Diffuji
Hardware
instant camera
SHOW HN2026
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5comments
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Top 79%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Creative concept mixing physical media with diffusion models
From 1 comment
Cool idea, but kinda sad that it has to go through a cloud-provider. I feel like there's a possibility with an accelerator-board (Coral TPU or something), to make this into a…
randomgermanguy on HN
Objections
Relies on a cloud provider rather than running locally
From 1 comment
Cool idea, but kinda sad that it has to go through a cloud-provider. I feel like there's a possibility with an accelerator-board (Coral TPU or something), to make this into a…
randomgermanguy on HN
Raspberry Pi cannot yet run diffusion models locally at useful speed
From 2 comments
We were looking into OnnxStream (https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream) and modifying it to support img2img. We got pretty close but yeah capability of running diffusion…
alexkranias on HNWe were looking to add on-device styles with the Raspberry Pi in order to keep the device cost low, though a Coral TPU would make this easier. The OnyxStream library appears to…
whackamadoodle on HN
Requests
Bring your own API key or proxy to a home GPU machine
From 1 comment
Nice. I’ve seen a couple of these - Instagen [1] is probably one of the more recent ones - but I’d love to see Diffuji stand out by potentially adding some kind of BYOK or proxy…
vunderba on HN
On-device inference, e.g. with a Coral TPU
From 1 comment
Cool idea, but kinda sad that it has to go through a cloud-provider. I feel like there's a possibility with an accelerator-board (Coral TPU or something), to make this into a…
randomgermanguy on HN
Alternatives named
Instagen instant camera
From 1 comment
Nice. I’ve seen a couple of these - Instagen [1] is probably one of the more recent ones - but I’d love to see Diffuji stand out by potentially adding some kind of BYOK or proxy…
vunderba on HN