Show HN: ASCII Hacker News waterfall

#1

Post by trizoza » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC

Re: Show HN: ASCII Hacker News waterfall

#2

Post by andersmurphy » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 9:43 AM UTC

Tokenfalls! My dwarf fortress eyes read this deluge completely differently.

#3

Post by trizoza » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 9:44 AM UTC

andersmurphy wrote: post #2

Tokenfalls! My dwarf fortress eyes read this deluge completely differently.

Hahaha, literally.

#4

Post by zty5678 » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 4:53 AM UTC

Great! It looks like a waterfall composed of characters.

#5

Post by trizoza » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC

zty5678 wrote: post #4

Great! It looks like a waterfall composed of characters.

Characterfall. It tests your character :D

#6

Post by filup » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

Do the characters display identically for everyone? Reminds me of a stream cipher

#7

Post by trizoza » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 9:58 AM UTC

filup wrote: post #6

Do the characters display identically for everyone? Reminds me of a stream cipher

Depends on screen size but general yeah, the titles are random though so if you open on 2 different screens they won't look exactly the same.