koskokos
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thanks for checking it out and fair point, I perceive it rather like a fantasy fish tank, if you were on mobile, check on desktop it allows you to select far stranger optional sets of fish in settings or Halloween theme
even that I watched it for so many hours already, it still has that magical effect on me
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koskokos on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:30PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://fishoid.net/
I have built a cosy fish tank simulation you can leave on a large screen and watch from time to time. I like pixel art but didn’t want to be religious about it, so I think of it as pixel art adjacent.This summer, down with the flu, I started a small experiment. It ended up taking about 50-70 hours of my time, iterating over several months.There is a 24-inch display in my kitchen powered by a...
the premise does sound a lot like written by someone who is looking for hype and not sounding credible
It does sound strange, like it was written by PR people. Tools are good but usually it is more subtle than asking one guy to rewrite everything. And of course any code written yesterday is legacy but it does not mean it should be rewritten.
I see where they are coming from but I was really hoping for a surge of labour of love open source abandonware recreations.
We just need to wait out for all low hanging fruits to be taken and things will get better. All the tools are still so new.
FM-1 is all over Youtube and it does look exciting, it is cheap and makes it easy to use alternative firmware (probably being fan product by itself as it is a toy DX7), which I've seen surprising to some reviewers. With LLMs taken into account it makes it look a really nice thing to buy. Ah, and as one reviewer on YT said "it works!".