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> What I need is an app that does nothing but show you truly random pictures, with no curation and no memetic aspirations. If you know of one, please let me kno

by debo_ 2y ago

> What I need is an app that does nothing but show you truly random pictures, with no curation and no memetic aspirations. If you know of one, please let me know. This must exist, right?

1f60c 2y ago
https://archillect.com/archive https://archillect.com/archive? Sadly it seems to have gone quiet.
- deleted 2y ago
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joebergeron 2y ago
Came to the comments to look for this! I was immediately taken by the idea after reading about the author’s experience.
Lammy 2y ago
Copy and paste this link to avoid HN Referer redirect: https://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ https://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ “WebCollage is a program that creates collages out of random images found on the Web. More images are being added to the collage about once a minute, so this page will reload itself periodically. Clicking on one of the images in the collage will take you to the page on which it was found. It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned. WebCollage also works as a screen saver on MacOS and Unix: it is included with the XScreenSaver package.”
- jaredwiener 2y ago
  Curious -- why do you want to avoid the HN referer?
  - panzagl 2y ago
    Because JWZ blocks links from HN.
  - squigz 2y ago
    Because otherwise it shows you this https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png The admins at jwz.org seem very mature.
    - simoncion 2y ago
      > The admins at jwz.org seem very mature. The admin at jwz.org thinks the same thing about the typical HN commenter, so I suppose it all washes out.
      - squigz 2y ago
        I'm glad they made their opinion known in such a clever way.
kmoser 2y ago
Not too hard to find if you Google "website that shows random images". Examples: https://r.sine.com/index https://r.sine.com/index, https://picsum.photos/ https://picsum.photos/ (refresh to see new image)
Palomides 2y ago
someone would need to make a little wrapper, but this redirects to a random image in wikimedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/File http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/File
layer8 2y ago
There’s https://randomgenerate.io/random-picture-generator https://randomgenerate.io/random-picture-generator and similar sites.
debo_ 2y ago
Thanks folks! These are all great links. I'd seen that jwz link ages ago and completely forgotten about it.

by debo_ 2y ago

> What I need is an app that does nothing but show you truly random pictures, with no curation and no memetic aspirations. If you know of one, please let me know. This must exist, right?

1f60c 2y ago

https://archillect.com/archive https://archillect.com/archive? Sadly it seems to have gone quiet.

deleted 2y ago
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joebergeron 2y ago

Came to the comments to look for this! I was immediately taken by the idea after reading about the author’s experience.

Lammy 2y ago

Copy and paste this link to avoid HN Referer redirect: https://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ https://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ “WebCollage is a program that creates collages out of random images found on the Web. More images are being added to the collage about once a minute, so this page will reload itself periodically. Clicking on one of the images in the collage will take you to the page on which it was found. It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned. WebCollage also works as a screen saver on MacOS and Unix: it is included with the XScreenSaver package.”

jaredwiener 2y ago
Curious -- why do you want to avoid the HN referer?
- panzagl 2y ago
  Because JWZ blocks links from HN.
- squigz 2y ago
  Because otherwise it shows you this https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png The admins at jwz.org seem very mature.
  - simoncion 2y ago
    > The admins at jwz.org seem very mature. The admin at jwz.org thinks the same thing about the typical HN commenter, so I suppose it all washes out.
    - squigz 2y ago
      I'm glad they made their opinion known in such a clever way.

kmoser 2y ago

Not too hard to find if you Google "website that shows random images". Examples: https://r.sine.com/index https://r.sine.com/index, https://picsum.photos/ https://picsum.photos/ (refresh to see new image)

Palomides 2y ago

someone would need to make a little wrapper, but this redirects to a random image in wikimedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/File http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/File

layer8 2y ago

There’s https://randomgenerate.io/random-picture-generator https://randomgenerate.io/random-picture-generator and similar sites.

debo_ 2y ago

Thanks folks! These are all great links. I'd seen that jwz link ages ago and completely forgotten about it.