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Google: Let it snow
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- babarock 15y agoDo they announce these things somewhere, or did someone actually input "let it snow" and thought to post it here?
- ctdonath 15y agoYeah, different results for different platforms. Tapped the link on my tablet and just got a list of videos of Sinatra singing "Let It Snow". Nice sentiment, but didn't see why it topped HN.
- mkopinsky 15y agoI doubt they announce it. With these kind of things that will spread virally, you only need to "infect" a small population for it to spread.
- gaving 15y agoAnyone wanna tear out the source and package it up?
- aw3c2 15y agoEats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.
- est 15y agoFunny, half year back the same bunch of people said the same thing to Flash. Now imagine a world where every banner or sidebar is full of HTML5 canvas animation ads.
- melling 15y agoFirefox takes one core, while Chrome seems to split it across two cores, with a lower combined CPU utilization. I'm using the Nightly's for both browsers. With open source technology we get multiple implementations and a lot more people working to improve the technology.
- est 15y ago> multiple implementations Remember Android fragmentation? Talk about open source as golden hammer to solve problems.
- seanp2k2 15y agoAndroid fragmentation is not the same matter that was being referred to here. A better analogy might be Android and MeeGo or OpenMoko. Having a real choice is great in my opinion, and having three mainstream browsers (one open, one mostly open, and one totally closed) to choose between is awesome.
- zobzu 15y agoThat's odd, I use current Aurora and Chromium dev channel. Well, on Linux. Both use only one core for the browser, and Xorg uses "another core". Firefox uses 10% more CPU and the animation is butter smooth. Chromium uses 10% less CPU and the animation is a little choppy. It looks like Chromium is throttling or something. None of them use more than 40% CPU on the core used. Video driver is intel i915, acceleration works.
- ugh 15y agocanvas { display: none !important; }
- bzbarsky 15y agoThis doesn't help that much, almost certainly. It prevents having to recomposite the canvas to the page, but the drawing to the canvas still has to happen....
- angstrom 15y agoHave to simulate the wind somehow...
- xpose2000 15y agonice
- resnamen 15y agoGoogle loves its users and wants you to stay warm.
- culturestate 15y agoI wonder why they didn't enable this in their tablet layout. I thought performance at first, but It runs acceptably well on my iPad 2 when identifying as OSX Safari in terra browser, and the desktop version even responds to changes in the accelerometer.
- subspaceman 15y agonot sure about why not on the ipad, but on my playbook it seems to work fine as well.
- nostrademons 15y agoTry now.
- city41 15y agoI was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.
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- memset 15y agoIf you click and drag across the screen, then it will have the effect of doing this with your finger :)
- sp332 15y agoI think that part of the effect only works on chrome. Actually I can't get any of it work work on IE9 on Win7, it just shows regular serach results. Edit: oh I see, you have to wait for the "Defrost" button to show up before you can "wipe" the frost off. Still doesn't work in IE though :)
- dimmuborgir 15y agoWorks on Firefox 8 (Linux).
- isamuel 15y agoWiping off the condensation works on Safari 5.1.2, too.
- GuiA 15y agoI blew in my microphone half-hoping mist would form on top of the window.
- artursapek 15y agoHahah I would be worried if they were using my microphone without my permission
- nvk 15y agoThe "Defrost" button was a nice touch.
- lysol 15y agoI see Google has decided to turn their search results page into every website from 1998.
- jebblue 15y agoExcept that using modern technologies it uses a ton of CPU time to accomplish.
- pablosanta 15y agoJust plain old awesomeness from Google...
- DanBC 15y agoHacking away at the Labs is awesome. This? It's just tinkering with the UI. There are a gajillion different key word searches they could do; tilt tilts the screen, scary ghost scream waits ten seconds and then flashes a scary ghost on the screen with a scream; etc etc. And, while they're doing that, and Google just works for most people there are a small group of users who'd really appreciate better documentation for searching. Wanna-be power users need to know how to combine terms or have options or how to use stemming etc. I dunno why a single page of instructions with examples is so hard to get.
- davidpardo 15y agoDoesn't work on the iPad. :(
- wavephorm 15y agoGoogle is becoming notorious for not supporting the iPad. I found Google+ to be totally unusable.
- cma 15y agoIt is because the defrost with pointer effect wouldn't work on ipad because that is how you drag
- kalleboo 15y agoDefrosting with the cursor didn't work for me in Firefox either, and Firefox used about 2x the CPU that Chrome did.
- jrockway 15y agoWell, yeah. It's Firefox.
- rhubarbquid 15y agoIt works including the defrost effect on my iPad...
- nostrademons 15y agoTry again?
- ck2 15y agoHey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?
- jader201 15y agoI'm all for opposition to SOPA, but does this really fit on this discussion?
- nyellin 15y agoThere is a hidden reason for stunts like these. They spread by word of mouth to non-technical users. Those users try them, fail, and then ask their children why. Just like that, Chrome steals one more user from Internet Explorer 6. On the other hand, Google opposes SOPA, but being overtly political has its problems...
- ticks 15y agoGoogle's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.
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- mike-cardwell 15y agoExactly. Why do people want yet another hugely rich corporation using their money to interfere in politics? What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? America needs to learn to govern it's self without the intervention of corporations. America doesn't need more of them getting involved.
- kr1shna 15y agoEnjoyed the defrost button :)
- dyun 15y agoIt is so cool!
- craigyk 15y agoi found "tilt" accidentally a while back
- ell 15y agoWhy is this on top of Hacker News? What is amazing about this?
- amazedsaint 15y agoCoz it is Dec, and it is Google. ;)
- kmfrk 15y ago"Bah! Humbug!"
- jamesaguilar 15y agoA secret cabal of Google engineers upvoted it. Orrrrr . . . the hackers who frequent this site like this sort of stuff.
- zobzu 15y agoOr the hackers who frequent this site are from Google. Ah! I must say, I found it cool too. Nothing special etc, but, it's winter and stuff. So yea.
- seanp2k2 15y agoCan someone extract and de-obfuscate (or de-compress) the snow JS here so other people can use this on their sites?
- ricardobeat 15y agoLots of bitterness here. Come on, it's christmas time, that's just a little fun for normal people.
- NARKOZ 15y agoPretty cool. I want to see that on twitter.
- nailer 15y agoVery laggy on latest Chrome on 2010 MacBook Air.
- zobzu 15y agoTry on Firefox. However odd that sounds, given this has been made by Google, its smoother for me.
- apieceofpi 15y agoAh, reminds me of another search trick that doesn't work any more -- make fart noises and voice recognition recognizes it as New York.
- holman 15y agoIf you didn't notice, this also ties into an orientation sensor if you've got one. On my MacBook Pro, for example, just tilt your laptop left or right and the snow will fall that direction.
- nostrademons 15y agoYou can also draw doodles in the fog and then send them around to your friends or post them on websites: https://www.google.com/search?q=let+it+snow&frostwriting=1;GZB0BABACADADADADACAEBDBDCCBDCFCFDEDFEEEEEEFEDDFEFDFDFEEDFDFEGDGDHCGCFDICGDGDKEJCIEKDKDJEKEJEIEHDGEGEGEFDFCDCDCDBCBBBBBABCBBBBBBBBCAABBABABBCACACADACBDABADACABABAhA!H_DxhAjAlDmEnFlFmGkFjFjGkGkGjEkFjFjEiEiEjEjDiEkEoJnHnJkFkFiChChChBhBAB!GLF5 https://www.google.com/search?q=let+it+snow&frostwriting...
- davidw 15y agoHrm. Xsnow did that back in the 90ies. Wonder if they'll do an xroach thing where you click on results and the roaches scurry out from under them to other result blocks...
- xrt 15y agoxsnow anyone, like 20 years ago? Awesome!
- lang 15y agoDoesn't seem to work on ipad
- nostrademons 15y agoLook again?
- diamondhead 15y agothe world will be a better place when the humanity stop putting lots of effort and interest on snow scripts.
- catsdogsbobcats 15y agoIn somewhat related news, searching for "Chanukah" results in a nice decorative border.
- dkasper 15y agoAnother easter egg I found is that they added a row of stars of David on the result page for "hanukkah".
- jpd 15y agoSadly, searching for "make it rain" does not produce the desired results.
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- ihatefamous 15y agoThis is awesome!!
- alzberg 15y agoAlso, if you type "Hanukkah" you'll see a row of Jewish stars.