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It's not really a hack. It's slowly printing a GIF for a kind of really limited server push. If you want to send someone messages via server-push in an old-school way, use multipart/x-mixed-replace.

A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, converting the video to .gif frames, and printing that out slowly enough to view a slow video over a DSL line to watch TV without a media player.

Maybe not a great enough hack for you, but it's still a hack by definition; using something beyond it's intended purpose.

It's not really a hack. ... A hack would be taking the input of a TV tuner card, ...

No True Scotsman: Hacker Edition?

No, a hack would be doing all that while building an abstraction layer around Google Calculator to act as a primitive CPU to do the GIF encode.

I'm kind of OK with that.

It seems a bit arrogant to say "I don't like this particular article, therefore the community is primitive." An Animated GIF messaging library is certainly of interest to a majority of hackers.

I didn't say anything of the sort.

I simply made an amusing (to me) observation. I had earlier thought Pinterest seemed like MacGyver for people into crafts (at least that's the kind of thing my wife kept getting excited about). That's not to disparage HN or Pinterest or MacGyver for that matter.

As a die hard McGyver fan, I'm offended you'd compare him to a subset of stay at home mom's pinning pictures of other women with flat abs as "motivation." Ok, occasionally they post some pretty cool stuff, but mostly it is the former.

Someone wrote blogspam about how fences made out of old pallets are a bit of flash in the pan? Pin.

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