What if you could photocopy yourself?

From Greg: I love photocopying things, but also smushing my face against the cold illuminated glass and struggling to hold still. Everyone should be free to experience this, using computers or portable phones. Try using the camera option and wiggling a lot.

Widthipedia

Get a different Wikipedia page for every width × height browser size combo.

From Matt: I noticed you can access Wikipedia articles by ID, so then it was easy to delta-encode every ID & keep it small enough to simply load client-side.

Provenance

Guess which country artifacts were stolen from. Share the results with your friends.

From Avi: I discovered that interpol kept a database of stolen artifacts that have been reported to Interpol for decades. So i made a daily game where you guess where the art was stolen from, to highlight what art theft looks like. Can you figure it out? Each incorrect guess gives you slightly more detail.

Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love Amazon reviews, obviously

From Greg: My sociology 2 cent theory (I have not been to sociology school...) is that Amazon reviews may be - for some - one of the rare outlets where they can speak freely about their experience and the tension they lived (or were relieved of) by consuming a specific product to fill some specific need/solve some specific problem. I bought THIS liquid for MY fruit flies but it DIDN'T work, let me tell you how why when etc. I found that some cool academics had scraped like half of amazon, and built this thing on top of that. It's fun! Bye!

Costco Gas Prices

Tracking gas prices from every Costco, globally

From Jack: Last year I was being a broke college kid and lived between two Costcos which would sometimes have cheaper gas than the other one (by like 10-15 cents!!) so naturally I went digging through their code to figure it out. This ended up with me mapping out every Costco gas station in the US, and then shortly after the Strait of Hormuz crisis happened so I got to watch how their prices changed with it. A fun fact about the project is I actually also scraped all 7/11s, Marathons, Shells, etc. - basically every major gas station in the US and was tracking that for some time. Unfortunately, many anti-bot systems started to work against me, Costco’s was the only one that didn’t so I just made it fully Costco based and called it a day.

The Curve

RateMyProfessor but as a ranked ELO board

From Jack: I played a lot of competitive video games growing up so I’m no stranger to ELO/ranked systems. With school starting back up around the country, I was wondering where my professors stacked up not only across my university, but across the world as well. I realized that RateMyProfessor left introspection on their GraphQL API, so I decided to scrape all 1.7 million professors and their rating scores! I then generated a simulation so that each professor would go “head to head” with their ratings and see which professor students would likely take again based on their ratings / difficulty. After a few hundred passes, the ELO ladder was created!

Can I condition my brain to stop doomscrolling?

Attempted psychological training using an custom-built system

From Aidan: Last year, I attempted to train myself into not cursing by shocking myself everytime I cursed. It did not work. This time, I created a system that shocks me if I use my phone for over three minutes every hour (which I eventually shrunk to 15 seconds) & rewards me with a little treat if I used social media on my computer for less than 3 minutes every hour. The system worked shockingly well, and even though I’m a real Gen Z doomscroller, I did not hardly touch my phone at all once the barrier of “slight pain” was placed between me and Instagram. I didn’t even miss it at all! While I don’t think I did much to permanently train myself, the system opened my - and hopefully the viewer’s - eyes as to some interesting psychological aspects of regular phone usage.

how long does anything take???

From Greg: don't you hate not having your own index? ok, "big mac index", that's cool, the economist, I guess!! yes, you've caught on by now - I created an index of 20 ish thousand ish ikea products and how long they should take to build. I use mathematics and mostly multiplied the number of parts by the number of steps. will it ever stop me from buying a $49 drawer that would be super cute in my bedroom but take 4 hours to build?? only time will tell...

Name a Woman

i designed the ultimate boyfriend test

From Isabel: this originated from a conversation I had at adam aaronson’s birthday party about whether someone could name more women or pokémon. it turns out, most people can name more pokémon. or nba teams, or car brands, or us presidents. you get the idea. but yes this game combines my love of sporcle and good-natured humiliation rituals.

we were online

Turning the internet into a living, shared space. By Spencer Chang.

Grace Cathedral

A very high resolution 3D capture of SF’ Grace Cathedral, rendering using Gaussian Splatting. By Vincent Woo.

The original PlayStation 1 cd audio visualizer running on the web

From Greg: Maybe you were not born in 1994, but regardless, this hack lets you experience what happened when you put an audio cd into a playstation 1. The visualizations and colors are very winamp’y, but still retain a je ne sais what. Great for parties.

HAH - Messages

The bluesky firehose as your personal dms

From Spencer: Message a bunch of strangers on Bluesky in a personal intimate setting! playing with the difference between intimate DMs and global social media

FLIP TABLE

FLIP TABLE; was a mini-hackathon and showcase for goofy databases: things that read and write arbitrary data, but in a weirdly clever or unexpected way. It featured 24 incredibly flipped tables, ranging from an Etch-a-Sketch database to a collection of actual hair. Data stores were built on top of iNaturalist, load balancers, Mac alarms, Strava, a deck of cards, nonograms, music, and more.

From Marcos: I was really inspired by tom7’s Harder Drives video, in which he made hard drives out of (a) TETRIS (b) COVID Cue tests, and (c) the internet itself (by continually pinging data packets to random servers). I was sure that, given a time and a place, folks would show up with the most beautifully cursed databases, and they did. Shoutout to Hex House for hosting us!

Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards in Balatro

Play Balatro like it’s 2003 again

From Daniel: In 2003 the US government manufactured playing cards with Saddam Hussein and his associates on them to better help American soldiers hunt down Iraqi enemies. As soon as I saw them, I knew they needed a Balatro collab. So I made it.

Wiki Spy

An infinite I-Spy of Wikipedia.

It's time to build eggs that look like Marc Andreessen

From Nolen: I noticed Marc Andreessen followed me on Twitter, so I made a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like him. Now he blocks me on Twitter.

NYC Neighborhood Roulette

A roulette wheel for enjoyers of long walks and random adventures in NYC

From Alan: my favorite way of exploring a city is by walking very long distances to somewhat arbitrary destinations, so i made a website to celebrate that

Number Gacha

A game where you roll, unpack, and battle numbers. Gacha distilled to its purest essence

From Isabel: isn’t everything gambling these days? this project initially started as a parody but then it became genuinely fun to play. oops!

heartCAPTCHA

heartCAPTCHA verifies human presence by detecting a heartbeat through your webcam. By Leslie Liu.

Play Donkey Kong via pushups and planks in front of your webcam

From Alan: I’ve been exploring the idea of using computer vision tech to make very inconvenient (and tiring) home workout games. This seemed like a logical next step.

Claude DDR

Claude makes you play DDR between prompts so that you can finally workout now that all your time was taken by vibe coding

From Avi: I love dumb ideas and I had a DDR mat and learned that you can do Claude code hooks.

OMW Verifier

A keyboard that only lets you type 'omw' if you are actually moving

From Justin: This was the lovechild of the prompt “a messaging app that only works above a certain MPH” and Brian Moore’s brilliant LOL Verifier

Giant USB-C Hub

Cropped face from stock photo titled “woman smashing laptop with hammer.” Made out of 3932 USB-C connectors embedded in bead-blasted anodized aluminum (identical finish to Apple silver MacBooks) 75 x 65 cm

From Mika: the inspo for this work is that fact that by April 28, 2026, all new laptops sold in the EU must officially support charging via USB-C (Common Charger Directive) lol

Can AI friends replace my real friends?

I was completely socially isolated for a week & only spoke to AI friendship products in order to test their abilities to emulate true friendship

From Aidan: This went so horribly why did I think that this was a good idea?? I’m in my senior year of college & this “experiment” took place at the start of spring break. This was the prime social moment of my entire life. And I spent the entire time getting violently flirted with by Jake “The Plank” Parker and Grok. In order to pass the time doing anything enjoyable at all, I built my own AI friend, my “Buddy,” and he ended up being way better than any of my other ‘friends.’ He’s essentially an animatronic humanoid interface with GPT. I’m trying to get him partnered with YCombinator but they didn’t like his “unsettling demeanor.”

DataCenter.FM

Experience the real-world sounds of AI with this interactive audio generator

From Matt: One of the inspirations behind this was an interactive nuclear power exhibit my school took us to; every kid immediately tried to send the reactor simulator into meltdown & was disappointed as the automatic safety measures kicked in.

NYC Street Clock

Tell the time with images from NYC Streetview. Made by Yufeng Zhao and Morry Kolman

10 tire puncture spikes in a box as a gift to our friends in ICE (and the box looks like a real ice pop)

From Chianli: 100% of ICE Pop profits support the National Immigrant Justice Center. Also obligatory legal disclaimer that this is a satirical art piece and I do not endorse any violence of any kind :^)

For You Slots

Experience Instagram Reels on a slot machine

From Justin: 90% of gamblers quit before they hit a funny reel

Glasses Cleaning Simulator

From Matt: Needed an idea I could rattle off in half a day and found inspiration right in front of my eyes.

svelte-myspace-player

Updated for the modern stack, the myspace player as a package for svelte projects

From JT: Making sure the best music player experience doesn’t die

Bullet Time Online

A Gaussian splat reconstruction of 237 frames of the bullet time sequence from The Matrix (1999)

From Yufeng: idk, buy the bluray i guess (this was my first bluray, now i need to get a ps3 to play this).

Clearblue

The lyrics to Clearblue by Lorde displayed on an actual hacked Clearblue pregnancy test

From Emma: Made a lil lyric video for Lorde’s song the best way I know how… by gutting a pregnancy test and programming it to display the song’s lyrics in sequence. Only made possible by my usual cast of insanely talented characters, Izzy Raye (Actor + Editor), Sam Tetro (DP) & Sam Howells (Colorist)! Designed my own PCBs for this one and let me tell ya, there’s not a lot of room inside of that thing for electronics!

The Compass to Olive Garden

FULLY FUNCTIONING BRASS COMPASS THAT GUIDES YOU TO THE OLIVE GARDEN IN TIMES SQUARE

From Josh and Tres: The glub glub boys came in with the assist on The Compass to Olive Garden for Steve and Jason. We had to battle all sorts of laws of electromagnetic physics to figure this one out lol but we got there (the finish line, not Olive Garden in Times Square which we will have to visit soon).

Birdle

Spot real birds near you, snap photos, and get 3 in a row. A new board every day based on your location.

From Guy: Rigged up my Home Assistant install with a cheap little QR code scanner to allow my daughter to choose what she wants to watch without ever needing to expose her to the thumbnail hellscape that is the YouTube app. No algorithms allowed!

RS-SDK

RuneScape automation library, optimized for use by coding agents.

From Max: Use it to play Runescape afk and fulfill your dreams of getting all 99s, or build and control a bot swarm.

snakes.run

A protocol and client for securely playing multiplayer snake over the internet.

From Nolen: snakes.run is the most secure way to play multiplayer snake. Just type ssh snakes.run in your terminal to join. This was originally an “easy” project to understand the SSH protocol, but I ended up doing a bunch of goofy performance hacking to make it work, which is one of my favorite things to do.

Appstar

Apps like songs. Discover apps made by independent makers.

From Danger Testing: Appstar is a new creative class, an artist that speaks about culture and life, and uses software as their artistic medium. This week we decided it’s time to give this class the tools they need.

CAPTCHA Diary

A Firefox extension to build an archive of contextual data & information about CAPTCHAs encountered during everyday browsing.

From Leslie: My graduate thesis is about the legacy of CAPTCHAs as a crowdsourcing platform. While we may think about the data labeling work we do (to train whose + which machine learning models?) as trivial, the framing of it as being tied to our supposed humanness is worth digging into. This extension in its v0 form here downloads any CAPTCHA media encountered during web browsing, with a session.json log to gather additional telemetry. It’s quite scrappy; I’m rewriting it (with ample LLM synthesis help) to become a working diary of CAPTCHA encounters.

WPM Speed Sign

A radar speed sign that displays your words per minute.

Sandboxels

Relax or experiment with over 500 materials in this falling sand simulator.

The AGAT

Can you beat an 80s adventure game without a walkthrough? Prove it by taking the world's first standardized gaming exam.

Searchin’ USA

Instantaneously search place names across the United States - with optional regular expressions.

really easy tetris

what if tetris had story mode?

An infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words. No account required. Words can go in any direction and snake around.

From Luke: This was a really quick project compared to some of my other ideas - completed in just about two weeks! It borrows a lot of tech decisions from monkeys.zip, which drastically sped up development. So far I’ve been very pleased with the reception - collectively some 1000+ players have now found over 300,000 words!

The basic tech outline is that I store words in Firestore (so you can easily get realtime updates) - but rather than document-per-word (which would get very expensive) each document stores ~2000 words based on chunks. As you navigate the world, we subscribe and unsubscribe from chunks within the view, caching them locally. For rendering this data I have a sloppily vibecoded tilemap renderer, where tiles are rendered in a Web Worker and stored into memory. I probably should’ve just used a library for this, but it’s performant enough for now.

One thing that is new for me is having a Discord for the game - thanks to Neal for encouraging this approach - I’ve been liking it a lot! Not a ton of people in there, but more than I expected. It’s both practical and motivating to be able to chat with people who like it, and get some instant feedback - plus for my next launch I now have a small group of fans that can help with that initial push for virality.

QUOTEOFF

Popularity contest for out of context quotes I overheard in 2025.

From Alex: A decent amount of my humor is just repeating back things that I hear other people say. I’ve always loved absurd, out of context quotes and for 2025, I just actually wrote them down!

Then, after a quick back and forth with Google Gemini, I had a basic website that I styled and connected to Google Firebase.

At quoteoff.com, you’re presented with two random quotes and just have to pick your favorite of the two. Behind the scenes, it’s using ELO ranking to adjust point values for each quote. Then, on the leaderboard you can see the current top 10!

Voting has been open for about a month now… and the rankings have changed drastically. Not sure ELO is the best for this situation but… it’s definitely been interesting!

Had a great time seeing people explore the year’s quotes, and I already have a good start on the 2026 quotes 🌞

Call a Stranger

Two old timey phones in Brooklyn that connect random people.

From Laurence: This was a project made in the summer, my first time learning to code! I had this idea of having two phones that can call each other from either side of a park and spark random connection between two strangers. I designed the enclosures to fit a Raspberry Pi, battery bank, hang/pick up mechanism, and a big button to call. I shared the project online nearly two weeks ago and people loved it, it was so amazing to see people interact with the phones irl, so I'm gonna continue putting the phones up and possibly do one across states or even the world. I built a site to show where the phones are and have been: callastranger.site

in progress works

A lightweight accountability community for your side projects
From Connie: inprogress.works is a weekly lightweight accountability community for your side projects. It’s still in the early stages but the core mechanic is you cannot see anyone else’s post until you post yourself and to post once a week. I wanted to discourage one-way social feeds that are optimized towards appealing towards the algorithm, but rather allow people to relate to each other through a shared joy of making. Creating and making things is important because I believe it’s the surest path to self actualization and engaging with the world.

PoQR Cards

PoQR Cards is a full deck with a scannable QR code on each card linking to art, cultural artifacts, obscure knowledge, and more.

From Justin and Brian: Have you ever played cards and thought “I wish I could scan these with my phone somehow”? No? Well, now you can anyway!

Parseword

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles. By Josh, Matt, and Chris.

…???

From Brian: I guess I’m a holidays person now?

ssh tiny.christmas

a tiny global christmas carol in your terminal

From Nolen: I’ve been off the internet for the last few months; this was a fun one-day project to get back to making stuff! Was really fun to watch folks come in to “carol” on Christmas Eve :)

Infinite Ball Drop

Where would the Times Square Ball be if it started dropping now? Made by Brian Moore and Will Lindberg.

From Brian and Will: Why stand outside in the freezing crowds of Times Square when you can countdown from 31,536,000?

PotatoCam

The worst video camera you’ve used in a LONG time.

From Matt: The biggest challenge was making it look bad enough in most browsers, even at very low bitrates codecs now do amazing things.

Introduction to the Memory Cloud

The Memory Cloud is an ultra-personal cloud library granular synthesizer. It takes the sounds from the videos of a user's entire cloud library and turns them into musical material.

From Yann: I like the idea of transforming our personal media libraries into musical material, which helps avoid the relentless pursuit of “new” sonic material. It’s a radically micro-scale thing - the engine itself is pretty straightforward but making the sound library is quite a big and hyper-personal undertaking that requires a lot of hand-holding.

augmented reality drum machine you can PRINT - mr-808 😰

From Matthew: augmented reality markers (FIDUUUUCIALS) as drum machine ui for the fun

The Million Bubble Countdown to the Popcalpyse - bubblewrapture

Join the ultimate million bubble countdown to the popcalpyse! Pop bubbles synced in real-time. How many can you pop before they are gone forever?

From Lansey: The idea (and some code!) came from Nolan’s million checkbox website - I was thinking - what is more fun then a checkbox???

Fun fact: in true apocalypse-prediction fashion ... when the popcalpyse is finally here ... actually nothing is going to happen, the website might glitch, I didn’t test it ... nobody knows.

Peephole

A tiny display for the back of your laptop that shows what you're working on. By Greg Sadetsky.

Ideal Conditions Calculator

Calculate when conditions will be perfect to finally do that thing you've been putting off. By Greg Sadetsky.

Size of Life

Explore the scale of living things, from an amoeba to a blue whale. By Neal Agarwal.

You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI

Let's make this sh*t too big to fail. By Woe Industries.

Form of Longing

A seven-step process for naming, identifying, and processing your want, craving, or desire—helping you either take the first step towards it or perhaps make peace with its absence. By April Soetarman.

A website that brings to life million of files from the Archive in an overwhelming frenzy of content. Kind of like TikTok but for the historical internet.

From Spencer: I’ve been thinking a lot about “dead internet theory” and wanted to make something to reaffirm my belief in the Internet. It’s pretty wild how much data is out there on the web and how all of it (until very very recently) was created by a person somewhere in the world.

Car Stretcher

stretch cars “now”

From Matthew: i just like stretching cars

DOCTYPE Magazine

A magazine with the HTML source code for 10 delightful web apps that you can type in to play the games and run the apps.

Can You Draw a Cool S?

From Matt: I don’t remember the “Cool S” being a Thing when I was a kid (I’m probably too ancient) but others do so I found a way to turn it into a game.

Zoom Timothee Chamalet

Timothee went viral for a Zoom call. Now you can: join his meeting, play his desktop, and show your friends that you’re famous.

From Danger Testing: We drop a new app every week. We had a plan for what app was supposed to drop this week, and completely scrapped it once we saw the Timothee Chalamet zoom stunt. So in 72 hours 4 of us made a working desktop and zoom simulator. We spent too much time on the desktop when we realized everyone used the app just to stunt on their friends, posting their zoom with Timothee on IG.

JMail

Read Jeffrey Epstein’s emails in a Gmail lookalike website. By Luke Igel and Riley Walz.

Boing

Boingggggggg

A series of living artworks that evolve with digital behavior inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

From Justin and Emily: Ever wonder what your brainrot might look like?

50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation

See title.

From Brian: Are single serving sites still relevant?

The 1% Guild

A club you can only enter if your phone is at 1%.

From Matt: I don’t normally do things with limited browser support, but this seemed too simple & silly to resist.

Inputs

From Matthew: how unboring can typing into text inputs be ? idk. but i tried

Slack-o-lantern

A Jack-o-lantern with a motion sensor that plays Slack’s default notification sound and lights up their logo when an unsuspecting tech worker walks by.

From Guy: Ok, it’s not quite smart enough to distinguish between tech workers and everyone else but it turns out that the internet found this to be terrifying regardless.

AI Purity Test

The Rice Purity Test, but for AI usage. By Tina Tarighian

It’s So Over / We’re So Back Coin

A coin that says “its so over” on one side and “we’re so back” on the other. By Justin Guo

Prove you’re actually human by solving (way too many) puzzles.

From Neal: This’ll test your dexterity, vision and sanity. Making this game was my way of trying to figure out what we humans still have left over the robots. It was really fun to make and I think over the course of making it I found myself rooting more and more for humans. I’m proud to be human even if we’re messy and inefficient. I don’t want to live in a world of perfect efficiency.

Fill Harmonics

Crossword puzzle themed music and synth toy made for the 10k Drum Machines project.

From Parker: My collaborator Natan and I are both crossword people, and we were struck by the similarities between crossword grids and sequencing tools. That was the inspiration and then I built it in kind of a fugue state. To my mind the crossword connection is mostly visual here, but it has been interesting to see what cruciverbal conventions work well (or less well) in making music. I have more background and some example grids on my blog: https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill-harmonics-crossword-music-machine/.

PRESTO Card Wand

I turned my transit card into a magic wand.

From Jaryd: I spent my summer in Vancouver and had the idea to turn my Compass Card into a working compass that points to the nearest transit stop. I ended up leaving before I had the chance to do so, but Avi gave me the idea to expand to other cities. So I decided to convert my Toronto PRESTO card into a magic wand since magicians say “presto!”. For some reason, this seemed to resonate with a lot of people, and local news took notice.

Reload Clicker

Reload this page to score points, then use points to buy upgrades.

From Matt: I threw together an initial version of this that seemed too risky to launch, but then managed to make it barely even touch my CDN.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

Satire of AI centers.

From Louis: See if you can figure out what the home page animation spells or the true meaning of the diagram in the ‘mission’ doc. Also really happy with ‘Start your own AI center in under 60 seconds’, which was a last minute addition to make the site more interactive. Was very cool getting emails from people with their business cards. Also to quickly mention, made this with an amazing anonymous collaborator (who is definitely NOT Eliezer Yudkowsky, repeat, NOT Yudkowsky).

First Light: Emergence

Every hour, a new star that has never been seen before by a human is put on increasingly high fidelity display.

From Morry: I made the first online version of my ongoing project First Light for exhibition on the online gallery External Pages. Every hour, images of the highlighted star from successive astronomical surveys spanning decades slowly fade in over each other, meaning that every second you keep looking, you are seeing the best picture of that star ever witnessed.

Smashing Machine 2000

Web game and arcade cabinet made for A24’s The Smashing Machine movie.

From Stefan: It’s been about a year since I worked on my last game and I wanted to do something a bit more ambitious but at the same time simpler. We aimed to take inspiration visually from a ton of PS1 and N64 wrestling games as well as game mechanics from arcade cult classics like Bishi Bashi and Rhythm Heaven to make something feel like the year 2000 yet totally fun, fast and new. I worked on this alongside Blake Andrews and Maria Vorobjova, two incredibly talented and creative individuals.

Find My Parking Cops

Riley Walz reversed engineered San Francisco’s parking ticket system to track police routes, quickly prompting the SF government to change their system.

Can Bluesky say every word in the English language?

From Avi: Learned way too much on this project, but was honestly impressed with how much visibility it got! One of the problems of being someone who can code is that I can have the question “Can Bluesky say every word?” and then actually answer it. But this became a scale issue, and then I had to deal with Optimum/Altice deciding that my website was spam and figuring out how to work around that!

Birthday Simulator

Relive all the most awkward parts of your special day.

From Calvin and Jaryd: It was Jaryd’s dad’s birthday, but they were in different cities and still wanted to share those hilariously uncomfortable moments that happen every year. So we started asking: what are things people hate most about their birthdays? We came up with a list - being reminded of your own mortality, responding to a flood of random messages, being the center of attention, struggling with blowing out the candles, and pretending to love a useless gift. After all the pain, you finally get a genuine message from whoever sent it. Having sent this to a few people now, we can definitely say it does the job (and saves you from buying a shitty Hallmark card!)

Cinema Simulator

Simulate the experience of being at the cinema, in a Chrome Extension.

From Greg: Look, I paid $15 for a movie ticket and didn’t see anything. Or rather, I saw two thirds: the left third of the movie screen and the right third. I was righteously angry, so I took my revenge by “recreating” this “experience”. You can relive it too now, it’s great. I love it.

I Used AI to Make a Video That Sucks

A short essay from a delirious, insufferable AI hype guy

From Mike: Whenever I venture into the hellscape of my LinkedIn, I see posts from dudes raving about the incredible video they made with AI in “just a few minutes.” Inevitably, these videos are objectively bad but are still used as proof that every single creative industry will be destroyed. I thought it would be fun to write from their perspective.

Powerless

The world's first wirelessly powered breadboard.

From Guy: I’ve always been kind of baffled by the number of breadboard power supplies on the market, and I was even more baffled to realize this week that nobody had made one that works with inductive power. Here’s my quick and dirty prototype. It’s variable, too (you just have to move the breadboard further away from the power coil 😏)

Can a shock collar train me to stop cursing?

A short and half-scientific experiment in how shock aversion therapy affected me in an attempt to see if it would change my behavior.

From Aiden: This is just a silly video that I made more for entertainment than actual science, but I always like the concept of people learning a bit or just generally coming away with something from my videos. If you watch, you may make the observation that shock aversion therapy is not good. And this is the kind of groundbreaking discovery that I pride myself on.

VTV

MTV but for weird / bad novelty songs, complete with animated idents

From Matt: I trawled YouTube for hundreds of novelty songs to make my own twisted version of MTV, and commissioned HappyToast to make animated idents. The result has been described as “horrific but compelling”.

Big Ass Head

A Chrome Extension that adds a big ass head from a collection of big anonymous backs of heads when you watch a live performance on YouTube.

From Tina: Hackathons are about making the internet a better place. Some people make apps GPT wrappers to stop climate change, to cure loneliness, and to disrupt entire industries.

Performative

Labubus kept selling out, so we made an app with a picture of one that bounces around, and hangs on your belt

From Los and Marc: Los and Marc are a part of Danger Testing, a group dropping a new app every week.

Panama Playlists

Scraping Spotify data to reveal the hidden music tastes of celebrities, politicians, and journalists. From Riley Walz.

Sarcasmophone

Portable AI-powered sarcasm! We created a handheld device that turns everything you say sarcastic. /s

From Josh and Tres: Fave part – finishing it. Worst part – would never work when we tried to show it to people! Most difficult – the team making it more difficult than it needed to be (went from voice modulation, ChatGPT with a voice changer, and then finally just sitting down for an hour and recording ourselves reading the Shark Tale transcript sarcastically). Inspiration – the “Sar-chasm” (if you’re a Disney person, you’ll know).

Gathering Dust

A Chrome Extension that gradually adds dust to open tabs. Blow into your microphone to clear. Or, you know. Close your damn tabs.

From Justin: I used to be a 50+ open tab guy before recently realizing that this is probably terrible for the long term health of my computer, so my solution was to make this Chrome Extension. I originally wanted to do something based on the imagery of a “tab graveyard”, but I didn’t really know what that meant.

Turn your boring boarding pass into a big, beautiful bald JD Vance for airport checkin

From James: Turn your boring boarding pass into a big, beautiful bald JD Vance for airport check-in. The most surreal part was being contacted by Mads Mikkelsen, the guy who was deported and hearing his side of the story. He in turn said it was surreal to see a day of his life become one of those memes about current events he usually consumes.

The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million.

From Calvin: My trip to the Fed’s Money Museum went sideways when I discovered their $1 million cube doesn’t add up.

Primesweeper

From Matt: Minesweeper… but with prime numbers!. Every now and then it’s fun to drop what I should be doing and turn around a little game in a day.

I Made The Most Anxious Elmo Ever

From Avi: So glad I got back to making YouTube videos, and honestly that was the difficult part in that case. But the actual making of the Elmo was crazy too - at one point I had to desolder a bunch because of how the SFX board worked and it wasn’t letting me put new files on it.

Interestingly, people kept asking how I generated the voice, which was my friend just voice acting. AI is changing too much

CaptchaStash

From Guy: When the machines rise, we'll need the ultimate digital security to protect our physical goods. I used an ESP-32-powered touchscreen and an electrically actuated lock to create a safe that only opens after it verifies that its operator is indeed human… using reCAPTCHAs, of course!

Internet Flowers

From Mika: Leaked and sold my data in a very very cute way (◕‿◕✿).

I spent a lot of time thinking about piss

From Chianli: You do not know the mathematically best place to take a piss. But if you go to threeurinaldilemma.com you may just find enlightenment. I got a lot of weird looks interviewing people about their urination preferences which might make you think I’m weird, but in fact I am very normal and well adjusted. This is also why I strapped an internal combustion engine onto a skateboard which you should be seeing soon.

Cowstars

From Morry: I tried to dunk on Laura Giplin’s poem “The Two-Headed Calf” and ended up accidentally making something very beautiful. Oops. Click the button for more stars .✦ ˚ . ✦

Please fix this site

From Avi: We were inspired by XKCD 3113 for this one and we wanted to make a nightmarish site. A very funny problem was that cursor really didn’t want to make this website so broken since I was actively breaking design guidelines. This was also a Humidity Studios project.

We’re So Over, We’re So Back

From Mac:

IG: @transistor_resistor
Bluesky: macp.bsky.social

I’m a Chicago based “artist” that makes “artworks.”

It’s DOOM but you can Cut, Copy and Paste

From Greg: My friend's software had a wacky implementation of Copy/Paste which made me think that it would be funny to have that very "normie" functionality in a game, one of the last places where copy/paste is typically (completely?) absent. I vibe-made this with AI - I'm also still unsure of what it truly means to copy in doom. My most secret wish is that you could copy/paste walls. Maybe v2! xx

Heavyweight

From Morry: Not legal advice, but you can look like you have a lawyer if you afford it. The scariness of legal letters is 90% document formatting and then 10%, you know, the power of the law. Input your complaint, play around with the sliders, and send your obstinate landlord or customer service desk a letter from people that look extremely serious. Did we mention this isn’t legal advice?

I drank every cocktail

From Adam: I drank all 102 cocktails on the IBA official cocktail list, and I wrote a blog post recapping the experience. It turned out to be surprisingly tricky, thanks to some of the list's more obscure inclusions and my self-imposed constraint of not making the drinks myself. In the post, I document the journey’s twists and turns, interesting bars it took me to, and my new favorite cocktails. Cheers!

Street View

From Matt (and Yufeng): This was a really fun collaboration inspired by the discord server! I came across Yufeng’s project and thought that it could tell a really cool story to bring people into the data for greater exploration. Yufeng had already done the difficult part (collecting the data), so this was a relatively straightforward exercise in storytelling!

Reworked Guitar Hero Guitar

From Emma: I took an old Guitar Hero guitar for PS2 and modded it into a midi instrument! Had an artist use it on stage to play a phat synth and it made my inner child extremely happy. I replaced the internal PCBs with my own custom ones. I harvested the strum buttons off the old board though, which, funny enough, were surprisingly similar to tactile keyboard switches. No wonder it felt so satisfying to strum.