Cache Monet (cachemonet.com)
136 points by keepamovin 6 days ago
beklein 4 hours ago
Sound on!
Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder
hmokiguess an hour ago
also, seems like they have another project https://feel.thatsh.it/ and I'd love to find that song as well if you can help haha
hmokiguess 2 hours ago
what's the symbols for that `ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ ` font? where can I find these
flawn 7 hours ago
I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
Bjorkbat 6 hours ago
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
yreg 6 hours ago
New interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well.
https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
Bjorkbat 6 hours ago
jgord 2 hours ago
I posit that periods of relatively high creativity [ in art science music literature ] coincide with periods of relatively low inequality.
ie. if everyone is working so hard to pay rent / college, nobody has time to work on side projects in the garage, or go deep into books, or dedicate spare time to a craft or do down a science research rabbit hole.
Im not sure LLMs will free up much time for people in the middle of the economy - they might produce more but get paid the same.
__alexs 10 hours ago
If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/
yellowapple 2 hours ago
Shameless plug of the YTMND site I made more than a decade ago: https://fvcks.ytmnd.com/
Such a simpler time.
y-curious 10 hours ago
Biggest surprise here is that this website is still around. I was browsing it 20 years ago
mrguyorama an hour ago
Newgrounds still exists.
Having to pass a vote before you were uploaded and available for real I think was a good way to do things. Like a shitty peer review but for coolness.
jasonwatkinspdx 3 hours ago
Heh, my all time favorite: https://whatishoth.ytmnd.com
ricardobeat 9 hours ago
Cool stuff, but why is there an entire loading screen and intro animation, then a play button, when it could just link to a gif?
Made me lose interest in browsing real quick
Jordan-117 5 hours ago
It's to make sure the GIF is in sync with the audio. It was a bigger issue when connections were slower.
fredley 9 hours ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.
observationist 8 hours ago
sintezcs 6 hours ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20100527013827/http://www.bio-ba...
Somehow reminded me about the biobak website from 2010s, unfortunately only available in the archive now, but still functional.
binarygit 5 hours ago
THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!
harel 10 hours ago
I don't know what this is, but I like it
ale42 10 hours ago
There's a (not so visible) info button top right. It says:
cachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that
occur between two randomly generated arrays. the arrays contain a mix
of custom and found .gifs sourced from tumblr and are set to
music. the output is autonomous, generative, art made possible through
curation & code.
pocksuppet 8 hours ago
and it sounds like "cash money"
ale42 7 hours ago
keepamovin 10 hours ago
I'm so delighted you guys are discovering this for the first time. It's been around for a long time. I think I first saw it in 2011.
MarcelOlsz 10 hours ago
You're the man now, dawg.
neom 2 hours ago
I forgot about this, thank you! It was literally my screensaver all through the digitalocean build and got me through a lot of rough days. The clicking, I dunno, I spent too much time getting into weird click rhythms on this site. I would buy whoever made it dinner. https://www.cachemonet.com/save/
m_w_ 9 hours ago
An all-time classic, glad to see it's been unchanged for at least a decade
And you dip dip, dip...
m000 9 hours ago
How can I self-host this?
flawn 7 hours ago
Just for the legacy of this, I need to make sure this never vanishes
fowkswe 8 hours ago
The track is Jib Kidder Windowdipper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA
isoprophlex 6 hours ago
Thanks. Been grooving on this for a solid 30 mins
BenjaminBarwo 7 hours ago
I thought I was safe on here.
cl0ckt0wer 10 hours ago
I can rock out to that all day
FpUser 9 hours ago
Love it
isoprophlex 6 hours ago
strong overtones of Blank Banshee going on here.
good times
dominicq 10 hours ago
Mmmm, funny shapes go brr
kittikitti 5 hours ago
Love it, thank you. Because Wayland doesn't support screensavers, I finally found a solution for my older monitors. This is a perfect replacement.
yreg 6 hours ago
Now I know what to do with my extra monitor that I used to use for a home dashboard.
locknitpicker 10 hours ago
On a somewhat related topic:
There's an actress called Cashae Monya
cocoto 10 hours ago
Works almost like stereograms (with duplicated object)!