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Project Blinkenlights

https://blinkenlights.de/en/
13•doener•43m ago

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zahlman•38m ago
> Stereoscope — Toronto 2008, City Hall: two towers, one matrix (96×32 pixels, 16 greyscales).

Oh man, I think I remember that.

Animats•29m ago
Downtown Shenzhen is rigged for that.

For a while, the SF Bay Bridge was. I once went to an Autodesk event in SF where the guy behind it was controlling the lights from his laptop.

jolt42•23m ago
Is this still well recognized?

ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

bradrn•11m ago
Yes! I know it! (And I’m not old at all.) I saw it at, as I recall, a model train exhibition when I was very young, and I found it so hilarious I’ve never forgotten it. In fact I was quite surprised when I eventually learned it was a well-known thing, considerably older than I am.
unprovable•21m ago
It's been so long since I last saw this. Stalwart of the internet.
karim79•9m ago
I think it got the HN kiss of death. We need a new page about how to avoid this. Basic scaling skills I tells ya.

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495•meredydd•5h ago•560 comments

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185•nickabe•4h ago•89 comments

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155•microtonal•4h ago•89 comments

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79•wcrichton•2d ago•16 comments

Project Blinkenlights

https://blinkenlights.de/en/
13•doener•43m ago•6 comments

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11•mirza_rizvi•1h ago•1 comments

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79•kennethwolters•4h ago•28 comments

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92•dr_kiszonka•5h ago•50 comments

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56•ltononro•2d ago•5 comments

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275•doener•4h ago•186 comments

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118•ernestrc•7h ago•48 comments

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163•adastral•4d ago•60 comments

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676•player85•2d ago•185 comments

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80•geneticdrifts•5h ago•59 comments

Logo Programming Language

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226•azhenley•2d ago•94 comments

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83•joshmgross•7h ago•38 comments

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71•1nv1n•6h ago•40 comments

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1•roseway4•5h ago

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79•stmw•4h ago•48 comments

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541•Muhammad523•12h ago•577 comments

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

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140•michalwarda•11h ago•68 comments

There is no 10x RBAC

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5•FinnLobsien•2d ago•0 comments

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142•vesterde•1d ago•117 comments

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13•atan2•1d ago•2 comments

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107•jenders•3d ago•174 comments

Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers

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18•jlundberg•3h ago•16 comments

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146•guillego•7h ago•48 comments

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93•baud147258•3d ago•94 comments

Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery

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53•ninju•3d ago•16 comments

Measuring the sloppiness of code

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233•doppp•9h ago•221 comments