[Simon Willison] ported the Moebuis 0.2B image inpainting model to run locally in a web browser.  The web tool simply requires a user to provide an image, mark a section of it to be removed, and the model will do it’s best to patch up the missing area. The project was...

The frustration I hear most often about self-employment is the instability. Moments when there’s too much work and you’re feeling stretched thin. And less ideally, the lulls when you’re between projects and your cash flow slows down or dries up. Frequently referred to...

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/in-emacs-everything-looks-like-a-service.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857230 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Every AI project assumes the data underneath it is already aligned. It almost never is. Before a model trains, before a dashboard loads, before a retrieval pipeline returns anything useful, someone has to answer a question that sounds trivial and is not: do these two...

OverviewKrea-2-Realism-LoRA is a Low-Rank Adaptation module trained by gokaygokay that specializes in pushing Krea 2 toward natural, candid, photorealistic imagery of everyday subjects without requiring explicit style keywords like "photorealistic" or "8k DSLR." The...

Today’s AI-geopolitical signal is not a single breakthrough; it is a stack-deepening pattern. Frontier AI actors are trying to reduce dependence on external bottlenecks by controlling more of the infrastructure beneath their models: inference chips, model-routing...

Coding agents imitate a healthy codebase well but bring no judgment to an empty one — so I built a spec-driven framework to supply the discipline I won't. A postmortem, a pivot, a retrofit test, and whether you actually need any of it. I have a bad habit. I get...

The taste you think of as your own, for hot salty wings and a cold beer on a Sunday afternoon, was manufactured upstream of you: in a slaughterhouse and a cable-television control room, years before you ordered your first dozen. We tell ourselves we eat what we love....

In the 1980s, Richard Dennis handed the same trading system to a room of ordinary people. The Turtles. Same entry rules, same exits, same position sizing. Same everything. Their results were not the same. Some turned it into millions. Others barely broke even. Curtis...

1. Density as Flow: Lessons from the Elizabeth line London is densifying unevenly. The main issue is often not height itself, but how new development begins to function once people move in. In planning documents, density is expressed through dry metrics: the number of...

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 returned to public attention almost immediately after coming back online. Within days, another jailbreak claim appeared, forcing the discussion back to a familiar question: can frontier AI models stay useful while also being hard to abuse?...

Launch Announcement On June 30, Kamino Finance launched its Hyperithm USDC Apex Vault on the Solana lending protocol. This vault uses a collection of yield strategies designed by Hyperithm, a compliant digital asset manager located in Tokyo and Seoul. SolanaFloor has...

My kid said he wanted to do origami.I sent my Agent a single sentence asking it to handle the origami materials. It searched for tutorials on its own, printed out the origami guide along with sheets of paper. Later I wanted a different color, so I told it again, and...

Cropping is one of the most common image editing operations.Whether you're updating a profile picture, preparing a product photo, creating a social media post, or trimming a screenshot, cropping helps focus attention on the most important part of an image. For years,...

Financial fraud has evolved significantly over the past decade. What once consisted primarily of stolen credit cards and simple phishing scams has expanded into sophisticated attacks involving synthetic identities, AI-generated phishing emails, deepfake voice...

A staff member sent the personal details of around 150 women who were in contact with a Scottish NHS Trust’s maternity services to their own personal email account, the Trust has revealed. NHS Forth Valley, the health board that oversees NHS services in the region...

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Android is oh-so-close to being a full-blown Linux desktop. There's just one problem with the feature.

I tested the top HDMI cables from leading brands to find the most dependable options for clear audio and video.