On Making Music with the Machine
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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
HN · launched Dec 29, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: ai music generators · 149 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -74% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No This is an essay/blog post documenting the author's journey using machine learning models for music generation over the years rather than a software product to vibe-code.
What it would actually take: As an educational essay, there is no software product to reverse engineer. If referring to building an underlying generative music engine like Jukebox or Suno, it requires multi-modal diffusion or autoregressive audio models trained across petabytes of copyrighted music on GPU clusters with specialized DSP and ML audio engineering.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Udio, Traditional music creation (vocal chords, violin)
Concerns raised: Copyright ownership unclear - AI-generated music may not be copyrightable under US law, Spotify distribution of AI music creates legal/financial risk, Not genuine songwriting - lacks human authorship required by law, Output quality concerns - results described as 'slop' without significant curation effort
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 432 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #366 of 433 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 61 days after the earliest competitor.
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