Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board

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64 points | by PaybackTony 7 hours ago

10 comments

  • gorgoiler 4 hours ago
    Do I recognize the UI style here as being that cool, hacker, dark-mode, glowing aura text, rounded mono typeface style? Whoever came up with that motif and inadvertently coaxed fhe AI tools into copying it into ubiquity has had an enormous impact on the world!

    There are a lot of cells used for rank and vote count. If you used A-Z for rank and dropped the vote count you’d be able to see 50% more title, which is a lot. Vote count could be an optional overlay shown at the end of the title in the last 3 seconds of each frame. Or just drop it altogether.

  • blourvim 5 minutes ago
    quite satisfying to hear the clicks
  • Otek 16 minutes ago
    Please vibecode mobile support
  • freitasm 5 hours ago
    Sounds cool. Couldn't see it though. "Rate limited" on my first visit. Using a static IPv4 and IPv6.

    Unless your host is limiting number of requests, indiscriminately.

    • PaybackTony 2 hours ago
      Was CloudFlare limiting after a large burst of interest. All better. Only took a leg
  • StizzurpXDD 4 hours ago
    The title of the first post is crealy readable, while the rest of the texts and numbers are glitched.

    It's cool though.

    • PaybackTony 3 hours ago
      Was not expecting 30k visits in an hour. Patched up the mobile view and got everything running again. Oof. Thank you for checking it out!
      • sixtyj 1 hour ago
        Nice graphics. It reminded me

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-flap_display

        In Prague near the main railway station there is a physical installation made from discarded Pragotron split-flap cards. Installation named Variety was made by Richard Loskot and it randomly generates sentences.

  • bitwize 2 hours ago
    I was kinda hoping that you would arduino the Hackernews front page onto an actual train-style flipboard, but this is a pretty cute web trick.
  • gab007 3 hours ago
    Neat. Now where can I get a real physical flip board, lol?
  • kevinten10 6 hours ago
    [dead]
  • throw03172019 5 hours ago
    Rate limited. RIP
    • PaybackTony 3 hours ago
      Yes, got rate limited. Didn't expect the traffic but it's back