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You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky
- eternityforest 3y agoReally cool! Maybe it could have a timer that shows how long since the last time the sky fell?
- jasonlaster11 3y agoI was curious how the game was built so I recorded this replay. Fun to see how it's using Supabase for the global state. https://app.replay.io/recording/replay-of-youareatlascom--7500906f-bbc4-480c-8284-6a341ed71aaa?point=18173039005014733297983782167511180&time=5953.014631043257&focusWindow=eyJiZWdpbiI6eyJwb2ludCI6IjAiLCJ0aW1lIjowfSwiZW5kIjp7InBvaW50IjoiMjE0MTgyMjQ1NDE2MTU1NzYxMTgyODcyNzY4NzU3MTA0NjQiLCJ0aW1lIjo2OTg4fX0%253D https://app.replay.io/recording/replay-of-youareatlascom--75...
- KirillPanov 3y ago> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. Apparently the sky has fallen.
- Polarity 3y ago- /info is broken (try reloading it) - js is half a mb - app is polling the db way too fast - app is a small counter but uses react, which is made for big scale social networks - its made in 48h, which is wayyy too long?
- joshvince 3y agoYou must be fun at parties!
- School-Cotton 3y agoIf there were only one person holding up the sky, how long would the developer keep his Supabase instance up for?
- highwaylights 3y agoWell it’s not about to fall for a while now is it?
- Animats 3y ago"The sky has fallen 989 times." Use this for A/B testing of ads?
- booleandilemma 3y agoI'm just going to shrug.
- e-master 3y agoWho’s John Galt anyway…
- benatkin 3y ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- balaji1 3y agoa shrug and an upvote from me
- charles_f 3y agoI had to come back to this post to upvote it, 5m later, after letting out an audible "aaahhhhhh" in the kitchen
- rob74 3y agoI learned about Ayn Rand second-hand thanks to the Bioshock series (which took place in a retrofuturistic submarine dystopia produced by a strictly libertarian society), so I got the reference right away...
- xeonmc 3y agoSuch a great title, wasted on such poor writing.
- mandmandam 3y agoIf only poor writing was the worst of its qualities :/
- xeonmc 3y agoOn the other hand, Bioshock was precisely the opposite: everything was sublime except for the title.
- cpersona 3y agoI feel disincentivized to hold up the sky. What’s my motivation?
- School-Cotton 3y agoSo that it doesn't fall.
- lijok 3y agoMotivation is your motivation
- Joeboy 3y agoYou don't need motivation, you need discipline.
- joot82 3y agoSame motivation as forwarding chain letters. Being superstitious and hope for invisible internet magic helping those poor orphans in need out. Just that you hold up the sky here.
- brmgb 3y agoThis reminds me of the Button [1] experiment Reddit held in 2015. The interplay between the effect of the countdown reaching zero, the badge associated with clicking and the single use mechanics were quite interesting to witness. It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
- robertlagrant 3y ago> dubbed "The Pressiah" by the community Sometimes Reddit is excellent.
- abra0 3y ago>It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time. Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary here [1]. Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-mysterious-button-experiment-is-over https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoWhat was the bug?
- Jarwain 3y ago> The final point of failure was even less spectacular: a co-ordinated attempt to keep the button alive by automatically pressing it with donated accounts when it got too low had been working on overtime, but a fatal flaw meant that no-one bothered to check whether the anointed account actually could press. > The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the button – and found that the account had been registered after 1 April.
- thirdplace_ 3y agoshrug
- johnnyworker 3y ago> There are 0 other users online. > The sky has fallen 0 times. courtesy of uMatrix ^^
- Jowsey 3y ago> I disabled JavaScript on your site that conceptually requires JavaScript to function and now it doesn't work as expected
- predictabl3 3y agoIt seems like given the tricks I've seen with long-http requests and browsers, it might be possible to implement a version that doesn't require JS. I think that would also have the effect of being able to easily curl it. Could just add a lil nixos module and quietly deploy it to a few servers. Gotta keep the sky up, of course.
- johnnyworker 3y agoThat wasn't meant as a complaint, more like a "cheat". I also didn't disable JS, it's just uMatrix blocks third party stuff by default.
- benatkin 3y agoSponsored by Atlassian. The actual word for pertaining to Atlas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean
- bobmaxup 3y agoMaybe they chose that name a disambiguation so as to be only associated with the god Atlas, and not the city Atlantis or its suggested founding leader Atlas (son of Poseidon).
- benatkin 3y agoI think they just like making puns. A founder had a blog called "rebelutionary". slide 4 here: https://slideplayer.com/slide/5874486/ https://slideplayer.com/slide/5874486/ http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000834.html http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000834.htm... (dead link)
- RedNifre 3y agoThis would be interesting as a one-off thing, like reddit's "The Button". Having it say "The sky has fallen 989 times." makes it a bit meaningless.
- float4 3y agoOr at least show us how long the sky's been up currently? I have no idea if this page is 2 days or 2 years old, and I'm too lazy to check archive.org.
- surfpel 3y agoFor me it says "There are 0 other users online. The sky has fallen 0 times." which is less believable right after I refresh the page
- eastbound 3y agoBut if the sky falls while no-one is here, does it make a sound?
- Jarwain 3y agoI'm confused I've seen two other commenter's say fhe sky's fallen 989 times, but it only says 981 for me
- cglong 3y agoCan confirm, it was 989 earlier today and is 981 now...
- uka 3y agoJust another page counter in the 90s - a game in 21st century ...
- amelius 3y agoIf nobody sees the sky falling, it doesn't fall.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoAnd if a sky falls in a forest and there's no one left to hear it because they were squished by the sky, it doesn't make a sound either.
- melx 3y agoThat's why we have timezones, so that not all humanity is asleep at the same time.
- anotherevan 3y agoThat was actually one minor plot point in Robert Sawyer's novel, Flashforward, that stuck in my mind. When everyone on the planet lost consciousness at the same time (their minds being projected into the future) all video recording just saw essentially static. The theory was that it was actually recording the quantum froth as it were, of the unresolved probabilities until an observer woke up and it collapsed into one outcome. I'm perhaps not explaining it well. OTOH, it is called science-FICTION.
- Tao3300 3y agoIt's the web equivalent of the light inside your refrigerator.
- si1entstill 3y agoSchrödinger's refrigerator light.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoDon't give refrigerator manufacturers any ideas about cost-cutting strategies.
- boopmaster 3y agoTIL: do read the comments before opening the subject URL.
- praptak 3y agoI remember something with the same mechanics, it was about an astronaut who dies when the number of people playing (connecting) drops to zero. Can't find it though.
- doersino 3y agohttps://ludonaut.xyz/projects/impetus.html https://ludonaut.xyz/projects/impetus.html
- janoelze 3y agoMore info: https://www-spiegel-de.translate.goog/netzwelt/games/online-spiel-impetus-klicken-gegen-den-weltraum-tod-a-918790.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-spiegel-de.translate.goog/netzwelt/games/online-...
- happyasday 3y ago[flagged]
- supportengineer 3y agoI let the sky fall, but the counter did not increment when I came back
- withinboredom 3y agoProbably because your browser still has a background connection to the server.
- pmontra 3y agoIf the sky falls do we see what's above it or will it fall upon us together with the sky?
- parentheses 3y agoscaling this would make a great system design interview question. rather than building a larger system, build something that takes consistency, availability and fault tolerance to an extreme.
- dmvdoug 3y agoJoke’s on him. It’s really turtles all the way down.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoRespect the turtleschild radius, or end up with a turtlenova and a turtlehole (don't go there).
- RivieraKid 3y agoYawn. Yes, I'm not fun at parties.
- charles_f 3y agoI am Nike, the sky is holding me
- dalmo3 3y agoI am standing. Adidas is holding me.
- thepaulthomson 3y agoWould be interesting to see a "high-score" gamification loop that tells us what the longest stretch of the sky not falling has been.
- wardedVibe 3y agoLemme just throw this on the pile of a hundred tabs I have open. It seems perfectly content to be a background tab
- paulpauper 3y agolooks like another novelty page meant specifically for getting to the front page of Hacker News, which in a year will be abandoned or turned into seo fodder. .
- quickthrower2 3y agoLooking in the network tab, there are a lot of 406 responses. What is that all about?
- anonu 3y agoThe /ActivePlayers endpoint [1] returns an array of all active users, of which there are only 20-30 right now. What happens when/if there are 1000s ? This will fall over... [1] https://glkmsstwzynytciznsqo.supabase.co/rest/v1/ActivePlayers https://glkmsstwzynytciznsqo.supabase.co/rest/v1/ActivePlaye...
- m0llusk 3y ago[flagged]
- schappim 3y agoI can see a logical progression here... Next, you need to keep mining cryptocurrency in the browser, otherwise the earth will implode. The earth has imploded 23 times.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoYou need to follow an engineering standard checklist and a pre-journey checklist to prevent your submersible from imploding. Submersible imploded once.
- xwdv 3y agoWe need a paid version of this where we can put in some money to hold up the sky.