Gradient.horse

by microflash • 5 months ago

326 61 5 months ago

spython6• 6 months ago

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!

twism2• 5 months ago

just saw an animated fellatio

bad_haircut72• 5 months ago

Truly recapturing the early web then

internet2000• 5 months ago

Just got a 8===D~ drawing past the filter.

spython6• 5 months ago

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.

spython6• 5 months ago

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

echelon• 5 months ago

Tumblr is still around? That's a good data point.

Imustaskforhelp• 5 months ago

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?

pjerem• 5 months ago

I saw a penis bypassing the filter. Good job to this user !

d0100• 5 months ago

How many crabs where drawn?

nl• 5 months ago

Bluesky driving the most traffic is unexpected.

I have to say I've been enjoying it quite a lot lately. It's not as militantly anti everything as it used to be and that's improved it a lot.

Juliate• 5 months ago

This is a beautiful idea, thank you!

nkrisc• 5 months ago

Doesn’t seem to catch “five-legged” horses very well.

gus_massa2• 6 months ago

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.

dmit• 5 months ago

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...).

gus_massa2• 5 months ago

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!

stephenlf• 5 months ago

I love this. Btw, TTFP on my feed was about 5 minutes lol

rhoopr• 5 months ago

The simplicity of the animation makes this hilariously charming.

bulletsvshumans• 5 months ago

Ok I bought my dumb horse on a mug, I admit it.

recursive• 5 months ago

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.

LeoPanthera• 5 months ago

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.

zer0zzz• 5 months ago

I did my part

semitones• 5 months ago

I only see my penis for some reason

llbbdd• 5 months ago

Me too but I guess I should have been paying more attention to the screen

Tommix11• 5 months ago

I saw a xenomorph, who drew that one?

stevage2• 5 months ago

Cool, you can click on them and they jump.

Someone made a pretty ace 8 legged horse.

fHr• 5 months ago

absolute cinema

stevage2• 5 months ago

Supposedly it filters out non-horses, but I sure saw a lot of dragons and snakes and cows and I don't know what.

richstokes• 5 months ago

Easily one of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026

hinkley2• 5 months ago

One of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026 so far.

mym1990• 5 months ago

Make the internet weird again, part 2!!

SSchick• 5 months ago

Ohhh exloitable.

n_u• 5 months ago

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

basketbla• 5 months ago

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.

twism2• 5 months ago

some creative nsfw ... bravo

lovegrenoble• 5 months ago

Funny enough

Normal_gaussian• 5 months ago

Some of you can draw some pretty amazing abstract horses.

Some of you cannot.

Some of you choose not to.

dragonfax• 5 months ago

The backwards horse is my fault, period. I didn't read the direction.

efilife• 5 months ago

whoever drew a fish, great job

nilslindemann• 5 months ago

There are so many different views of the same concept.

DeepYogurt• 5 months ago

This is some quality internet

ashton314• 5 months ago

Very happy to see a Trogdor the BURNiNATOR strutting across my screen

ErneX• 5 months ago

curses!

dakolli• 5 months ago

btw, This is what people are referring to when they say LLMs are revolutionizing software.

klinquist• 5 months ago

this made my day.

hinkley2• 5 months ago

My horse did not stomp :(

spython6• 5 months ago

Oh no! Did you use all the colors available?

khazhoux• 5 months ago

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.

acheron• 5 months ago

I’m so glad ICANN added .horse for all our horse-related sites.

villuv• 5 months ago

Zooming in and out on iphone introduces flying horses

asplake• 5 months ago

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?

diimdeep• 5 months ago

This and author homepage gives strong impression of the usual contemporary nothing burger.

zkmon• 5 months ago

Fill the internet with this kind of trivia. Victory to humans!

countWSS• 5 months ago

Crashed my browser, very poor code.

sublinear• 5 months ago

Just like the early web, I expect it to become a graffiti playground full of dicks.

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