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exz··on Ask HN: Cursor alternative, EU-based or privacy-focused?
You can try OpenCode. I don't think it is EU-based but is open source.
exz··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
An AI animation generator for Lottie and SVG animation. Currently in open beta (BYOK). https://gen2d.com
exz··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I'm working on an Lottie and SVG animation generator. Currently in open beta (BYOK). https://gen2d.com
exz··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Understandable, unfortunately I haven't found a better method than BYOK for a free app. If you'd like to try it, you can generate a new key, test it for 10 minutes, and then delete it. Alternatively, you can watch a video of the generation process: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qsuu58/ex...
exz··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Animation generator that lets you create Lottie and SVG animations from text input. Currently in open beta (BYOK). https://gen2d.com
exz··on What's a handy tool for creating/editing Lottie files, free/no watermark?
I use Glaxnimate for SVG and Lottie animation: https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org
exz··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
The current workflow is create an image with stable diffusion, vectorize it, convert it to Lottie format, and than use a function that can create the Lottie animation keyframes.
exz··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
A Lottie animation generator that allows to create a Lottie animation from an image and text input.
exz··on Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread
Ich will hier weg
exz··on Just used ChatGPT Operator to book a flight
My theory on all the hype around agents is that AI companies want to establish themselves as the leading choice, so they can earn affiliate revenue for everything that gets sold over there agent.
exz··on Show HN: I Trained a 2D Game Animation Generation Model(Fully Open-Source)
Pretty amazing, two years ago it was basically impossible to recreate the same character in different poses.
exz··on Ask HN: Traffic drooped to 1/3rd after adding translation in 14 days
My guess is that Google is trying to reduce AI spam and that your translation triggered something there.
exz··on Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to?
for SVG and Lottie animation Glaxnimate: https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org

for simple pixel-based image animation/distortion Anime Effects: https://animeeffectsdevs.github.io

exz··on Morphing Arbitrary Paths in SVG
Yes, there is: https://alexk111.github.io/SVG-Morpheus/
exz··on Ask HN: Socratic LLM?
It's definitely possible. The founder of Khan Academy demonstrated something like this with GPT-4o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXZCocyU_M
exz··on How to get a job in game dev
Listen to someone who has worked in the industry: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lJGa3rtuoKY
exz··on Tap into 17 LLMs with a Single API – Free with Unlimited Tokens
I always thought there was a place in the market for some kind of unified AI reseller because I have about five different AI accounts to test the capabilities, all with tokens that I'll probably never use again.
exz··on Ask HN: Are there AI prompt builder products?
There are a few, here's one: https://github.com/imrayya/stable-diffusion-webui-Prompt_Gen...
exz··on Ask HN: How to get into quantitative trading?
There are many resources for MetaTrader: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/mt4/free and you can test the Expert Advisors (trading bots) on historical data: https://strategyquant.com/doc/quantdatamanager/test-strategy...
exz··on Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says
Google's response to the claims: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-responds-garbage-ai-cont...
exz··on Beyond Surface Statistics: Scene Representations in a Latent Diffusion Model
Researchers discovered that SD v1 uses internal representations of 3D geometry when generating an image. This ability emerged during the training phase of the AI, and was not programmed by people.
exz··on I quitted web development because I failed to learn CSS
Codepen is a great resource if you want to learn CSS. https://codepen.io
exz··on New diffusion model for text-to-video generation
https://www-modelscope-cn.translate.goog/models/damo/cv_diff...
exz··on Ask HN: Some AI image upscaler suggestions
I'm not familiar with Realergan but here are a few:

https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl

https://github.com/thekevinscott/UpscalerJS

https://github.com/jimmygzzmtz/webFSRImageUpscaler

exz··on Ask HN: Search Engine for Podcasts?
https://www.listennotes.com
exz··on Amazon ads are everywhere. It’s only the beginning
Interesting Amazon now makes more ad revenue than YouTube.
exz··on Ask HN: How to get into AI generation(images,text)
If you want to train the model, you can try Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion. https://github.com/XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion
exz··on Ask HN: When is it time to market your app? And, how fast?
> But it feels like there's a balance to ramping up the publicity too slowly or too quickly.

Because you can get three times as many users as you send to the Play Store in the first month, you should do the majority of your promotion during that time.

Here is an interesting video about paid user acquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-L1WtZiM4

exz··on Ask HN: Frameworks for game-style UI with WebGL?
WebGL Game Frameworks: https://phaser.io/ https://pixijs.com/

Game Engines: https://godotengine.org/ https://ctjs.rocks/ https://defold.com/ https://unity.com/

exz··on Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook groups?
You can try Buddypress for WordPress, it should be easy to make a small fb clone. https://buddypress.org/
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