Comment by MatiErnst

Hi Mati, welcome! Hacker News is a website for software developers to share links to topics that interest them. It has a lot of people in the software startup scene, founders, product people, and so forth. I don't know why your project specifically was shared, but it's probably because the submitter thought it was cool!

When people see a submission they like, they can upvote it, like Reddit. Right now, your project is on the front page, which means a lot of people liked it. Cheers!

Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) started as a link aggregator/message board for the startup incubator Y Combinator [0]. Essentially a place to share projects, share tech news and other internet sites that appeal to the tech startup community of San Fransisco, though the appeal is much broader (I'm in upstate NY).

I guess it's a bit hard to explain, but there's a cluster of points of interest that appeal to the stereotypical user on hacker news, of which generative art (and potentially a "wave function collapse"-like algorithm that you may or may not be using), architecture, brutalism and indie gamedev are part of that list.

I suspected your project resonates with a lot of people's interest who frequent the site, which is why I submitted it here (anyone can submit, I just happened to be the one that did it first).

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/

You can think of it as Reddit for nerds basically. Started by investment fund Y Combinator, so most of the talk is latest tech shit and startup talk, with posts like this mixed in.

Is this related at all to Tiny Glade? Seems like a very similar concept, but shifted to a gritter, darker aesthetic (which is very cool)...the name must at least be a nod to it?