Live data from Hacker News

Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

donottouch.org

11–20 of 56 posts

Re: Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

#12
post #5
post #3

"After 50 years of pointing and clicking, we are celebrating the nearing end of the computer cursor with a music video where all our cursors can be seen together for one last time." I don't see any way the cursor dies without the keyboard dying. And I don't see the keyboard dying. Just because tech bloggers and journalists are incapable of writing about any hardware besides tablets and phones doesn't mean that's all…

I don't see why the mouse should be tied to the keyboard. They're used for different purposes. We use mice to point stuff in a specific place on the screen. It would be much faster to do that by just putting your finger on the screen (and more intuitive, since we already use our fingers like that). I think the time it takes for my hand to move from the keyboard to the mouse is about equal than it would take to move i…

Your finger is fat and imprecise. Also, ever heard of gorilla arm?

Re: Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

#17
To whoever owns this : If you remove the NSFW bit you will probably get at least 200% more traffic if not more. I almost shared this on Facebook, but for obvious reasons don't want my mother and younger friends seeing this content on my behalf.

---

Aside, that was really fun and I laughed quite a few times.

Re: Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

#19

apparently, the video is re-rendered on a regular basis containing the flock of mouse pointers: We composite the music video with the latest pointers every 30 minutes orso. For that we use Node.js & FFMPEG

So if it's just a video. How does the "avoid each other" work?

Re: Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW]

#20
post #13

I missed the latter part of the title. Can we have NSFW stuff labeled at the beginning of the title since they're so uncommon and unexpected?

This seems unreasonable to me. I think we can safely hold people responsible for reading to the end of a seven-word sentence.
Post reply on HN