[HN Gopher] Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
Author : pr337h4m
Score : 70 points
Date : 2025-02-20 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| wedocharlie wrote:
| The band "Ok Go" did a collaboration music video with google
| chrome once that had some really amazing synchronization of
| browser windows with dancers, and kaleidoscope like effects...
| This reminded me of that.
| wedocharlie wrote:
| Here's what it looked like:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISL1GfXwr-o
| Rendello wrote:
| I was introduced to Arcade Fire back in the day through a
| similar Chrome experiment:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReIwYj7BACM
| luma wrote:
| Delightfully absurd, A+ effort!
| ge96 wrote:
| really cool, I like how modifiable Chrome can be, looks like this
| one uses websockets but you can use an extension for tab
| communication too
| smithcoin wrote:
| Love anything made by Nolen. To me it seems like he's hitting the
| sweet spot of developing single purpose apps/sites that give me
| nostalgia for what the internet used to be like.
| qingcharles wrote:
| Obligatory:
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| https://imgur.com/a/FcYpGz1
| LonelyWolfe wrote:
| I'm calling it - Doom is next.
| rhgraysonii wrote:
| I believe that Nolen has already done doom in iPhoto, if you
| are into that kind of thing.
| eieio wrote:
| Doom is kind of a pain because: * afaik I'm
| capped at 4 FPS (just how often you can update tabs) *
| more of the screen is likely to update on each frame, which
| requires way more "turning canvases into data urls to update
| favicons," which is expensive with my current implementation
| (although I wasn't aware of offscreencanvas, which might help
| here)
| rhgraysonii wrote:
| I attended Nolen's recent talk at Recurse, and these absolutely
| mad but fundamentally funny and cool games as one-shots are so
| delightful.
|
| It reminds me of the older internet, when people would make
| things just to be silly and have fun. I had some fun last night
| inspired by some of the stuff he has been posting making a very
| funny kind-of-quine that outputs its own source code of the page
| showing it, via BEAM decompilation and some other tricks. I wish
| I had the time to crank out things like this, and it makes me
| smile to know that there are people out there creating things in
| this manner that will just keep things interesting for all of us.
|
| The piece that gets the sort-of quine is here, if anyone wants a
| laugh
| https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/blog/blob/main/l...
| eieio wrote:
| ah hi! I made this! was wondering if this one would appeal to the
| HN crowd :)
|
| Happy to answer any questions! And here are a couple of scattered
| thoughts: * I'm really interested in what this
| looks like if you use animations (firefox supports animated
| favicons) - I could, for example, anticipate future ball
| positions and create animated SVGs to get a much nicer framerate.
| * A friend pointed out offline that canvas rasterization
| (typically) is on the GPU, which is probably why my performance
| intuitions with my stuttering animation were so wrong * I
| am only moderately confident that chrome caps favicon updates to
| 4 a second; I know there are a lot of different ways to update
| favicons and I could have missed something here!
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