SlowDeath718

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A GUY AT GOOGLE DEEPMIND MADE AN ISOMETRIC PIXEL-ART MAP OF NEW YORK CITY AND PUT IT ON THE OPEN WEB FOR FREE

it's called https://t.co/8fAASvEmXT

you open the tab and the city is just sitting there in classic SimCity 2000 isometric pixel art. you scroll. and it keeps going. and going.

i zoomed in on midtown and i could read the H&M signage in times square. in red. as actual pixel-art letters on the side of a building.

i could see the crystalline spire of the Bank of America Tower poking out of a clump of skyscrapers. individual rooftop HVAC units. tiny green roof gardens. the little driveway loops in front of the hotels.

he estimates the map needs roughly 40,000 tiles. nothing is a placeholder.

the guy who made it is Andy Coenen, a senior staff engineer at Google DeepMind. he is not a pixel artist. by his own admission he is "a former electronic musician."

what he actually did is kind of insane:

> pulled NYC's geometry from the Google Maps 3D tiles API

> fine-tuned an open-source image model (Qwen-Image-Edit) on ~40 hand-paired examples of "satellite tile → pixel art tile"

> spun up 50 parallel instances on rented GPUs and generated tens of thousands of tiles in a few hours

> the fine-tune cost him 12 bucks

his own stated mission for the project, verbatim, is one sentence: "what's possible now that was impossible before?"

apparently the answer is "one engineer can pixel-art most of a metropolis for the price of a sandwich."

and the wildest part to me is he didn't sell it. no signup. no paywall. no NFT. you open the URL and the city is yours to wander.

the post landed at 1,325 points on Hacker News and topped bestofshowhn's 2026 list.

we live in a timeline where a senior engineer at one of the largest AI labs on earth spent his nights pixel-arting Manhattan for fun and then gave it away.

the internet is healing.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Putting Charlie's obnoxious fence-straddling to the side, Ethan Klein suing someone for defamation over this is exactly the sort of egregious hypocrisy we've all come to expect from this litigious rat scumbag. 🙄

[Abdulkadir | Cybersec @cyber__razz]

Watch!

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Ethan Klein also claims "lan has supported the call to CPS in his content deputy" when all he did was call out Ethan for repeatedly lying about the entire thing. 🙄

[Danny Jones @JonesDanny]

Antiwar author Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) breaks down the stories coming out of Gaza that no one wants to confront.

He says the most disturbing part is not even the bombing:

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@stoolpresidente @grok I don't follow this shithead. Stop sharing his tweets

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@SecDuffy @POTUS Its a transportation hub bruh. We don't give af

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@thevivafrei They boo'd an unwanted guest. He was a huge distraction. You're better than this

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@stoolpresidente Go eat a bologna sandwich puto

[Substance @SimplySubstance]

‼️🚨NICKY D: DISTANCING FROM ETHAN LAWSUITS

Following Denims’ tentative win on the Content Nuke lawsuit DeOrio is now saying Ethan “needs to step back and reflect”

Chleepy finds this ironic when a year ago Pigolas was egging on Ethan saying “it’s the time to go for blood”

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Patrick Ewing to kids: “ We have a surprise—you guys will be coming to the game tonight”

(Cheers)

“Not only tonight but also Wednesday night”

(CHEERS)

Craig Melvin: “What they don’t realize is that’s like $250,000 😆”

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@samtripoli Tomorrow*

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

.@Apple Planned Obsolescence

The “Truth” about why the headphone jack was removed.

I wonder how much damage has been done to the human brain with bluetooth tech?

[yeet @Awk20000]

Hasan says he could sue Ethan Klein for defamation over the br*thel allegations and Pegasus/others for calling him Diddy Piker

"This guy (Ethan) literally calls, ironically he's the last person who should be calling anybody a f'in p-do given his reddit accounts..he also literally calls every person that he hates a p-do all the god d*mn time"

"U wanna talk about defamation..I have his a*s dead to rights..literal article that he read..knowing full well that the accusations by the state were wrong..he knows the truth and yet he participates in this slander..he should be feeling real happy that I don't f'in pursue this kind of sh*t"

"Even that, calling me Diddy Piker..it's total slander, it's defamation"

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

lol Ethan was about to offer to set him up with his grifting hack West Bank settler lawyer who he just paid millions losing yet another lawsuit on his behalf 😭

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@EricBalchunas

[Clipping Wings @ClippingWings]

Denims HUMILIATES youtube lawyers who had said she had no chance in her lawsuit with Ethan Klein.

"Some of them now are like: I actually was saying from the very beginning she had a really good chance"

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

how this work out dipshit?

[SlowDeath718 @SlowDeath718]

@IreneGellar

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🤯 Devon Larratt Says He Saw an 8-Foot-Tall Giant While Serving in Afghanistan

“Our officer and a couple dudes went forward and we're looking at this guy. I mean, he was maybe twice as big. He was huge … Our officer was probably somewhere at the bottom of his chest.”