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Re:AntiAntiRender – make the world more beautiful on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:13AM (#47015105)
The opposite of AntiRender. Upload a pic you’ve taken of a modernist concrete block, get back a water colour painting of what could have been built there instead.
I saw it going viral before going to bed last night and spent 15min trying to enable payments but failed so made it block you after 2 gens using cookies and try guilt you into donating instead. Made me $160 in donations compared to the $500 in AI credits burned so not a huge success but at least slightly offset the loss.

If the demand continues after this blip I’ll try add ads or make real payments work.

Holy shit, always been my dream to hit #1 on HN and now it was with something that took me 10min to build in Lovable. Wild!
Re: on Friday October 18, 2024 @02:55AM (#41876973)
I've been thinking a lot over the past year about the tradeoff between optimising systems and making them more robust, so I decided to write my thoughts down.

The takeaway is spelled out with the headlines: 1. Efficiency tends to increase fragility 2. The exception is when systems are constantly destabilised (evolution creates anti-fragile systems due to constant destabilising forces during optimisation) 3. Our society is increasingly stable, and efficient, and therefore also increasingly fragile. This should be a cause for concern.

Re:Building Spatial Intelligence Part 1 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:40AM (#41729678)
There's a gap in the tools needed for building autonomous cars and robots, Yaak is trying to fill that gap
Re:GPT-5: a short story written by GPT-4 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:46AM (#35246954)
Thank you! Yes I agree, filtering and curation is the future of creation I think!
Re:GPT-5: a short story written by GPT-4 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:46AM (#35246940)
Thank you! Yes honestly it was very creepy sometimes what it generated, it was very responsive to the style of my prompt.
Re:GPT-5: a short story written by GPT-4 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:37AM (#35245889)
I knew the storyline I wanted roughly and used a lot of prompting and re-prompting and some editing to get what I was looking for. It was surprisingly hard to get GPT-4 to make the ending dark, the RLHF was very clearly steering it towards coming up with last minute changes of mind or plot twists that made the ending happy.
Re:Boundary Conditions, Rain, and Startup Fragility on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:28AM (#35151140)
Interesting, will watch
Re:Boundary Conditions, Rain, and Startup Fragility on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:20AM (#35149772)
Yes exactly — a lean, bootstrapped startup is a much "safer" bet, but also has much more limited upside potential. There are still a few unicorns out there that took that path, or switched to being VC backed later in the game!
Re:Boundary Conditions, Rain, and Startup Fragility on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:53AM (#35149589)
Haha very true — as a climber I relate 100%.
Re:Boundary Conditions, Rain, and Startup Fragility on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:51AM (#35148830)
I've been writing this post for a few weeks now, but the SVB collapse made me revisit it and get it posted.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020) on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:12AM (#25005657)
Natural Cycles (http://naturalcycles.com/) | Full Stack Engineer | Based in Stockholm or REMOTE in the European or EST time zones.

We are the first FDA cleared birth control app and our mission is to improve women's reproductive health with technology, research and passion.

We’re looking to hire a Full Stack Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, data-driven environment and is inspired to use their talents to help us in our mission. You will be responsible for integrations between our Natural Cycles app and different platforms, e.g. different hardware platforms, customer service platforms, CRM platforms and more. We are looking for someone whose soft skills shine, is passionate about technology, and enjoys having a lot of autonomy in their work.

We offer:

- Competitive salary

- Gender balanced tech department

- Data centric decision making

- Meaningful work with social contribution

- Passionate colleagues ranging all the way from dogs to ex-CERN scientists

Please visit us at https://career.naturalcycles.com/jobs/977333-full-stack-engi...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019) on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:26AM (#21711273)
Natural Cycles - Data Engineer. Stockholm, Sweden. ONSITE - VISA

We are the first FDA cleared birth control app and our mission is to improve women's reproductive health with technology, research and passion.

We’re looking to hire a Data Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, data-driven environment and is inspired to use their talents to help us in our mission.

We offer:

- Competitive Stockholm salaries

- Gender balanced tech department

- Data centric decision making

- Meaningful work with social contribution

- Passionate colleagues ranging all the way from dogs to ex-CERN scientists

- Contributing directly to our US expansion strategy and execution

- Assistance to move to Sweden

- Private pension

Please visit us at https://career.naturalcycles.com/jobs/780903-data-engineer