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sethbannon 224 points 65 comments April 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

Legend2440

Interesting idea and cool demo. For this to really be practical you'd need a way to run networks many times faster and more efficiently than today's GPUs. This is too slow to work even with cloud GPUs powering it. Maybe someday.

martianlantern

Cool project, but just a side thought I was having about how do people have resources and the money to make things like this and make it avl for public, I mean it's fair to say they have their own GPUs or if they are using api keys for gpt or Gemini with enterprise subsidized inference But still coming from a frugal background I still cannot wrap my head around this

brohan90

This is one of the more unique ideas i've encountered in a long time

ZeidJ

This would make an amazing educational tool

mfrye0

Interesting idea, but just about everything is failing for me. Probably the HN hug of death happening. Gemini generateContent request failed: { "error": { "code": 429, "message": "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits. To monitor your current usage, head to: https://ai.dev/rate-limit. ", "status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED", "details": [ { "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help", "links": [ { "description": "Learn more about Gemini API quotas", "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits" } ] } ] } }

wxw

So cool! Love the exploration into new interfaces.

4ndrewl

It looks pretty nice - reminds me of Dorling Kindersley books. But the graphics, whilst stylised, are pretty hit-and-miss. Great idea, just a bit too soon.

sd9

This seems like an expensive product to subject to the HN hug of death. The sample videos on the tweet are very very cool. Unfortunately it didn’t really work for me, I’ll try it out in a few days when the traffic’s died down.

moralestapia

This is real nice, wow. Congratulations. This very well could be a sneak-peek into how educational resources might look like in the future.

namanvyas

Couldn't get it to load (probably getting hammered right now) but the concept is interesting. Feels like one of those things where the tech needs to get 10x cheaper before it actually makes sense as a product.

deviantony

Very cool project ! I fear this might have a pretty high hallucination potential (with current models) the deeper you dig into the base image/context and clicking on potentially unrelated elements in the image. Nevertheless, love the idea.

CrzyLngPwd

The worst part of this sort of slop is the attention it squanders by being glacially slow. In the age of such enormous computing power, this sort of thing is pure waste. MS Encarta CDs were faster and more in-depth.

giobox

I just asked it to create a torque spec diagram of the suspension for my car, a subject I'm pretty familiar with. It amazingly drew everything correctly, displayed the correct torque figures and allowed me to click on individual components to zoom in further, providing more specs. Genuinely one of the most impressive demos I've tried in a long time. I was able to use it almost like a living version of a classic illustrated Haynes workshop manual.

tristor

This is very cool, if a bit glitchy right now (probably thanks to HN popularity). I used to this to generate infographics of the rear subframe, diff carrier, and rear suspension of my car and to get detailed specifications on the bushings, suspension members, and other components. Most of the information matches what I already know, and could be really useful if trained specifically on manufacturer/dealer shop manuals to create interactive models of vehicles you can drill to and get part numbers and specifications for any component on a car.

gardenhedge

Game changer when the technology catches up

otterpro

It's pretty cool. I created a beautiful isometric illustration of home garden, which is worthy of being featured in a real book or magazine. I really like the isometric view to explain things, and the color palette is consistent and pleasant.

DonHopkins

This wins the internet. I went from Cat Photos into History of Victorian Cat Photos With Props like Miniature Tea Sets And Velvet Chairs And Humorous Captions On Calling Cards In Visually Ironic Aristocratic Cooperplate Font The Victorian Meme Script With High Stakes Expectations Anchored In A World With Human Dignity As It Relates To Modern Memes in just a few clicks. Oddly specific, but that was exactly what I needed to see today.

victorbjorklund

This is just epic. Really amazing.

sentientslug

This is not really working for me at all, the second images always look near identical to the first with some minor changes. Maybe my prompts are the issue? Anyone have some good prompts?

ianand

It's like "GPT is all you need for the backend" [1] on steroids [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503418

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