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dall-e vs stable diffusion vs midjourney on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, stable diffusion leads dall-e vs stable diffusion vs midjourney with 9,026 mentions to dall-e’s 6,635, peaking in Aug 2022.

Mention-over-time for dall-e vs stable diffusion vs midjourney, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

dall-e6,635 mentions, peak Jul 2022stable diffusion9,026 mentions, peak Aug 2022midjourney3,956 mentions, peak Mar 2023
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

The 2022 text-to-image explosion, month by month: DALL-E 2 opens the era in spring, Stable Diffusion's open-source release detonates in late summer, then Midjourney becomes the household name into 2023.

The stories behind each line

Top “dall-e” stories
  1. Dall-E 2 1,820 points · 2022
  2. DALL·E: Creating Images from Text 1,266 points · 2021
  3. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo 1,045 points · 2022
  4. DALL·E now available in beta 924 points · 2022
Top “stable diffusion” stories
  1. Stable Diffusion 2.0 1,320 points · 2022
  2. Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU 1,007 points · 2022
  3. Stable Diffusion 3 983 points · 2024
  4. Stable Diffusion is a big deal 874 points · 2022
Top “midjourney” stories
  1. On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney 757 points · 2024
  2. Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone 342 points · 2024
  3. Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games 293 points · 2024
  4. Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles 237 points · 2024

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