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> What I need is an app that does nothing but show you truly random pictures, with no curation and no memetic aspirations. If you know of one, please let me know.

This must exist, right?



Copy and paste this link to avoid HN Referer redirect: https://www.jwz.org/webcollage/

“WebCollage is a program that creates collages out of random images found on the Web. More images are being added to the collage about once a minute, so this page will reload itself periodically. Clicking on one of the images in the collage will take you to the page on which it was found.

It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.

WebCollage also works as a screen saver on MacOS and Unix: it is included with the XScreenSaver package.”


Curious -- why do you want to avoid the HN referer?


Because otherwise it shows you this https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png

The admins at jwz.org seem very mature.


> The admins at jwz.org seem very mature.

The admin at jwz.org thinks the same thing about the typical HN commenter, so I suppose it all washes out.


I'm glad they made their opinion known in such a clever way.


Because JWZ blocks links from HN.


Not too hard to find if you Google "website that shows random images". Examples: https://r.sine.com/index, https://picsum.photos/ (refresh to see new image)


Thanks folks! These are all great links. I'd seen that jwz link ages ago and completely forgotten about it.



https://archillect.com/archive? Sadly it seems to have gone quiet.


Came to the comments to look for this! I was immediately taken by the idea after reading about the author’s experience.


someone would need to make a little wrapper, but this redirects to a random image in wikimedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/File




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