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Show HN: I built an AI image generator lets you create styled images in seconds
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a side project: 4oimage.site — a fast, easy-to-use image generator that focuses on style-driven creation, not prompt engineering.

Why I built this:
I love generative AI, but most tools require carefully-crafted prompts or a deep understanding of models to get good results. I wanted to create something where you just pick a style, upload an image or input a concept, and get beautiful results — instantly.

Key features:
• Generate images in curated styles (anime, vintage, futuristic, watercolor, etc.)
• No prompt tuning or parameter tweaking needed.
• Clean UI, runs in browser.
• Supports image-to-image and text-to-image workflows.
• Fast inference powered by custom pipelines.

Coming soon:
• AI-powered video generation (frame-to-frame stylized outputs)
• Public community style boards
• API access for devs and creators

It’s still early stage, and I’d love to hear what the HN community thinks — both critical feedback and crazy feature ideas.

Thanks for checking it out!
Do you think whitelabelled dev community platforms still make sense?
I've seen that with every new engagement comes a new whitelabelled platform, begins with probably an event (because whitelabelled dev community platforms are mostly focused on them), then reaches to hackathons, newsletters, blogs, chats, and the list goes on...

While most of the companies are looking at white labelled solutions or an built-in-house tool to manage their communities, I see that it starts with enthusiasm but they usually run out of bandwidth to manage them.

Do you think white labelled platform still makes sense? Or an ecosystem / platform where multiple brands & individuals can host their community ecosystem?
Just an FYI, those aren’t oranges.

They are SUMOs which belong to the Dekopon crop type.
Thank you for sharing this important information. What does a company in the Netherlands do when an employee is underperforming? Do they get "PIP'd" like Amazon? Then, eventually let go with some standard severance package?
Granny is making Canada great again there, with the maple leaf tempura.
Agreed, the explanation for why this is standard procedure never made much sense to me.

I just know it feels really shitty on the receiving end.
> just because they would become unflushable if it comes to that

Your choice of verb tells a lot about what you think of your employees.
Llama 4 Is Banned in the EU: Open AI, Region-Locked
The description is accurate compared to what you get from other more established systems languages.
No, and I don't get your point.
> having no primary is probably the worst thing Democrats could have done.

I'd argue the 15 years of identity politics that both led to Harris as VP and prevented them from being able to commit the faux paux of possibly passing her up by letting their constituents decide if they liked her was their worst decision.
Does this question also equally apply to the opposite side? If an employee got so angry with how you laid them off and treated them afterwards that they decide to do what they can to damage your company?

Cutting access and having security walk them out is more or less security theater. If an employee really wanted to cause damage the odds are they either already have or will still find a way. In this scenario having generous severance and treating them with respect is likely to better defuse the situation than kicking them out the door.
What does multi-tab have to do with it? You are in control of your computer aren't you? Just make the window narrower.
>How many of your middle school, high school and even college buddies do you still have a relationship with?

All the ones that were true friends, and none of the ones that were just friendly acquaintances.
It's like science fair energy for adults: "Ok but how much more red, exactly?"
Exactly, you don't just exit for $32B. There's definitely more to the story, which feels "manufactured" for lack of better words.
Sean Carroll today's go-to person for GR has been working at popularizing these ideas (for more than 10 years(!))

https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6903

>For example, our universe lacked complex structures at the Big Bang and will also lack them after black holes evaporate and particles are dispersed.

See my comment below for link to Scott's preview.
> Rate limit and monitor your own usage. You should anyway. It's not the road's job to make you follow the speed limit.

In some sense, urban planners do design roads to make you follow the speed limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming:

“Traffic calming uses physical design and other measures to improve safety for motorists, car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. It has become a tool to combat speeding and other unsafe behaviours of drivers”
Excited to see Emily Dickinson content on HN!

Related love letter in YouTube short form by Elle Cordova: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sesP5_YMns
Nice catch! Fixing it now.
See Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color or the recent and more approachable Interacting With Color.
Your relationship with your employer is no different than any other business relationship. You can do the bare minimum, just as there are many businesses that do the bare minimum toward their customers, and those businesses often have a low subsistence level of success; if you do the same, you may have the same level of success in your career.

An employment relationship can offer a lot of things for both sides. For the employer, your labor of course. For the employee, a salary of course. But it can also offer experience, access to other talented and intelligent individuals and access to capital to learn and try things, networking, relationships, opportunities for promotion and perhaps opportunities to find better employment elsewhere, or the skills and/or connections to start your own business.

Your attitude toward work should be the same as the attitude you take towards the rest of your life. You can "rot" or you can make the most of every opportunity.
Yet drivers that have passed Windows Hardware Qualification Labs certification have had blue screens. Also, Microsoft hands out Windows kernel driver signing keys to anyone who pays them. You don't need to have a driver go through the Windows Hardware Qualification Labs to be able to sign it with a key signed by Microsoft.
Electric cars (some hybrids) use their brakes less due to regenerative breaking. So thats something at least.
I got banned from my country subreddit

This was the tipping point for me

Now I use discord, it's more organic and fun, I find it's a good substitute.

The memes are better on discord
He's talking about a politics related post in a niche sub.
> I take it you’re worried about vengeful ex-employees abusing their access privileges to break stuff on the way out?

In extreme cases. But also just sowing discontent. Looking to grab value they think they are owed. Generally lots of people who are upset and probably feel mistreated and have very little to lose.

I actually think there is a small but real chance of violence as people like OP feel like their identity and way of life is threatened.

Have you been in a situation like this before?
For most of human history we were hunter-gatherers. Even assuming you mean post-industrial history this isn't true though.
How do you protect yourself from this? Treat public QR codes like "free" USB drives – don't use them?
How exactly would they become "unflushable"?

Also, surely if they were excellent candidates then you'd be doing your absolute best to keep them around?
There is a range between kicking them out instantly and allowing them to do whatever they please. Authorizations to important systems should be immediately revoked but you can allow them some time to gather their things, access to internal chat to say their goodbyes etc. Or is that an excuse for poorly designed internal controls?
Most people complaining have never lived somewhere as a minority or immigrant before and it's a shock to them.

No shit you are completely different to 99% of the country culturally and visually and people treat you differently. Who would have guessed.
It's annoying for sure, but at least you can resize the window.

Side note: Dan Luu claims[0][1] that there's no readability advantage to narrow line width. I haven't really looked into it, but in my experience it feels like he's very wrong.

[0]: https://danluu.com/slow-device/ [Appendix: this site vs. sites that don't work on slow devices or slow connections]

[1]: https://nitter.net/danluu/status/1115707741102727168
Not related to the layoff (I'm very sad for what author is experiencing), but the blog looking is very great and functional. Looking on the page code I see that is using a CSS framework that I'm never heard off Open Pros (https://open-props.style/), looks like a much better solution than Tailwind and friends. I see that a components collection is the development too Open Props UI (https://open-props-ui.netlify.app/)
Isn't creating demands the US strength over China? Now you are saying it is not important for the US but important for China? Either way NYT recently did a good piece on the "China Shock" and the main takeaway is that people couldn't react to changes that happened too fast but they finally did. Now suddenly they are pushed to go the other way overnight.
> People who worked there for 40+ years were basically given a few months' pay

Those few months pay thing is the key difference. That is legally mandated.
The best-tasting oranges looked nothing like the perfectly polished, all-orange supermarket ones. Some of them were downright ugly by grocery store standards
Tourism into the US is also down in general. You can disparage this particular academic all you want, but unfortunately when you start deporting foreign nationals with valid visas you don't get to pick and choose the second and third-order effects. It's not just academics—and not just the academics you personally find silly—that are choosing to not visit the US.
I wouldn’t say just Reddit. It’s counter to just about every other online forum out there. HN is pretty unique in its strongly enforced taboo against humor and silliness.
> Layoffs here are always done in conjunction with the unions.

Europe is vastly diverse and your experience is not representative of all Europe.
I found this comment rather funny.
The filmweb discussion comment pointedly notes the author is not afraid of it now, and doesn't get why it was scary then. Several other comments also point out she looked lonely and less scary than the hattifnattar. Hardly the all-traumatizing experience.
I would surmise it's more fear of wasting money and time on a plane (approx 13 - 16 hours at min cost of $2000 aud for a specific flight time,) only to be turned back at the US border.

I mostly agree with your sentiments, that not much has changed, there's been plenty of horror stories pre 2015 in regard to being pulled aside and sent back, misunderstandings perhaps but ...

Last couple of months I'd say there's a stark difference, there seems to be numerous media stores with a definite focus that it doesn't take much to be knocked back, and a few came down to simply having a record of being critical of Trump. eg. Alvin Gibbs (UK Subs) account of it which IMO sounds pretty straight up.[1]

Of course there's probably more than a few media beat ups where one would guess there's probably a bit more to the story but if so it's pretty quiet and perhaps perceived as an unwillingness for US authorities to comment.

[1] https://dorseteye.com/im-so-proud-to-be-deported-from-the-us...
I imagine LLMs would excel in this kind of writing these days.

But really impressive for the time.
You must be 13 years old.
I'd be curious to know if it was easier or harder (or perhaps just as difficult) to write than the French equivalent. [0]

The Wikipedia article goes on to discuss interesting aspects of how the book was translated in different languages, with different self-imposed constraints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
Stop it. My eyes can only roll so much.
Hi HN

I built StressLess, a minimalist mobile app to help you track your stress levels daily and reduce them through guided breathing (coherence-based). It’s designed to be dead simple, calm, and distraction-free.

What it does:

1–10 scale to log your stress once a day

Clean charts to see your trends over time

Built-in breathing timer based on heart coherence (no sensors)

Monthly reports coming soon

This started as a tool for myself, but I'm curious if it could help others too.

Looking for feedback on UX, features you’d expect, or if you think this idea has legs. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks
This hypothetical is about what the CEO/company decides to do, not what the employee decides to do. A lot of liability "theater" is not there to prevent issues, it's to cover your ass.

So no, this question doesn't apply equally to the opposite side. An employee does not take responsibility for what the company does. A lot of people wonder why CEOs are paid so much; part of that is simply to take responsibility.

Ironically, a lot of people complain about useless CEOs, but if you asked them to take that responsibility for the pay, they wouldn't take it (note that that responsibility includes things like sweet talking shareholders and giving public statements on short notice on things that could nuke millions of dollars in value and create very real legal liability).
I think Java made many decisions that turned out to be bad only in retrospect. In Go we knew (well, experts knew) already that the choices were bad.

Java is a child of the 90s. My full rant at https://blog.habets.se/2022/08/Java-a-fractal-of-bad-experim... :-)
So you’ve heard the risks. What would be the benefit? And why would it outweigh those risks?
From your own link:

"Driver Verifier is not normally used on machines used in productive work. It can cause ... blue screen fatal system errors."
Which are the non douchebag companies?
Plans change, and so they should be communicated and negotiated with the employees going to be affected by the change. It's the dignified way of doing it, people are people, not fungible commodities, treat them as people and unions won't be an issue at all.

> unions are just corporate blackmailing.

This is such an absurdly ignorant take that is hard to start educating you, it also depends a lot on what society you live in since your view on unions will be tainted by what you see in it.

In places like the Nordics, unions are one of the cornerstones of a free labour market, look up how Sweden has a freer labour market than the USA to learn something at least :)
It just works out of the box, and request-response model still fits the web better than any other solution out there.

And it's still performant enough https://x.com/arvidkahl/status/1775261978006896730
Do people really have to make up stuff like that? If you said large parts of history, maybe.

"For entirety" definitely not. What you describe was a thing in some periods, typically periods where some group got too much power and they tended to end with huge disfunctions and breakdowns.
And what is the deal with functional scrolling?
China nuclear fusion record generating steady loop of plasma for 1k seconds
Relocating a factory to the US is expensive both as an investment and in its operation. Thst means you're thinking on a time horizon of decades not years. So if you're the CEO of a corp that is expected to be incentivized to move production to the US you would want to know how long those tariffs are going to last.

And lets face it, even if Trump instigated those tariffs via executive order at day 0 and didn't touch them till the expected end of his office that would not be enough incentive to relocate production. (1) because he could change the tariffs literally at any point (and he did just that) and (2) because any president after could just reverse the executive order immidately.

The erratic way Trump installed, modfied and communicated the tariffs run counter to the communicated purpose. E.g. why of all things excempt computers and electronic devices now from the tariffs? Why put a 10% tariff on goods from dirt-poor countries whose goods you already buy at an rate bordering on exploitation to your own benefit.

The way I see it, either he has no idea what the hell he is doing, or he is doing it for another purpose, e.g. insider trading. And I see myself exceedingly tired of journalists trying to read the tea leaves on a madman.
Isn't (for instance) Reddit threaded, sequential discussion?
It does not prove that the driver will not crash the kernel. It should be fairly easy to find a driver that passed QA testing under that tool, yet still crashed the kernel. You just need one of the many driver developers for Microsoft Windows to admit to having used that tool and fixed a crash bug that it missed, and you have an example. Likely all developers who have used that tool can confirm that they have had bugs that the tool missed.
https://archive.is/JfTN7
It's not like there aren't disgruntled employees before layoffs. If a single employee could cause billions of dollars in losses, then the company already has a big problem regardless of layoffs.

It's very interesting how so many people in upper management seem to think that they can trust employees not to sabotage and cause billions of dollars in losses by paying them like 100k a year.
> The researchers say while the decarbonisation benefits of switching from gas to heat pumps are widely discussed

I'm sorry what ?

This could only happen if heat pumps are not well managed and release highly climate heating gases. But then, what about the climate impact of gaz fields and methane releases ?
The grift and insider dealing is so obvious.
Thanks for clarifying, I was about to ask what kind of oranges those are supposed to be...
Delivery drivers are a completely separate problem, and they are a menace whether they ride bikes, scooters, or cars. The issue there is the gig economy apps incenctivising by every means possible (including threats of termination) that drivers go as fast as possible, rules and their own safety be damned. All for someone to get their soggy fries in 35mins instead of 40.
It's more like "welcome to US mindset" IMHO
Not everyone runs cloud servers. pyinfra seems to fit my needs like a glove, so I guess I am the intended audience.

I never liked the provisioning overlap Ansible has with Terraform, so it makes sense to me: provisioning servers with tf, configure them with another tool, whether it’s ansible or pyinfra. Well, at least in theory
It does sound interesting, and I'll look into Lisp, can you give me some advice on what's the best way to learn it?

On your other point, I've programmed in many languages in many years, and mostly I did some in an environment with an IDE, or powerful language-specific tooling (not tree-sitter) that had a proper good understanding of the syntax and semantics of the language used.
Hey, guys, I have this crazy idea.

How about we have people give small bits of paper to other people to pay for things? Or maybe even wave small cards of plastic in front of things that can read them? Maybe how about not using my fucking phone for every goddamn thing?

Crazy, right? KTHXBYE.
Thanks for the update. I think one important issue that also needs to be resolved is adding the GCC git tree as a subproject in Rust's git tree so that in the end, it will be possible to build a Rust compiler with a rustc_codegen_gcc backend without having to resort to external repositories.
>"Manufacturing doesn’t have to equate to sweat shops. It’s hard to take your argument seriously when your judgement is undermined by such fallacy."

You're right; humans will be as uninvolved as possible in the next domestic sweat shop lines. Astute observation!
Even seeing the domain name doesn't solve the fundamental trust problem. A malicious actor could post a fake QR code or fake short URL leading to "city-parking-secure.com" or similar legitimate-looking domain.

The real solution is establishing a trusted channel - citizens need to know they should only pay for municipal parking through their city's official domain (e.g., sf.gov/parking). But this isn't possible when it's some random parking company. I don't see a great solution.
Car APIs are $$$.

If you want to have some unified API check https://enode.com/connect, but that too costs a premium.
This is kind of my plan. I have 3 so far targeting different needs. 2 close enough functionality wise I can reuse most of my work. But one needs to be 'real' enough for people to use it because it comes with an expectation of lasting persistence.
I could believe that. Plus, because both of those are more dynamic, they're going to have to do more work per request anyway, meaning the effects of scraping are exacerbated.
Ironically you're statistically very likely to be writing this comment in a browser based on chrome.

And Chrome really helped save us from an Internet "embraced and extended" by Microsoft. We were heading for Microsoft succeeding in their (not first) attempt at owning the Internet.
They are:

#include <ctype.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>

They are all standard headers, required in a hosted implementation of ISO C. Only stripped down C implementations which the standard calls "freestanding" can omit parts of the standard library.

Except for <stdint.h>, all existed in 1989 ANSI C; though not with all the content they have now.

If you write a C program, you have a dependency on a C implementation; it's not going to compile itself. That's an external dependency: something not in your program. It is a second party dependency. First party is you, second is the programming language and library (and perhaps the platforms you are targeting and what they supply). Third party external dependencies are anything not in your program or language implementation or platform. The things you have to tell the user to download and install, possibly from source.

One second-party dependency this code has is on a Windows-like command interpreter which provides a "cls" command, for the several system("cls") calls the code makes to clear the screen.
> The legislative branch can pass a law requiring enforcement

At this point the Executive is already ignoring the law.
Write a macro DSL in Clojure for it then throw it up as a library.

To get to a higher level of abstraction than the general purpose languages you have to get more specific, maybe someone just hasn’t done it yet for your use case.
This will backfire. There is already enough momentum gathering for establishing technical independence for the EU. This will accelerate it, not make the EU fold.

Ps it would have helped meta's case if it were a higher performance model.
yeah I was lagging as well on desktop and no wonder... the site made 2659 requests to what appears to be display pictures of people who commented on the post.
What is traumatizing to one child can be thought provoking to another. Not every one experiences any form of entertainment in the same way.
A multiphoton-based volumetric display that works in open air
I've been developing a 3D display technology that uses multiphoton absorption in open air to generate visible light points in real 3D space — no screen or medium required.

Unlike laser plasma displays (which require femtosecond lasers and high power), my method achieves volumetric light emission using resonant multiphoton excitation, which dramatically reduces energy consumption and improves safety.

Potential applications include AR/XR displays, holographic signage, military targeting systems, and even immersive entertainment.

Here's the concept and basic theory, with technical sketches and explanation (in English):
https://blog.naver.com/as33sa

Would love to get any technical feedback, especially from folks working in optics, display tech, or photonics.
Well, Xenix was extremely popular since it was the cheapest option on x86. That said, I doubt Bill Gates would have hired Dave Cutler had he stuck to Xenix.
If you set starlink to collide with one another , you get a nice kessler shield that prevents all icbm firing