Hacker News Refrigerator Magnets

http://magnet-game.com/

by mayop100 • 13 years ago

155 61 13 years ago

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jenkinsj• 13 years ago

Awesome idea. The Firebase guys keep making really interesting ways to use realtime data.

markmac• 13 years ago

Some very smart things going on with those guys...

Vivtek2• 13 years ago

My magnets keep drifting away while I try to position them.

mimiflynn• 13 years ago

That was probably me messing with you.

Vivtek2• 13 years ago

Oh, it's shared...

Peroni• 13 years ago

That was surprisingly more entertaining than I had anticipated.

maligree• 13 years ago

Well, great, there's my day. Five minutes ago was an hour ago.

matznerd• 13 years ago

It 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• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

ya..even I thought the same, just like the T-shirts the other day ;)

agaton• 13 years ago

Yes! Who fix this? I want to buy them! Like... ehh. Now!

sharkweek• 13 years ago

one 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• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

Same. Pleasantly surprised.

crntaylor• 13 years ago

"Ron Conway will invest in mobile cat neckbeards."

mijustin• 13 years ago

"Show HN: enterprise techno startup"

joshrotenberg• 13 years ago

Must be broken. I can't find the "Haskell" magnet.

fhars• 13 years ago

Isn't your account old enough to remember erlang day?

fecak• 13 years ago

Or Tesla

jblock• 13 years ago

"San Francisco please acqui-hire 9000 dogs"

jcurbo• 13 years ago

Show HN: My MVP bought 9000 dogs a t-shirt!

This makes a nice second monitor screensaver if you have the screen space.

cheeseprocedure• 13 years ago

I would LOVE to export the game history to a screensaver.

mayop1003• 13 years ago

The code's on Github, and the data is all publicly-exposed through Firebase. Go nuts!

yuletide666• 13 years ago

Neat idea, but reshuffles too quickly

publicfig• 13 years ago

It's collaborative. Those are all people using it at the same time

Tyrant505• 13 years ago

Spent too much time on this. Run.

bcoates• 13 years ago

It 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• 13 years ago

It depends on your font size, rather than having a font-size-based grid.

RyanZAG• 13 years ago

Someone is going to work out how to monetize this and make millions. Surprisingly entertaining.

pcrumm• 13 years ago

I wouldn't mind being able to purchase the magnet set I played around with.

ImprovedSilence• 13 years ago

This 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• 13 years ago

I don't like how they randomly all go back into the circle.

mayop1003• 13 years ago

That's not the built-in behavior. Someone wrote a script to do that.

thomson• 13 years ago

Now that's impressive.

Scryptonite• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

quite possibly the coolest blind collaboration ever.

shadeless2• 13 years ago

Two cool ones:

http://i.imgur.com/86rjhY4.png

http://i.imgur.com/Hfh4Vt9.png

tectonic3• 13 years ago

http://imgur.com/s1HHNwo

apl002• 13 years ago

I would buy this

sukuriant3• 13 years ago

Please let go of the back button :/

using Firefox

Paul_Morgan• 13 years ago

When it breaks the back button I'm not going anywhere near this web page again.

650REDHAIR• 13 years ago

Could someone explain this to me? I don't use Firefox so I'm not sure what the issue is here.

sukuriant3• 13 years ago

Backspace 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.

iterationx• 13 years ago

missing the word Ramen.

tbassetto• 13 years ago

"Steve Jobs is a Palo Alto RapGenius"

"Net Neutrality with SnapChat"

"acqui-hire haters"

Surprisingly fun.

lancefisher• 13 years ago

Now 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.

mayop1003• 13 years ago

It'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

glitchdout• 13 years ago

"Show HN: AirBnB for cats!" must survive!

logn• 13 years ago

"AirBnb for San Francisco cats"

"Will RSS dog startup acquire cat blog"

darkchasma• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

That 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• 13 years ago

Whole new way to interact with others, interesting idea.

jcomis• 13 years ago

small 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• 13 years ago

Suggestion: 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• 13 years ago

"Show HN: Hacker News overlords prototype hyper caffeine twinkies service!"

tectonic3• 13 years ago

The process was revolutionized when I realized that I could search.

tectonic3• 13 years ago

"real time Hacker News degenerated in to this"

Hacker News Refrigerator Magnets

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