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263 pointsby microflashlast Tuesday at 4:13 AM51 commentsview on HN

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spython01/17/2026

Hey, it's my project, nice to see it here! I wanted to do something that I liked in the early times of the web - something small, optimistic and whimsical.

The AI-assisted drawing moderation is inspired by drawafish.com and works quite well at keeping the horse parade family friendly!

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LeoPantheratoday at 12:41 AM

MTBP (Mean Time Before Penis) is about 30 seconds.

If you tab out and then back again it draws about 20 horses all on top of each other making some kind of eldritch horror.

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richstokestoday at 1:19 AM

Easily one of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026

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gus_massa01/18/2026

I expected it to detect the legs automaicaly, I guess I'm spoiled by AI.

In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.

Protip: add a few legs parts in the tail, so it moves too.

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n_utoday at 1:34 AM

Neat!

Reminds me of Draw a Fish https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222

and their security incident lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784743

rhooprtoday at 12:39 AM

The simplicity of the animation makes this hilariously charming.

acherontoday at 4:44 AM

I’m so glad ICANN added .horse for all our horse-related sites.

Normal_gaussiantoday at 1:53 AM

Some of you can draw some pretty amazing abstract horses.

Some of you cannot.

Some of you choose not to.

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villuvtoday at 5:46 AM

Zooming in and out on iphone introduces flying horses

ashton314today at 3:12 AM

Very happy to see a Trogdor the BURNiNATOR strutting across my screen

basketblatoday at 1:39 AM

The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).

Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.

DeepYogurttoday at 2:18 AM

This is some quality internet

dakollitoday at 3:41 AM

btw, This is what people are referring to when they say LLMs are revolutionizing software.

stevagetoday at 1:07 AM

Supposedly it filters out non-horses, but I sure saw a lot of dragons and snakes and cows and I don't know what.

gus_massalast Tuesday at 4:40 PM

You can draw the head and tail of the horse using the "legs" color, so they move too.

Fake edit: I just draw a Pegasus!

khazhouxtoday at 4:32 AM

I was working on a site where you can draw animated penises, and it would filter out horses, but your version actually makes more sense.

bulletsvshumanstoday at 12:41 AM

Ok I bought my dumb horse on a mug, I admit it.

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stevagetoday at 1:04 AM

Cool, you can click on them and they jump.

Someone made a pretty ace 8 legged horse.

nilslindemanntoday at 1:59 AM

There are so many different views of the same concept.

hinkleytoday at 4:12 AM

My horse did not stomp :(

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mym1990today at 1:21 AM

Make the internet weird again, part 2!!

asplaketoday at 6:10 AM

Nord warns: This website may be unsafe We detected that the website you’re about to visit could be a scam.

It was actually the first time I'd seen that message, so, erm, congrats?

klinquisttoday at 3:54 AM

this made my day.

fHrtoday at 1:06 AM

absolute cinema

lovegrenobletoday at 1:48 AM

Funny enough

efilifetoday at 1:57 AM

whoever drew a fish, great job

twismtoday at 1:42 AM

some creative nsfw ... bravo

stephenlftoday at 12:37 AM

I love this. Btw, TTFP on my feed was about 5 minutes lol

diimdeeptoday at 6:39 AM

This and author homepage gives strong impression of the usual contemporary nothing burger.

SSchicktoday at 1:33 AM

Ohhh exloitable.