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My GitHub Readme Is Interactive

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Shown by eat_veggies on Sep 4, 2020. Click the card to turn it over.

237points

99comments

#211of 3,028 in 2020

Top 7%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

12 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 19 critical, out of 58 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.

Execution: 1 for, 11 againstIdea: 8 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

Clever hack and fun idea
From 4 comments
- Oh wow, this is quite clever. This is hacking in its pure, positive form. I love it. I wonder what the README will say once the firehose of Hacker News slows down.
  aaronjanse on HN
- I love this. I think there's something beautiful about making software just because it's a fun to do; not trying to change the world, but just thinking it would be funny to have…
  tombert on HN
- This is extremely clever. Many kudos.
  spcebar on HN
- I tried that at first, but GitHub's CDN will take the first few seconds of the streamed GIF and loop it :(
  eat_veggies on HN
Nostalgic for old forum signatures
From 2 comments
- Way back when forums were a thing and all the kids had obnoxious photoshop "signatures" with their favorite anime characters and video games, I made a dynamic forum signature…
  echelon on HN
- Ahhh, I used to love those signatures! I remember when everyone used to post their computer specs on their signatures. And I loved your DSmeet project! Did you happen to get into…
  lovehashbrowns on HN

Objections

Site broke or did not update for many users
From 4 comments
- It doesn't appear to work for me. I tap a letter but it refreshes the page, goes to top, with no letter appended. Cool idea though, would love to see it working.
  can16358p on HN
- not updating for me
  happppy on HN
- it s not working on my laptop
  Ceezy on HN
- The api it uses is 404'ing for me now... Sad
  epse on HN
Spammed by coordinated abuse and rate limits
From 4 comments
- It's a script pressing the buttons cause the text has a pattern. Humans cannot use this demo at this moment.
  kang on HN
- Right now it seems to be exploited to spam support for... a particular candidate.
  jachee on HN
- While you added rate limiting, it looks like you might have only done it for `RemoteAddr`. If I set random `X-Forwarded-For` and `X-Real-IP` I seems to let me post as quickly as…
  buffington on HN
- Aaaand we got the n word, didn't take long.
  SSchick on HN

Requests

Add rate limiting
From 2 comments
- OP: You might want to add some basic rate limiting in the range of 3+ clicks per second. Currently you can flood the http endpoints to spam a single action (like backspace).…
  judge2020 on HN
- Commit two hours ago: "Implement rate limit" :-)
  angrygoat on HN
Show per-user state or sessions
From 2 comments
- I think I can see what you're trying to do but every user seems to share the same view? Or is that a bug? If it's a bug I'm sure you could fix it with something like sessions to…
  Uptrenda on HN
- Clever, you could use branches to add sessions.
  Algomancer on HN

Questions

How does it get past GitHub image caching
From 3 comments
- How can this work on Github when Github's image proxy has a 4-hour cache? It's frozen in time and can never be updated as fast as this (https://kbd.jse.li/screen.gif), afaict,…
  hombre_fatal on HN
- Question. From my experience, GitHub uses the `github-amo` bot to fetch the data when the page is rendered. How did you prevent it from cacheing on GitHub's servers?
  cjhanks on HN
- Doesn't GitHub cache fetched images? Any tricks required to get GitHub to refresh the image?
  uzyn on HN

Alternatives named

Twitch Plays Pokemon
From 2 comments
- Reminds me of Twitch Plays Pokémon[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon
  Tade0 on HN
- is this like twitch plays pokemon?
  stackzero on HN
Infinite monkey theorem / libraryofbabel
From 1 comment
- Semi related: check out libraryofbabel [1] or the Vscauce video [2] [1] https://libraryofbabel.info [2] https://youtu.be/GDrBIKOR01c?t=1032
  jamafu on HN