Too delightful. Like a reverse jenga tower you like to topple over.

Of course, glad to see it was another @isohedral project.

If only it wouldn't collapse by itself after clicking anywhere (clicking seems to activate physics) this would be 10/10

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.

oh look at that. removing IBM enterprise apps really doesn’t break anything and the whole stack got lighter. science.

this is the best thing internet since the last best thing in the internet

What’s the Nebraska project?

It looks like the stroke/border is not taken into account in the physics simulation.

I'd like a medal for clearing the screen of all debris. What's that you say, some of it is still useful? oh

Now we just need a generated version of this based on a package.json!

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).

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.

the weird physics are mildly infuriating. still funny though

We absolutely need a "whatever Microsoft is doing" object in that.

I love that the initial state itself isn't stable.

The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.

It's like open source Angry Birds.

Who are the big blocks that survive the collapse though?

This is oddly fun to play with. Has that angry birds vibe

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)

Here's a little more context about the author's motivation: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132

This is very real.

I was expecting it to open the FFmpeg website at the end.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVAR!

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.

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.

The blocks feel a little bit too slippery

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.

I hope Randall reads HN and sees this, he’d love it.

I knew exactly what this would be before even clicking it. Someone had to make it!