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Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se

204 points by fjallstrom 10y ago

dzolvd 10y ago
Image Size Slayer is pretty awesome.
- bonniemuffin 10y ago
  I'm trying to use it and it's stuck thinking about my image. I wonder if it's suffering the HN hug of death, or if I just selected a very difficult cat photo.
  - jschwartzi 10y ago
    Did you do the catcha? It might think you're a cat and that's your selfie.
- runnr_az 10y ago
  Yeah... that made me laugh. Clever / stupid!
- khedoros1 10y ago
  It reminds me of these two projects: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/le-myope-confused-camera/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/le-myope-confused-camera/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/layercamera/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/layercamera/
- make3 10y ago
  it's actually not stupid at all imho... it's like.. conceptual compression
throwaway2016a 10y ago
The Panic Room one is kind of a neat novelty VR app... you are put in a room with the room's rotation controlled by a person holding a physical box the size of the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NYDN7sd0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NYDN7sd0k
- foxylion 10y ago
  Is this anywhere downloadable? Looks really impressive. It would be really cool if this could be controlled with two apps. One on a smartphone in the box, one as a cardboard monitor. Or is it already like that?
  - throwaway2016a 10y ago
    Not that I could see but I didn't look very hard.
- rahimnathwani 10y ago
  "holding a physical box the size of the room" What is this, a room for ants?
  - 1337biz 10y ago
    It is a finger box. A real collectors item!
    - DonHopkins 10y ago
      It's easy to do, just follow these steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCbbMgp3Lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCbbMgp3Lw
    - Sohcahtoa82 10y ago
      I still have a couple finger boxes packed away somewhere. There was a major resurgence in the fad about 7 years ago.
  - throwaway2016a 10y ago
    Hah, I meant to say shape. My mistake.
sstradling 10y ago
Så morsomt! Thanks for posting - this was a wonderful bit of distraction. I love Everything is Calm - probably because I'm a bad person. :-D
- deleted 10y ago
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cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Dear the creator of "Everything is Calm": Please consider rebranding to "Gaslight"
- cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
  Damn, downvoted... sucks but guess i have to cater to explaining my own joke :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
darfs 10y ago
Im pretty impressed about the stupid Shell X)
eriknstr 10y ago
Fun and silly projects. I think telnet.texttv.nu aside from also being neat might actually be useful.
confounded 10y ago
See also http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ !
owenversteeg 10y ago
Oh man, there need to be more stupid hackathons. Does anyone know the process to organize one? I'd be happy to help get one going here in the Netherlands.
- jeron 10y ago
  I would assume it's similar to organizing a hackathon, might be harder to get sponsors though.
- jrubinovitz 10y ago
  I think you email them and are not a jerk and have a stupid website and then you have one. smart organizers, stupid hackathons.
- azeirah 10y ago
  Whereabouts are you located in the Netherlands, I'd love to join a stupid hackathon
- fjallstrom 10y ago
  hi, organizer of swedish stupidhackathon here. i sent an email to the people at stupidhackathon.com. they were super sweet and told us to go for it. so do it - go for it. https://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/10/stupid-hackathon-sweden/ https://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/10/stupid-hackathon-sweden/ what's nice about organizing a stupid hackathon is that it's really easy. if someting doesn't work out you can just shrug your shoulders and say hey that's stupid. like our livestream for instance. i forgot to plug in the microphone so there was no sound. very stupid!
- fatuna 10y ago
  Sound like a great idea. I would like to join!
- baksobulat 10y ago
  That'd be fun. Wouldn't mind to volunteer (am living in Amsterdam).
anigbrowl 10y ago
Stupid Shell has a bright future
- seqizz 10y ago
  Seriously considering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as my new prompt.
- frompton 10y ago
  Considering the amount of stupid people in the world, yes it might have. However, I am quite stupid as well, and accidentally deleted the source code during the demo. Two seconds of regret, followed by a profound feeling of "this is perfect, I am stupid".
- pawadu 10y ago
  Lets get this guy some VC funding!!
hcarvalhoalves 10y ago
> Activity tracker and diagnostics platform based on data collected from your butt. We have reached peak IoT.
- proactivesvcs 10y ago
  I think this may be trough IoT. Or, if you're going with the IoT-inspired Twitter feed about the phenomenon, Peak Internet of Shite :-)
trishume 10y ago
Students at UWaterloo have been running a hackathon like this every term for a couple years now. It's always super fun. Links: http://terriblehack.website http://terriblehack.website http://www.davepagurek.com/blog/terriblehack/ http://www.davepagurek.com/blog/terriblehack/ https://terriblehack.devpost.com https://terriblehack.devpost.com
- Waterluvian 10y ago
  I'll have to check it out next time. Thanks for sharing!
xs 10y ago
I admit, the smart keyboard or IntelKey or whatever sparked my interest. I don't know what it does, but I think keyboards could use a major improvement. I'm thinking something like a stenograph machine with just 20 some keys instead of my 114 key keyboard. The keyboard would need to recognize context of my "to" and "there" in order to put the right word in. So I could see an inline rasp pi or arduino doing this task. I could then type 3 times as fast. Maybe voice controls will just take over instead. Nevermind.
- haser_au 10y ago
  It replaces words, and some other cool functions. "Trump" is replaced by "Mr President". "Stupid" is replaced by "Intelligent". At some point it quotes the phonetic alphabet. I didn't look hard enough to work out what triggers it.
- rijoja 10y ago
  Shameless plug: https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta Write text with 12 keys and 2 keypresses for each symbol. Potentially a symbol also could be a string or a command or whatever.
- gattilorenz 10y ago
  Wouldn't a chorded keyboard be more practical? In both cases you have to learn how to type from scratch, but at least this is us already widely used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
saaaam 10y ago
We're having one in NYC on February 25th for those who are interested... http://stupidhackathon.com http://stupidhackathon.com
fest 10y ago
Few years ago in garage48 our team built a robot that pees user-submitted image in snow: https://youtu.be/QaDHyTXmnsU https://youtu.be/QaDHyTXmnsU
- krylon 10y ago
  That is about the funniest/coolest/most awesome thing I have read all week!
kriro 10y ago
That woodpecker is genius. And also sad. Would be a pretty great modern art piece imo. [hardware woodpecker (nearly extinct) that always swipes right on Tinder to increase its popularity]
mmjaa 10y ago
Usually, whenever I see something I like on the Internet these days, I "print to PDF" so I can have an offline copy. This is a great habit and I just do it out of routine these days. So when I did it for this site, I was quite surprised that cmd-P didn't give me the standard Print dialog, but rather downloaded a pre-formatted PDF straight from the site, directly, instead. Whoa! How do they do that? Cool feature, saves me a few clicks .. ;)
- lambada 10y ago
  Brings up Chromes regular print dialog for me. Maybe your browser or a plugin are responsible.
- mohsinr 10y ago
  I also want to keep useful stuff for offline consumption, I used to do pdf printing...Now I use pocket , a free service, with addon on chrome , one click add to pocket... and on Android free app... working great for last few months I have been using.
JetSpiegel 10y ago
https://github.com/alimony/everything-is-calm https://github.com/alimony/everything-is-calm This is the best of the bunch. > Chrome Extension that invisibly lowers the volume of YouTube videos over time, until the last twenty seconds when it blasts back at max, hopefully after the user has continuously increased the volume on their external unit to compensate for it being 'too low'.

204 points by fjallstrom 10y ago

dzolvd 10y ago

Image Size Slayer is pretty awesome.

bonniemuffin 10y ago
I'm trying to use it and it's stuck thinking about my image. I wonder if it's suffering the HN hug of death, or if I just selected a very difficult cat photo.
- jschwartzi 10y ago
  Did you do the catcha? It might think you're a cat and that's your selfie.
runnr_az 10y ago
Yeah... that made me laugh. Clever / stupid!
khedoros1 10y ago
It reminds me of these two projects: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/le-myope-confused-camera/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/le-myope-confused-camera/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/layercamera/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/layercamera/
make3 10y ago
it's actually not stupid at all imho... it's like.. conceptual compression

throwaway2016a 10y ago

The Panic Room one is kind of a neat novelty VR app... you are put in a room with the room's rotation controlled by a person holding a physical box the size of the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NYDN7sd0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NYDN7sd0k

foxylion 10y ago
Is this anywhere downloadable? Looks really impressive. It would be really cool if this could be controlled with two apps. One on a smartphone in the box, one as a cardboard monitor. Or is it already like that?
- throwaway2016a 10y ago
  Not that I could see but I didn't look very hard.
rahimnathwani 10y ago
"holding a physical box the size of the room" What is this, a room for ants?
- 1337biz 10y ago
  It is a finger box. A real collectors item!
  - DonHopkins 10y ago
    It's easy to do, just follow these steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCbbMgp3Lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCbbMgp3Lw
  - Sohcahtoa82 10y ago
    I still have a couple finger boxes packed away somewhere. There was a major resurgence in the fad about 7 years ago.
- throwaway2016a 10y ago
  Hah, I meant to say shape. My mistake.

sstradling 10y ago

Så morsomt! Thanks for posting - this was a wonderful bit of distraction. I love Everything is Calm - probably because I'm a bad person. :-D

deleted 10y ago
[deleted]

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago

Dear the creator of "Everything is Calm": Please consider rebranding to "Gaslight"

cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Damn, downvoted... sucks but guess i have to cater to explaining my own joke :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

darfs 10y ago

Im pretty impressed about the stupid Shell X)

eriknstr 10y ago

Fun and silly projects. I think telnet.texttv.nu aside from also being neat might actually be useful.

confounded 10y ago

See also http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ !

owenversteeg 10y ago

Oh man, there need to be more stupid hackathons. Does anyone know the process to organize one? I'd be happy to help get one going here in the Netherlands.

jeron 10y ago
I would assume it's similar to organizing a hackathon, might be harder to get sponsors though.
jrubinovitz 10y ago
I think you email them and are not a jerk and have a stupid website and then you have one. smart organizers, stupid hackathons.
azeirah 10y ago
Whereabouts are you located in the Netherlands, I'd love to join a stupid hackathon
fjallstrom 10y ago
hi, organizer of swedish stupidhackathon here. i sent an email to the people at stupidhackathon.com. they were super sweet and told us to go for it. so do it - go for it. https://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/10/stupid-hackathon-sweden/ https://labs.earthpeople.se/2016/10/stupid-hackathon-sweden/ what's nice about organizing a stupid hackathon is that it's really easy. if someting doesn't work out you can just shrug your shoulders and say hey that's stupid. like our livestream for instance. i forgot to plug in the microphone so there was no sound. very stupid!
fatuna 10y ago
Sound like a great idea. I would like to join!
baksobulat 10y ago
That'd be fun. Wouldn't mind to volunteer (am living in Amsterdam).

anigbrowl 10y ago

Stupid Shell has a bright future

seqizz 10y ago
Seriously considering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as my new prompt.
frompton 10y ago
Considering the amount of stupid people in the world, yes it might have. However, I am quite stupid as well, and accidentally deleted the source code during the demo. Two seconds of regret, followed by a profound feeling of "this is perfect, I am stupid".
pawadu 10y ago
Lets get this guy some VC funding!!

hcarvalhoalves 10y ago

> Activity tracker and diagnostics platform based on data collected from your butt. We have reached peak IoT.

proactivesvcs 10y ago
I think this may be trough IoT. Or, if you're going with the IoT-inspired Twitter feed about the phenomenon, Peak Internet of Shite :-)

trishume 10y ago

Students at UWaterloo have been running a hackathon like this every term for a couple years now. It's always super fun. Links: http://terriblehack.website http://terriblehack.website http://www.davepagurek.com/blog/terriblehack/ http://www.davepagurek.com/blog/terriblehack/ https://terriblehack.devpost.com https://terriblehack.devpost.com

Waterluvian 10y ago
I'll have to check it out next time. Thanks for sharing!

xs 10y ago

I admit, the smart keyboard or IntelKey or whatever sparked my interest. I don't know what it does, but I think keyboards could use a major improvement. I'm thinking something like a stenograph machine with just 20 some keys instead of my 114 key keyboard. The keyboard would need to recognize context of my "to" and "there" in order to put the right word in. So I could see an inline rasp pi or arduino doing this task. I could then type 3 times as fast. Maybe voice controls will just take over instead. Nevermind.

haser_au 10y ago
It replaces words, and some other cool functions. "Trump" is replaced by "Mr President". "Stupid" is replaced by "Intelligent". At some point it quotes the phonetic alphabet. I didn't look hard enough to work out what triggers it.
rijoja 10y ago
Shameless plug: https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta https://github.com/richard-jansson/veta Write text with 12 keys and 2 keypresses for each symbol. Potentially a symbol also could be a string or a command or whatever.
gattilorenz 10y ago
Wouldn't a chorded keyboard be more practical? In both cases you have to learn how to type from scratch, but at least this is us already widely used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard

saaaam 10y ago

We're having one in NYC on February 25th for those who are interested... http://stupidhackathon.com http://stupidhackathon.com

fest 10y ago

Few years ago in garage48 our team built a robot that pees user-submitted image in snow: https://youtu.be/QaDHyTXmnsU https://youtu.be/QaDHyTXmnsU

krylon 10y ago
That is about the funniest/coolest/most awesome thing I have read all week!

kriro 10y ago

That woodpecker is genius. And also sad. Would be a pretty great modern art piece imo. [hardware woodpecker (nearly extinct) that always swipes right on Tinder to increase its popularity]

mmjaa 10y ago

Usually, whenever I see something I like on the Internet these days, I "print to PDF" so I can have an offline copy. This is a great habit and I just do it out of routine these days. So when I did it for this site, I was quite surprised that cmd-P didn't give me the standard Print dialog, but rather downloaded a pre-formatted PDF straight from the site, directly, instead. Whoa! How do they do that? Cool feature, saves me a few clicks .. ;)

lambada 10y ago
Brings up Chromes regular print dialog for me. Maybe your browser or a plugin are responsible.
mohsinr 10y ago
I also want to keep useful stuff for offline consumption, I used to do pdf printing...Now I use pocket , a free service, with addon on chrome , one click add to pocket... and on Android free app... working great for last few months I have been using.

JetSpiegel 10y ago

https://github.com/alimony/everything-is-calm https://github.com/alimony/everything-is-calm This is the best of the bunch. > Chrome Extension that invisibly lowers the volume of YouTube videos over time, until the last twenty seconds when it blasts back at max, hopefully after the user has continuously increased the volume on their external unit to compensate for it being 'too low'.