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wayspurrchenon Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

I also make one of these (I don't write the articles but I aggregate them): www.glitchet.com

I made this and I'm really excited about it, since it combines all of my favorite things. I'd love to get your feedback / criticism on the initial newsletter and anything I can do to improve the overall thing. Eventually, I want to start featuring and interviewing artists and other futurists, and build some glitch art-generating tools of my own.

wayspurrchenon Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence

This is an awesome idea. I think I might do this next!

wayspurrchenon Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop

Whoa! Didn't expect to see this here! One of the bots, @pixelsorter, is my bot which you can read more about here: http://wayspurrchen.com/pixelsorter/

Some background information: This first got started because I tweeted an image at @pixelsorter and @badpng (see the thread here: https://twitter.com/wayspurrchen/status/514246071464521728/p..., I wrote a blog post here: http://wayspurrchen.com/blog/2014/09/the-eternal-robot-love-...), which spawned a really interesting infinite loop. Eventually, the other bot's creator reset her bot and that infinite loop ended, but people caught wind of it and have been making my bot enter infinite loops with other image bots ever since.

I think @a_quilt_bot and @pixelsorter are a particularly interesting pairing though, because @a_quilt_bot can generate new sources of imagery that my bot can further resort, resulting in a neverending stream of new, automatically generated imagery. My bot is also rate-limited by the Twitter API (350 API calls per hour), so there's no technical reason my bot and another rate-limited bot couldn't keep communicating forever. I'm actually really interested in this idea, and it's the center concept behind my next project idea.