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Someone made a Turing machine out of Magic: The Gathering cards. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506865 Even more ignored.

Both got decent upvote counts

They do now :) The MtG post had about half as many upvotes when I posted the link, and I think the crabs one got an even bigger boost.

This made me laugh. Perfect follow-up.

That's the way to get the good stories onto the front page.

Wow, they found an even messier substrate than water!

... - transitors - vacuum-tubes - water - crabs - ...