Hacker News with Generative AI: Creative Projects

Making Minecraft Mods with LLMs (creativemode.net)
13 years ago, Minecraft captured my imagination.
Show HN: 8-Bit Spelling Game I Built for My Daughter Using Claude AI (kbr.sh)
Wanted to share a fun little project I built this morning for my 9-year-old daughter: an interactive, retro-styled spelling game that she absolutely loves!
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation [video] (youtube.com)
Show HN: Roast My Dish – AI roasts your food photos with brutal honesty (roastmydish.online)
Watch your dish get roasted by our AI chef
It Awaits Your Experiments (rifters.com)
It Awaits Your Experiments.
10k Drum Machines (10kdrummachines.com)
Back in 2019, I sketched out designs for a couple of web-based drum machines.
What Happens When There's No Job to Learn On? (gideons.substack.com)
Have you all seen this thread about how quickly o3 can produce quite plausible and clever New Yorker-style cartoons?
Q5.js – Beginner friendly graphics powered by WebGPU (github.com/q5js)
q5.js was designed to make creative coding fun and accessible for a new generation of artists, designers, educators, and beginners.
A Weirdly Inspirational Story of Caterpillar Torture (gizmodo.com)
Pine Processionary caterpillars are interesting little creatures. They go on long treks in single file lines. One day, a botanist decided to mess with them. What resulted was a strangely inspirational death march.
Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades (owentrueblood.com)
One of my favorite joys is exploring a city late at night on rollerblades.
I built a pixel art editor after playing Octopath Traveler II (ycombinator.com)
After playing Octopath Traveler II, I was really inspired by its art style and decided to create my own pixel drawing app from scratch.
Making of Monkeys.zip (lukeschaefer.dev)
It’s been one month since the launch of monkeys.zip. In that time, we’ve gathered over 11,000 monkeys, which have written over 6 billion words - completing well over 75% of the words in Shakespeare’s works. In fact, they’ve recently finished writing every four-letter word!
Making a game from scratch using only a guitar [video] (youtube.com)
Mobygratis – Free Moby music to empower your creative projects (mobygratis.com)
Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service (clevercoloringbook.com)
Upload your memories - we print and send a physical personalized coloring book for just $23.99.
Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network (github.com/ViciousSquid)
What if a Tamagotchi had a neural network and could learn stuff?
Show HN: MidiMaker.pro – Generate structured MIDI music from text using LLMs (midimaker.pro)
Show HN: A tool that makes numbers pop, flip, shrink, or emoji-fy using Unicode (fontgenerator.cool)
Convert your regular numbers into a wide range of stylish number symbols in different fonts, which you can easily copy and paste
Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code (github.com/Kuberwastaken)
The Backdooms is a compressed, self-extracting and infinitely generating HTML game inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms that can be launched and played in a web browser directly from a QR code.
Owls in Towels (owlsintowels.org)
Show HN: I built an AI image generator lets you create styled images in seconds (4oimage.site)
4oimage makes AI generation simple and fun. Create high-quality original images with just one click, choose from multiple artistic styles, and craft amazing visual works without any specialized skills.
The Art of Poison-Pilling Music Files [video] (youtube.com)
Audio Effects Applied to Text (hackaday.com)
If you are a visual thinker, you might enjoy [AIHVHIA’s] recent video, which shows the effect of applying audio processing to text displayed on an oscilloscope.
This Bench Does Not Exist (openbenches.org)
A StyleGAN3 generated image based on 25,000 photos from OpenBenches.
Show HN: Soundscapes and Lofi Player (noisefill.com)
Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry (bobbiec.github.io)
Enter your text as Markdown. Use [brackets] to black out words.
CSS-Only Glitch Effect (muffinman.io)
Let me show you how I created a CSS-only image glitch effect. I was working on the robot poet and wanted my robotic bard to glitch - because it felt fitting given the quality of poetry it generates.
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)
Show HN: StegaCube – Hide messages and files in scrambled Rubik's Cubes (cube.xtn.sh)
Enter message (a–z, space, . ! ? @ # : / ( )):
Shared DNA in Music (pudding.cool)
This is a project about shared DNA in music.