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Roboflow
Company blog · blog.roboflow.comaiprogramming
Roboflow is the company blog at blog.roboflow.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2020, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 217 times, most often “OpenAI's CLIP is this year’s most important new computer vision model [Opinion]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 38 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Roboflow's computer vision blog, covering object detection and segmentation models, OCR with Florence-2, multimodal LLM vision, and a NeuralHash collision analysis. Commenters mostly link it as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 38 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Computer vision, explained.
Most-linked posts?
- OpenAI's CLIP is this year’s most important new computer vision model [Opinion]3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-09-13
- GPT-4 Vision Prompt Injection3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-16
- GPT-6 Astra is the best vision model we have tested3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-21
- ChatGPT Code Interpreter for Computer Vision3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-13
- Show HN: Protecting My Garden from Rabbits with Computer Vision2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-21
- /sam3/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-19
- Scaled-YOLOv4 Sets New Standard in Object Detection – Topping EfficientDet2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-03
- WTF Coco – The Weird Images That Underpin Modern Computer Vision Models2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-01
- Show HN: Label Data with Segment Anything in Roboflow2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-13
- /remote-not-distant/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-24
What Hacker News says?
"Apple said that there is a one in one trillion chance of a false positive" https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/apple-icloud-photos-scanni... Versus: https://blog.roboflow.com/nerualhash-collision/ Along with: https://github.com/anishathalye/neural-hash-collider Demonstrates blatant incompetence on the part of Apple's design. At this point, trust is broken. That's the end of credibility regarding any other claim made…
Comment linking /nerualhash-collision/
on “Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model”Submitted ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions as a story · 860 points
HN discussionI was curious how big of a deal this would be in a real-world attack (eg could someone use this to DDoS Apple's human reviewers?) so I ran the colliding images through another feature extraction model, OpenAI's CLIP, to see if they also fooled it. They don't; I think it'd be much harder to create an image that both matches the NeuralHash of a CSAM image and also fools a generic model like CLIP as a sanity check for…
Comment linking /apples-csam-neuralhash-collision/
on “Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model”Submitted Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest as a story · 234 points
HN discussionAs someone that works on a platform users have used for labeling 1B images, I'm bullish SAM 3 can automate at least 90% of the work. Data prep is flipped to models being human-assisted instead of humans being model-assisted (see "autolabel" https://blog.roboflow.com/sam3/ ). I'm optimistic majority of users can now start deploying a model to then curate data instead of the inverse.
Comment linking /sam3/
on “Meta Segment Anything Model 3”Submitted PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google as a story · 121 points
HN discussionWe (Roboflow) have had early access to this model for the past few weeks. It's really, really good. This feels like a seminal moment for computer vision. I think there's a real possibility this launch goes down in history as "the GPT Moment" for vision. The two areas I think this model is going to be transformative in the immediate term are for rapid prototyping and distillation. Two years ago we released autodistil…
Comment linking /sam3/
on “Meta Segment Anything Model 3”Submitted Zero Shot Object Tracking as a story · 83 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Field Engineer + ML Engineer | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0724 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deployment. Over 250k engineers (including engi…
Comment linking /?ref=whoishiring0724
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt as a story · 51 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Solutions Architects, IT & Security Ops, Implementation Engineer, Open Source Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring1224 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform [1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, datase…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted YOLOv7 – A breakdown of how it works as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI have seen excellent performance with Florence-2 for OCR. I wrote https://blog.roboflow.com/florence-2-ocr/ that shows a few examples. Florence-2 is < 2GB so it fits into RAM well, and it is MIT licensed! On a T4 in Colab, you can run inference in < 1s per image.
Comment linking /florence-2-ocr/
on “Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs”Submitted GPT-6 Astra is the best vision model we have tested as a story · 36 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Infrastructure Engineer + ML Engineers + Full-Stack Engineers | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0924 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deployment. Ov…
Comment linking /?ref=whoishiring0924
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Video segmentation with Segment Anything 2 (SAM2) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Open Source Software Engineer, Web Designer / Developer, and more. | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0224 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deploymen…
Comment linking /?ref=whoishiring0224
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)”Submitted YOLOv5 v6.0 is here – new Nano model at 1666 FPS as a story · 14 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Open Source Software Engineer, Web Designer / Developer, and more. | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0124 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deploymen…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released as a story · 12 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Solutions Architects, IT & Security Ops, Implementation Engineer, Recruiter, Full Stack Engineer | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0325 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform [1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and cu…
Comment linking /series-b/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted Show HN: Protecting My Garden from Rabbits with Computer Vision as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Full-Stack Engineer + Field Engineer | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0624 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deployment. Over 250k engineers (includ…
Comment linking /?ref=whoishiring0624
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”Submitted WTF Coco – The Weird Images That Underpin Modern Computer Vision Models as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Field Engineers, Full-Stack Engineers, Account Executives, SDRs, Wildcard | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring1224 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform [1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and d…
Comment linking /series-b/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted How to try CLIP: OpenAI's new universal zero-shot image classifier as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Infrastructure Engineer + ML Engineer + Full-Stack Engineer | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring0824 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deployment. Over…
Comment linking /?ref=whoishiring0824
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted GPT-4 Vision Prompt Injection as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRoboflow | Field Engineers, Full-Stack Engineers, Wildcard | Full-time (Remote, SF, NYC) | https://roboflow.com/careers?ref=whoishiring1124 Roboflow is the fastest way to use computer vision in production. We help developers give their software the sense of sight. Our end-to-end platform[1] provides tooling for image collection, annotation, dataset exploration and curation, training, and deployment. Over 250k engine…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision) as a story · 7 points
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