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Ask HN: Does any one know what the deal is with today's XKCD

• onion2k 11y ago
  In Chrome on OSX I can create a couple more lights, move them about, and change their temperature. As it says 'relax' I imagine we're supposed to wait for something to grow.
  • 505 11y ago
    I waited, and seemed to get a bird bath (in silhouette).
    • 505 11y ago
      My child has an instance on another computer, and reports getting a plant.
  • lucideer 11y ago
    I've grown what looks like a goat
• marcoperaza 11y ago
  If you navigate to xkcd.com/?debug, you get a debug version that draws some colored lines on the canvas and logs to the console. Mine already started growing some plants (or whatever they are).
• lucideer 11y ago
  Is it possible that http://explainxkcd.com/ http://explainxkcd.com/ being unavailable is down to the number of people confused by this
• colinramsay 11y ago
  The server's quite slow at the moment. Adding a new light just took it nearly 30 seconds, so I wonder if that's affecting the behaviour of the thing in general?
• fractal618 11y ago
  the title is "garden" and the alt text says "relax" I have a hunch that if you leave the lights on and leave the page open, things will grow. trying it now
  • k__ 11y ago
    Probably mining Bitcoin, while you wait ;)
• Grellenort 11y ago
  I got some cactus under red light
• tamerobots 11y ago
  I have grown an octopus with a purple light.
• deleted 11y ago
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• tigge 11y ago
  Umm, it's supposed to grow something?? I sat there for over an hour with 16 lamps and nothing happened...
• quaris 11y ago
  Yes, stuff does grow if you leave it long enough in the light. I have a couple mini cactuses and a grass thing under the yellow light
• Gustomaximus 11y ago
  And tomorrow XKCD presents how to increase average session duration on your webpage.