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The Xkcd thing, now interactive

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

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Comments (79)

  • BoppreH
    I would suggest adding the /r/ProgrammerHumor version too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac...The AI crank always cracks me up.
  • jfkimmes
    Here's a little more context about the author's motivation: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132
  • panzi
    Register the mousemove event handler on window, then you will still get the events when the mouse moves out of the window/frame while dragging and it won't be that buggy.
  • knowtheory
    I love that the initial state itself isn't stable.The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.
  • PenguinRevolver
    I love that clicking the empty space and just doing nothing at all still causes the blocks to fall apart after some time.
  • fallingmeat
    oh look at that. removing IBM enterprise apps really doesn’t break anything and the whole stack got lighter. science.
  • BoneShard
    On an unrelated note, AI completely changed economics of https://xkcd.com/1205/Previously I'd postpone some tooling since I'd lost more time on it (unless it's something I wanted to learn anyway), but now I'm all in.
  • AshamedCaptain
    Liked those small Box2D playboxes from decades ago, wonder where all that went.
  • seydor
    without touching the block, after a while it begins collapsing, which makes it an even better representation of infrastructure
  • jasonjmcghee
    Played with it on the phone. So satisfying.I know the time it takes to get something to feel this good.Really fantastic work.
  • barddoo
    Increase friction
  • mezod
    this is the best thing internet since the last best thing in the internet
  • aanet
    Too delightful. Like a reverse jenga tower you like to topple over.Of course, glad to see it was another @isohedral project.
  • jascha_eng
    This is oddly fun to play with. Has that angry birds vibe
  • harvie
    No title text, No respect...
  • bbx
    I was expecting it to open the FFmpeg website at the end.
  • louisbourgault
    Really cool! To be honest, when I clicked on this I had a hope that it would be possible to add things to the stack like the ongoing memes of just putting different things in there (maybe live with other people as a collaborative editor).
  • 1e1a
    It looks like the stroke/border is not taken into account in the physics simulation.
  • merryocha
    I knew exactly what this would be before even clicking it. Someone had to make it!
  • anon
    undefined
  • normie3000
    It's like open source Angry Birds.
  • palad1n
    THIS IS THE BEST THING EVAR!
  • 9dev
    I hope Randall reads HN and sees this, he’d love it.
  • briansm
    Just to mention the original was cited in the most recent Veritasium video:"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ(at about the 9:50 mark)
  • egorfine
    We absolutely need a "whatever Microsoft is doing" object in that.
  • lwhi
    Who are the big blocks that survive the collapse though?
  • inanutshellus
    Feature request - be able to change the text and re-share it.Half the fun of this xkcd is referring to it in context of whatever just went haywire.
  • CivBase
    It'd be really cool (and probably useful) if someone could figure out a way to generate diagrams like this for any software project.You'd first need to figure out a way to generate a complete dependency tree. For each box, I interpret its height as a measure of its complexity and its width as a measure of the support it receives. The hardest part would probably be figuring out a way to quantitatively measure those values.
  • _nivlac_
    Now we just need a generated version of this based on a package.json!
  • tobylane
    I'd like a medal for clearing the screen of all debris. What's that you say, some of it is still useful? oh
  • MagicMoonlight
    The blocks feel a little bit too slippery
  • efilife
    If only it wouldn't collapse by itself after clicking anywhere (clicking seems to activate physics) this would be 10/10
  • josefritzishere
    This is very real.
  • crokie123
    What’s the Nebraska project?
  • wink
    the weird physics are mildly infuriating. still funny though
  • venusenvy47
    Is this website intended to break HN on Android? I've never had a website lock up the HN app like this. I couldn't back out, and I was stuck in a loop when the app restarted on the same page.