Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
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Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#2How can you Hack something then open source it? thats intelectual property, if you didn't write it you dont have the right to open source it, am I right? can someone explain if this is legal, what if someone decides to use one of this filters on an app?
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#3So these were ripped from the Instagram code , modified and opened up via GitHub?
Is this releasing proprietary Instagram info, or did I misunderstand this?
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#4So these were ripped from the Instagram code , modified and opened up via GitHub? Is this releasing proprietary Instagram info, or did I misunderstand this?
"Reverse-engineered" is really how this project should be worded.
EDIT: At the time I gave this author the benefit of the doubt. Looks like he pulled the actual shaders from the Instagram binaries, which is not cool.
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#5Diwup, perhaps you want to take down your published hack ASAP. Just because Instagram did not obfuscate their code, doesn't mean that it is legal to take it as if you are granted permission. You may get into a lot of trouble for this.
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#6So these were ripped from the Instagram code , modified and opened up via GitHub? Is this releasing proprietary Instagram info, or did I misunderstand this?
"Reverse-engineered" is really how this project should be worded. EDIT: At the time I gave this author the benefit of the doubt. Looks like he pulled the actual shaders from the Instagram binaries, which is not cool.
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Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#7A couple of things:
- This is totally wack from a moral/ethical standpoint
- Why not filter the video after the fact?
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#8I don't get it -- what's the point? I'm all for reversing for curiosity reasons, but releasing their source isn't cool, IMO. And what's worse is that this stuff really isn't that interesting; these sorts of filters are trivial to come up with on your own. For instance, I whipped up a set of WebGL filters for Boot2Gecko's camera app in a matter of an hour. (If you're curious, you can see a demo at http://demoseen.com/filters/ -- Firefox only, due to laziness.)
Now, a project that compiled a nice list of good filters, that'd be really cool. But this just isn't OK.
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#9So these were ripped from the Instagram code , modified and opened up via GitHub? Is this releasing proprietary Instagram info, or did I misunderstand this?
"Reverse-engineered" is really how this project should be worded. EDIT: At the time I gave this author the benefit of the doubt. Looks like he pulled the actual shaders from the Instagram binaries, which is not cool.
More like intellectual property theft. Or at least just wrong.
Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video
#10Yes, they had the plain text shader files embedded in their app, easily extractable. It's been like that since they first released 2.0. Path has (or had) them embedded, too.
It's still their IP though, and publishing them as "open source" is unethical and probably illegal. Just because something is feasible doesn't mean you should do it.
The GPUImage-based execution environment is fine, but you should remove these shaders ASAP.