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Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•21s ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•30s ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•2m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•3m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•4m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•4m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•6m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•7m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•11m ago•0 comments

AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•11m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•12m ago•0 comments

Moltbook isn't real but it can still hurt you

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-moltbook-isnt-real-but
1•theahura•16m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•17m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
2•samuel246•20m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•20m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•21m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•22m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•24m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
3•jerpint•25m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
3•breadwithjam•29m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•30m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

https://drawafish.com
935•hallak•6mo ago
Made this website as an exercise in vibe-coding and GCP. It was posted about a few times around the internet, on sites like [Morning Brew](https://www.morningbrew.com/issues/business-buzzkill), [MetaFilter](https://www.metafilter.com/209703/Draw-A-Fish), boingboing.net, etc. I think it's cute!

I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas, and then anything that doesn't hit the 63% confidence score gets sent to a mod queue, a [vibe-coded fish-tinder](https://bsky.app/profile/bigass.bsky.social/post/3luvikxn3f2...).

Was a fun exercise, spent about a month on it. Frontend is HTML5 hosted on github pages, backend is Node.JS on GCP.

Comments

whoamii•6mo ago
As Bret would say, please stop drawing dead fish.
parpfish•6mo ago
dead fish should float to the top of the tank, not fall to the bottom
drzzhan•6mo ago
This is so fun. I wonder if there is a similar page for other animals,
evansjp•6mo ago
Some of you are wayy too bored at work - some of these are too realistic
brudgers•6mo ago
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670499
tomhow•6mo ago
It got a lot of excitement but almost no front page time so we've given it another go via a re-post and the SCP.
hallak•6mo ago
Yeah, the mods reposted it because I am a lurker not a poster and have all the deficiencies that exist therein...
Jemmeh•6mo ago
This is so cool!

I did just about spit out of coffee reading the words vibe coded fish tinder though. But a smart thing to implement.

hinkley•6mo ago
OP has a clear bias against angelfish.
catapart•6mo ago
Drawing a catfish was pretty rough. Sometimes the little fins would make it be more fish-like, other times, they would make it less so.

I did manage to finally get one in there, but it looked more like a plane than a fish.

volkk•6mo ago
I did this on a trip to Japan but can't remember for the life of me where. Some museum. My wife and I drew fishes and then they were uploaded and we went to a room and watched them swim across walls/ceilings. Really cool experience
zedstar•6mo ago
Teamlabs - Borderless, I also did the same : )
volkk•6mo ago
yep that was it!
onlyusername•6mo ago
One of the teamLab exhibitions, probably: https://www.teamlab.art/e/
socalgal2•6mo ago
2013 https://futurepark.teamlab.art/en/places/ryubo/

They have it in several other places.

zengineer•6mo ago
I found https://dibulo.com - where you (ok and kids) can do it at home :)
romanhn•6mo ago
Our family did this recently as well at teamLab Planets in Tokyo. I filled out a circular template with a very creepy looking "smiley" face. The template turned out to be for raindrops. I couldn't stop giggling when hundreds of my monstrous creations filled the room, it was very fun.
neumann•6mo ago
The Singapore ArtScience museum has this concept. Templated sea animal colour in pages that a guide vetted before scanning and then your fish appears on the walls of the dark room in a sea life picture swimming with all the other fish. It was pretty cool. A variation in the other room was the same deal but with flying machines, but this time they gave you a remote control that controlled specifically your creation as it flew around on the landscape projected onto the walls.
justusthane•6mo ago
This is too much fun! If anyone missed it, you can also rank the fish here: https://drawafish.com/rank.html
quantummagic•6mo ago
That is fun. And it's nice to know that everyone else on HN is about as artistic as I am.
hallak•6mo ago
I love when there are traffic spikes and I get to discover which corners of the internet have artistic talent or lack thereof :)
andrewstuart•6mo ago
This is what the internet should be all about.

Now, make a man and we will make him adventure in the forest?

haolez•6mo ago
No obscene fishes observed. Well done! :)
mehphp•6mo ago
I’m so bad at drawing it only had a 46% confidence level that it was a fish
boje•6mo ago
I tried my damnedest to give my fish a ballsack. That's a real good fishiness detector.
markyc•6mo ago
challenge accepted

https://monosnap.com/file/uD9n2bXCODCLwthVwdKXdGleogXuJ6

boje•6mo ago
heh
rideontime•6mo ago
Cackling.
OJFord•6mo ago
Did you manage it after commenting? 'ballsy' is ranked quite highly: https://drawafish.com/rank.html
CGMthrowaway•6mo ago
You mean a skein?
hallak•6mo ago
This is only possible due to the surfeit of ballsacks in the training data from users like you :)
mads_quist•6mo ago
Very nice work. You could improve the tank rendering performance though...
pimlottc•6mo ago
I drew a fish but I couldn't find it anywhere when it switched to the tank. Perhaps you could highlight the user's own fish, at least initially?

EDIT: Tried again and now I see there is a highlight, but it's pretty hard to see a in a busy tank, the color contrast is not very high

rco8786•6mo ago
Took me a sec but your fish has a yellow "glow" effect around it
lukevp•6mo ago
Mine was highlighted with golden rays around it (like a cartoon sun)
FredPret•6mo ago
There are light yellow rays coming out of your particular fish
pimlottc•6mo ago
I noticed that on the second time but it’s still not very easy to see against the light background
ge96•6mo ago
Same I drew a mola mola, maybe the probably filtered it out (not fish enough)
parpfish•6mo ago
you can upvote your own fish as much as you want
DerPozilist•6mo ago
sorry, i accidentally broke it by giving 500 in the url-param
satvikpendem•6mo ago
This is the same thing I did when going to teamLab Borderless in Japan, very cool.
productme•6mo ago
This is the most wholesome thing I saw on the internet for a long time. Thanks for the effort!
the__alchemist•6mo ago
No worky (Android/FF)
Lewton•6mo ago
I'm hard stuck on fish probability 59% fml
rtpc•6mo ago
My eel didn't qualify as a fish :(
webstrand•6mo ago
Neither did mine, only 6.5%, they're the best fish though.
Exuma•6mo ago
https://i.imgur.com/SADe8kn.png

6.3%??????

crinkly•6mo ago
First thing I drew.
8organicbits•6mo ago
> I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas

From the description

cekanoni•6mo ago
I would say its a 100% dfish
hallak•6mo ago
I have 100 of these in the training data under not_fish....
marginalia_nu•6mo ago
Moray fans in outrage.
binarymax•6mo ago
This guy reddits
masterpos•6mo ago
I get neal.fun vibes from this
hallak•6mo ago
he is an inspiration 100%!!!
nottorp•6mo ago
> I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas

Isn't this how some Lego MMO died? They spent too many resources on "moderation" and too few on the actual game.

If you post that more proeminently, maybe you'll get a bunch of kids on summer holidays finding ways to make penises pass your filter...

dyarosla•6mo ago
Missed opportunity to call it

Fish or no fish

andy99•6mo ago
The website is great!

> I built a basic CNN trained against penises

After seeing it in action, my second thought (first was just watching my fish) was that I was amazed at the good behavior of the users because I would have expected a lot of penises floating around. Now I understand. Nicely done!

praptak•6mo ago
I wonder if it's resilient against swastikas made of penises.
QuinnyPig•6mo ago
That was the Slack logo redesign.
danesparza•6mo ago
Well now I can't unsee that.
mh-•6mo ago
Seriously, wishing I could unread his comment.
exasperaited•6mo ago
Oh god.
maxbond•6mo ago
My hot take is that the Slack logo is an Alphabet-product logo. The colors aren't quite right, but it's red/yellow/green/blue like an Alphabet logo. It would fit right into the lineup. It's particularly similar to the (obsolete) Google Podcasts and Google Photos logos.

My pet theory (that I don't sincerely believe) is that this was deliberate to help smooth a hypothetical acquisition by Alphabet, before they were bought by Salesforce.

maxbond•6mo ago
> My pet theory (that I don't sincerely believe)...

To be clear, this combination is a tetradic palete on a color wheel. Color theory and simplified logo trends make this coincidence much more likely than it would initially appear. Still funny.

salamanderman•6mo ago
As hard as I tried to add fish characteristics, it knew what I was doing.
hallak•6mo ago
Actually most people aren't trying to submit bad fish! I was surprised to, it's really like 95/5 good to bad submissions. People seem to follow the rules on average :)
roughly•6mo ago
Yeah, there’s two rules that define the internet:

1. 95% of people will not be trying to draw penises

2. 5% penises by volume is a lot of penises

sebastiennight•6mo ago
By volume, yes, but by mass, it's a pretty reasonable load
roughly•6mo ago
Perfectly average, I’d say
_9y71•6mo ago
Or roughly average, as your username would say. :D
stbtrax•6mo ago
To be fair, you stop them from submitting the bad fish before they have a chance. I never submitted a fish that wasn't already 'green' for %
jasonkester•6mo ago
When I launched Twiddla, it was so common that we joked about adding them to the shape tool.

I think it’s just human nature that that’s the first thing you try to draw on any online whiteboard.

Culonavirus•6mo ago
Well apparently it wasn't trained against asses, since it let me write "Ass" on my fish :P
fossislife•6mo ago
There are some fish decorated with swastikas floating around
specproc•6mo ago
And a Star of David

Edit: And a lot of Palestinian flags when sorting by popular.

tgtweak•6mo ago
Just noticed "Chosen Fish" on the leaderboard - sometimes it's a bit less subtle.
mmmpetrichor•6mo ago
I just saw the N-word written on a fish. so eh.. that didn't last long.
nozzlegear•6mo ago
I tried to draw an eel, and when I was done I realized that all I'd done was draw a very orange, toothed penis.
dingnuts•6mo ago
is this a reference to the new South Park episode?

(sorry)

nozzlegear•6mo ago
Haha, not intentionally!
lawlessone•6mo ago
>is this a reference to the new South Park episode?

I don't think so, he said "long" lol

alangibson•6mo ago
I drew a fish and wrote PENIS on the side. Did I beat the game?
mosburger•6mo ago
i love frivolous stuff like this. it's art that reminds me of the internet's early days, well done.
cancerboi•6mo ago
I waited for my fish. But it never came. Made me sad.
unregistereddev•6mo ago
It turns out there are two filters; the fishiness as determined by the UI layer must be separate from the content moderation filters on the backend. I've also had a couple fish that the UI thought were acceptable but the backend (rightfully) disappeared into the void.
throwanem•6mo ago
What a fun game! Especially on a Note 10+, and I have to say, seeing the dongnet keep up with each pen stroke on a 2019 device is really impressive! Possibly still a little generous, though, I think. Writing "FISH" on a rectangle shouldn't hit 50%, but this does explain why SSN-69 didn't have much of a chance :D
mfalcon•6mo ago
I know you tried to hack it the same way as I did.
tantalor•6mo ago
Getting that fishmax is really hard, any tips?
Feathercrown•6mo ago
No mobile support?
BaseBaal•6mo ago
Didn't work for me either, android/waterfox :(
hallak•6mo ago
There is mobile support... but it currently loads a 40mb model which doesn't work so great in a lot of places where you will use a phone. I meant to allow you to submit anyway, but I didn't test enough. Sorry...
bix6•6mo ago
10/10 love it!
jezzamon•6mo ago
Fun!!!

Small changes if make: - Change the background colour of the drawing canvas to match the water background - Add fill tool? So folks can color this fish white? Bonus points if you automatically color the inside part of the fish white - Fix the discontinuity of how the fish swim by stretching the pixels of the fish that you draw

dpoloncsak•6mo ago
https://imgur.com/a/Vtoxc7p

35% for this masterpiece? Rigged

xyst•6mo ago
Magikarp is not a fish to a robot
darknavi•6mo ago
It's not a good fish to pokemon trainers either. 35% seems about right.
magnat•6mo ago
Try SolidGoldMagikarp
MichaelDickens•6mo ago
My guess is the CNN was trained on highly abstracted stereotypical-fish-drawings, not on actual pictures or high-quality drawings of fish. I put in my best effort to draw a good-looking fish (although I'm no artist) and I got 35%. Then I drew a basic single-stroke fish and got 65%.
amy214•6mo ago
this piece de resistance swan song is only 35% fish but then my fish tank is like 90% various formats of blackface fish, nazi fish, and swimming penises
flufluflufluffy•6mo ago
This is the only type of thing people should actually vibe code. I love it
camillomiller•6mo ago
I saw my fish die :(
evan_•6mo ago
I couldn’t get it to go above 50% and then I wrote “fish” on it and it went up 5 points
WangComputers•6mo ago
I gave my blue fish a black Hitler mustache and it went up by ten points
danesparza•6mo ago
What a fun, whimsical idea. I love this.

Also: When you release something like this to the public, I'm amazed at how quickly humans race to the bottom. That bit can be awful to watch.

rafram•6mo ago
> exercise in vibe-coding

The code shows it... Your escaping routine seems OK, but you really __should not__ be building HTML and JS(!) using raw string interpolation. Or letting the client decide whether the submission needs moderation.

hallak•6mo ago
I don't let the client decide whether the submission needs moderation :)

There's a very slightly different model in the backend that sends things to the mod queue. Strings are also sanitized there. But copilot really wanted to add all that logic to the frontend too and I thought it was funny

rafram•6mo ago
You still should not be building HTML and JS using string interpolation.
hallak•6mo ago
Absolutely! I've removed all references of HTML and JS using string interpolation.

(jk)

This is definitely a drawback with with vibe-coding. I never really write like HTML5 style code - at work I always use typescript with heavy ESLint, so never have to worry about this.

I figured the string sanitization in the backend would take care of any XSS vulns, which was my main concern. But I will have to read into the dangers of string interpolation which I admit I do not remember too much about (outside of the XSS stuff I tried to mitigate).

Thanks for giving the opportunity to learn... :)

mh-•6mo ago
> Absolutely! I've removed all references of HTML and JS using string interpolation.

I love that this is becoming a meme, haha. Thanks for the laugh.

hyperhello•6mo ago
To be fair, everything on the client is raw string interpolation. It's only secure if you comprehensively vet everything once it's on the server.
rafram•6mo ago
That's absolutely not true. Sanitization on the client is significantly safer, because the client knows how it parses HTML, while the server can, at best, guess (and hope it follows the spec).

When you set element.textContent = someUserGeneratedContent, the browser guarantees that the user-generated content will never be parsed as HTML.

response.write("<div>" + sanitize(someUserGeneratedContent) + "</div>") has no such guarantee.

hyperhello•6mo ago
If that’s all you want, it’s trivial to replace all < and & with their encodings.
Aachen•6mo ago
That's not sanitisation, that's separating data from executable code. It's a better solution when possible, but the solution suggested above also works
veidelis•6mo ago
Does not work for me on desktop Firefox. When I press the "make it swim!" button, there's an error in console: "Uncaught (in promise) Error: Fish model not loaded"
F3nd0•6mo ago
I could submit a fish on desktop Firefox, but apparently the fish died shortly thereafter. Voting is broken though.

EDIT: Nevermind! Now there's a problem uploading a fish, and the local aquarium is broken, so I can't view the previous one, either. It's a nice idea, but I really wish it worked better with Firefox (being on the web and all).

salamanderman•6mo ago
Nice, I got my upside down penis fish past the filter! Although, once it was swimming it did look very much like a fancy guppy. I don't think anyone would recognize it, but I still feel smug about "beating" the machine.
bluescrn•6mo ago
It's OK at filtering out penises, next step is to filter out all the flags...
techterrier•6mo ago
its got nazi fish (one with a swastika on it) in the tank already, hooray for the internet
sometimes_all•6mo ago
I keep getting this error on both Safari and Firefox:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Fish model not loaded verifyFishDoodle https://drawafish.com/src/js/app.js:514 <anonymous> https://drawafish.com/src/js/app.js:170 EventListener.handleEvent* https://drawafish.com/src/js/app.js:168

Edit: Never mind, I had to wait till the model loaded. Took some time though. Fun project nevertheless!

hallak•6mo ago
This is an issue that many are seeing, it has to do with how the model is loaded / how the submission logic works without it. I think I know the fix, but am currently getting slammed at my big boy job and so I can't fix it until I'm free in the evening ...
sometimes_all•6mo ago
Absolutely no issues, I figured it out anyway. No stress on this, big boy job way more important :)
skeptrune•6mo ago
This is who I want to be when I grow up
dgrin91•6mo ago
Very fun. My only suggestion would be a small highlight when you submit your fish so you can easily see which fish is yours - at least for a few seconds.
neogodless•6mo ago
Mine was showing a highlight in Firefox on Windows 11. Subtle "sun rays" around my fish.
mbrd•6mo ago
My fish had a highlight. It looked like rays of light emanating from the fish
ohitsdom•6mo ago
This happened for me, yellow/gold flashy lines around my fish. Maybe you missed it?
primitivesuave•6mo ago
The leaderboard is fascinating. Some people are clearly putting a lot of time into this, while the rest of us are trying to sneak phallic shapes past your CNN.

1. https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753510318634_cdeh6a4...

davidcollantes•6mo ago
I could dedicate a month, or a year, and never come up with something like those. Are they really using the site tool, or is there a trick to draw them elsewhere and import them? Those are truly amazing!
lelandfe•6mo ago
If you have a tablet and some artistic background, these are all definitely doable. Doing those with a mouse would be a lot harder.
jackero•6mo ago
I like to draw with a mouse. Just takes practice, like anything.
goopypoop•6mo ago
What if your mouse was shaped like a pen?
mikepurvis•6mo ago
It would be hilarious if that guy vibe coded a thing that’s just repeatedly googling images of real fish and then slavishly drawing them into the site.
thisOtterBeGood•6mo ago
Pretty sure you can build a "robot" that just copies from an image source.
herval•6mo ago
you can also upvote your favorite however many times you want!
alphazard•6mo ago
Are people actually drawing these in the browser, or is there some extension that lets you populate a canvas with something you did with a stylus in Photoshop?
fckgw•6mo ago
You could also just load up the website on an iPad with an Apple Pen.
mh-•6mo ago
Unfortunately, that did not improve my drawing skills over using the trackpad. At all. :(
creata•6mo ago

    const input = document.createElement("input");
    document.body.append(input);
    input.type = "file";
    input.accept = "image/*";
    input.onchange = e => {
        if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
            const canvas = document.getElementById("draw-canvas");
            const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
            createImageBitmap(input.files[0]).then(img => ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0));
        }
    };
yieldcrv•6mo ago
I’m browsing hn on my iphone, clicked this link, drew a fish with my finger, and saw it

Worked out the box didn't think twice of it

Good point though as the site doesnt follow responsive design patterns

tamimio•6mo ago
I drew it with the mouse, doable bit you can use your ipad
cortesoft•6mo ago
I am literally trying my best to draw a fish only to be told it is only 30% likely to be a fish. Cruel.
GaggiX•6mo ago
Did it face the right way?
mikepurvis•6mo ago
Also make sure you’re filling up the canvas — don’t draw something too small.
theginger•6mo ago
That makes me feel better about my fish, I thought it was among the worst, but good to know it atleast qualified.
kristopolous•6mo ago
Got a potted flower through. It's swimming nicely

https://drawafish.com/tank.html?capacity=55&sort=popular also don't sleep on that one

kayge•6mo ago
My hot dog with a smiley face got a 64%, I'm sorry.

Semi relevant Silicon Valley clip (maybe nsfw, language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs

LtWorf•6mo ago
Well what's the difference between a lamprey and an hot dog?
ch4s3•6mo ago
It's mostly down to the casing.
rightbyte•6mo ago
Looking at those I feel my fish was totally inadequate. The first one didn't even pass the autofilter since it had a stick figure face ...

Really nice toy!

bbor•6mo ago
Ok there's some sort of bot war going on with the leaderboard, right? The Palestine fish has 370,000 votes total (both up & down), which seems like a lot. Does HN really drive that kind of traffic??
rightbyte•6mo ago
Well you can click thumbs how many times you want so ...
gus_massa•6mo ago
The rule of thumb is 100*upvotes+50, so with the current 600 points, it's like 60.000 visits. Don't take that estimation too seriously, it's only a not so bad initial estimation.
LordDragonfang•6mo ago
OP really needs to read "How not to sort by average rating"

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

ionwake•6mo ago
I was extremely happy with my 60% Wang fish. And now after looking at the leaderboard I feel bad.
raisedbyninjas•6mo ago
I drew a real triumphant one that edged over the 60% threshold. Then read that the mod queue was at 63% and had to do it all over again.
johnisgood•6mo ago
The major problem is that I could up-vote and down-vote as many times as I want. It is rate-limited, however[1]. I know, because I wrote a script. :D Seems like someone else did, too, except to down-vote.

Please fix it.

Edit: these down-votes are going down by the 100s or so, someone is really bullish to have "RiverToSea" fish down-voted. Ironically, the "RiverToSea" fish was made by someone who named himself "f**k palestine".

[1] After refresh, you can continue voting till you reach the limit, which is problematic.

needleballista•6mo ago
I've always thought it was MORE democratic that if you really like a fish you should be able to upvote it more than if you just kind of like it
johnisgood•6mo ago
You may potentially be able to learn a lot from being able to successfully fight against people doing automated voting ad infinitum. :D
michaelcampbell•6mo ago
spazzchainsaw has a talent.
neurostimulant•6mo ago
Now I understand why it rates my doodle as 7.5% fish probability.
bix6•6mo ago
Can you add search by fish name?
danielvf•6mo ago
I carefully drew a lion fish. Turns out only 37% odds of being a fish. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionfish)

Fun idea, fun site!

ArcaneMoose•6mo ago
Asking ChatGPT Agent to try doing this is hilarious
Cerpicio•6mo ago
We visited the St Louis Aquarium a couple years ago and they have a similar set up. It's pretty awesome and great for kids. It's simply called "Fish Draw" https://www.stlaquariumfoundation.org/education/conservation...
trevoragilbert•6mo ago
As does the Long Beach Aquarium. Had a lot of fun!
AnonHP•6mo ago
This doesn’t work for me on Firefox Focus on iOS, even with all the ad and tracker blocking disabled. Tapping on the make it swim button does nothing. I’m able to see the tank with the tank button though.
sapphicsnail•6mo ago
Weird. Vanilla firefox on android works.
amitp•6mo ago
Suggestion: canvas.addEventListener('dragstart', (e) => { e.preventDefault(); } );

At least on Firefox/Mac, sometimes while dragging it "picks up" the image to drag it. This should prevent that.

stockhorn•6mo ago
"Built with hate"...? Too bad. Love the rest of the project.
umvi•6mo ago
> Frontend is HTML5 hosted on github pages, backend is Node.JS on GCP.

So this means it's doing CORS? Why not just have GCP serve everything?

hajrice•6mo ago
Would love to hear more info on how you actually vibe coded this as the fishbowl seems incredibly cool
furyofantares•6mo ago
Somewhat interesting thing with my 9yo. She's a pretty good artist, she can draw various characters and objects pretty well.

With this she clearly just wanted to do the standard stick fish shape, but it turns out she only knows how to do it facing left. Facing left, looks typical, facing right, almost a figure 8. So after like 6 attempts being judged by the computer she's getting frustrated, and I'm like how about this, turn the phone upside down to have her draw facing left. But now she can't do it left either!

littlekey•6mo ago
You're right, that IS interesting. Something about having to learn with rigid constraints first before you can generalize the knowledge, I guess.
furyofantares•6mo ago
I think she learned to do the fish the way kids learn to draw a star. It's a motion they learn to do, and she wanted to do that simple motion. She's good at knowing a shape she wants to make and drawing it but I think knowing a gesture she wants to make is different.

And then I think when she consciously thinks about it - trying to do it the opposite way, or later the normal way after being judged repeatedly - she can't make the motion that way. But I bet if she was just thinking of the shape and trying to draw that shape it would be zero issue.

gus_massa•6mo ago
Feature request: Make the model evaluate the fish and then evaluate the mirrored version of the fish. Pick the highest value as the orientation. What could go wrong? Perhaps ask the user before mirroring?
addandsubtract•6mo ago
We definitely need a text-to-stickfish model here
socalgal2•6mo ago
Cool but ......

This is my feeling of vibe coding this kind of stuff so far. It's never really good, it's just kind of acceptable because it was vibe codeded.

The way the fish are stretched where they gets sliced into bands is not something I think most humans would generally choose to do. With a few characters of code change you could at least stretch each column so it scales to the next column.

I know vibe coding will continue to get better. There's a bunch of people at my work that have a vibe-coding chat where they show off their latest creation. Most of them they'd done in Gemini Canvas. The prompts are usually 1 or 2 paragraphs like "Make a 3d tower defense game with joypad input where you move a character using the joypad and can place towers by pressing the button. ....." And it spits out a working game but it's only interesting because it was vibe coded, not because the game is actually in any-way-shape-or-form interesting, good, pretty.

Also, I appreciate that this game had a fish recognizer but I also found it super scary. I tried to make to make a sunfish and it was like "not a fish". I don't want bad AI judging what is and isn't acceptable.

parsabg•6mo ago
Shocking no one has mentioned Jian Yang's hotdog app :) [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwCK95X6go&ab_channel=Felix

Love the simplicity of this.

blindstitch•6mo ago
Please approve my anglerfish. Thank you.
curiouser3•6mo ago
RS HN crossover didn't expect to see this lol
rezmason•6mo ago
How do I eat the other fish?
exabrial•6mo ago
Well the first thing I did was submit a good ole CNB (use your imagination) and it put it under review.... so nice job hah!
debrisapron•6mo ago
If vibe coding means more silly fish-drawing apps in the world then I’m 100% for it.
exasperaited•6mo ago
Kudos to the person who managed to sneak a tiny fish, in a fish tank, on a table, with a plant in a plant pot, past the detector.
littlekey•6mo ago
Very cool! NN seems too focused on precision over recall (not allowing enough false positives) but trying to get stuff past it is also part of the fun.
sorrythanks•6mo ago
Start drawing live fish
constantinum•6mo ago
Reminds me of Team Lab Borderless in Tokyo, Japan
rendall•6mo ago
I drew a 100% fish but it was classed only 58% a fish.

https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1754072603630_i0f8iw6...

UncleOxidant•6mo ago
It did not like my fish :(
Naracion•6mo ago
I'm glad we've stopped drawing dead fish (beautiful talk by Bret Victor, 12 years ago): https://vimeo.com/64895205

Also inspired by that: https://drawdeadfish.com/

introvert1622•6mo ago
Great project!
indigodaddy•6mo ago
This is ingenious
lwansbrough•6mo ago
Show me a tank of the leaderboard fish!
Waterluvian•6mo ago
I love that the common styles of fish are a function of what tools people were given.

For example, if a fill tool was available I bet we would see far far fewer hollow fish.

tgtweak•6mo ago
I love how it immediately became a meta game of how large of a phallus you can get on your fish while still maintaining an acceptable fish-like score.

edit - my beautiful Esox Pinilis was culled from the UGC ocean by whoever is manually moderating this :D

meagher•6mo ago
There used to be something like this at the Boston Museum of Science, where you created a fish (don’t remember if you drew it freehand and/or selected from different fish parts) and released it into the tank with other fish and predators.
shutupnerd0000•6mo ago
Now I want to see the adult version of this project: same thing with no CNN.

Inundate me with penises and swastikas!

HaZeust•6mo ago
Haha this is good times - solid site
tuesdaynight•6mo ago
I love these kind of websites. After finishing my drawing, I spent way more time than I expected looking through other people drawings.
michaelmior•6mo ago
Locally we have the National Museum of Play. One of the exhibits right near the entrance is a virtual aquarium where you can color in a picture of a fish. Then you take it to a scanner and press a button and your fish starts swimming in a huge screen that serves as a virtual aquarium.
nothinghere789•6mo ago
is it normal to expose API key and App ID on Github? I don't use firebase but figured I should ask
dolmen•6mo ago
What would you expect from "vibe coded"?
needleballista•6mo ago
API key and APP ID are not private for firebase :) They are for IDENTITY not AUTH.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/api-keys#faq-requi...

ash_091•6mo ago
I recently went to an aquarium in Exmouth, Western Australia, which had a giant wall mounted display with a tablet which allowed kids (of all ages!) to draw a fish and "release" it into the tank.
Timsky•6mo ago
Tell me why my fish just died!? Just went through a little loss and now feel sad
Taek•6mo ago
It only shows the most recent 50 fish. Your fish got bumped by a newer fish.
arealaccount•6mo ago
In firefox I'm able to vote for the same fish over and over.
miellaby•6mo ago
This is brilliant. Checkout my [Anatomically Correct Fish Tank](https://drawafish.com/fishtank-view.html?id=gYCWJ24lhxSvR4lG...)
tamimio•6mo ago
Cool, just made nemo!
susiecambria•6mo ago
I realized that my drawn with a mouse fish looks a lot like the fish quilt block I made. Neither were very good. But I enjoyed making them both :-)

Now to share with my grandkids.

pamelafox•6mo ago
This is my favorite thing today! I only saw one penis fish (with the penis nestled inside the face, as a facial feature of sorts). That's pretty good for a drawing app on the internet, well done! I've given up on running public apps that accept user contributions.
fHr•6mo ago
omg best shit that happened in 2025 yet, well done
rl_for_energy•6mo ago
There’s a museum in Tokyo that has this but for physically drawn fish and is then projected on a large wall. Cool to see a digital version
dangwu•6mo ago
This was my first thought. It’s called Sketch Ocean and it’s in a teamLab experience!
doriancodes•6mo ago
that's so random and fun! I love it!
bravesoul2•6mo ago
Great capcha!
martinrue•6mo ago
My initial fish likelihood score was 7% and I couldn't get it past 12% without looking up what a fish looks like. I learned a lot about myself via this app, so thank you.
distalx•6mo ago
This is fantastic, the leaderboard is really nice! It reminds me of Paper Planes.

https://paperplanes.world/

MikeHartman•6mo ago
Fun, but really frustrating to spend a ton of time making a detailed fish, get a fish probability of 67.2%, submit it successfully with no note about it needing moderation, and it still never shows up.

And I don't mean "I never noticed it show up in the public tank". I mean my profile says "8 fish created", but if I "view my fish" there are only two in the list. If I go to my default fish tank I see all 8, but if I click on one of the missing ones and try to add it to a different tank or vote on it I get "Failed to <do whatever>: Fish not found".

They exist but they don't exist. This isn't a tank, it's a window into purgatory.

countfeng•6mo ago
I can't find the fish l drew swimming there
lurk2•6mo ago
I wasn't able to submit one, either.
_Algernon_•6mo ago
Fun to try to draw a fish that passes the looks like a fish test, while having as many penis-like features as possible.
932939293•6mo ago
hi kiwifarms is drawing offensive images please ban them
HereIGoAgain•6mo ago
Cool
sw030695•6mo ago
It looks like this has been hijacked by some edgy online communities.

Is there some sort of overlap between HN and cesspits like 4chan? Or did this get posted elsewhere?

hallak•6mo ago
Unfortunately got posted to some heinous websites... and I made the mistake of using a very simple username and password that's been leaked 100 times for my admin account. I was going to "change it later"...

Anyway, working on the rollback now. A nice guy from here reached out and reported some small vulns I involuntarily committed.

droidHZ•5mo ago
It's so interesting. A large number of strange fish are swimming around.