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hi, I made this. thank you for posting. I love clocks and I love finding the edges of what any given technology is capable of. I've watched this for many hour
by lanewinfield 11mo ago
hi, I made this. thank you for posting.
I love clocks and I love finding the edges of what any given technology is capable of.
I've watched this for many hours and Kimi frequently gets the most accurate clock but also the least variation and is most boring. Qwen is often times the most insane and makes me laugh. Which one is "better?"
- anigbrowl 11mo agoI really like this. The broken ones are sometimes just failures, but sometimes provide intriguing new design ideas.
- jdiff 11mo agoThis same principle is why my favorite image generation model is the earlier models from 2019-2020 where they could only reliably generate soup. It's like Rorschach tests, it's not about what's there, it's about what you see in them. I don't want a bot to make art for me, sometimes I just want some shroom-induced inspirational smears.
- nemomarx 11mo agoI really miss that deepdream aesthetic with the dogs eyes popping up everywhere.
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- csours 11mo agoLOVE IT! It would be really cool if I could zoom out and have everything scale properly!
- Fabricio20 11mo agoWhy is this different per user? I sent this to a few friends and they all see different things from what i'm seeing, for the same time..?
- layer8 11mo agoIt’s different per minute, not per user.
- samtheprogram 11mo agoIt regenerates on page load. I find that pretty useful. Grok 4 and Kimi nailed it the first time for me, then only Kimi on the second pass.
- malfist 11mo agoNot on page load, it regenerates every minute. There's a little hovering question mark in the top right that explains things, including the prompt to the models.
- bspammer 11mo agoIf you're keeping all the generated clocks in a database, I'd love to see a Facemash style spin-off website where users pick the best clock between two options, with a leaderboard. I want to know what the best clock Qwen ever made was!
- ks2048 11mo agoNice job! Maybe let users click an example to see the raw source (LLM output)
- chemotaxis 11mo agoThis is honestly the best thing I've seen on HN this month. It's stupid, enlightening... funny and profound and the same time. I have a strong temptation to pick some of these designs and build them in real life. I applaud you for spending money to get it done.
- hakcermani 11mo ago.. would you mind sharing the prompt .. in a gist perhaps .
- ceroxylon 11mo agoThey have it available on the site under the (?) button: "Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting."
- smusamashah 11mo agoPlease make it show last 5 (or some other number) of clocks for each model. It will be nice to see the deviation and variety for each model at a glance.
- jdietrich 11mo agoClock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia. Sometimes the LLMs fail in ways that are fairly predictable if you're familiar with CSS and typical shortcomings of LLMs, but sometimes they fail in ways that are less obvious from a technical perspective but are exactly the same failure modes as cognitively-impaired humans. I think you might have stumbled upon something surprisingly profound. https://www.psychdb.com/cognitive-testing/clock-drawing-test https://www.psychdb.com/cognitive-testing/clock-drawing-test
- TheJoeMan 11mo agoFigure 6 with the square clock would be a cool modern art piece.
- yencabulator 11mo agoI have had this thought of a slow-moving mechanical simulation of a chaotic triple pendulum as a clock hand for a very long time.. Or maybe something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZxdV2naw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZxdV2naw8
- xrisk 11mo agoMaybe explainable via the fact that these tests are part of the LLM training set?
- jorgesborges 11mo agoConceptual deficit is a great failure mode description. The inability to retrieve "meaning" about the clock -- having some understanding about its shape and function but not its intent to convey time to us -- is familiar with a lot of bad LLM output.
- overfeed 11mo ago> Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia Interestingly, clocks are also an easy tell for when you're dreaming, if you're a lucid dreamer; they never work normally in dreams.
- charliewallace 11mo agoVery cool! I also love clocks, especially weird ones, and recently put up this 3D Moebius Strip clock, hope you like it: https://www.mobiusclock.com https://www.mobiusclock.com
- AnonHP 11mo agoCould you please change and adjust the positions of the titles (like GPT 5)? On Firefox Focus on iOS, the spacing is inconsistent (seems like it moves due to the space taken by the clock). After one or two of them, I had to scroll all the way down to the bottom and come back up to understand which title is linked to which clock.
- brianjking 11mo agoThis is an awesome benchmark. Officially one of my favorites now. Thank you for making this.