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
thanks
Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
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#442Hah! 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/
Works great, thanks
Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
#443Reply 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
Just testing.
Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
#444Reply 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
test
Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
#445This is neat! Commenting to see my own.
Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
#446Very cool, thanks for sharing!
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#447Test
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#448Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
#449Reply 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
let's see what the rng gods have for me
Re: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
#450This is really cool!
I've coded in JS for years, and I don't understand how these bit-shifting operations become pixel avatars, or what the magic numbers represent and why they were chosen.
I would like to understand how the author thinks. :)