[HN Gopher] You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky
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You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky
Author : retrocryptid
Score : 104 points
Date : 2023-07-30 18:28 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (youareatlas.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (youareatlas.com)
| booleandilemma wrote:
| I'm just going to shrug.
| charles_f wrote:
| I had to come back to this post to upvote it, 5m later, after
| letting out an audible "aaahhhhhh" in the kitchen
| xeonmc wrote:
| Such a great title, wasted on such poor writing.
| benatkin wrote:
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
| balaji1 wrote:
| a shrug and an upvote from me
| amelius wrote:
| If nobody sees the sky falling, it doesn't fall.
| Tao3300 wrote:
| It's the web equivalent of the light inside your refrigerator.
| si1entstill wrote:
| Schrodinger's refrigerator light.
| melx wrote:
| That's why we have timezones, so that not all humanity is
| asleep at the same time.
| cpersona wrote:
| I feel disincentivized to hold up the sky. What's my motivation?
| lijok wrote:
| Motivation is your motivation
| umanwizard wrote:
| So that it doesn't fall.
| Joeboy wrote:
| You don't need motivation, you need discipline.
| joot82 wrote:
| Same motivation as forwarding chain letters. Being
| superstitious and hope for invisible internet magic helping
| those poor orphans in need out. Just that you hold up the sky
| here.
| parentheses wrote:
| scaling this would make a great system design interview question.
| rather than building a larger system, build something that takes
| consistency, availability and fault tolerance to an extreme.
| thepaulthomson wrote:
| Would be interesting to see a "high-score" gamification loop that
| tells us what the longest stretch of the sky not falling has
| been.
| boopmaster wrote:
| TIL: do read the comments before opening the subject URL.
| praptak wrote:
| I remember something with the same mechanics, it was about an
| astronaut who dies when the number of people playing (connecting)
| drops to zero.
|
| Can't find it though.
| doersino wrote:
| https://ludonaut.xyz/projects/impetus.html
| janoelze wrote:
| More info: https://www-spiegel-
| de.translate.goog/netzwelt/games/online-...
| brmgb wrote:
| This reminds me of the Button [1] experiment Reddit held in 2015.
| The interplay between the effect of the countdown reaching zero,
| the badge associated with clicking and the single use mechanics
| were quite interesting to witness. It was quite popular for a
| surprisingly long time.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
| abra0 wrote:
| >It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.
|
| Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long
| as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated
| to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated
| accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else
| would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most
| embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary
| here [1].
|
| Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D
|
| [1]
| https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| What was the bug?
| abra0 wrote:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Knightsofthebutton/comments/38q9x5
| /...
| Jarwain wrote:
| > The final point of failure was even less spectacular: a
| co-ordinated attempt to keep the button alive by
| automatically pressing it with donated accounts when it got
| too low had been working on overtime, but a fatal flaw
| meant that no-one bothered to check whether the anointed
| account actually could press.
|
| > The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the
| button - and found that the account had been registered
| after 1 April.
| [deleted]
| wardedVibe wrote:
| Lemme just throw this on the pile of a hundred tabs I have open.
| It seems perfectly content to be a background tab
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Looking in the network tab, there are a lot of 406 responses.
| What is that all about?
| thirdplace_ wrote:
| _shrug_
| charles_f wrote:
| I am Nike, the sky is holding me
| dalmo3 wrote:
| I am standing. Adidas is holding me.
| johnnyworker wrote:
| > There are 0 other users online. > The sky has fallen 0 times.
|
| courtesy of uMatrix ^^
| Jowsey wrote:
| > I disabled JavaScript on your site that conceptually requires
| JavaScript to function and now it doesn't work as expected
| johnnyworker wrote:
| That wasn't meant as a complaint, more like a "cheat". I also
| didn't disable JS, it's just uMatrix blocks third party stuff
| by default.
| predictabl3 wrote:
| It seems like given the tricks I've seen with long-http
| requests and browsers, it might be possible to implement a
| version that doesn't require JS.
|
| I think that would also have the effect of being able to
| easily curl it. Could just add a lil nixos module and quietly
| deploy it to a few servers. Gotta keep the sky up, of course.
| supportengineer wrote:
| I let the sky fall, but the counter did not increment when I came
| back
| withinboredom wrote:
| Probably because your browser still has a background connection
| to the server.
| dmvdoug wrote:
| Joke's on him. It's really turtles all the way down.
| benatkin wrote:
| Sponsored by Atlassian.
|
| The actual word for _pertaining to Atlas_ :
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean
| bobmaxup wrote:
| Maybe they chose that name a disambiguation so as to be only
| associated with the god Atlas, and not the city Atlantis or its
| suggested founding leader Atlas (son of Poseidon).
| happyasday wrote:
| -shrug-
| RedNifre wrote:
| This would be interesting as a one-off thing, like reddit's "The
| Button". Having it say "The sky has fallen 989 times." makes it a
| bit meaningless.
| float4 wrote:
| Or at least show us how long the sky's been up currently? I
| have no idea if this page is 2 days or 2 years old, and I'm too
| lazy to check archive.org.
| surfpel wrote:
| For me it says "There are 0 other users online. The sky has
| fallen 0 times." which is less believable right after I refresh
| the page
| eastbound wrote:
| But if the sky falls while no-one is here, does it make a
| sound?
| Jarwain wrote:
| I'm confused I've seen two other commenter's say fhe sky's
| fallen 989 times, but it only says 981 for me
| umanwizard wrote:
| If there were only one person holding up the sky, how long would
| the developer keep his Supabase instance up for?
| RivieraKid wrote:
| Yawn. Yes, I'm not fun at parties.
| pmontra wrote:
| If the sky falls do we see what's above it or will it fall upon
| us together with the sky?
| highwaylights wrote:
| Well it's not about to fall for a _while_ now is it?
| Animats wrote:
| "The sky has fallen 989 times."
|
| Use this for A/B testing of ads?
| uka wrote:
| Just another page counter in the 90s - a game in 21st century ...
| paulpauper wrote:
| looks like another novelty page meant specifically for getting to
| the front page of Hacker News, which in a year will be abandoned
| or turned into seo fodder. .
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