This reminds me a little of Simone Giertz, a YouTube DIY person who started out long ago making shitty robots and has settled into fringe mainstream - usable items but not quite the way you would expect, like folding coat hooks, a gaming table with a roll top, a chair from a satellite dish, and a prosthetic leg for her three legged dog.
> Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute
That's close to how many companies, plans etc. work today. We manage big groups of people and systems, as syncretic holes. Sometimes a human, sometimes a computer is better at one task.
These are delightful. I think I like LingoPrio the best, since I'm (re)learning French. My kid and I went to a pediatrician appointment and my kid asked, "How do you say 'constipation' in French?" And I didn't have to look it up, since it ended in "ation".
> I just enjoy exploring what the web can be when it doesn’t try to be “useful”.
I have a project that's arguably strange but deeply serious. I'm building a Pi Bramble [1] and adding services with the goal of making a homelab that is continuously collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Y'know, for education! But it's also really fun, when I have time to spend on it.
Great job. I'm into mortality so the Artist's Death Effect was fun. I tell my kids all my ideas are terrible because if it wasn't a terrible idea someone else would have done it already.
This is awesome. I like to make similar projects - is there a community where you like to share work and collaborate with others?
I put a few of mine on /r/baduibattles but not everything fits well in that bucket. Part fun, part absurdist art, part technological and political critique (examples: a login system that requires the user to sing the same song to log in, or a captcha that asks people to prove they're not robots by taking pictures of others in live surveillance video from unsecured CCTV cameras).
I think the Artist's Death Effect Data Base is hilarious. We talk about this in my circle about which artist isn't doing well and we all secretly buy up some work.
This is my favorite type of HN posts by far. Seeing just some out there single-minded proof of concept projects, which are both ridiculous but, also, not really, is awesome.
This already exists in Norway and Sweden. It's illegal to leave your dog in front of a shop tied to anything. So there is boxes that are climatised and are operated with any debit or credit card. (They are not very popular however)
I don’t use AI for ideas — I love coming up with the creative part myself. It’s how I express who I am. It’s my art.
I write all the texts, and then I polish them with a little help from AI.
Some images and videos are AI-generated, but the core concept always comes from me.
I hope you like my Let's Play: https://youtu.be/iUnbD8xp0f0
That's close to how many companies, plans etc. work today. We manage big groups of people and systems, as syncretic holes. Sometimes a human, sometimes a computer is better at one task.
> I just enjoy exploring what the web can be when it doesn’t try to be “useful”.
I have a project that's arguably strange but deeply serious. I'm building a Pi Bramble [1] and adding services with the goal of making a homelab that is continuously collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Y'know, for education! But it's also really fun, when I have time to spend on it.
[1] https://clog.goldentooth.net/
It seems like you might also be absurdwebsite which doesn't seem to be banned (but does have a hidden post from a month ago).
If you plan to use this account it's worth dropping an email to the admins, they are very responsive :)
Or is that because you can't reply to bios444?
Yes, experimenting for fun is what I love. I will check your project.
I made https://tellconanobrienyourfavoritepizzatoppings.com the other day.
It was fun. But useless.
I put a few of mine on /r/baduibattles but not everything fits well in that bucket. Part fun, part absurdist art, part technological and political critique (examples: a login system that requires the user to sing the same song to log in, or a captcha that asks people to prove they're not robots by taking pictures of others in live surveillance video from unsecured CCTV cameras).
I wonder what a good UI is for a website like this. I was thinking maybe infinite scroll would work well for a more museum-like experience.
Sort of like a dead pool.
The One Second of War and the Dark Mandala are not even absurd, but merely surface the reality, of sorts.
ChillyParent reminds me of this classic from Silicon Valley (the show): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGy5SGTuAGI&t=216s
Any hints and favorite AI tools?