Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme • Hacker News Board

Can't "What a ", ", huh?" and "Captain, it's " be hard-coded / image? Also, nearing the end of the day/week/month/year, the meme doesn't really makes sense anymore..

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by FearNotDaniel » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:09 AM UTC

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP

I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right?

Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time', just like Accept-Language (which sadly quite a few websites ignore and show me German-language content anyway just because my location is in a German-speaking country).

Still, great work OP :-) now can anyone tell me why Tintin is trending at the moment? Did I miss something? All my feeds seem to be suddenly full of Tintin content right now.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by hkt » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:18 AM UTC

I pasted this into slack every week for years, every Wednesday. People used to ask if I was OK if I forgot.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by cryptonym » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:20 AM UTC

Not to be nitpicking but Cloudflare will log and store request metadata, including user IP.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by RicoElectrico » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:20 AM UTC

FearNotDaniel wrote: post #15

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right? Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify pr…

> Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time',

That's a another data point for fingerprinting, sadly. Not that Chrome would care, but Firefox and Safari teams do, I guess.

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by SilverSlash » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:28 AM UTC

cprecioso wrote: post #7

As a tip, you can use the ` ` tag [1] to make the browser automatically refresh after N seconds and keep the tab always up to date. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...

TIL

Re: Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme

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Post by lgas » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:33 AM UTC

RicoElectrico wrote: post #18

FearNotDaniel wrote: post #15

> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right? Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify pr…

> Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time', That's a another data point for fingerprinting, sadly. Not that Chrome would care, but Firefox and Safari teams do, I guess.

It could be opt-out/opt-in and then all six users that care about privacy could do as they wished.