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Hacker News Refrigerator Magnets

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I thought that this was going to be a link to buy physical HN magnets. This turned out to be much cooler but, if they were available, I would also buy this for my fridge.

ya..even I thought the same, just like the T-shirts the other day ;)

Yes! Who fix this? I want to buy them! Like... ehh. Now!

one idea I think would be fun is refrigerator magnets with language specific terms and symbols -- both for learning as well as interviews -- seems like it could be pretty fun to have a big block of C on your office fridge

I guess the bigger business would be to create sets (hipster, hacker, music, social media, custom)

If anyone wan't to try explore this further I would be willing to offer my design help. PM me.

Same. Pleasantly surprised.

Someone is going to work out how to monetize this and make millions. Surprisingly entertaining.

I wouldn't mind being able to purchase the magnet set I played around with.

"Ron Conway will invest in mobile cat neckbeards."

Show HN: My MVP bought 9000 dogs a t-shirt!

This makes a nice second monitor screensaver if you have the screen space.

I would LOVE to export the game history to a screensaver.

The code's on Github, and the data is all publicly-exposed through Firebase. Go nuts!

That was surprisingly more entertaining than I had anticipated.

That was brilliant. It took a while before I could see any that were 'improvised' words. "They took are (steve)jobs" with 'are' covering 'steve'.

I am actually surprised with how well it all worked. Other than obvious cases of people just seeing how annoying they could be in general you could get a sentence going with input from others.

Gonna bookmark this so I can come back to play later.

I don't like how they randomly all go back into the circle.

That's not the built-in behavior. Someone wrote a script to do that.

Now that's impressive.

This was really impressive (happened in span of two seconds) - http://i.imgur.com/EmtJC4J.png

Made a video: http://youtu.be/GEskR_iu8Kk

"Steve Jobs is a Palo Alto RapGenius"

"Net Neutrality with SnapChat"

"acqui-hire haters"

Surprisingly fun.

Suggestion: Could you include an 's' magnet?

Magnet sets never have them, but they are useful for turning a verb from the plural form into the singular ("downvote"), and vice-versa for nouns.

Must be broken. I can't find the "Haskell" magnet.

Isn't your account old enough to remember erlang day?

Or Tesla

I can hardly wait until the tech is ready for me to buy these fridge magnets, and people all around the world can move them on my fridge!

Well, great, there's my day. Five minutes ago was an hour ago.

Awesome idea. The Firebase guys keep making really interesting ways to use realtime data.

Some very smart things going on with those guys...

I really need to get back to work. I'm sorry for messing with the game... (Did you notice how the magnets were just zipping out from where you put them and into the center, randomly offset, or into a formed circle? That was me. Sorry!)

Two cool ones:

http://i.imgur.com/86rjhY4.png

http://i.imgur.com/Hfh4Vt9.png

http://imgur.com/s1HHNwo

It looks like there's some sort of registration issue going on; some people stack their magnets so they overlap from my point of view but others are arranged neatly or spaced out.

It depends on your font size, rather than having a font-size-based grid.

"San Francisco please acqui-hire 9000 dogs"

"AirBnb for San Francisco cats"

"Will RSS dog startup acquire cat blog"

Please let go of the back button :/

using Firefox

When it breaks the back button I'm not going anywhere near this web page again.

Could someone explain this to me? I don't use Firefox so I'm not sure what the issue is here.

Backspace goes back one page in the browser. What I was basically saying is that he's stolen the back button on the browser so that it does things on his website and not the normal operating procedure. I can't leave his site through just the keyboard.

Could try using alt+left instead of backspace, although websites could steal that as well.

I suppose my point here is: "Why should I have to?" it's just a website and it's hijacking the command. Websites should comply with the regular rules of the keyboard unless I permit otherwise.

Now it's turning into warring scripts :) The first trick is to grab a reference to the refrigerator. Just put a breakpoint in the dom ready function in main.js, and set a global variable.

It's just using Firebase, so you can write / read directly from Firebase using the Node.js lib / Web lib / REST API. https://magnets-hn1.firebaseio.com/.json?print=pretty

"Show HN: AirBnB for cats!" must survive!

It was pretty cool watching the hivemind create live. I'm surprised by how ordered it was. Any way to show how many users are in there?

This is probably going to hit critical mass real soon, and there will just be too many peeps moving shit around.. But dang is it fun.

"Show HN: enterprise techno startup"

"Show HN: Hacker News overlords prototype hyper caffeine twinkies service!"

The process was revolutionized when I realized that I could search.

My magnets keep drifting away while I try to position them.

That was probably me messing with you.

Oh, it's shared...

Whole new way to interact with others, interesting idea.

small bug, when you move 2+ word elements to the right edge they get pushed to two lines.

edit: at least, it seemed to be happening a minute ago.

"real time Hacker News degenerated in to this"

I would buy this

Neat idea, but reshuffles too quickly

It's collaborative. Those are all people using it at the same time

Spent too much time on this. Run.

quite possibly the coolest blind collaboration ever.

missing the word Ramen.

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