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If you're on a Mac, I've heard that Draw Things is supposed to be pretty \"batteries included\" simple for image gen along the same lines as LM Studio. https://github.com/Haoming02/sd-webui-forge-classic/tree/neo https://github.com/Comfy", "context": "", "use_case": "local image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Remove AI Watermarks"}, {"id": 778597105, "item_id": 48662319, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662319", "by": "dvrp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We also had 0-day support from people like Ostris and ComfyUI", "excerpt": "Thanks! You should definitely check out the r/stablediffusion sub-reddit; people are going crazy over it! We also had 0-day support from people like Ostris and ComfyUI from the open source community", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Krea 2 Technical Report"}]}, {"label": "Photo restoration", "summary": "A long-time photographer uses it with FIBO2 and Qwen Image to restore old photos.", "quotes": [{"id": 803769664, "item_id": 50235604, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235604", "by": "razster", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "once I started using ComfyUI with FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1 to restore my photographs, I was hook!", "excerpt": "Oh yeah, I'm not going to lie, once I started using ComfyUI with FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1 to restore my photographs, I was hook! I have 25+ years of digital and film photos that I've been restoring due to my older camera/lens quality. The addiction of restoring these older photos and then processing them once again in either Lightroom or Photoshop. 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You can find a bunch of video tutorials on YT for both models.", "context": "", "use_case": "image editing and restoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI"}]}, {"label": "Reliable setup", "summary": "One user switched after a1111 broke on an update and found ComfyUI worked great.", "quotes": [{"id": 776006096, "item_id": 48500381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500381", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switched to ComfyUI which has worked great.", "excerpt": "I have an Intel A770, because at $200 USD it was the second cheapest way to get 16 of dedicated VRAM. (The cheapest is a $100 Radeon Instinct Mi25, but it's a bit old and slow.) I battled with Python packages a lot to get a1111 working, gave up when it broke on an update and switched to ComfyUI which has worked great. 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It\u2019s designed for someone with a 34\u201d gamer monitor and a mouse with like six buttons, and I haven\u2019t seen a good working node based interface that would be comfortable on a Mac or iPad, so I feel frustrated just looking at the images and thinking about zooming in / out and", "context": "Mac / iPad user", "use_case": "node-based image workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "ArcBrush \u2013 Node-based 2D image editor"}]}, {"label": "Multi-step pipelines", "summary": "Chaining multi-step workflows without manual intervention is painful.", "quotes": [{"id": 747177089, "item_id": 46698568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698568", "by": "jaskirat05", "date": "2026-01-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ComfyUI for image/video generation", "excerpt": "Hey HN, I built this to scratch my own itch. I have an RTX 3070 so just 8gb of VRAM I use ComfyUI for image/video generation, but running multi-step pipelines was painful: - No way to chain small step workflows (image \u2192 edit \u2192 video) without manual intervention - If step 3 of 5 failed, start over - No approval gates to review outputs mid-pipeline - Single GPU bottleneck ComfyAutomate fixes this with: **Chain definiti", "context": "", "use_case": "image/video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: OpenHiggs \u2013 Chain ComfyUI workflows with approvals and load balancing"}]}, {"label": "Manual workflow tweaks", "summary": "Some models require modifying default workflows with extra custom nodes.", "quotes": [{"id": 788046897, "item_id": 49252931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252931", "by": "Meleagris", "date": "2026-08-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using MiniMax H3 on my M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro through ComfyUI. It works extremely well.", "excerpt": "I've been using MiniMax H3 on my M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro through ComfyUI. It works extremely well. I had to modify the default ComfyUI workflows to use a GGUF quant (city96's ComfyUI-GGUF custom node, UnetLoaderGGUF in place of the stock loader) [0]. I use the model labeled Q5_K_M. There is Q8_0 available as well, which is 34GB and fits fine in 64GB unified memory if you keep resolution modest. The main issue is spee", "context": "", "use_case": "run video generation workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers"}]}], "who": [{"by": "razster", "context": "hobby photographer, 25+ years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235604", "date": "2026-10-25"}, {"by": "jabrotapu", "context": "freelancer building on-prem GPU clusters", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661006", "date": "2026-09-11"}, {"by": "SilentM68", "context": "runs it on a four-year-old laptop with an RTX 2060", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091146", "date": "2026-05-10"}, {"by": "echelon", "context": "hobbyist filmmaker", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541704", "date": "2026-01-08"}], "tags": ["for local image generation", "for video generation", "for photo restoration", "for consumer GPUs", "for Krita users"], "use_cases": ["local image generation", "image generation workflows", "image editing and restoring", "restoring photographs", "image and video generation", "workflow autocomplete project"], "compared": [{"slug": "draw-things", "name": "Draw Things", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "adobe-photoshop", "name": "Adobe Photoshop", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "qwen-image-2-1", "name": "Qwen Image 2.1", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ollama", "name": "Ollama", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "krita", "name": "Krita", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "qwen-3-6", "name": "Qwen 3.6", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 753379859, "item_id": 47086241, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086241", "by": "laramie_co", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ComfyUI for image gen.", "excerpt": "Hey HN \u2014 maker here. Quick context on why I built this: I was personally spending ~$1,200/month on Claude API (I use it for everything \u2014 coding, writing, analysis). That\u2019s $14,400/year. Even if I dropped to a single $20/month sub, every query I send tells Anthropic what I\u2019m working on, what I\u2019m thinking about, what problems I have. I wanted Claude-quality inference without the cloud dependency. That\u2019s not possible ye", "context": "", "use_case": "local image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: VaultAI \u2013 42 AI models on a portable SSD, works offline ($399)"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229827", "title": "Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821", "title": "Local AI needs to be the norm", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707", "title": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522905", "title": "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261444", "title": "item 49261444", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252179", "title": "Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 3, "recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 803782176, "item_id": 50236386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236386", "by": "razster", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the Portable version of ComfyUI, most are done with Qwen Image 2.1 and some hard restores using FIBO2.", "excerpt": "Here are some of my prompts. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1xb59yw/fibo_2_edit_is_what_klein_3_shouldve_been/19rgnauzvf85g/ I use the Portable version of ComfyUI, most are done with Qwen Image 2.1 and some hard restores using FIBO2. You can find a bunch of video tutorials on YT for both models.", "context": "", "use_case": "image editing and restoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI"}, {"id": 803769664, "item_id": 50235604, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235604", "by": "razster", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "once I started using ComfyUI with FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1 to restore my photographs, I was hook!", "excerpt": "Oh yeah, I'm not going to lie, once I started using ComfyUI with FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1 to restore my photographs, I was hook! I have 25+ years of digital and film photos that I've been restoring due to my older camera/lens quality. The addiction of restoring these older photos and then processing them once again in either Lightroom or Photoshop. I caught myself spending countless hours revisiting the past and rest", "context": "hobby photographer, 25+ years", "use_case": "restoring photographs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI"}, {"id": 794576105, "item_id": 49661006, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661006", "by": "jabrotapu", "date": "2026-09-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "ComfyUI, Flux, Wan 2.1, Stable Diffusion", "excerpt": "SEEKING WORK | India, remote | Part-time | Overlap with US, UK, EU hours I build on-prem GPU clusters and private AI apps that run entirely on the client's own hardware, so their data never leaves the building. About 10 years full-stack, the last few on GPU infrastructure. Currently running a live production cluster: 700-800 users sharing a small physical GPU pool. GPU-backed JupyterHub, single sign-on, per-user quot", "context": "freelancer building on-prem GPU clusters", "use_case": "image and video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 788183123, "item_id": 49261445, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261445", "by": "yummyelephant8", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "autocomplete ComfyUI workflows", "excerpt": "Like you, I use coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor every day. But the other day, I was curious about how Cursor trained their original tab-completion model. So I started wondering: could you post-train an open-source LLM to autocomplete ComfyUI workflows given your current workflow, similar to how Composer autocompletes code? More specifically: Could I post-train an LLM to predict up to four nodes in t", "context": "", "use_case": "workflow autocomplete project", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 788046897, "item_id": 49252931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252931", "by": "Meleagris", "date": "2026-08-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using MiniMax H3 on my M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro through ComfyUI. It works extremely well.", "excerpt": "I've been using MiniMax H3 on my M5 Pro 64GB MacBook Pro through ComfyUI. It works extremely well. I had to modify the default ComfyUI workflows to use a GGUF quant (city96's ComfyUI-GGUF custom node, UnetLoaderGGUF in place of the stock loader) [0]. I use the model labeled Q5_K_M. There is Q8_0 available as well, which is 34GB and fits fine in 64GB unified memory if you keep resolution modest. The main issue is spee", "context": "", "use_case": "run video generation workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers"}, {"id": 787468689, "item_id": 49216793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216793", "by": "dexterlagan", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "creating ComfyUI workflows with CC and Opus", "excerpt": "Hmmmm. OK. So yesterday I was accepting all these prompts in the manual mode for a solid hour, then I switched to Auto. Side project, nothing critical (creating ComfyUI workflows with CC and Opus). Walked away from the puter, got notified it was done. It did a good job, and by sheer luck it didn't delete a database or format my drive. But I felt a bit uneasy. Can we trust them now? I don't think I'd switch to Auto fo", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode"}, {"id": 786962161, "item_id": 49185135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185135", "by": "saltysalt", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love running Flux2 locally via ComfyUI.", "excerpt": "Will be interesting to see if they release the weights for local deployments. I love running Flux2 locally via ComfyUI.", "context": "", "use_case": "local image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen 3.0 Image Pro"}, {"id": 786498448, "item_id": 49156153, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156153", "by": "mwigdahl", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "what's your Comfy workflow for this?", "excerpt": "If you wouldn't mind sharing, what's your Comfy workflow for this? I have the same video card setup and would like to give it a shot.", "context": "", "use_case": "video generation workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video"}, {"id": 782392000, "item_id": 48899500, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899500", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "guide an image-to-image workflow in comfyui. But it was pretty tedious and prone to errors.", "excerpt": "Thanks for the info! I'll give this a shot. Most of my knowledge is from over a year ago, when I would set up OpenPose-style positioning with a controlnet at a high strength to guide an image-to-image workflow in comfyui. But it was pretty tedious and prone to errors.", "context": "", "use_case": "image-to-image workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Super Dario"}, {"id": 782278948, "item_id": 48892434, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892434", "by": "diseasedyak", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "using ComfyUI w/Flux", "excerpt": "I've been working on a home Hermes setup that I'm using to do a variety of things. So far, here's what I've done: - Set up an in-house alternative to my Ring subscription for the cameras around my house. So far I have it real-time monitoring, complete with AI face recognition and interpretation of events, all on an internal web page. It also sends me alerts via Telegram. - Set up a blog that I'm using to catalog thes", "context": "", "use_case": "local image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 778597105, "item_id": 48662319, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662319", "by": "dvrp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We also had 0-day support from people like Ostris and ComfyUI", "excerpt": "Thanks! You should definitely check out the r/stablediffusion sub-reddit; people are going crazy over it! We also had 0-day support from people like Ostris and ComfyUI from the open source community", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Krea 2 Technical Report"}, {"id": 776006096, "item_id": 48500381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500381", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switched to ComfyUI which has worked great.", "excerpt": "I have an Intel A770, because at $200 USD it was the second cheapest way to get 16 of dedicated VRAM. (The cheapest is a $100 Radeon Instinct Mi25, but it's a bit old and slow.) I battled with Python packages a lot to get a1111 working, gave up when it broke on an update and switched to ComfyUI which has worked great. I can't get Llama.cpp to use the GPU, but I'm currently installing some of Intel's proprietary OpenV", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation", "switched_from": "a1111", "story": "Ask HN: What computer are you using for AI coding tools?"}, {"id": 771943584, "item_id": 48246474, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246474", "by": "vessenes", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "ComfyUI is just so, so difficult to use on a normal size screen with a trackpad.", "excerpt": "I can\u2019t tell if I love or hate the idea of this. On the hate side, ComfyUI is just so, so difficult to use on a normal size screen with a trackpad. It\u2019s designed for someone with a 34\u201d gamer monitor and a mouse with like six buttons, and I haven\u2019t seen a good working node based interface that would be comfortable on a Mac or iPad, so I feel frustrated just looking at the images and thinking about zooming in / out and", "context": "Mac / iPad user", "use_case": "node-based image workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "ArcBrush \u2013 Node-based 2D image editor"}, {"id": 771231456, "item_id": 48201966, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201966", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ComfyUI gets all the new \"hotness\" almost immediately since there's so much custom nodes for it.", "excerpt": "So I use a combination of Neo Forge and ComfyUI. Forge has an easier learning curve but ComfyUI gets all the new \"hotness\" almost immediately since there's so much custom nodes for it. If you're on a Mac, I've heard that Draw Things is supposed to be pretty \"batteries included\" simple for image gen along the same lines as LM Studio. https://github.com/Haoming02/sd-webui-forge-classic/tree/neo https://github.com/Comfy", "context": "", "use_case": "local image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Remove AI Watermarks"}, {"id": 769478338, "item_id": 48092396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092396", "by": "almogodel", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Matteo\u2019s graphllm for inspiration, and comfy ui (and st)", "excerpt": "Remember nodes and graphs? A comfy user interface allows pretty incredible wiring among models local ai is like eurorack. The current graph skews heavily towards a a pair of small dense models collaborating with the large heavyweights selectively. It\u2019s Qwen 3.6 27B with Gemma 4 31B, both unquantized, bf16/fp16, with phi 14b, nemotron cascade 2, and then those large heavyweights, r1 and subsequent deepseek models incl", "context": "", "use_case": "node-graph inspiration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Local AI needs to be the norm"}, {"id": 769458336, "item_id": 48091146, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091146", "by": "SilentM68", "date": "2026-05-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've only gotten it to work with ComfyUI.", "excerpt": "Not sure if this is exactly the scenario you envision but I run ComfyUI on an Acer Helio 300 laptop, from four years ago. Has 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 w/6144MiB of VRAM and have generated a few images using \"NetaYumev35_pretrained_all_in_one.safetensors\" @ 10.6GB checkpoint, (well beyond the 6GB capacity of the RTX 2060 card). That being said, it takes more than 10 minutes to complete the task. Of course, I ", "context": "runs it on a four-year-old laptop with an RTX 2060", "use_case": "local image generation on a laptop", "switched_from": "", "story": "Local AI needs to be the norm"}, {"id": 747177089, "item_id": 46698568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698568", "by": "jaskirat05", "date": "2026-01-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use ComfyUI for image/video generation", "excerpt": "Hey HN, I built this to scratch my own itch. I have an RTX 3070 so just 8gb of VRAM I use ComfyUI for image/video generation, but running multi-step pipelines was painful: - No way to chain small step workflows (image \u2192 edit \u2192 video) without manual intervention - If step 3 of 5 failed, start over - No approval gates to review outputs mid-pipeline - Single GPU bottleneck ComfyAutomate fixes this with: **Chain definiti", "context": "", "use_case": "image/video generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: OpenHiggs \u2013 Chain ComfyUI workflows with approvals and load balancing"}, {"id": 745272963, "item_id": 46579560, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579560", "by": "sovietmudkipz", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "(3) Run comfy UI using StabilityMatrix", "excerpt": "Plugin for Krita I use: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion App I recommend to download models and manage UIs: https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix (1) Download Krita (2) Download and install the Krita AI diffusion plugin (3) Run comfy UI using StabilityMatrix Docs for using the Krita AI plugin: https://docs.interstice.cloud/basics/ It's a really fun plugin to use!", "context": "", "use_case": "image generation backend", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 745234416, "item_id": 46577151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577151", "by": "sovietmudkipz", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation", "excerpt": "I\u2019m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don\u2019t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I\u2019m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices\u2026 For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform", "context": "", "use_case": "stable diffusion image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 744667265, "item_id": 46541704, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541704", "by": "echelon", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "ComfyUI is too far removed for me - I appreciate people who can do node magic, but it's not my thing.", "excerpt": "This is a trip down memory lane! I remember when DeepDream first came out, and WaveNet not long after. I was immediately convinced this stuff was going to play a huge role in media production. I'm a big hobbyist filmmaker. I told all of my friends who actually work in film (IATSE, SAG, etc.) and they were so skeptical. I tried to get them to make an experimental film using DeepDream. This was about the same time Inte", "context": "hobbyist filmmaker", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency"}, {"id": 742613136, "item_id": 46413321, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413321", "by": "seanmcdirmid", "date": "2025-12-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can make your own 3D models using ComfyUI and DrawThings", "excerpt": "I used them to justify buying a beefy refurbished MacBook Pro M3 Max with 64GB. I haven\u2019t really regretted it, and I found the extra power useful for dev and 3D printing tasks. You can make your own 3D models using ComfyUI and DrawThings, for example.", "context": "", "use_case": "generating 3D models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need"}]}