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I am convinced HN is the Pinterest of software. Someone made a coffee table out of old crates? Pin. Someone made a fence out of old wood pallets? Pin. Someone

by jere 14y ago

I am convinced HN is the Pinterest of software. Someone made a coffee table out of old crates? Pin. Someone made a fence out of old wood pallets? Pin. Someone made a realtime messaging library out of animated gifs? Upvote.

__alexs 14y ago
Someone made a logic gate out of crabs? Ignore :( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831987 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831987
- Evbn 14y ago
  Wow, they found an even messier substrate than water! ... - transitors - vacuum-tubes - water - crabs - ...
- sp332 14y ago
  Someone made a Turing machine out of Magic: The Gathering cards. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506865 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506865 Even more ignored.
  - nopassrecover 14y ago
    Both got decent upvote counts
    - sp332 14y ago
      They do now :) The MtG post had about half as many upvotes when I posted the link, and I think the crabs one got an even bigger boost.
- deleted 14y ago
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- _suoiruc 14y ago
  This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up. That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.
nollidge 14y ago
I'm kind of OK with that.
andrewflnr 14y ago
It's a hack. HN is for (among other things) news about hacks.
- peterwwillis 14y ago
  It's not really a hack. It's slowly printing a GIF for a kind of really limited server push. If you want to send someone messages via server-push in an old-school way, use multipart/x-mixed-replace. A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, converting the video to .gif frames, and printing that out slowly enough to view a slow video over a DSL line to watch TV without a media player.
  - tcdent 14y ago
    Maybe not a great enough hack for you, but it's still a hack by definition; using something beyond it's intended purpose.
  - damncabbage 14y ago
    It's not really a hack. ... A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, ... No True Scotsman: Hacker Edition?
  - jaylevitt 14y ago
    No, a hack would be doing all that while building an abstraction layer around Google Calculator to act as a primitive CPU to do the GIF encode.
tylermenezes 14y ago
It seems a bit arrogant to say "I don't like this particular article, therefore the community is primitive." An Animated GIF messaging library is certainly of interest to a majority of hackers.
- jere 14y ago
  I didn't say anything of the sort. I simply made an amusing (to me) observation. I had earlier thought Pinterest seemed like MacGyver for people into crafts (at least that's the kind of thing my wife kept getting excited about). That's not to disparage HN or Pinterest or MacGyver for that matter.
  - will_work4tears 14y ago
    As a die hard McGyver fan, I'm offended you'd compare him to a subset of stay at home mom's pinning pictures of other women with flat abs as "motivation." Ok, occasionally they post some pretty cool stuff, but mostly it is the former.
wisty 14y ago
Someone wrote blogspam about how fences made out of old pallets are a bit of flash in the pan? Pin.

by jere 14y ago

__alexs 14y ago

Someone made a logic gate out of crabs? Ignore :( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831987 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831987

Evbn 14y ago
Wow, they found an even messier substrate than water! ... - transitors - vacuum-tubes - water - crabs - ...
sp332 14y ago
Someone made a Turing machine out of Magic: The Gathering cards. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506865 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506865 Even more ignored.
- nopassrecover 14y ago
  Both got decent upvote counts
  - sp332 14y ago
    They do now :) The MtG post had about half as many upvotes when I posted the link, and I think the crabs one got an even bigger boost.
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_suoiruc 14y ago
This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up. That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.

nollidge 14y ago

I'm kind of OK with that.

andrewflnr 14y ago

It's a hack. HN is for (among other things) news about hacks.

peterwwillis 14y ago
It's not really a hack. It's slowly printing a GIF for a kind of really limited server push. If you want to send someone messages via server-push in an old-school way, use multipart/x-mixed-replace. A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, converting the video to .gif frames, and printing that out slowly enough to view a slow video over a DSL line to watch TV without a media player.
- tcdent 14y ago
  Maybe not a great enough hack for you, but it's still a hack by definition; using something beyond it's intended purpose.
- damncabbage 14y ago
  It's not really a hack. ... A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, ... No True Scotsman: Hacker Edition?
- jaylevitt 14y ago
  No, a hack would be doing all that while building an abstraction layer around Google Calculator to act as a primitive CPU to do the GIF encode.

tylermenezes 14y ago

It seems a bit arrogant to say "I don't like this particular article, therefore the community is primitive." An Animated GIF messaging library is certainly of interest to a majority of hackers.

jere 14y ago
I didn't say anything of the sort. I simply made an amusing (to me) observation. I had earlier thought Pinterest seemed like MacGyver for people into crafts (at least that's the kind of thing my wife kept getting excited about). That's not to disparage HN or Pinterest or MacGyver for that matter.
- will_work4tears 14y ago
  As a die hard McGyver fan, I'm offended you'd compare him to a subset of stay at home mom's pinning pictures of other women with flat abs as "motivation." Ok, occasionally they post some pretty cool stuff, but mostly it is the former.

wisty 14y ago

Someone wrote blogspam about how fences made out of old pallets are a bit of flash in the pan? Pin.