[HN Gopher] Thnickels
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Thnickels
Author : jxmorris12
Score : 496 points
Date : 2025-06-25 00:13 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| kshehab1 wrote:
| Sadly I missed the window for thnickle pre orders but hopefully
| I'll be around for the thennies if the fog doesnt get me by then
| bigyabai wrote:
| It's only a matter of Thimes.
| meepmorp wrote:
| eventually, we'll have thalers (again)
| PaulHoule wrote:
| It's an urban legend at the very least that you can improve the
| power of your punch by grasping a coin roll. I'm not so sure it's
| good for your hands but unlike a knife or brass knuckles you have
| some deniability. (Reminds me of the time that the store manager
| of a supermarket wrongly thought I was shoplifting and he
| followed me out with his clipboard which I'm sure he planned to
| whack me with and say it was an accident if I gave him any
| trouble.)
| sandworm101 wrote:
| A roll of coins, or any other heavy object, will significantly
| increase your punching power. Short of ninjas or mma fighters,
| the average person doesnt have the twitch ability to throw a
| significant punch. By adding mass, you increase power without
| needing the speed. Hands are very light. Even a small mass
| increase will make a big difference.
| TZubiri wrote:
| Nice, this knowledge will help me grab my keys in some self
| defense scenario. Will practice on sporting bag to avoid
| injury and verify force increase.
| vunderba wrote:
| Yup. In fact, while boxing gloves are ostensibly for the
| protection of the fighters hands, the increased mass (approx
| 10oz for heaver weight classes) significantly ups the chance
| of a concussive strike and/or knockout.
|
| So... it is kind of a mixed bag in terms of if they actually
| make fights safer.
| bichiliad wrote:
| Relatedly: - The padding in fights is much lighter than in
| practice or sparring. The added weight is good for
| conditioning, blunts sharp impacts, and slows down your
| speed. - If you spar anyone, you're expected to have at
| _least_ 14oz gloves. If your gym says otherwise, don't spar
| there (and arguably, don't train anywhere that doesn't take
| safety seriously). - Luis Resto, a boxer, was jailed for
| swapping the padding in his gloves with plaster. He ended
| the career and permanently damaged the eyesight of his
| opponent, Billy Collins Jr.
| dmurray wrote:
| This seems a bit arbitrary since MMA gloves are lighter
| than boxing gloves. If you spar someone at an MMA gym
| you'll be throwing the exact same punches, but you won't
| be using 14 oz gloves.
| globular-toast wrote:
| I thought it was more because they can punch harder without
| breaking their hands.
| sandworm101 wrote:
| Modern gloves are to spread out the impact to prevent
| cuts, blood, which was not allowed on TV once upon a
| time. The big puffy gloves only appeared when boxing
| looked to mainstream itself, to move out of the bars and
| become broadcast-quality entertainment.
| bichiliad wrote:
| That protection mostly comes from wraps, which you wear
| under your gloves
| com2kid wrote:
| Learning how to throw a punch isn't that much work and gives
| you a huge multiple on power output.
|
| Also throwing a bare knuckle punch against someone's head has
| a large likelihood of the puncher breaking multiple bones,
| though depending on the outcome that may be preferable to
| other alternatives.
| thechao wrote:
| Most people tend to punch with a loose hand to the top of
| the head: this simultaneously increases the chance of
| breaking their hand; reduces the impact force; and, strikes
| one of the most insensitive & hardest parts of the body
| (the skull). Trained fighters are targeting an untucked
| chin with a short high acceleration punch (jab, uppercut),
| with a tight fist. It is technically very challenging to do
| this, even for professionals.
|
| In general: use your sneakers; if necessary, push opponents
| away with with your palms and tightly held fingers.
| jasonjayr wrote:
| Well, you're right about ninjas. They have Real Ultimate
| Power, this website told me so:
| https://realultimatepower.net/ (Don't click unless you're
| ready to get pumped!)
| pierrec wrote:
| OK, "urban legend at the very least" is a confusing way of
| putting things, it's kind of like saying "this is false at the
| very least, possibly even true!" (in this case it's true)
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I'll concede it was a poor choice of language. I heard about
| it first in the 1980s but looking for confirmation I could
| only find low quality evidence such as discussions on Reddit,
| quora and the like. No newspaper reports, no confessions that
| "I broke somebody's nose", no criminal charges, no
| discussions by martial arts instructors, nothing.
| waltbosz wrote:
| I think this is a joke by Alan Wagner who goes by the handle
| truewagner. https://truewagner.com/ . You'll have to Google his
| socials to find his art.
| n2d4 wrote:
| Almost -- it was made by Legboot, who makes similarly weird
| stuff, but to my knowledge is not the same person
| https://x.com/LegbootLegit
| idamantium wrote:
| Yup. This supposed exchange with his neighbor making the
| coins is pretty amusing. Explanations the note on the website
| about the neighbor not having given them back yet.
| https://x.com/LegbootLegit/status/1919745971673551192
| pierrec wrote:
| I could not find any direct evidence but it's a good theory.
| Legboot and Wagner sometimes comment on each other's (uniquely
| similar) stuff. This also seems like an evolution of Wagner's
| "Williamcoin". Compare:
|
| https://old.reddit.com/r/Killtony/comments/1i9czr5/williamco...
|
| https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueWagner/comments/1ld4lix/big_upd...
| xnx wrote:
| How does this website load so fast? Must be some advanced
| framework with JIT edge hydration. /s
| eclipticplane wrote:
| > Website proudly built with FrontPage 98
| TZubiri wrote:
| You know how antiques have a binomial distribution of value
| over time? They are valuable when new or very old, but trash
| when freshly obsolete.
|
| I think classic style websites are going to come around. Not
| quite space jam whacky era but better mother fucking website
| for sure
| stego-tech wrote:
| The success of NeoCities and static blog sites in general
| suggests you're correct. Best of all, AI can't produce
| sites that awesomely terrible - it's a hallmark of
| authentic human creativity, under construction banners and
| all.
| zxexz wrote:
| I can't produce a website that is half as endearing and
| fun as my 8yo self's first attempt around y2k after
| earnestly reading my dad's copy of "HTML For the World
| Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro. The excitement of page
| counters, discovering CGI, even creating a really bad
| click which didn't two time with JavaScript.
| williamdclt wrote:
| > Best of all, AI can't produce sites that awesomely
| terrible
|
| I don't have time (or enough interest) to try it, but I'd
| be surprised if they couldn't with some half-decent
| prompting
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Is that a new LLM code assistant?
| Mtinie wrote:
| Given the audience on HN I expect will be up on Hugging
| Face within an hour or so... :)
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| trained with data up to 1999.
| imp0cat wrote:
| Now you're on to something.
| acheron wrote:
| I like your joke and agree wholeheartedly with your point, but
| it is awfully difficult to upvote a comment that contains "/s".
| Usually that's an auto-downvote.
|
| Just let your comment stand. You don't need to call attention
| to the fact that it's a joke.
| buggy6257 wrote:
| you would be both surprised and deeply sad by how many
| downvotes and comments they would get if they removed the /s
| yallpendantools wrote:
| The Paradox of acheron: In order to point out character
| sequences that are insufferable in a comment, one's comment
| must also bear the insufferable character sequence.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Has to be Rust based SSR using a custom WebRTC based transfer
| technology.
| mystified5016 wrote:
| I'm going to be using "JIT edge hydration" from now on, thanks
| Chant-I-CRW wrote:
| Dang...sure would like some thnickels of my own. After that tree
| fell on my house it is really windy here. I could use something
| heavy to hold down my punch cards.
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| I suggest buying a Three Wolves t-shirt.
|
| I once saw a guy in a similar predicament. To address this, he
| donned his Three Wolves shirt and stood in an empty meadow by
| his house. Within 15 minutes there were 10-12 attractive women
| (some single, some not) circling him in a tight formation.
|
| He returned to his house and sat near the pile of punch cards
| (or coupons, I forget). His ad hoc harem sat as well so they
| could study his chiseled features, which kept the coupons safe
| from blowing away.
|
| I've heard that although the coupons have long-since expired,
| the women happily remain.
| Chant-I-CRW wrote:
| Legend. I could use a harem too. These punch cards aren't
| going to punch themselves.
| Mtinie wrote:
| Your unexpected anecdote perfectly encapsulates why I love
| HN!
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| I miss this web.
| komali2 wrote:
| Apparently it still exists! My friend keeps trying to get me to
| join his webring, whatever that is, sounds like a potential way
| to connect together websites like this though.
| patates wrote:
| Start something in neocities and join a webring!
| rambambram wrote:
| No you don't. The web misses you.
| gtbcb wrote:
| How much were they?
| CSSer wrote:
| The design is ancient, but the dates are current.
| theden wrote:
| In the HTML there's a cool comment <!-- Hello
| this is Theo. Yes I know how to do web design. --> <!--
| You have found my secret message. --> <!-- It is a coin
| emoticon picture. --> <!--
| ______________ __,.,---'''''
| '''''---..._ ,-'
| '`-. | ONE |
| | THNICKEL , |'-.._
| __,,- | ''`---.....______________.....---'' |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| '-.._ __,,-`
| ''`---.....______________.....---'' -->
| kmoser wrote:
| That "stretching" (!) the definition of "emoticon." I would
| call it ASCII art.
| bigyabai wrote:
| If it was emoticon-sized then you wouldn't be able to
| appreciate the tasteful thickness of some wide wampum.
| snarfy wrote:
| ()_)
| fitsumbelay wrote:
| ... which makes it grrrrreat
| curveship wrote:
| it's an emothickon
| schoen wrote:
| Since there's no specific verb in the Latin motto, perhaps it
| should be in the nominative ("nummi crassiores omnibus")?
| Freak_NL wrote:
| Romanes eunt domus!
| theoreticalmal wrote:
| People called Romans they go the house??
| yard2010 wrote:
| "Romanian people go home"
| 1-more wrote:
| Very amateur latinist but I'd say it works as Accusative of
| Exclamation with an implied "do"
| photios wrote:
| So, no "thicc" jokes yet? Come on, people!
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| No need, the pun is in the title / on the website already.
| lqet wrote:
| > Website proudly built with FrontPage 98.
| Mtinie wrote:
| You know it's old school when it's not "built with love". :)
| nartho wrote:
| "Built with by our code monkeys"
| 65 wrote:
| "Buy me a coffee"
| alexjplant wrote:
| I proudly built my grandpa's photography website with a sheet-
| fed scanner and a copy of FrontPage 98 when I was in the third
| grade. Sadly it was hosted on the municipal utility
| commission's site and wasn't crawled by Archive.org so it's
| lost to time :-(.
| morkalork wrote:
| Takes me back to grade 9 and doing a group project in the
| library where everyone had to make a website on their topics in
| FrontPage. Whoever came up with that idea must have a tech true
| believer gen-Xer. It was actually kinda fun.
| fergie wrote:
| I like the vibe, but is this vibe coded?
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| No, the footer says it was made in Microsoft Frontpage 98.
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| the O.G. vscode!
| skinwill wrote:
| The way Frontpage would vomit in the source code was the OG
| AI hallucination.
| jcattle wrote:
| I love where he describes his minting facility:
|
| "My new state of some art facility is equipped with several tools
| and a powerful workhorse (me)!"
| atomic_cowprod wrote:
| Theo: I'm not sure if you still read this echo, but I've been
| trying to call you about my pre-order, but it looks like your BBS
| is still down. If you can get back to me, send me netmail. I'm at
| 1:342/76 for Fido and 11:420/69 for MJNet.
|
| -- SLMR/2 2.4b Origin: Sunnyside Acres -- (203) 555-1212 --
| 1:342/76
|
| Windows is not a virus, viruses DO something.
| crike wrote:
| He's busy minting with his hammer.
| theodorenichols wrote:
| Hello Mr. Prod,
|
| I do not understand your message but you may send me an e-Mail
| or reach me here
| Aardwolf wrote:
| I like the throwback 1998 design while it's created in 2025. They
| got it down even to the colored grain on the photographs and text
| with jpeg artifacts on them - even though that is something that
| actually did improve in 2025 :)
| qsort wrote:
| It might be 1998 design, but I'd much rather visit a 1998
| website than the vast majority of "modern" stuff. My other
| screen has Teams on it and without a shred of irony and before
| accounting for the waste of resources, that website looks way
| better to me than an allegedly professional application does.
| bartread wrote:
| > that is something that actually did improve in 2025
|
| Aye, but the old skool way fits the overall aesthetic better.
| They've even got a few animated GIFs.
|
| I actually really love the way this site looks - I miss the
| days when most websites looking something like this, especially
| where they've avoided going full Christmas tree with the
| design. And look at how fast it loads.
| xnorswap wrote:
| It hotlinks geocities via the wayback machine cache. I'd tut
| but hotlinking others' random images is very on-brand for 90's
| web design too.
| 1oooqooq wrote:
| the design is old but it's marketing is very modern. showing feet
| to get money from strangers is very contemporary.
| naikrovek wrote:
| This is one of the best things I have ever seen.
| nsb1 wrote:
| But why not 'Thickel'?? It was right there!
| justusthane wrote:
| Because "thnickel" is funnier.
| layer8 wrote:
| Too close to thinckels. You might order the wrong ones.
| dasil003 wrote:
| Shades of "you need a thneed"
| velcrovan wrote:
| Admins/mods: you should strip the Beehiiv link id from the link.
| https://thick-coins.net/
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| And HN users should run the "ClearURLs" extension[1] (or
| similar) to automatically strip these and other tracking links
| from their browser.
|
| Or at least read the URL they've entered when posting and
| manually prune unnecessary parameters.
|
| [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
| jxmorris12 wrote:
| My bad. Do they make this for Chrome?
| mrguyorama wrote:
| Only until it affects Google's bottom line.
| lxgr wrote:
| Or consider using Firefox, which has a native "Copy clean
| link" context menu option. Very useful!
| mhuffman wrote:
| No ridges on the sides? This could be be trouble!
| KaiserPro wrote:
| more aerodynamic
| michelpp wrote:
| Usd nickles have smooth edges.
| lordleft wrote:
| This what I miss about what the internet used to be.
| turntable_pride wrote:
| you know what -- hell ya
| theodorenichols wrote:
| Hello This is Theo. I have paused sale of the Coins to handle
| pre-orders. There are some left for Later. Thank You for your
| interest in substantial coinage
| sizzle wrote:
| The man, myth, and legend himself! Can I get a coin?
| theodorenichols wrote:
| I will (benevolently) accept a trade of some of your thin
| coins for a thick one. Next week1
|
| P.S. It will require aLARGE quantity of thin coins, due to
| their relative worthlessness and pathetic Nature
| lxgr wrote:
| Would feeble personal cheques or money orders be acceptable
| too, despite featuring at least 50% fewer dimensions?
| a_c wrote:
| I like your page. Wish more web pages are like that. Would you
| ship to the UK when open to order again?
| theodorenichols wrote:
| YES--I HAVE ALREADY SENT SOME THERE
| cainxinth wrote:
| If you thought getting hit with a sock full regular nickels was
| bad, you ain't seen nothing yet!
| fitsumbelay wrote:
| the Tweet about his neighbor suing him over thnickels self-injury
| tho ... https://x.com/LegbootLegit/status/1919745971673551192
| dmitrygr wrote:
| This is the internet i'll miss when it is fully drowned in ML
| slop.
| korse wrote:
| Has anyone called the listed phone number?
| syedumaircodes wrote:
| I want a thnickel so bad, hit me up when you start taking orders
| again
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