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Marc Päpper
Personal blog · paepper.com/blog · on HN as mpaepperaiprogramming
Marc Päpper writes Read. Hack. Learn. Repeat., a personal blog at paepper.com about ai and programming. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “How and why stable diffusion works for text to image generation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Marc Päpper's posts on AI and software practice: Stable Diffusion, estimation methods for developers, and intelligent agents. One commenter called the agents post a solid introduction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How and why stable diffusion works for text to image generation2 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2022-08-27
- Monte Carlo for better time estimates of your work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-13
What Hacker News says?
Check out this demo here where you can draw and then use your drawing and a prompt to generate new images: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest To understand how stable diffusion works, see: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything”Submitted How to properly manage SSH keys for server access as a story · 373 points
HN discussionShameless plug if you want to understand how stable diffusion actually works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “Stable Diffusion is a big deal”Submitted I hacked my clock to control my focus as a story · 125 points
HN discussionTo understand the more technical aspects of how it works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode”Submitted How and why stable diffusion works for text to image generation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's the one I submitted: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-to-properly-manage-ss...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-to-properly-manage-ssh-keys-for-server-access/
on “How to properly manage SSH keys for server access”Submitted What the Heck Is ~~ In JavaScript? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere a bit more in depth how it works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV”Submitted Visual Paper Summary: Accurate, Large Minibatch SGD: Training ImageNet in 1 Hour as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you want to read an enthusiastic, but less exaggerating piece which explains how the tech works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever”Submitted PyTorch Model in Production as a Serverless REST API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI explained it in a more coding oriented style here: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/eigenvectors_eigenvalues_...
Comment linking /blog/posts/eigenvectors_eigenvalues_machine_learning/
on “What is an eigenvalue?”Submitted Build Your Own JavaScript Browser Game in 5 Minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote some of that as a blog entry: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion”Submitted Look at what your neural network is seeing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDoes descriptions of stable diffusion help you? https://keras.io/guides/keras_cv/generate_images_with_stable... https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “MDM: Human Motion Diffusion Model”Submitted How to run an open-source local voice assistant which sees your screen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368011 https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/yes-you-should-estimate/ > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006853 https://josephmate.github.io/PowersOf2/ Complexity Estimator https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/ > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467999 https://jacobian.org/2021/may/20/estimation/ > https://news.ycombina…
Comment linking /blog/posts/monte-carlo-for-better-time-estimates-of-your-work/
on “Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners”Submitted Interactive visualization of Stable Diffusion image embeddings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor more details on how it works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “Search over 5M+ Stable Diffusion images and prompts”Submitted Show HN: Matrix style morphing into ASCII art rendering of myself as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck here for details about stable diffusion: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “Alpaca – Stable Diffusion Plugin for Photoshop”Submitted FlashAttention – optimizing GPU memory for more scalable transformers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI also wrote a blog post about stable diffusion - how it works technically. In case you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “Show HN: Let the computer be your unique t-shirt designer with Stable Diffusion”Submitted Understanding the difference between weight decay and L2 regularization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn case anyone misses it buried in the readme, your accompanying blog post looks like the solid introduction to the subject that I've been looking for: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided...
Comment linking /blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided-by-llms/
on “LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round”Submitted Build a Q&A bot from your website's content using langchain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want to learn how and why stable diffusion works: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
Comment linking /blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffusion-works-for-text-to-image-generation/
on “The compute cost to train Stable Diffusion was $600k”Submitted How Stable Diffusion works for text to image generation as a story · 1 points
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