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Interesting idea, but just a tip: add “Show HN:” to the fromt of your title or it will get buried.

404s for all five takes

This is very neat! Been wondering what people would do with the Zork code now that it is open source [1]. [1]: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-...

P.S. i’ve tried my best to follow titling guidelines by using almost the original title, but removing extra clickbaity words. Let me know if I’m off target.

Sonic Pi is missing imo. (Some have mentioned Strudel, it’s a similar live-coding music platform). Admittedly Ruby-based, but it seems some of the other ones on the list are librar…

OP here: ^this is a better post, it goes straight to the actual artist’s website

Yeah fair enough. I don’t think of genAI either when I hear “procedural generation” (or CGI - “Computer Generated Imagery” - for that matter). But the word “generate” has taken on …

This post makes me wonder - does anyone else think there is a need for a term to more strongly differentiate between procedural generation (like this knot-drawing program) and genA…

I really like how the author walks us through the generation process step-by-step. It makes it seem possible for me to build stuff like this too!!

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904025

Source? Or is this satire

Aha, yep this is it. I got an email about it but didn’t notice until just now.

Meta-HN question from a newbie: Can someone help me understand why my 9-day-old submission is suddenly on the front page and says it’s from 3 hours ago? Edit: Solved.

Would you mind elaborating?

Yeah I felt the contradictions here too. Doesn’t the feeling of “magic” directly proceed from abstraction and non-tractability (or at least, as you say, not needing to understand e…

I tried some of these today, unfortunately it seems they’re not universal across programs.

Location: Kelowna, BC, Canada Remote: Open to it Willing to Relocate: To anywhere in Canada (w/ preference for BC), maaybe RSA, Netherlands, USA. Technologies: Python, Flask, Java,…

This is true. I actually originally started using em-dashes because a high school english teacher called out my overuse of regular dashes (where they technically should have been e…

It’s a real pity to me that em-dashes are becoming so disliked for their association with AI. I have long had a personal soft spot for them because I just like them aesthetically a…