Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.
The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!
As a bit of an observation - the horses went viral on tumblr, bluesky and to a lesser extent facebook and instagram and smaller pages at different days, so I could observe how the drawing style and content changes:
- Most beautiful horses and least penises were drawn by tumblr users. Maybe because they've drawn a lot of penises before and got it out of their system : )
- Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
Is there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr?
Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.
I expected better from HN :/
Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan
Yeah, I too had probably an idealized image of HN - but I guess what makes the HN great is the moderation :)
And it's not like there are no beautiful horses being drawn - I observed quite a few ingenious horses and non-horses coming in in the last hours. But I'm surprised at the level of.. carelessness.
One way of dealing with it would be training a penis-drawing-recognition ai and only show other penis drawings to people who draw dicks. Though it would go against the whole idea of, well, having a moment together.
Substack traffic is hard to quantify, at least for me as I am only looking at HTTP referrers, and I had the feeling the referrer field was mostly filtered out. It is comparable to facebook and mastodon traffic, both in volume and in the sense that it is a slow burn - the link gets share in a small community, and then gets shared a few days later in a different one. In contrast to tumblr, HN and bluesky, where a spike in traffic comes sudden, a cultural moment is shared by many thousands of people, and then the attention mostly disappears the next day.
The filter does not show directly whether it's filtered out or not - it's silent, otherwise the game would be "trick the AI filter" and that's a totally different genre.
Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.
The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!
As a bit of an observation - the horses went viral on tumblr, bluesky and to a lesser extent facebook and instagram and smaller pages at different days, so I could observe how the drawing style and content changes:
- Most beautiful horses and least penises were drawn by tumblr users. Maybe because they've drawn a lot of penises before and got it out of their system : )
- Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.
- Most generous buymeacoffee supporters: tumblr
- Most unexpected source of traffic: substack
- Hardest slashdot effect: bluesky
I saw a penis bypassing the filter. Good job to this user !
Is there a thriving tumblr tech community, anything similar to HN on tumblr?
Most penises: HN (but I guess it's my fault for saying there is a filter) followed by b3ta.com and twitter
- Most swastikas: twitter and, somehow, HN.
I expected better from HN :/
Someone once told me that HN is like 4chan but for tech people & I defended a lot against it but now I feel like seeing an overlap between HN,twitter,4chan
> - Most unexpected source of traffic: substack
How much traffic did you get out of substack?
Yeah, I too had probably an idealized image of HN - but I guess what makes the HN great is the moderation :)
And it's not like there are no beautiful horses being drawn - I observed quite a few ingenious horses and non-horses coming in in the last hours. But I'm surprised at the level of.. carelessness.
One way of dealing with it would be training a penis-drawing-recognition ai and only show other penis drawings to people who draw dicks. Though it would go against the whole idea of, well, having a moment together.
Substack traffic is hard to quantify, at least for me as I am only looking at HTTP referrers, and I had the feeling the referrer field was mostly filtered out. It is comparable to facebook and mastodon traffic, both in volume and in the sense that it is a slow burn - the link gets share in a small community, and then gets shared a few days later in a different one. In contrast to tumblr, HN and bluesky, where a spike in traffic comes sudden, a cultural moment is shared by many thousands of people, and then the attention mostly disappears the next day.
Tumblr is still around? That's a good data point.
They're well on their way to becoming the next PDF.
This is a beautiful idea, thank you!
Just got a 8===D~ drawing past the filter.
The filter does not show directly whether it's filtered out or not - it's silent, otherwise the game would be "trick the AI filter" and that's a totally different genre.
MTBP (Mean Time Before Penis) is about 30 seconds.
If you tab out and then back again it draws about 20 horses all on top of each other making some kind of eldritch horror.
I only see my penis for some reason
Me too but I guess I should have been paying more attention to the screen
I saw a xenomorph, who drew that one?
I did my part
Easily one of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026
One of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026 so far.
I expected it to detect the legs automaicaly, I guess I'm spoiled by AI.
In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.
Protip: add a few legs parts in the tail, so it moves too.
> In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.
Check out how the precursor of this project did it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222
> 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...).
Neat!
Reminds me of Draw a Fish https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222
and their security incident lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743
The simplicity of the animation makes this hilariously charming.
Some of you can draw some pretty amazing abstract horses.
Some of you cannot.
Some of you choose not to.
The backwards horse is my fault, period. I didn't read the direction.
Zooming in and out on iphone introduces flying horses
I’m so glad ICANN added .horse for all our horse-related sites.
Very happy to see a Trogdor the BURNiNATOR strutting across my screen
curses!
The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).
Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.
This is some quality internet
btw, This is what people are referring to when they say LLMs are revolutionizing software.
Supposedly it filters out non-horses, but I sure saw a lot of dragons and snakes and cows and I don't know what.
You can draw the head and tail of the horse using the "legs" color, so they move too.
Fake edit: I just draw a Pegasus!
I was working on a site where you can draw animated penises, and it would filter out horses, but your version actually makes more sense.
Ok I bought my dumb horse on a mug, I admit it.
It wouldn't let me because it said I hadn't drawn any, even though I just watched my majestic yellow horse prance all the way across the screen.
Cool, you can click on them and they jump.
Someone made a pretty ace 8 legged horse.
There are so many different views of the same concept.
My horse did not stomp :(
Oh no! Did you use all the colors available?
Make the internet weird again, part 2!!
Nord warns: This website may be unsafe We detected that the website you’re about to visit could be a scam.
It was actually the first time I'd seen that message, so, erm, congrats?
this made my day.
absolute cinema
Funny enough
whoever drew a fish, great job
some creative nsfw ... bravo
I love this. Btw, TTFP on my feed was about 5 minutes lol
This and author homepage gives strong impression of the usual contemporary nothing burger.
Ohhh exloitable.