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A Division by Zer0
Personal blog · dbzer0.com/blogaiprogramming
A Division by Zer0 is a personal blog at dbzer0.com about ai and programming. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on the AI Horde, a volunteer-run distributed Stable Diffusion cluster, and its image-training data work. Essays on libertarian philosophy, such as the non-aggression principle and property, also come up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I predict something similar to the Modern Warfare 2 boycott: http://dbzer0.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Boycott-Modern-...
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on “Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version”Submitted Stable Horde – Crowdsourced distributed Stable Diffusion cluster as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAs for your first paragraph, of course. I was just pointing out how things are with states, but you're right that for property it extends to individuals. As for your second, communism begs to differ, but it hasn't done so admirably in the world... http://dbzer0.com/blog/private-property-vs-possession It would be nice if a society could exist that wasn't reliant on violence and also not suck, but I'm not sure if it's…
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on “Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms”Submitted Stable Horde receives stability.ai processing power as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy the Non-Aggression Principle is useless as a moral guideline http://dbzer0.com/blog/why-the-non-aggression-principle-is-u...
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on “Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS tax break”Submitted AI Horde’s AGPL3 hordelib receives DMCA take-down from hlky as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey! Creator of ArtBot here. Thanks for plugging the site! For those not aware, here's an interesting fact about ArtBot (and the AI Horde in general) -- we've been running an A/B test with Stability.ai for the last 3 weeks or so related to SDXL [1]. Any time a user generates an image using SDXL_beta on the AI Horde, they get two images back. They pick which image they think is best for the given prompt. This data is…
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on “Stability AI releases its latest image-generating model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0”> Just thinking about how to productize this flow, it should be quite easy to implement the "thumbs up/down" feedback option on every image generated in the UI, plus an optional text label to override "wrong". Then when you have enough HF (or nightly) you could have a batch job to re-train a new LoRA with your updated preferences. The AI Horde [1] (an open source distributed cluster of GPUs contributed by volunteers…
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on “I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images”A Crowdsourced distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion workers. With amazing parallelism opportunities. fully documented REST API: https://stablehorde.net/api Client made with Godot. Also an installation-free client: (run in web or download) https://dbzer0.itch.io/stable-horde-client Free to use - but 'joining the horde' with your gpu will get you 'kudos', increasing your priority when generating. Credits Db0 ( http…
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on “StableHorde – Crowdsourced distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion workers”The problem with laion was never the picture quality it's the tag quality and a lot of unusable data points. They traded some compute for a horde of users to tag them for them though. https://dbzer0.com/blog/a-collaboration-begins-between-stabl...
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on “Stable Diffusion XL technical report [pdf]”This seems neat, so I thought I would share it. It applies the web of trust model to the fediverse. It has the benefits of a shared blocklist without all the horrible chaos-inducing downsides since it's built on mutual trust or distrust rather than centralized curation. I don't know how well it'll work, but if you've been tuned into the fediverse meta over the last month or so, you know the existing system of big, s…
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