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I'm also not sure why I love ASCII art so much. Maybe it's because it's such an abstract way to represent something, yet our brains make perfect sense of everything.
The shading is where it all comes to life.
What is the file size of one single model on average?
Why is this an advantage? I have a GPU and I'd rather it was used. As-is, one of my CPU cores is pegged at 100% just rendering the landing page.
> Why
Sometimes hobby projects are a fun challenge because of the limitations you set for yourself. “No WebGL” (and “no canvas”) comes directly between “Render textured 3D meshes in the DOM” and “Each scene is a single <pre> you can…”. Why did I write some SQL to use TSQLs geometry types to draw a dragon curve fractal in SSMS way back when? Certainly not because it was an efficient use of the tech or my time!
How this challenge aspect translates to a project that (going by other comments) is largely vibe-coded escapes me a bit, if I asked an ML algorithm to complete a sudoku I wouldn't feel any sense of achievement, but each to their own.
> Why is this an advantage? I have a GPU and…
Away from the “because that was the challenge the maker set for themselves” aspect: WebGL does not always work, such as over most remote desktop solutions (there are of course ways to make the access it needs to the GPU possible, depending on the remoting option you are using, but one of those being configured is far from a given). This will continue to operate in those circumstances.
Is there a console version?
Nice work!
Oh claude can do this, claude can do that. It is written by claude oh it is of no value.
No. Creativity matters. Originality matters. Serendipity matters. Execution can use claude, but it is does not displace value.
> NO Co-Authored-By: Claude trailer. > NO " Generated with Claude Code" footer in PR bodies, commit messages, issue comments, or anywhere else.
I actually have a much better idea how to use AI responsibly: Simply don't use Claude to completely vibe code AND COMMIT your code.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is vibe-coded, in the bad sense, because of this line. There is no workflow that lets Claude write code AND commit, without PRs, that includes review by a human.
This is not the HN I signed up for. I don't mind AI use, responsible AI use, but zero oversight has not worked and will not work.
Every now and then I see this crap here. And people even engage into discussion. This is ridiculous.
I wouldn't call it low effort ... seems to be done over the course of months.
I agree it's absurd that those 4 commits started this morning projects that get huge hype and screaming fanboys, but I don't think this is that.
Is that what I'm doing wrong?
If I start a new project this morning, push about four commits to it, and bang it up on here, it'll go to the front page? I'd love for anything I've done to get that much traction ;-)
For serendipity still matters.
I usually open a new chat in the ide and ask it to "generate a commit message", then i copy paste it.
This means that if my code was written 20% by me and 80% by Google Antigravity, and Claude then adds a Co-Authored-By-line, then i think it's wrong. All it did was generate a commit message.
Here's what I do:
`git commit -p`, which basically shows you chunks of changes and you can confirm whether you want to stage those changes. This forces you to briefly review your changes and allows you to select lines or chunks that you don't want to commit (yet).
Then, you have a lot of context, so then its much easier to compose a commit message. Your editor auto-opens at the end of that, so you type in WHY you made the changes (and if you don't know, at least put WHAT you did), save and close the editor, and that's one commit.
If you skip all of this, the commits are less likely to help you later when you need them.
But do you do make sure that the commit (and other related documentation updates) properly gives Antigravity the 80% credit, yes?
I'm already at the point of assuming any recently started project is at least part vibe coded, possibly mostly, unless it says otherwise, and my maximum level of being impressed is adjusted accordingly. Even if it says otherwise I might be cautious, as taking a cynical outlook is increasingly turning out to be a useful way of dealing with the world…
People review in different ways, sometimes before the commit or at a different cadence.
I get the concern, but I think it would be easy to tell if it’s responsible conclusively just by browsing around the code a bit. If it’s a mess, it’ll be obvious.
I agree that many vibe-coders are likely to skip reviews completely, but it doesn't have to be like this.
I get your point though, that the same ASCII rendering effect might be doable at much higher scale without pegging the CPU.
It also has to be cognitively stupid to understand - the least amount of knowledge or suppositions required.
I've found myself on the front page maybe 5 times... Someone else posted my stuff.
I find the algo game to be morally repugnant so I don't play it. I just build things and hope they're useful to the right audiences