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cannoneyed.com is a personal blog at cannoneyed.com about ai and programming. Since 2026, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Isometric NYC”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link cannoneyed.com for its isometric.nyc project, a giant isometric pixel map of NYC, and the write-up explaining how it was put together. Commenters also cite it alongside other web art projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Isometric NYC5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-01-22
- Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-22
What Hacker News says?
I'm reminded of the wonderful https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc project, also previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721802 This could be a great anecdotal benchmark for agent/model progress. I wonder how much easier things have gotten with the latest Codex/Claude vs. when isometric.nyc was made.
Comment linking /projects/isometric-nyc
on “Show HN: Isopolis – isometric pixel map of SF”Submitted Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI lived in NYC for 8 years and have worked there for almost 20 years. Absolutely loved zooming around to see: - my old apartment - places I've worked - restaurants and rooftop lounges I've been to etc The explanation of how this was put together was even cooler: https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
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on “Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC”Submitted Welcome to the Software Industrial Revolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis doesn't really look like pixel art; it looks like you applied a (very sophisticated) Photoshop filter to Google Earth. Everything is a little blurry, and the characteristic sharp edges of handmade pixel art (e.g. [0]) are completely absent. To me, the appeal of pixel art is that each pixel looks deliberately placed, with clever artistic tricks to circumvent the limitations of the medium. For instance, look at t…
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on “Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC”Submitted Isometric NYC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionamazing work! gemini 3.5 pro reverse engineered it - if you use the code at the following gist, you can jump to any specific lat lng :-) https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/c4c1a87277063430c26922b... also, check out https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/?debug=true ..! --- code below (copy & paste into your devtools, change the lat lng on the last line): const calib={p1:{pixel:{x:52548,y:64928},geo:{lat:40.751450208…
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on “Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC”Submitted How to Create an Isometric NYC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think the core idea in "masking" is to provide adjacent pixel art tiles as part of the input when rendering a new tile from photo reference. So part of the input is literal boundary conditions on the output for the new tile. Reference image from the article: https://cannoneyed.com/img/projects/isometric-nyc/training_d... You have to zoom in, but here the inputs on the left are mixed pixel art / photo textures. The…
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on “Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC”Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped! I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity: http:/…
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on “Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC”New interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well. https://ambient.garden/ https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ https://terra.layoutit.com/ https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
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