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Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#421

Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I have old t-shirts with that logo. MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT! On the functional side, this really helps you see who is who in a long threaded discussion. Your eye is much quicker at following the little color icons than their names.

I made a chrome extension of this! So it won't disappear when you refresh the page: https://github.com/ekofi/hn_avatar_ext/

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#423
post #329

Reply here if you just want to see how your username looks like, so we avoid noise and keep that Show HN on the top. comments are really interesting

I don't actually like my avatar very much, lol. I can't decide whether it's a moustache and glasses or a bikini.

I see DrDisrespect

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#425
This is a class of "sprite" generators, which I find fascinating. This one in particular seems very good, although I wonder how much of that is our brains* filling in context.

*I am, evidently, a mushroom cloud

Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

#427

Hah! I got a really cool little icon that looks almost like the cassette tape pirate logo of Piratbyrån back in the day. I have old t-shirts with that logo. MAKE. THIS. PERMANENT! On the functional side, this really helps you see who is who in a long threaded discussion. Your eye is much quicker at following the little color icons than their names.

Trying mine.

can't resist, trying mine...
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