Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

A tiny online art project called Hallucinate showed up with a simple pitch: a photo gallery from two weeks of digital rave chaos. The page is basically a stream of timestamped images and hearts, but the real fireworks happened in the comments, where people instantly split into two camps: "this is amazing" and "wait, what am I even looking at?" That clash became the whole vibe.

On one side, fans were fully enchanted. One commenter called it flat-out amazing, while another said it brought back memories of underground Berlin raves and the kind of nights people get weirdly emotional about years later. A different admirer gave the builder a clean, classy compliment: "Hats off, really well built." For some readers, this wasn’t just a gallery — it was a moody little internet nightclub with nostalgic energy.

But the skeptics were not about to fake it. The sharpest reaction came from someone basically saying, I don’t get it, and I’m not signing up just to figure it out. Ouch. That became the thread’s main mini-drama: is Hallucinate a clever online party experiment, or a stylish mystery box asking strangers to do homework?

And then came the jokes. The funniest comment compared it to Berghain, Berlin’s famously hard-to-enter club, saying the loading bar here has less uncertainty at the end — except for that painfully relatable moment when it freezes at 93%. In other words: the gallery may be surreal, but the comment section turned it into a full-on comedy afterparty.