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New comment by pigcat in "Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model"

pigcat — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:58:27 +0000

Thank you for doing this <3 Love this showdown

New comment by pigcat in "Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model"

pigcat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:43:13 +0000

[1] Nice, let us know if you need a hand

You can call our API to generate structured json from text using this endpoint (this endpoint is free of charge, but you need a free account to create an api key): https://developer.ideogram.ai/api-reference/api-reference/ma...

[2] Fal runs the text_prompt (natural language) through the magic prompt system, so indeed results should be good there

Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model

pigcat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:09 +0000

It's our new text-to-image model: a 9.3B single-stream diffusion transformer trained entirely from scratch.

We focused heavily on controllability through structured JSON prompts, with strong text rendering, spatial awareness through bounding box guidance, and color palette control.

It has the best text rendering of any open-weight model we've tested so far, and the NF4 quantized checkpoint runs on a single 24GB GPU.

For more technical details and examples see our blog post: https://ideogram.ai/blog/ideogram-4.0/

We will be happy to answer any questions :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385829

Points: 46

# Comments: 12

New comment by pigcat in "Letting Claude play text adventures"

pigcat — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:38:29 +0000

How does one use tmux to do this? I'm a tmux user for 10+ years, not sure what you mean by this, am I missing something huge?

New comment by pigcat in "Steam Machine"

pigcat — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:35:59 +0000

Can I use it as a jellyfin client? Does that... make sense?

I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.

I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.

New comment by pigcat in "From VS Code to Helix"

pigcat — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:01:31 +0000

Woah, how did I not know about that tip about omitting the search pattern? Love it and will be using that lots!

As a thank you, I'll leave you with the way I learned to search/replace, just to give you a slightly different flavour: asterisk, cgn ([c]hange [g]o [n]ext), type replaced, then . (period, to repeat) until I'm done.

New comment by pigcat in "Why is everything so scalable?"

pigcat — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:25:06 +0000

My friend is the first dev hire at a startup where they prematurely overengineered for scalability. The technical founders had recently exited a previous startup and their rationale was that it makes a future acquisition easier, since a potential acquirer will weigh scalability in their evaluation of the code (and maybe even conflate it with quality). In fact it was a regret from their first startup that they hadn't baked in scalability earlier. I remain skeptical of the decision, but curious if there's any truth to the fact that acquirers weigh scalability in their scorecard?

New comment by pigcat in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

pigcat — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:35:50 +0000

I did the same thing! We had a good laugh.

New comment by pigcat in "Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?"

pigcat — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:31:04 +0000

Making electronic music. Any recommendations for where to start?

New comment by pigcat in "I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain"

pigcat — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:47:10 +0000

Thanks for explaining this so clearly! I'm going to try this next time :)

New comment by pigcat in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

pigcat — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:54:13 +0000

Haha, yeah fair point. My comment does seem trite when you put it that way ;)

The point I was trying to make (which I think you understood) was that it was _surprisingly cheap_ to outsource. In the range of ~$100 for our entire collection.

I should mention that this project was undertaken because a relative's house burned down and, with it, all their family photos. So my comment is meant as encouragement for anyone sitting on a treasure trove of family photos who is thinking to digitize: do it! And to inform that this process that I thought would be very painful/tedious is something that can be outsourced for relatively cheap.

New comment by pigcat in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

pigcat — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:29:20 +0000

Just to share my experience: My brother and I recently digitized all our family photos. The process doesn't have to be so daunting. We found someone on facebook marketplace with a high quality scanner, and paid them to scan every photo and put it on a USB stick. I don't remember how much it cost but it was pennies per photo.

New comment by pigcat in "Celebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin's Aesthetics"

pigcat — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:29:48 +0000

That fan art is incredible. I would love to read those!

New comment by pigcat in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

pigcat — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:29:47 +0000

Here's my very simple solution

Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

alias alertme='printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a'

I add this after longish tasks - eg:

python longtest.py; alertme

seeddb; alertme

New comment by pigcat in "The Art of Finishing"

pigcat — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:10:32 +0000

I use the reward system with a slight twist:

I'm not allowed to start a new project until I complete my current one.

Since I have a huge backlog of ideas, my "reward" for finishing a project is that I get to work on the next most exciting idea. Yay!

This forces me to keep the scopes small.

I'm allowed to rescope my current project to something smaller/imperfect after I've started (for example if I discover that my initial vision is going to take too long), but I still have to finish it before I'm allowed to start the next one.

New comment by pigcat in "What advice for moving to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico? (Quora's AI vs. a real answer)"

pigcat — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:03:07 +0000

One of the more striking examples I've seen of an absolutely banal AI response compared to a real answer

What advice for moving to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico? (Quora's AI vs. a real answer)

pigcat — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:03:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/What-advice-would-you-give-to-someone-who-is-moving-to-Coatzacoalcos-Mexico

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690232

Points: 5

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New comment by pigcat in "The Pen Hospital in Kolkata will nurse your broken fountain pen back"

pigcat — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:25:49 +0000

Weird thing... The links in that article are to totally unrelated pages on the same Vogue India site.

eg. the first link `pen` takes you to an article about therapy.

Anyone know why they might do this? Is it some SEO trick?

New comment by pigcat in "Android features I envy as an iPhone user"

pigcat — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:36:33 +0000

I just want to be able to disable future push notifications from the notification itself (long press). That's the biggest thing I miss about Android.

New comment by pigcat in "Duolingo Sucks, Now What?"

pigcat — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:53:16 +0000

+1 for Mango Languages (available free with my Library Card)

It's very well designed. The spaced repetition is effective. The lesson order is sensible. The Romanian lessons have a real speaker narrating the pronunciation, compared to Duolingo's AI narrator, which was terrible for learning.

I tried Duolingo briefly but the over-gamification wasn't for me. Everything was about gems and lives, major turnoff.