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Adam K Dean
Personal blog · adamkdean.co.ukaiprogramming
Adam K Dean's personal blog at adamkdean.co.uk covers ai and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on GPT Unicorn, a daily experiment asking GPT-4 to draw a unicorn in SVG to track model changes over time. Comments cite the post for its methodology; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-04-13
What Hacker News says?
I've seen people using "draw a unicorn using tikz" https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...
Comment linking /posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploration-of-gpt-4s-image-generation-capabilities
on “Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning”Submitted GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThis led me on a very interesting tangent! https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/from-einstein-to-turing-misdir...
Comment linking /posts/from-einstein-to-turing-misdirecting-gpt-4-with-hidden-prompts
on “Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen”Submitted Self-Reflecting AI: How GPT-4 Helped Uncover Its Own Web Browsing Functionality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.adamkdean.co.uk/ Posting for years, since 2010 at least, with gaps in between, most of which has served as a notebook of sorts for when I need to go back and find something. A few posts which did well when the blog existing on dev.to, winning a top post of the week award, but other than that, mostly just quick posts.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted RDP via SSH as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've got a blog post for that too! https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/melatonin-busting-glasses
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on “After 118 days, GPT Unicorn has produced a unicorn”Submitted GPT Unicorn has drawn the perfect unicorn on the 758th try as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio... > The idea behind GPT Unicorn is quite simple: every day, GPT-4 will be asked to draw a unicorn in SVG format. This daily interaction with the model will allow us to observe changes in the model over time, as reflected in the output.
Comment linking /posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploration-of-gpt-4s-image-generation-capabilities
on “After 118 days, GPT Unicorn has produced a unicorn”Submitted GPT Unicorn: Two Years Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's a linked blog post[0] that goes more into the methodology and reasoning. "As mentioned in the hacker news discussion, the model doesn't change daily. [...] As OpenAI releases incremental updates, we'll see the model change automatically and be able to judge outputs. A single sample per day leads to quite different results, but that's fine I think. What I expect to see a year from now is an evolution of outpu…
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on “After 118 days, GPT Unicorn has produced a unicorn”Submitted From Einstein to Turing: Misdirecting GPT-4 with Hidden Prompts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAccording to the author's blog post [1] the idea was that it "will use the latest gpt-4 model made available". Not sure if the code isn't up to date or this was changed in the meantime... [1] https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...
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on “After 118 days, GPT Unicorn has produced a unicorn”Submitted What's in an image? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Giving the Squirt.io bookmarlet a favicon as a story · 1 points
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