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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by wavemode » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:05 AM UTC

Timwi wrote: post #172

wateralien wrote: post #110

Top of HN and people are loving it, but there's got to be a better way of getting some $$ rewards for fun viral ideas like this than "Buy me a coffee". I'm betting he's got tens of thousands of sessions currently and nobody is tipping. https://ko-fi.com/magnushambleton Is there a better way? Asking for myself, also.

> Is there a better way? Yes, UBI. Then you can create what you want and your livelihood doesn't depend on it going viral.

Most people want a lot more out of life than basic necessities.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by jayd16 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:07 AM UTC

Retr0id wrote: post #43

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, it doesn't actually tell you that information: it just turns a dial. What you want is to know how much that dial would be turned by bad weather.

As long as it's not changing the form of the buildings, it seems valid. Although, the first two examples both add random telecom cabinets in places that don't make much sense.

Its not valid because it adds things like cracks, dead plants, patchwork repairs, rust, random utility boxes, loose cables, etc. Its won't tell whether a place will be maintained well. It gives you more of a worst case.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by lostlogin » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:08 AM UTC

palmotea wrote: post #56

b450 wrote: post #5

I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if

What’s going on with that (robot?) dog leash?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by amelius » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:10 AM UTC

This is what my brain does automatically when I see advertisements.

Anyway, if we used this anti-filter on social media then perhaps teens would not be so depressed.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by miladyincontrol » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:21 AM UTC

n2d4 wrote: post #159

GenerocUsername wrote: post #151

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It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes. The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

That doesn't pass the sniff test, many other pages on knowyourmeme correctly attribute memes to 4chan. If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018? Maybe you're getting tricked by the fact that 2018 was 8 years ago?

I think you are taking their point literally, its not that knowyourmeme is not crediting 4chan, its that the racism/edge is polished off presenting a more mainstream version of many memes.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by vvpan » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

b450 wrote: post #5

I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

You are a genius.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by cyode » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

pibaker wrote: post #126

wateralien wrote: post #110

Top of HN and people are loving it, but there's got to be a better way of getting some $$ rewards for fun viral ideas like this than "Buy me a coffee". I'm betting he's got tens of thousands of sessions currently and nobody is tipping. https://ko-fi.com/magnushambleton Is there a better way? Asking for myself, also.

This will be an unpopular answer but one way that could have worked is just good ol' advertising, because it directly converts "virality" into income. Any solution that requires the user to bust out a credit card and put down his billing address has way too much friction for the median user to get through.

I see 16 coffees received. Assuming no private donations for simplicity, that’s $48. As an ads noob, how many sessions would a banner ad need to beat that?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by Aeolun » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:33 AM UTC

reallydoubtful wrote: post #157

lloydatkinson wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked

The link is blocked by imgur themselves, not the British government (authoritarian or otherwise), because the ICO was going to fine them for historic poor handling of children's data. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

What does that even entail? Why does a site like Imgur even need to know which users are children?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by jokethrowaway » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:39 AM UTC

cyode wrote: post #188

pibaker wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This will be an unpopular answer but one way that could have worked is just good ol' advertising, because it directly converts "virality" into income. Any solution that requires the user to bust out a credit card and put down his billing address has way too much friction for the median user to get through.

I see 16 coffees received. Assuming no private donations for simplicity, that’s $48. As an ads noob, how many sessions would a banner ad need to beat that?

My CPM is not great (not Google) and that's 25-30k impressions