On Making Music with the Machine
Have been making music using ML/AI tools for about as long as I've been on HN. Had a recent comment section on HN here [1] and after that thought it might be worthwhile to write out about the journey in greater detail... from crude LSTM models, to hacking around with Jukebox, and now Suno. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388822
On Making Music with the Machine launched on December 29, 2025 with 6 votes, #1,714 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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and the untimely death of Peter Franz
#machineCROON Subscribe Sign in D960 On making music with the machine and the untimely death of Peter Franz SONGXYTR Dec 13, 2025 1 Share I first tried making music with the machine in 2017. I had been writing (prose, poetry, nonsense) for as long as I could remember and - for just as long - no one had shown much interest in reading that shit. Then, after coming across this article , I thought: perhaps I should use one of them new-fangled neural-nets to turn my words into their primitive... into song? My first attempt was naively under-powered and hilariously under-coded. But it was fun tinkering nonetheless, even if all it taught me was the hard limit of my ability. Then fast-forward to…from songxytr.substack.com
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