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Ask HN: What is the funniest and stupidest software project you know?

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Just found this gem recently and was wondering that there has to be more this kind of projects.

http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net

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https://electronjs.org/

Gr8 b8

...m8

Both the stupidest and smartest project in a long while.

The developers of game dev tycoon released a cracked version of their software with a twist. The players using the cracked software would eventually have their business go bankrupt due to piracy. Best part is that people who were using the pirated software were actually posting on forums asking how to... get people to stop pirating! The irony!

https://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when...

The irony being that because the developers put up the torrent themselves, "the pirated software" arguably wasn't actually pirated.

Fizz Buzz - Enterprise edition.

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

Yep, discovering this repo literally shut down our engineering department for 45 minutes.

Nice, but kind of obsolete since you can do this in AI now: http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/

;-)

Was part of a hackathon for building useless things. Someone made this gem and I still love it. Flappy bird where you fly by screaming into your mic

http://glench.com/ScreamyBird/

this is hilarious

Don't try in the library.

A nonsense activity generator to impress colleagues with your productivity: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact

Try it online here: https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/

Disclaimer: I made that.

https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

> SL (Steam Locomotive) runs across your terminal when you type "sl" as you meant to type "ls". It's just a joke command, and not useful at all.

Repurpose an "easy button" to play custom sounds (I programmed snippets from the Simpsons). When I went on vacation, I substituted my hacked one for the normal one in the developer's area.

https://github.com/gvb/easybutton

https://github.com/gvb/easybutton/wiki

Dear god this is a public service to humanity! Huzahh!

I greatly enjoy parrot.live (https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live).

  curl parrot.live

Running Windows 95 in an Electron app is also amazing: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases

From stupidhackathon: "an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there...": https://twitter.com/chromakode/status/731942777131425792?lan...

I miss the innocent, purer times of Desktop Destroyer. Maybe less funny and more nostalgic.

http://www.mystressmanagement.net/download-desktop-destroyer...

Usage guide: https://youtu.be/Vq6XpdGQ-pc

I had a version of this that had a trampoline to bounce a trimmed/plucked chicken, and the more you bounced it the higher it would go before crashing through your desktop. Can’t find it now. It was a high quality little program, though. Fun times :D

Wow, that takes me back. I had fun with the one. Thanks!

Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains https://se-simulator.lw1.at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947038

Disclaimer: This is by me, but it is definitly both funny and stupid.

This is up there with the tech jargon generator and hackertyper. Thanks for making this.

RIP terry davis https://www.templeos.org/

Wait what? He’s dead?

Yes. The bottom of the TempleOS page linked by grandparent reads "Terry A. Davis (1969 - 2018). Rest in peace!".

https://pointerpointer.com/

ClippyJS: https://www.smore.com/clippy-js

Windows 93: https://www.windows93.net/

I find them funny but not necessarily stupid. I thought they were really clever.

Posted here a while back:

https://github.com/illacceptanything/illacceptanything

Love this, so many languages represented

PonyOS: http://www.ponyos.org

LOLCODE: http://www.lolcode.org

arguably controversial, but: https://urbit.org/docs/

the deeper you look, the more the abyss stares back:

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/syntax/

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/examples/

I like Brendan Gregg's specials: http://www.brendangregg.com/specials.html

/bin/maybe,/dev/notrandom and the ishadm(information super highway admin) come to mind :)

Had a boss once who wanted a web page, here are the requirements:

Get to anything in 3 clicks (note this thing had at least a hundred different areas and easily 100K documents)

Make it clean

Easy to use

And most important it has too look really cool, so everyone will want to use it.

Probably lolcat, which is like cat, but outputs text to your terminal in a multicolored rainbow. It has no other purpose. For fun you can pipe output from figlet into lolcat.

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

http://olegdb.org, my favorite MAYO compliant database.

ArnoldC, "Programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger."

https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC

https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs

And

http://zombo.com/

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Official Lenny library for Java: https://github.com/paulrademacher/lenny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431053#17431242

This website has a pretty good supply:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Another boss, president of the company.