FLUX 3 Image - Hacker News

Posted by minimaxir 1 day ago

240 points | 54 commentspage 2

mromanuk 4 hours ago|

For a moment I was confused that this was a release of a new stable diffusion. What happened with Stable Diffusion?

yorwba 3 hours ago|

Some of the original developers left Stability AI to found Black Forest Labs (so in a sense this is a successor to Stable Diffusion) and Stability AI pivoted to audio and milking their existing models.

htrp 6 hours ago||

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031796

What's new from the last post? GA?

zamadatix 5 hours ago|

The original article mentions:

> We will open up an early access phase for FLUX 3 Image in the following weeks.

Not sure if there was a separate post for early access or if they just skipped to this.

fuzzythrowaway 5 hours ago||

I like the interface; very useful for some use cases that would otherwise be quite frustrating. Dislike that it's yet another platform held back by arbitrary moderation. You can't make a bicycle for the mind that locks if you try to ride it in the wrong direction.

reilly3000 22 hours ago||

That sort of steering ability that has been possible with the latest Gemini releases has been nice to work with over previous generations. It’s great to see this improve on the platform with declarative controls built into the API and coming soon as an open model.

assimpleaspossi 5 hours ago||

I shouldn't have to scroll all the way down, click to use the thing, then fumble around to figure out what this does. It should be clear at the top of the first page (so I know right away that I don't need this).

thorum 4 hours ago||

Not sure what you mean. The top of the linked page is a video showing the product being used. Immediately below are the words “Compose images from scratch” and more examples, followed by “Text-to-image with strong prompt following and a native understanding of composition.” This is all within the first 100 words of content on the page.

bonoboTP 3 hours ago||

I agree that it's clear for me and most techies, but maybe for a more general audience they could have added "AI image generation" or some variant of "generative AI" or "image generation model" or something like that. You can also compose images from scratch in Photoshop and Blender.

richardfulop 5 hours ago|||

It is a version 3 of a product.If you actually used or needed these, you would have known right away what this is and how it works.

nazgulsenpai 5 hours ago|||

Unless the version 3 announcement is your onboarding point, like it is for me just now. I can go research FLUX from here, but the original poster's point still holds.

assimpleaspossi 4 hours ago|||

But I don't use it or need it and wasted my time trying to figure out what it did. Clarity should be up front.

richardfulop 10 minutes ago||

insufferable

Mashimo 3 hours ago||

> Just write a prompt. Text-to-image with strong prompt following and a native understanding of composition.

How is this not clear?

amelius 5 hours ago||

Yes, you can do that with AI now.

Grimblewald 23 hours ago||

looks cool, eternally greatful these models are marked for open weight releases. Pretty excited

imgbenchdude 3 hours ago||

Tried Flux 3 on a tiny subjective image benchmark I’m calling One Knee Wonder.

Exact prompt:

Generate a photorealistic image of M81 urban BDU camouflage cargo trousers, shown by themselves. One trouser leg should be posed with the knee lifted 30° from vertical.

Accurate reproduction of the M81 urban camouflage pattern is critical. Match its colors, shapes, scale, distribution, and overall appearance as faithfully as possible.

No person, other clothing, or props.

Ground truth swatch: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_City_Camo_(M81_Ur...

Gemini 3 Pro Image (stronger pattern): https://i.postimg.cc/bZNQYYjx/2026-10-02-google-gemini-3-pro... Flux 3 (this run): https://i.postimg.cc/Xr7wNN0H/2026-10-02-black-forest-labs-f...

Flux 3 gets greyscale urban-ish trousers and a lifted knee, but the blotches aren’t real M81 Urban — softer / wrong geometry vs the swatch. Not the worst I’ve seen on this prompt; clearly behind the Gemini 3 Pro Image example above on pattern.

Curious what other models do on the same prompt.

myself248 6 hours ago|

Unrelated to the flux images used for floppy disk archiving? Sigh.

pizzafeelsright 5 hours ago|

Every new piece of software needs a name.

Flux is in the top 9000 of the most common words.