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storytold / lightcraft

lightcraft

LightCraft: An open-source non-destructive photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

LightCraft: An open-source non-destructive photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-10-02 15:47:03 UTC to 2026-10-12 13:54:45 UTC.

0122026-10-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 22026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 72026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 12

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Oct 22026-10-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 32026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 42026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 52026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 62026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC202
Oct 72026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 82026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 92026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 102026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 112026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 122026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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bwnkl·Oct 12, 2026
I never used Photoshop that much, but I used to be well versed with Lightroom. So I tried Lightcraft[1] which is their Lightroom clone, and I was disappointed after all that hype. I couldn't get any of my photos to look nice, using the workflows I was used to from Lightroom. It felt cheap, unfinished, and barely usable, also compared to the open source Lightroom alternatives that have been around for a while (e.g. Rawtherapee). I'm willing to change my mind in the future, but at the moment, I don't really get the hype. [1]: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft
In QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
cyh555·Oct 6, 2026
moments ago I saw a reddit post that claimed to have cloned several adobe applications and open sourcing them on github, is this the one? edit: it's not, the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1wxmqpt/ive_created_o... and github repositories https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator) https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere) https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom) https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro) https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects) https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign)
In Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project
echelon·Oct 2, 2026
We're going to take back the internet and own tech forever. I know I have a few anti-AI haters on HN, but hear me out. I'm currently using Opus 5.5 to create 100% pure-Rust, immediate mode rendering, open source implementations of Adobe's entire suite: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator) https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere) https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom) https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro) https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects) https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign) I got bit by the dark pattern "cancellation fee" one too many times. AI lets us take back tech and set the clock back to the pre-shitty era. But now you can just create 1:1 functional equivalents, clean room, that are highly
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performant and cross-platform. Nothing is stopping you. We'll replace Google Search, we'll build our own smartphones, we'll build better infra. We'll remove all the ads and de-enshittify the entire tech world. Big tech sowed the seeds of their own commodification with AI. It's all going to come down now that we can rebuild everything without toiling for years to even get close to scaling software capability moats. The internet is going to reset to 1990-2004 (pre-facebook / "web 2.0" era). The indie web era. Everything is going to be reborn as open source. We're going to own it all.
In Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

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