Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThis is the best "visualization" / "explanation" of the possibilities and limits of AI that I've seen. I can show this to someone and say: 1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what it thinks a feather looks like. 2. The software can't recognize a feather if it's never seen a feather like that. It's not a sentient being. This is good, because most examples focus on point #1 and -- if enough…
Many people here have pointed out that the data is available -- https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset I toyed with it some time ago and was impressed to see that -- in the raw data set -- each drawing is a time-series of strokes i.e. you get a person's drawing (of a penguin, the Mona Lisa, etc.) after 0.1 second of drawing, after 0.2 seconds, etc. I made and (shameless plug!) sell giant algorithmically generated posters which illustrate and play with this idea: each…
Quite fun to play... I draw awfully but nonetheless the AI got it, I'm impressed Ok, ok, I know I shouldn't: deep learning just works, it's not news anymore
So I genuinely thought this was satire. Guess not?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1239
- Total comments
- 377
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-15 | Quick, Draw | dmotz | 13 | 0 |
| 2016-11-16 | Quick, DrawFirst breakout · Best thread | madmax108 | 1083 | 328 |
| 2016-11-19 | Play pictionary against an AI | joak | 4 | 3 |
| 2018-11-03 | Quick, Draw | BerislavLopac | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-08-08 | Quick, Draw | asimjalis | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-06-28 | Quick, Draw! | driftsumi-e | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-29 | Quickdraw with Google AIHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | aloknnikhil | 132 | 45 |
| 2022-08-31 | Feed Google's ML training dataset | fragmede | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-05-15 | Quickdraw | saikatsg | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-05-17 | Quick, Draw - can a neural network learn to recognize doodling? | nilsbunger | 1 | 0 |