Hacker News with Generative AI: Creative Projects

A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer (youtubesequencer.com)
Show HN: I made a desk toy for people in long-distance relationships (theattentionbutton.in)
Instant connection with your special someone. Available now.
Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes (sqlnoir.com)
Show HN: I built an AI coloring page generator (colori.io)
Create unique, personalized coloring pages in seconds with our AI technology. Perfect for teachers, parents, and creative minds.
The Floppotron 3.0 (2022) (silent.org.pl)
After a long time it’s time for a big upgrade of my computer hardware orchestra. Here it is! The bigger and better Floppotron 3.0. 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners and 16 hard disk drives.
Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI (muffinman.io)
If you are interested in how I over-engineered the process of making a tiny book for my wife, using AI, a pen plotter, a 3D printer, and a lot of time, you are in the right place.
Show HN: A unique generated maze to share with your Valentine (berk.es)
Lost in Love is a project by Bèr Kessels to create and share a unique maze for you and your love.
Surrealist Compliment Generator (madsci.org)
<h2>May your succulent earlobes ever flap about my knees like a thousand wooden pigeons fleeing the local sawmill.</h2>
Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs (github.com/awwaiid)
An experiment for the remarkable2 that watches what you write and, when prompted either with a gesture or some on-screen content, can write back to the screen. This is an exploration of various interacts through this handwriting+screen medium.
Global Caps Lock Key (globalcapslock.com)
the world shares this caps lock key
Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium (maximeheckel.com)
Spending the better part of 2024 learning new shader techniques and concepts through the lens of post-processing has been the spark I needed to come up with ever more intricate, detailed, and ambitious creative work.
Show HN: Throw a Whole Book into an LLM to Extract Characters and Relationships (github.com/suvakov)
Let's try a small experiment with LLMs: feed an entire book into the context window and ask it to generate a list of characters, their relationships, and physical descriptions—data that can later be used for image generation.
MathScroll – Infinitely Scroll Mathematics (ollybritton.com)
This project is a fork of the excellent WikiScroll with a few minor changes. See also the corresponding blog post, Doomscrolling mathematics.
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living (videotoflip.com)
Turn your videos into fun flipbooks!
Ratzilla (orhun.dev)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (mattdinniman.com)
I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason (poptheconfetti.website)
Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port (crastinator-pro.github.io)
No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port.
Show HN: CFRS[] Community Demos: Patterns with turtle graphics using 6 commands (ycombinator.com)
Hello HN! <p>Back in 2023, I introduced CFRS[], a minimalist drawing language with turtle graphics, featuring just six simple commands, through a "Show HN" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956065).<p>Since then, I've received a number of creative patterns and animations created using this tiny, esoteric language by the small and friendly community that has since formed around it. In this post, I intend to share some of these interesting creations with everyone to highlight the ingenuity of their creators.
"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)
Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time (netlify.app)
Slugs on a Cube: An Interactive Animation (gingerbeardman.com)
Japhy Riddle makes art, music, films, and animations. He’s also a retro technology enthusiast. Naturally, he combines all these skills and interests into wonderful creative output! I follow Japhy on social media and love his high quality videos and animations. Check him out on YouTube!
Show HN: News Planet – current events on a rotating globe (ianua.app)
This is an experiment to visualize the news on a rotating globe.
Subway Stories (subwaystories.nyc)
Fluid Simulation Pendant (mitxela.com)
Here's my fluid simulation pendant, a handcrafted piece of jewellery running a realtime FLIP fluid simulation. The enclosure is gold plated, and the display is protected by a watch glass.
The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023) (thefreemovie.buzz)
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games)
Why should I leave vim to watch a video?
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games)
Why should I leave vim to watch a video?
Building Bauble (ianthehenry.com)
I made something that I think is pretty neat, and I want to tell you about it.
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regular expressions in Vim (twitter.com)