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Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

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Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

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Post by icebraining »

publicfig wrote: post #77
androidb wrote: post #75

DO NOT click to watch the drone delivery video. Trust me.

Could you explain why?

I suppose it's because of the weird footage of a birth by the end. Can't really tell what's going on there.

Re: Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

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Post by sbierwagen »

AlyssaRowan wrote: post #58
yogiHacks wrote: post #22

I 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.)

The Bad Dragon sex toys I've handled aren't 3d printed. (You wouldn't expect them to be, since 3d printer output is rigid plastic, which you don't want a sex toy to be, and covered with fine ridges, which you really don't want a sex toy to be.)

It's possible that the molds are 3d printed, but if they are, it's using a printer with amazing surface finish, and Bad Dragon's never said anything about using 3d printing. Much more likely they're using conventional manufacturing processes.

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Post by smoyer »

mistercow wrote: post #39

The rearview mirror one is actually a really cool experiment. I wonder if eventually you'd just get used to it (although you probably wouldn't get used to all of the neck and joint pain from trying to do things so awkwardly).

There was a study done on perception that used "glasses" that inverted the image fed to your eyes. The subject's brain rewired itself so he'd see the images upright again in just a couple of days.

Interestingly, the optics in our eyes provide an inverted image to our retinas, so our perception of the "inputs" is already using signal processing.

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Houshalter wrote: post #47
dzhiurgis wrote: post #41

This is incredibly funny. Just today I was reading i am devloper tweets and just started wondering are there communities for developer jokes? Reddit comes to mind, but it become too mainstream. Anything else?

Well it is reddit but https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/

How about more hacker?

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Post by StavrosK »

mitjak wrote: post #88
StavrosK wrote: post #13

Aw, I should have entered my rotary mobile phone...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8

That person in the video is utterly handsome. I'm sure you don't know them, so I thought I'd point it out.

Haha, thanks! I mean, I'm sure they'd thank you.
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