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Spent weeks building, not marketinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013060Hey HN,We’ve spent the last few weeks pretty much glued to the computer, obsessing over product and ignoring everything else — including marketing. I just really wanted this to work.The project is ecomdesignlab.ai, an AI-powered fashion shoot generator. You upload clothing items, and it generates realistic model shots for ecommerce — no photo shoots needed.Until recently, our onboarding was way too limited. You could upload a fashion piece, but you had zero control over how it appeared — no way to pick the model’s pose, no background options. It worked, but it didn’t feel right, especially not for fashion founders who care a lot about brand and visual control.So I stayed off Twitter, off LinkedIn, off everything, and just built.Here’s what’s finally live:You can now choose poses and backgrounds before generating. This alone made the whole tool way more usable.Image generation time is now ~3 minutes, down from ~11 (which is still common in other tools).A cleaner, guided onboarding flow May 17, 2025 9:10 AM
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NASA Telescopes Tune Into a Black Hole Prelude, Fuguehttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-telescopes-tune-into-a-black-hole-prelude-fugue/NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes. These scientific productions are sonifications — or translations into sound — of data collected by NASA telescopes in space including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, James Webb Space Telescope, and Imaging X-ray Polarimetry […]May 8, 2025 3:40 PM
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Penn State Picks Up Key Commitment From In-State Starhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6f55032940f099988ff9a996a753&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticle%2Fpenn-state-picks-key-commitment-212823621.html&c=5451050665332824085&mkt=en-usGetting tougher on defense has been one of the focuses for the Penn State Nittany Lions during this offseason. They added a solid piece to their linebacking corps on Friday. Four-star recruit Terry ...May 2, 2025 2:28 PM
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Earth Science Showcase – Kids Art Collectionhttps://www.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/art-showcase/On April 16, 2025, the Earth Science Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley held an Earth Science Showcase to share its work with the center and their families. As part of this event, kids were invited to share something they like about the Earth. These are their masterpieces. Sora U. Age 9. […]Apr 26, 2025 12:14 AM
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Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebulahttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-spies-cosmic-pillar-in-eagle-nebula/This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The Eagle Nebula is one of many nebulae in the Milky Way that are known […]Apr 18, 2025 7:31 PM
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Best Pull-Up Bars for Your Home Gym in 2026, Selected by a Former Personal Trainerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a01f014c74556844162f6995ee248&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fhealth%2Ffitness%2Fbest-pull-up-bars%2F&c=14906755557921076695&mkt=en-usA pull-up bar is the ultimate home gym essential: It’s compact, versatile and capable of delivering a serious strength workout without taking up precious space. This simple piece of home exercise ...Apr 9, 2025 7:32 AM
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Show HN: YouStylize – Photos to Magic and Studio Ghibli Style Arthttps://youstylize.comTurn your everyday photos into stunning, one-of-a-kind masterpieces with YouStylize. Upload your images and watch them evolve into captivating artistic styles in seconds. Unleash your creativity and turn moments into magic art today!Apr 7, 2025 12:44 PM
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Show HN: Largest Open Source MCP Repo (280)https://www.activepieces.com/mcpAsh here, founder of Activepieces (open source automation). 2 years ago, we launched Activepieces as the open source Zapier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989). Ever since, we grew total integrations (pieces) to 280 of which 60% were built by our community!Now with the growing popularity of MCP, we built tools around these to turn them into MCP servers. So now every open source integration on Activepieces is an MCP, and we like to think it’s the largest open source MCP repo so far (MIT licensed).With these tools, you can:- Self host the MCP server or use our cloud for free.- Connect any of the 280 tools in your MCP server.- Provide the server to an MCP client (like Claude Desktop, Cursor or Windsurf).- Ask the LLM to take actions!For example, you can ask the LLM to:- Add meetings to your calendar.- Check your tasks on Jira.- Post a tweet for you.In the next few weeks, we’ll make the automation flows available as MCPs too. and we will make MCPs usable by LLMs inside our flowApr 2, 2025 2:11 PM
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Bringing Mars to Earth: solving Mars Sample Returnhttps://spacenews.com/bringing-mars-to-earth-solving-mars-sample-return/Today we stand on the threshold of one of the most exciting moments in the history of space exploration: bringing a piece of another planet in our solar system back […] The post Bringing Mars to Earth: solving Mars Sample Return appeared first on SpaceNews.Mar 11, 2025 1:00 PM
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Redshift Wranglers Reach Remarkable Milestoneshttps://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/redshift-wranglers-reach-remarkable-milestones/A “classification” is when a volunteer or citizen scientist finishes marking up or sorting one image or other piece of data. Each classification done by volunteers for the Redshift Wrangler project tells us something about the distance and age of a far-away galaxy, bringing us one step closer to understanding how galaxies evolve. These volunteers […]Mar 6, 2025 6:41 PM
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The 15 Best Places to Buy a Bathroom Vanityhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d74f3c0b9412e807534cb3100aee1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2F15-best-places-buy-bathroom-183504027.html&c=10907848922048100793&mkt=en-usChoosing the perfect bathroom vanity is a major decision for anyone looking to renovate or refresh their bathroom. Beyond serving a key functional purpose, vanities often act as the visual centerpiece ...Mar 6, 2025 10:35 AM
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NASA Open Data Turns Science Into Arthttps://science.nasa.gov/open-science/artist-data-visualization/An art display powered by NASA science data topped the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, CA throughout December 2024. Nightly visitors enjoyed “Synchronicity,” a 20-minute-long video art piece by Greg Niemeyer, which used a year’s worth of open data from NASA satellites and other sources to bring the rhythms of the Bay Area to life. […]Feb 26, 2025 5:32 PM
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Legislative recommendations for the 119th Congress to advance non-governmental spacehttps://spacenews.com/legislative-recommendations-for-the-119th-congress-to-advance-non-governmental-space/The 118th Congress closed with three dozen pieces of legislation dying at the end of the second session. Surely, some of those bills will be revived in the 119th Congress, […] The post Legislative recommendations for the 119th Congress to advance non-governmental space appeared first on SpaceNews.Feb 18, 2025 1:30 PM
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The Many Ways You Can Give Antiques a New Lifehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d49bb34f24132bb9e6f1019a7e49d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Frealestate%2Frestoration-antique-furniture.html&c=6639631760871558030&mkt=en-usThey can be restored, recovered, repurposed and more. You can also use these techniques to customize new furniture. Reupholstering a vintage chair with a new pattern, like this piece by Double R ...Feb 4, 2025 2:01 AM
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“Presence” Ending, Explained: Who Is the Ghost Haunting Chloe’s Family — and What Does It Want?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d3652504444d885be7113164bf28e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fpresence-ending-explained-ghost-haunting-220235834.html&c=6058860466207240315&mkt=en-usCallina Liang as Chloe Payne in 'Presence' (2025). Steven Soderbergh's latest film, Presence, is a ghost story like no other, anchored by its shocking ending that finally puts all the pieces together.Jan 27, 2025 2:02 PM
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Ask HN: Mobile games that can be beathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42793607I recently downloaded and played an idle game that was taking up an inordinate amount of my time. What was originally a way to just kill some time here and there quickly spiraled into a major distraction to my work and relationships. I've deleted it off of my phone, but now I'm thinking about what makes these games so addicting, and one quality I thought up was that there's never really an "end" to these games. There's always a new objective, always some special event, always some challenge that wasn't there before.When I think about the games I considered truly great (most of them from the N64 era), all of these games had something in common, mainly out of necessity: they had an end. Peach was found, Hyrule was freed, or all of the skaters and parks were unlocked.I realize that this is antithetical to the objective of most mobile games. The objective there is to get you to watch ads and pay to win. It's more of a Skinner box than a piece of art.Are there any good examples of "beatableJan 22, 2025 3:08 PM
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Retired military weather satellite breaks uphttps://spacenews.com/retired-military-weather-satellite-breaks-up/A defunct military weather satellite has broken up in orbit and created more than 50 pieces of debris, the latest in a series of similar incidents. The post Retired military weather satellite breaks up appeared first on SpaceNews.Dec 20, 2024 11:07 PM
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Gateway: Wired for Deep Spacehttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/gateway-wired-for-deep-space/A maze of cables and sensors snakes through a major piece of Gateway, humanity’s first space station around the Moon, during a key testing phase earlier this year to ensure the lunar-orbiting science lab can withstand the harsh conditions of deep space. HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) is one of four Gateway modules where international […]Dec 19, 2024 9:09 PM
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Show HN: KitchenAI Open Source LLMops development kit. Notebook to serverhttps://github.com/epuerta9/kitchenaiOver the last year of building AI enabled SaaS applications I became increasingly frustrated at the developer experience of going from AI RAG cookbooks authored in jupyter notebooks to integrating it into my application. Notebooks are great and all but it's incredibly hard to test which part of it was actually important for my app. This led me down the road of having to understand every piece of code in each notebook, deciphering what was important, somehow build an API server as a POC to then hook it into my app. The feedback loop was excruciatingly long, painful, and most of the time I canned the POC because it wasn't quite what I wanted.this is when it dawned on me that the roles in the AI developer world are fractured into two. Data Scientists and AI devs want easy notebooks to test methods and techniques but do not care to ship something that can be easily be consumed by applications.In the other camp lies application devs, they just want simple API's that they can use to test quiDec 8, 2024 9:44 PM
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Show HN: Aesthetic Computerhttps://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computerAesthetic Computer is a mobile-first runtime and social network for creative computing.AC's client interface is designed to function like a musical instrument, on which users discover their own memorizable paths in the network of commands and published pieces. As users grow their literacy through play and exploration, they are able to improvise, recombine, and expand their performable repertoire.I started writing Aesthetic Computer in 2021 because I desired new tools to author, publish and connect the creative software toys I had been making in my art and education practice for 10+ years. The last of these before AC was https://nopaint.art, discussed on Hacker News in 2020.[0]** Try Me **Visit https://aesthetic.computer and press the top left of the screen or type any key to activate the prompt.In the AC prompt, enter names of built-in toy and utility pieces like `notepat`[1], or `boyfriend` and those published by user handles like `@bash/hub`.Return to the prompt by pressing the name Nov 23, 2024 6:30 PM
