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I'm hoping that this makes HN's front page just to see the fun recursion of the site displaying a screenshot of itself. (And I do appreciate the experiment in u

I'm hoping that this makes HN's front page just to see the fun recursion of the site displaying a screenshot of itself. (And I do appreciate the experiment in user experience design, too.)

helloworld 9y ago
P.S. I just Googled "recursion," and got this very witty reply: Did you mean: recursion
- aidenn0 9y ago
  At least one dictionary used to end their entry on recursion with "see also: recursion"
- safeharbourio 9y ago
  some engineer at google must have loved doing this.
- jzzskijj 9y ago
  http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/recursion.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/recursion.html :)
- losteverything 9y ago
  "Department of redundancy departmemt" https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+department+of+redundnacy+department&oq=cartoon+department+of+redundnacy+department&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.14691j0j4&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=caVSQrNZZMz1cM https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+department+of+redund...:
aembleton 9y ago
It's taken a screenshot of itself, but it needs to climb higher so that we can see it recurring inside of itself http://hackernewsgrid.com/screenshots-compressed/52bbadf90a3fc9aad4f968adfe25c29c.png http://hackernewsgrid.com/screenshots-compressed/52bbadf90a3...
- 11235813213455 9y ago
  yes top9
- brennebeck 9y ago
  It's high enough now but looks like it hasn't refreshed yet.
  - unkown-unknowns 9y ago
    Probably it captures a screenshot only once per URL. The person that made the site could manually trigger a series of new screenshots though.
    - brennebeck 9y ago
      Aye. That's likely.
jacquesm 9y ago
This is called the Droste Effect.
- helloworld 9y ago
  Cool! From a 1904 Dutch cocoa package design, I've now learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    The only reason I know about it is because I'm Dutch and my grandmother would serve me cocoa from powder in tin with that image on it.
    - helloworld 9y ago
      The visual memories of childhood can be powerful. For some reason -- I know it's a stretch! -- this reminds me of the Froebel blocks that Frank Lloyd Wright played with as a kid: Wright, who died in 1959, often spoke and wrote eloquently about the influence of the blocks in his understanding of design. In his 1957 book, ''A Testament,'' he wrote: ''I sat at the little kindergarten table top and played with the cube, the sphere and the triangle. I soon became susceptible to constructive pattern evolving in everything I saw. I learned to see this way, and when I did, I did not care to draw casual incidentals of nature. I wanted to design.'' Some architecture observers have noted the similarities between the block structures Froebel designed and the eminent architect's buildings. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/style/the-froebel-gift-takes-form-again.html http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/style/the-froebel-gift-tak...

I'm hoping that this makes HN's front page just to see the fun recursion of the site displaying a screenshot of itself. (And I do appreciate the experiment in user experience design, too.)

helloworld 9y ago

P.S. I just Googled "recursion," and got this very witty reply: Did you mean: recursion

aidenn0 9y ago
At least one dictionary used to end their entry on recursion with "see also: recursion"
safeharbourio 9y ago
some engineer at google must have loved doing this.
jzzskijj 9y ago
http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/recursion.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/recursion.html :)
losteverything 9y ago
"Department of redundancy departmemt" https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+department+of+redundnacy+department&oq=cartoon+department+of+redundnacy+department&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.14691j0j4&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=caVSQrNZZMz1cM https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+department+of+redund...:

aembleton 9y ago

It's taken a screenshot of itself, but it needs to climb higher so that we can see it recurring inside of itself http://hackernewsgrid.com/screenshots-compressed/52bbadf90a3fc9aad4f968adfe25c29c.png http://hackernewsgrid.com/screenshots-compressed/52bbadf90a3...

11235813213455 9y ago
yes top9
brennebeck 9y ago
It's high enough now but looks like it hasn't refreshed yet.
- unkown-unknowns 9y ago
  Probably it captures a screenshot only once per URL. The person that made the site could manually trigger a series of new screenshots though.
  - brennebeck 9y ago
    Aye. That's likely.

jacquesm 9y ago

This is called the Droste Effect.

helloworld 9y ago
Cool! From a 1904 Dutch cocoa package design, I've now learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
- jacquesm 9y ago
  The only reason I know about it is because I'm Dutch and my grandmother would serve me cocoa from powder in tin with that image on it.
  - helloworld 9y ago
    The visual memories of childhood can be powerful. For some reason -- I know it's a stretch! -- this reminds me of the Froebel blocks that Frank Lloyd Wright played with as a kid: Wright, who died in 1959, often spoke and wrote eloquently about the influence of the blocks in his understanding of design. In his 1957 book, ''A Testament,'' he wrote: ''I sat at the little kindergarten table top and played with the cube, the sphere and the triangle. I soon became susceptible to constructive pattern evolving in everything I saw. I learned to see this way, and when I did, I did not care to draw casual incidentals of nature. I wanted to design.'' Some architecture observers have noted the similarities between the block structures Froebel designed and the eminent architect's buildings. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/style/the-froebel-gift-takes-form-again.html http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/style/the-froebel-gift-tak...