between you and other stakeholders.

Occasionally though, I do get thrust into it, mostly during a company pivot about something I wasn't hired to do. All the personalities to manage, I 100% fumble, but still deliver.
by port11 | 2026-02-05 07:53:35+00:00
AI is killing this. Millennials are killing that. Gen Z certainly must be killing another thing. And Yarn? It was killing NPM. This nonsense type of title really was made for a world where nuance doesn’t exist.

B2B SaaS is projected to grow over the next decade, not shrink. Just use the LLMs and you’ll be reminded of the value provided by the company selling non-core but important tools for your business.
by dmantis | 2026-02-05 07:54:43+00:00
Exactly.

While trying to degoogling, removing most proprietary software and use sandboxing for everything that's still needed as proprietary, you would often hear that stupid pro-surveillance thesis: "oh, what's wrong in someone trying to show you relevant things in the internet to buy by your interests?".

Maybe now some people would think about it. That giving someone's leverage over youself is a ticking bomb until the actually scary people will use it as an advantage. That's humanity 101.

Same about non-encrypted emails, cloud AI providers, SMS/real-identity based auth and 2fa, telemetry. The industry is full of trash and has to be revived from VC garbage.
by lsofzz | 2026-02-05 07:54:48+00:00
Bad post. No information on how to resolve this situation.

Coming from someone who worked at FAANG, this is sub par post.

You block it at inside your network by having the domain name not leak to start with. Run a resolver inside your network, and have DHCP response send DNS requests to your resolver. The resolver only queries upstream if it is not your local network's domain(s). Then, block all outbound DNS from your local network using your preferred firewall.

No leaks.

It took me 30 seconds to write this. Basic stuff.
by ajam1507 | 2026-02-05 07:54:49+00:00
We're not at the point where we are replacing all software developers entirely (and will never be without real AGI), but we are definitely at the point where scaling back headcount is possible.

Also, creating software is much more testable and verifiable than what a CEO does. You can usually tell when the code isn't right because it doesn't work or doesn't pass a test. How can you verify that your AI CEO is giving you the right information or planning its business strategy effectively?

It's one of the biggest reasons that software development and art are the two domains in which AI excels. In software you can know when it's right, and in art it doesn't matter if it's right.
by kate_orlova | 2026-02-05 07:54:50+00:00
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by EagnaIonat | 2026-02-05 07:54:57+00:00
The secret is to not run out of quota.

Instead have Claude know when to offload work to local models and what model is best suited for the job. It will shape the prompt for the model. Then have Claude review the results. Massive reduction in costs.

btw, at least on Macbooks you can run good models with just M1 32GB of memory.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-05 07:55:14+00:00
The channel appears to be five years of "It is happening!" and "It started!" thumbnails. I just can't take it seriously, so I decided to look into the company/leadership.

Reminds me of ZeroHedge. They've been shouting that the depresssion-level market crash is near now since 2009. Every single day. For 17 years.
by Deprogrammer9 | 2026-02-05 07:55:43+00:00
Swatch® Internet Time, or .beat time, is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998, dividing the day into 1,000 ".beats" rather than hours and minutes. It eliminates time zones by anchoring to "Biel Mean Time" (UTC+1). One beat equals 86.4 seconds, with the time written as @000 to @999
by bonesss | 2026-02-05 07:56:11+00:00
I see Microsoft throwing spaghetti at the wall just in time as “AI” functionality hits government and educational procurement procedures.

The copilot product is obviously borked, and is outshone by ‘free’ competitors (Gemini, ChatGPT). But since the attributes and uses are so fuzzy, they have a minimum viable product to abort meaningful talk about competition while securing big contracts from governments and delivering dog water.

My anecdotal observations of copilot are people using competing products soon after trialling. Reports say Anthropics solution is in widespread use at Microsoft… a bunch of devs on MacBooks and iPhones using Claude to build and sell … not what they themselves use (since they are smart and have taste?).
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-05 07:56:26+00:00
There's nothing voluntary when your options are homelessness and starvation. The bank won't accept your morals in lieu of money when accepting mortgage repayments.

Thankfully I don't live in the US and I don't work for anything even remotely related to this. I don't know if I would have the fortitude in the current US job market (based on what I read here) to threat the well being of the wife and daughter by taking principled stances.
by YZF | 2026-02-05 07:58:07+00:00
People lost money on paper. The loss turns real when they try to sell their assets.

Prices can drop on very low volumes. All that prices tell us is what someone agreed to buy and sell at a given point in time. Some (most?) sellers are likely selling because they are planning to buy when the price is lower (i.e. they are betting the market will go down) not because they need to use it.

Generally gold is not considered an investment or a hedge against marker instability and most diversified portfolios would not have gold in them.

Yes- if I own the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 goes down then the current value of my investment has gone down.
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-05 07:58:13+00:00
55 inch 8k tvs make for great monitors. Basically your whole field of view is a retina canvas for apps, equivalent to a 2x2 grid of 4k monitors.

The last ones I saw for sale were below 600 usd in physical stores from name brands (LG). Mine was just under 1000 when I got it.

Why we can’t buy the same panels as monitors is a mystery to me.
by haanc | 2026-02-05 07:58:30+00:00
I built LinguaMaster because passive YouTube watching wasn't helping me learn French.

It's a desktop app that turns any YouTube video into an interactive language lesson:

-Paste a URL → AI generates bilingual subtitles (Whisper)
-Click any word → instant translation + pronunciation
-Select a sentence → Gemini explains grammar in context
-Chat with an AI tutor who knows your video's content
-Save vocabulary → spaced repetition review

Tech stack: Electron + React + FastAPI + Whisper + Gemini(BYOL is supported)

100% local-first. Your data stays on your machine. You can use your own API key.

Free tier: 500 credits/month (enough for 2-3 full video sessions).

Windows only for now, macOS coming soon.

Landing page: https://linguamaster.top

Would love feedback, especially on the UX and what languages/features you'd want.