RiteshKhanna
I like building things, testing ideas, and seeing what holds up.
Apr 2, 2026
19 Years of Hacker News, Visualized
I queried 47.5 million items from the complete Hacker News archive to find out what the community really cares about, when to post, and who the power users are.
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19 Years of Hacker News, Visualized
I queried 47.5 million items from the complete Hacker News archive to find out what the community really cares about, when to post, and who the power users are.
Conway's Game of Life
An interactive cellular automaton — draw a pattern, press play, and watch complexity emerge from four simple rules.
Fun with Strings
A physics playground disguised as a page of prose. Every letter is a rigid body — click one and watch the words come apart.
I Built a Browser-Based AI Music Generator
A working AI music platform — type a prompt, get a full song with vocals, lyrics, and cover art. One person, open-source models.
Same Size, 3 Years of Progress: Retraining My Image Prompt Generator
In 2023 I fine-tuned GPT-2 355M to write image prompts. Now I retrained the concept with Qwen3-0.6B on Claude-generated data. Same size class, dramatically different results.
AI Music Is Good But Not Great. Can We Fix That?
I generated 230 AI songs across 10 genres, built a model to rate them, and used the data to 4x the hit rate of producing good tracks. All on a MacBook.
Front End Competition
I gave Claude Code and Codex the exact same prompt and deployed whatever came out. No edits, no re-rolls.
I Tried to One-Shot an Entire Web App with Claude Code
20,000 lines of code in 12 hours. It worked. It was also terrible. Here’s what I learned about the gap between “functional” and “shippable.”
I Trained a GPT-2 Model to Write Better Image Prompts Than I Can
Fine-tuned a 355M parameter model on thousands of high-quality Midjourney and Stable Diffusion prompts. Give it a few words, it gives you a masterpiece description.