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Justin Pinkney
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Justin Pinkney's personal blog at justinpinkney.com covers ai and design. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Show HN: Toonify yourself”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post to explain how StyleGAN face models can be searched for any face, the method behind the Toonify example. One commenter quotes it as a source for the search process.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Justin Pinkney's home on the web
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Toonify yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-17
What Hacker News says?
This is explained in more detail here: https://www.justinpinkney.com/toonify-yourself/ Specifically, there's this snippet: "These StyleGAN face models can produce a huge diversity of faces and it’s actually possible to find basically any face inside the model. It’s actually a straight forward process to search for any image of a face in the model. So given an example image you want to find you can find a “code” (aka…
Comment linking /toonify-yourself/
on “Toonify Yourself”Submitted Trailer Faces HQ Dataset as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted Face Mixer Diffusion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiments with Swapping Autoencoder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Toonify Yourself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Other Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Toonify yourself as a story · 1 points
HN discussion