7 ms·
Hacker News Refrigerator Magnets
- jenkinsj 14y agoAwesome idea. The Firebase guys keep making really interesting ways to use realtime data.
- markmac 14y agoSome very smart things going on with those guys...
- Vivtek 14y agoMy magnets keep drifting away while I try to position them.
- Peroni 14y agoThat was surprisingly more entertaining than I had anticipated.
- maligree 14y agoWell, great, there's my day. Five minutes ago was an hour ago.
- matznerd 14y agoIt was pretty cool watching the hivemind create live. I'm surprised by how ordered it was. Any way to show how many users are in there?
- codybrown 14y agoI thought that this was going to be a link to buy physical HN magnets. This turned out to be much cooler but, if they were available, I would also buy this for my fridge.
- kcthota 14y agoya..even I thought the same, just like the T-shirts the other day ;)
- agaton 14y agoYes! Who fix this? I want to buy them! Like... ehh. Now!
- sharkweek 14y agoone idea I think would be fun is refrigerator magnets with language specific terms and symbols -- both for learning as well as interviews -- seems like it could be pretty fun to have a big block of C on your office fridge
- ThomPete 14y agoI guess the bigger business would be to create sets (hipster, hacker, music, social media, custom) If anyone wan't to try explore this further I would be willing to offer my design help. PM me.
- pdufour 14y agoSame. Pleasantly surprised.
- HNLogInShit 14y agoNo thanks. They would just arrogantly tell you, "You're eating too quickly" and let you waste shitloads of time preparing stuff after that.
- crntaylor 14y ago"Ron Conway will invest in mobile cat neckbeards."
- mijustin 14y ago"Show HN: enterprise techno startup"
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- joshrotenberg 14y agoMust be broken. I can't find the "Haskell" magnet.
- jblock 14y ago"San Francisco please acqui-hire 9000 dogs"
- jcurbo 14y agoShow HN: My MVP bought 9000 dogs a t-shirt! This makes a nice second monitor screensaver if you have the screen space.
- cheeseprocedure 14y agoI would LOVE to export the game history to a screensaver.
- mayop100 14y agoThe code's on Github, and the data is all publicly-exposed through Firebase. Go nuts!
- yuletide666 14y agoNeat idea, but reshuffles too quickly
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- publicfig 14y agoIt's collaborative. Those are all people using it at the same time
- Tyrant505 14y agoSpent too much time on this. Run.
- bcoates 14y agoIt looks like there's some sort of registration issue going on; some people stack their magnets so they overlap from my point of view but others are arranged neatly or spaced out.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoIt depends on your font size, rather than having a font-size-based grid.
- RyanZAG 14y agoSomeone is going to work out how to monetize this and make millions. Surprisingly entertaining.
- pcrumm 14y agoI wouldn't mind being able to purchase the magnet set I played around with.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoThis is probably going to hit critical mass real soon, and there will just be too many peeps moving shit around.. But dang is it fun.
- twodayslate 14y agoI don't like how they randomly all go back into the circle.
- mayop100 14y agoThat's not the built-in behavior. Someone wrote a script to do that.
- Scryptonite 14y agoI really need to get back to work. I'm sorry for messing with the game... (Did you notice how the magnets were just zipping out from where you put them and into the center, randomly offset, or into a formed circle? That was me. Sorry!)
- at-fates-hands 14y agoquite possibly the coolest blind collaboration ever.
- shadeless 14y agoTwo cool ones: http://i.imgur.com/86rjhY4.png http://i.imgur.com/86rjhY4.png http://i.imgur.com/Hfh4Vt9.png http://i.imgur.com/Hfh4Vt9.png
- tectonic 14y agohttp://imgur.com/s1HHNwo http://imgur.com/s1HHNwo
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- apl002 14y agoI would buy this
- sukuriant 14y agoPlease let go of the back button :/ using Firefox
- Paul_Morgan 14y agoWhen it breaks the back button I'm not going anywhere near this web page again.
- 650REDHAIR 14y agoCould someone explain this to me? I don't use Firefox so I'm not sure what the issue is here.
- sukuriant 14y agoBackspace goes back one page in the browser. What I was basically saying is that he's stolen the back button on the browser so that it does things on his website and not the normal operating procedure. I can't leave his site through just the keyboard.
- FreeFull 14y agoCould try using alt+left instead of backspace, although websites could steal that as well.
- sukuriant 14y agoI suppose my point here is: "Why should I have to?" it's just a website and it's hijacking the command. Websites should comply with the regular rules of the keyboard unless I permit otherwise.
- iterationx 14y agomissing the word Ramen.
- tbassetto 14y ago"Steve Jobs is a Palo Alto RapGenius" "Net Neutrality with SnapChat" "acqui-hire haters" Surprisingly fun.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- lancefisher 14y agoNow it's turning into warring scripts :) The first trick is to grab a reference to the refrigerator. Just put a breakpoint in the dom ready function in main.js, and set a global variable.
- mayop100 14y agoIt's just using Firebase, so you can write / read directly from Firebase using the Node.js lib / Web lib / REST API. https://magnets-hn1.firebaseio.com/.json?print=pretty https://magnets-hn1.firebaseio.com/.json?print=pretty
- glitchdout 14y ago"Show HN: AirBnB for cats!" must survive!
- logn 14y ago"AirBnb for San Francisco cats" "Will RSS dog startup acquire cat blog"
- darkchasma 14y agoI can hardly wait until the tech is ready for me to buy these fridge magnets, and people all around the world can move them on my fridge!
- hfsktr 14y agoThat was brilliant. It took a while before I could see any that were 'improvised' words. "They took are (steve)jobs" with 'are' covering 'steve'. I am actually surprised with how well it all worked. Other than obvious cases of people just seeing how annoying they could be in general you could get a sentence going with input from others. Gonna bookmark this so I can come back to play later.
- bellbind 14y agoWhole new way to interact with others, interesting idea.
- jcomis 14y agosmall bug, when you move 2+ word elements to the right edge they get pushed to two lines. edit: at least, it seemed to be happening a minute ago.
- bravura 14y agoSuggestion: Could you include an 's' magnet? Magnet sets never have them, but they are useful for turning a verb from the plural form into the singular ("downvote"), and vice-versa for nouns.
- nevster 14y ago"Show HN: Hacker News overlords prototype hyper caffeine twinkies service!"
- tectonic 14y agoThe process was revolutionized when I realized that I could search.
- tectonic 14y ago"real time Hacker News degenerated in to this"