Comment by primitivesuave
2 days ago
The leaderboard is fascinating. Some people are clearly putting a lot of time into this, while the rest of us are trying to sneak phallic shapes past your CNN.
1. https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753510318634_cdeh6a4...
I am literally trying my best to draw a fish only to be told it is only 30% likely to be a fish. Cruel.
Got a potted flower through. It's swimming nicely
https://drawafish.com/tank.html?capacity=55&sort=popular also don't sleep on that one
That makes me feel better about my fish, I thought it was among the worst, but good to know it atleast qualified.
My hot dog with a smiley face got a 64%, I'm sorry.
Semi relevant Silicon Valley clip (maybe nsfw, language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs
Well what's the difference between a lamprey and an hot dog?
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Also make sure you’re filling up the canvas — don’t draw something too small.
Did it face the right way?
I could dedicate a month, or a year, and never come up with something like those. Are they really using the site tool, or is there a trick to draw them elsewhere and import them? Those are truly amazing!
If you have a tablet and some artistic background, these are all definitely doable. Doing those with a mouse would be a lot harder.
I like to draw with a mouse. Just takes practice, like anything.
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It would be hilarious if that guy vibe coded a thing that’s just repeatedly googling images of real fish and then slavishly drawing them into the site.
I was extremely happy with my 60% Wang fish. And now after looking at the leaderboard I feel bad.
I drew a real triumphant one that edged over the 60% threshold. Then read that the mod queue was at 63% and had to do it all over again.
Now I understand why it rates my doodle as 7.5% fish probability.
The major problem is that I could up-vote and down-vote as many times as I want. It is rate-limited, however[1]. I know, because I wrote a script. :D Seems like someone else did, too, except to down-vote.
Please fix it.
Edit: these down-votes are going down by the 100s or so, someone is really bullish to have "RiverToSea" fish down-voted. Ironically, the "RiverToSea" fish was made by someone who named himself "f**k palestine".
[1] After refresh, you can continue voting till you reach the limit, which is problematic.
I've always thought it was MORE democratic that if you really like a fish you should be able to upvote it more than if you just kind of like it
You may potentially be able to learn a lot from being able to successfully fight against people doing automated voting ad infinitum. :D
you can also upvote your favorite however many times you want!
Are people actually drawing these in the browser, or is there some extension that lets you populate a canvas with something you did with a stylus in Photoshop?
I drew it with the mouse, doable bit you can use your ipad
You could also just load up the website on an iPad with an Apple Pen.
Unfortunately, that did not improve my drawing skills over using the trackpad. At all. :(
I’m browsing hn on my iphone, clicked this link, drew a fish with my finger, and saw it
Worked out the box didn't think twice of it
Good point though as the site doesnt follow responsive design patterns
Looking at those I feel my fish was totally inadequate. The first one didn't even pass the autofilter since it had a stick figure face ...
Really nice toy!
spazzchainsaw has a talent.
Ok there's some sort of bot war going on with the leaderboard, right? The Palestine fish has 370,000 votes total (both up & down), which seems like a lot. Does HN really drive that kind of traffic??
Well you can click thumbs how many times you want so ...
The rule of thumb is 100*upvotes+50, so with the current 600 points, it's like 60.000 visits. Don't take that estimation too seriously, it's only a not so bad initial estimation.
OP really needs to read "How not to sort by average rating"
https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
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