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Show HN: Time Flies
A visualization of the passage of time using flies. Written in JavaScript with some HTML & CSS in one index.html.
- anordin95 2y agoThis is wonderful! I'd love something similar to this in my computer's time-display: random-noise until I click.
- harshaxnim 2y agoCurious, why?
- anordin95 2y agoI occasionally feel overly concerned with how much time each thing I'm doing is taking. As opposed to getting pleasantly lost in whatever it is that I'm doing. Of course it's useful to check-in on the time every so often or get calendar notifications to keep from missing events, but I realistically don't need to check the time every minute or two.
- Rush2112 2y agoThis app reminds me of the marx brothers quote, “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.”
- modeless 2y agoClearly the time flies should follow the mouse cursor.
- adzm 2y agoReferred to as a garden path sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- 082349872349872 2y agoHaving had friends who wrangled D. melanogaster, it reminds me of the smell of ether and yeast.
- tomcam 2y agoHilarious. Really wish I’d thought of this. Nicely executed.
- opem 2y agoTrue XD
- keyle 2y agoVery nice, simple and elegant. Would make a nice screensaver with a bit more movement.
- koliber 2y agoImagine lit-up drones doing a countdown like this before New Year’s Eve!
- wingerlang 2y agoGuaranteed to have been done in Asia already, an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIs8t3ro9Fw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIs8t3ro9Fw
- susam 2y agoNot at all similar to the one in this "Show HN" post but related: London 2023 countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcDNi1HkfI&t=49s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcDNi1HkfI&t=49s London 2024 countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wBcCIlMGw&t=50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wBcCIlMGw&t=50s
- josefrichter 2y agoInitially I thought it's one of those optical illusions where you start seeing something in seemingly random buzz, just dynamically generated.
- kaan_keskin 2y agoNow, I should port this to my smartwatch. Great.
- singularity2001 2y agoCould be a good test for future GPT intelligence but probably not hard
- Gazoche 2y agoThis is the kind of idea that definitely started with the pun and then was worked backwards from there. Pretty funny. Tip: you can click on the canvas to "disturb" the flies
- chasil 2y agoThe term "Tempus Fugis" is Latin for time flies, and is commonly seen on clock faces. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempus_fugit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempus_fugit
- rpastuszak 2y agoAeternitas manet! fugit means literally "runs away/escapes" (useless trivia: it's just like in Bach's fugues which has to do with their structure). I'm not trying to be pedantic here -- for some time I've been wondering how one would say (in classical latin) "time flies" as "the flies of time". Can anyone with the knowledge of classical Latin help me feed that brain worm? Is it Muscae temporis? Can I use that phrase instead of tempus fugit? Like a friend named Mori, who used to finish all of his posts with "Memento Mori - remember Mori"
- wazoox 2y agoMuscae temporis is fine, and funny in its way :)
- rpastuszak 2y agoPerfect, thanks!
- lioeters 2y ago> fugit means literally "runs away/escapes" Reminds me of Atalanta Fugiens (1617), a book on alchemy considered an early example of multimedia. > It is the first alchemical Gesamtkunstwerk that comprises music, images, poetry, and prose together in one piece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta_Fugiens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta_Fugiens The title refers to Atalanta, who agrees to marry anyone who beats her in a footrace. Swift-footed Atalanta won every time, until Hippomenes cheats by throwing at her golden apples he got from Aphrodite.
- fuzztester 2y agoI met an Italian person a while ago, who told me it means something like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
- Yawrehto 2y agoThat's super cool!
- ochrist 2y agoTime Flies is something I would expect in Doctor Who.
- gyre007 2y agoI love this! I wouldn't be surprised if this is the result of the author getting nerd-sniped somehow :-)
- nnnnat04 2y ago[flagged]
- fermentation 2y agoFun visualization. First thought that this would be https://timeflies.buzz/ https://timeflies.buzz/ a fun game I played at pax this year, though I'm a little worried I played the whole thing.
- garyrob 2y agoBut do they like an arrow?
- maxperience 2y agoAnother nice stoic-inspired visualisation of a life clock: https://lifeslay.vercel.app/ https://lifeslay.vercel.app/
- 3yanlis1bos 2y agoNice. <Spoiler> I would expect the phone shake to cause the flies to dispatch tho. <Spoiler/>
- gus_massa 2y agoNice feature request.
- gwern 2y agoReminds me of the falling-blocks one, where IIRC he made the blocks 'spontaneously' create the necessary time by starting with them in the right order and then simply displaying it in reverse, due to the temporal reversibility of physics. So it simply looked 100% correct as somehow the blocks magically all bounced exactly right so as to turn into the time. If you did it 'forward', you'd be baffled, but it becomes trivial if you think like a Heptapod. :) One could probably do the same trick here: start with the flies in the clock shape, then diffuse them, then display it in reverse. And stitch together each sequence by a bit of biased sampling to move each fly to its nearest counterpart in the next sequence? Then the flies magically assemble themselves into the time without ever moving unnaturally. "How do they know how to coordinate?! I just don't understand!" (Also a good analogy to AI diffusion models...?)
- gwern 2y agohttps://blog.oimo.io/2022/02/11/clock-core/ https://blog.oimo.io/2022/02/11/clock-core/
- jv22222 2y agoSomething that would work well in the Harry Potter universe! Great work.