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A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon
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- vitarnixofntrnt 1y ago[dead]
- throawayonthe 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
- jbeninger 1y agoOne of my favourite web-things of all time. Incredible creativity in an unexpected place.
- i_am_proteus 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
- wrsh07 1y agoThis spoilery link provides context about the op link if that's what you want
- moron4hire 1y agoThis is an earlier work from the same author that I found absolutely delightful. https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl... You cannot predict where this story will go. It will take a turn and you will think, "oh, that's weird, but ok, I get it". And then it will do it again, and again, and again. But somehow, by the end of it all, it all makes sense.
- IAmBroom 1y agoReminding me a lot of Unsong.com, by Scott Alexander.
- snowwrestler 1y agoIn case people are wondering why this is being posted to HN again, the author just signed a book deal: https://bsky.app/profile/jonbois.bsky.social/post/3lp7tpfpeqk2o https://bsky.app/profile/jonbois.bsky.social/post/3lp7tpfpeq...
- _Yguy_ 1y agoI had no idea about this haha (I can confirm I am not associated with the author in any way)
- alargemoose 1y agoI’ve adored Jon’s writing for years, so a book is exciting! But it does bum me out a little bit that it will be “just” a book. Compared to the dynamic and multimedia formats of “Tim Tebow in the CFL” and “Football 17776”. The writing is excellent, but the dynamic and multimedia nature of his previous work will be missed. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!
- addandsubtract 1y agoWait, this is actually amazing.
- sshah_24 1y agoI had to print preview it... :)
- Strang 1y agoThis completely locked up my laptop. I had to hard power down.
- ablation 1y agoJon Bois has done some fantastic work. I love his Pretty Good series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSCYW1o-4whWtepyVlsfuCC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSCYW1o-4wh... Entertaining even if you're not into sports (but you better be into data!)
- whatamidoingyo 1y agoNot going to lie, that jump scared me. lol.
- Phenix88be 1y agoThis page sucked 100% of my CPU in mear seconds… I'm lucky I could close the tab fast enough.
- alephnerd 1y agoSame here. It's complete garbage with on Firefox despite using an overpowered Macbook Pro.
- khaki54 1y agoWorks great in edge on mac
- haiku2077 1y agoFor those who don't have time to... "read"... this great story, Jacob Geller provides a fun and effective summary within this video at 9 minutes in https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k In his words: "It is in my opinion one of the best sci-fi stories ever written."
- Jotalea 1y agoI got jumpscared by the text :sob:
- Thoreandan 1y agoViewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.