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LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow? (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
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Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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Hey HN!
I’m Zach one of the co-founders of Adam (https://www.adamcad.com). We're building AI-powered tools for CAD and 3D modeling [1].
We’ve recently been exploring a new way to bring GPT-style image editing directly into 3D model generation and are excited to showcase this in our web-app today. We’re calling it creative mode and are intrigued by the fun use cases this could create by making 3D generation more conversational!
For example you can put a prompt in such as “an elephant” then follow it up by “have it ride a skateboard” and it preserves the context, identity and maintains consistency with the previous model. We believe this lends itself better to an iterative design process when prototyping creative 3D assets or models for printing.
We’re offering everyone 10 free generations to start (ramping up soon!). Here’s a short video explaining how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/cf9ab91375374a4f93d6cc89619a043b
We’d also love you to try our parametric mode (free!) which uses LLMs to create a conversational interface for solid modeling as touched on in a recent HN thread [2]. We are leveraging the code generation capabilities of these models to generate OpenSCAD code (an open-source script based CAD) and are surfacing the variables as sliders the user can toggle to adjust their design. We hope this can give a glimpse into what it could be like to “vibe-CAD”. We will soon be releasing our results on Will Patrick's Text to CAD eval [3] and adding B-rep compatible export!
We’d love to hear what you think and where we should take this next :)
[1]https://x.com/zachdive/status/1882858765613228287
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774990
[3]https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-...
Redesigned Swift.org is now live (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
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A practical guide to building agents [pdf] (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Cursor 1.0 (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
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Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26 (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
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After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
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Machine Code Isn't Scary (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
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Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do? (Score: 155+ in 14 hours)
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Longtime user posting from a new account out of an abundance of caution.
I founded an e-commerce marketplace startup. We use PayPal's Multiparty APIs (PayPal Commerce Platform) for checkout. For the 10 days, someone has been bombarding us with purchases that they later dispute. There's consistent pattern to it:
* They use an email address that has no footprint online, always from the same two domains
* They use an unverified PayPal account to pay
* They pay a low amount, not always the same, in a narrow range for a digital item
* All of the charges were disputed within a few hours
They're not doing this through our API. The purchase process requires a browser because of the way our payment form is configured. There's an amount of variation to each purchase that tells us they're automating a browser. Logs indicate that they're changing IP each time. The events come in bursts and seem to be spaced to avoid automated detection.
We added the typical mitigations to our network stack and code. A few are still slipping through. Logs indicate a high amount of bot traffic.
PayPal does not seem equipped to deal with this. Their support is always extremely slow, relies on canned responses, and to date has a very limited understanding of how their own Multiparty APIs work. Their phone support people will not talk with me, they see no indication that my PayPal account is affiliated with these purchases in any way. They want each of our sellers to contact them independently, which we know will result in disparate cases that don't tell the complete story or offer any assistance.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before? We're struggling to find the motive or intended outcome by the attacker(s). We're a small company with a niche audience, we've never had a conflict with anyone that got serious enough that we'd expect them to come after us like this.
Any thoughts and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. We feel like we are on our own here and are unsure of how to handle it.
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"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
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