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Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon
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#62Really hope this type of event spreads - looks like a lot of fun.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that was a joke. Judging from the rearview mirror video, the venue was pretty small. The event was also hosted by a graduate program at NYU, which in it's inception only had 20 members. While I'm sure NYC has a spare 100,000 people, I doubt such a high turnout for such a specific non-internet event.
It was definitely a joke.
Yeah anyone who missed that.. reading between the lines it looks like a pretty cosy event.
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#65can we please have a NSFW tag
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#66If they sold it, I might buy that thing that tweets my food bites. It would also make twitter more useful / entertaining for me.
As other commenters have expressed, even stupid ideas may lead to an actual product: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitbite-track-and-improve...
I know this project is not related to the hackathon, but one can imagine how it could develop from stupid idea to raising funds for a maybe-not-completely-stupid product.
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#67I wish I knew about this. I wrote a file server that serves your webroot directory over League of Legends chat. Any time you request a file that is more than a few bytes, your chat gets flooded with base64 strings... The extraslow web.
Heh, I once wrote a piece of software that would read World of Warcraft's memory space, scan for the chat circular buffer and then post new guild chat messages to twitter.
At first my guild mates loved it - but then it created some guild internal drama as some "officers" were having a rather not nice chat about other guild members in the night and they thought they were alone.
Pretty much destroyed my guild. But at least I could finally say "What have I done!" and mean it ;)
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#68The Stupid Font is actually very cool. I am going to use it for my blog title. So sorry Stupid Font creator: You failed - I find your idea useful.
How does copyright handle a case like this?
I understood Stupid Font to be a comment on copyright.
My understanding is that the written form of the font is copyrighted - a redrawn version would not typically be copyrighted.
It's complicated so please don't take this as legal advice.
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#69If no-one needs stupid shit, then what do we have Facebook for?
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#70I was at Stuipd Hackathon. I've never been to anything so unabashedly motivated to be pointless and irreverent. Workshops included: "3d printed sex toys", "how to be come alan ginsberg in 30 minutes", and "pissing off my landlord". All the projects there were so beautiful because they were liberated from the whole motif in tech of products constantly "revolutionizing field-xyz and solving 1000 major world problems".…
For the uninitiated: 3D-printed sex toys actually do exist, yes. For example I believe the infamous Dragon Dildos are 3D-printed? (I shan't link, for self-explanatory reasons.)
I shan't link