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   Turing-Drawings (github.com) 8 points by laurenth 19 minutes ago
This is my favorite [1]. These are a fun exercise to program yourself. Fairly straightforward but also insightful and easy to create fun variations with.

[1]: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,0,2,1,0,6,1... by iNic 3 minutes ago

Why does this look like a perfect representation of TV static?

https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,3,1,1,... by ramses0 7 minutes ago

I dunno, I took one look at it and thought 'this clearly wasn't influenced by the Cosmic Microwave Background at all! I can tell by the pixels'. by pvg 1 minute ago
TV static is random. This is basically a pseudo-random generator. by iNic 3 minutes ago
A thread 11 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6693653 by pvg 13 minutes ago