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Show HN: Kiln – a fast, native batch image processor

Hacker News - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 5:45am

I was tired of outdated UIs and performance of similar tools. Nor did I want to write ImageMagick scripts every time I needed to resize/convert/watermark a folder with a few thousand images.

It's a native desktop app built with C++23, Skia for rendering, libvips for image processing and my own cross-platform UI toolkit - no Electron/Qt.

It allows building reusable pipelines: resize, convert, compress, watermark, sharpen, blur, rotate, flip, rename, and metadata (EXIF/IPTC/XMP) editing, chained in any order and saved for reuse. Batches run in parallel.

Everything is local — no uploads, no signups/account, no telemetry, no network calls during processing.

It's currently in public beta (as mentioned, no signups or accounts needed - can just download), for Windows and Linux (Wayland only). Waiting for the Apple certificate to sign the macOS dmg installer, at which point I'll post the download link for macOS.

Business model: free beta now, one I've received enough feedback and the tool is mature enough - a one-time license per major version once it's out of beta. There won't be any subscriptions or telemetry ever.

Would love to get your feedback, especially on missing formats/operations (e.g. RAW file formats, watch folders, a CLI) to drive the roadmap to the first official version.

Cheers.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081548

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The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware

Computer Weekly Feed - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 5:11am
The UK’s Supreme Court rules that Bahrain cannot claim sovereign immunity for infecting the computers of two UK-based dissidents with German-made FinFisher spyware
Categories: Computer Weekly

The sheer complexity of migrating off VMware is one of the reasons some organisations continue their VCF subscriptions

Computer Weekly Feed - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 5:11am
The sheer complexity of migrating off VMware is one of the reasons some organisations continue their VCF subscriptions
Categories: Computer Weekly

Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System

Security Week - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 4:42am

The new two-word naming convention uses a memorable term utilized in public reporting and a cluster-categorization word.

The post Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Categories: SecurityWeek

Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support

Hacker News - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 4:00am

Dear all,

our team is using a Claude AI Team plan for more than 1 year already:

- we are a normal company, doing normal business, nothing critical

- all our bills are paid and we can see them as paid

- nontheless, the service is not available for more than one week to us

Question:

- any other idea to reach out to them than their "Fin AI Chatbot" at support@anthropic.com?

- did anybody else had the same experience? If yes, what helped to solve it?

Its really frustrating :-(

(especially since some people built their interal workflow around Claude, now they are somehow stuck)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080775

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Show HN: Where everything shaping how you think lives

Hacker News - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 3:55am

Article URL: https://omphalis.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080752

Points: 2

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Ask HN: What do you use local models for?

Hacker News - Tue, 07/28/2026 - 3:45am

What are the use-cases for using small 8B-26B models? How are these helpful versus more specific ML algorithms or just simple if/else. I am thinking about smart home environment, or how to apply it to my SWE work.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080672

Points: 1

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