Interesting username

Deep-ish cut

Excited to see how this plays out, I made something similar a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351286

Oh man, I was going to try and find that to link to it. I can’t believe it was 10 years ago… I really enjoyed following that for a while. Thanks for making it.

Missed an opportunity to name it WikWok or Tikipedia.

great suggestion ! i might change it to wikwok, so good

WikWok is tremendous

interesting. Give us an example of it's usage ... or how you implemented it?

I looked at the code - it uses ternary expressions.

Missed out on an opportunity to name it "QWOPtimizer"

This is fascinating - I have been quantitatively tracking TikTok trends and Indian songs consistently top the charts on TikTok by view counts. This will displace many Indian TikTok users and either a new platform will spring up, or Indians will get slightly better at using VPNs (just like internet users in China).

(For the curious, my TikTok data is shared here: https://tiktometer.com)

Amazing, this is clearly a glimpse into a future of internet content being less like a document and more like a virtual world.

Suggestion: the enter key should focus the chat box (like a FPS game) so you don't have to hit escape then click on it.

You mean the future as imagined by someone from 1995?

I think it's possible that vision is closer to the real future than that sounds at face value. I also initially thought of lawnmower man era breathless predictions for VRML and mockups of the future 3D internet. But this is actually a surprisingly compelling experience. Is it wrong I kind of like that almost everything from the browsing experience of reddit is removed except the titles and the linked content? It's got a pleasing simplicity and the tangible nature of making the internet a physical place is appealing to my primitive brain somehow. Definitely not my new way to browse the web, but surprisingly charming.

Maybe we can get a modern updated VRML spec going.

We definitely should, although probably from a completely different perspective than ‘94: High end phones can capture in 3D, so we should be able to store and view 3D images properly.

I’m starting with the idea of PNGs where the channels represent RGBZ instead of RGBA, but obviously we need more than 8 bits of depth information, and we are starting to get and care about high dynamic range for RGB data as well… would 16R:16G:16B:16Z work?

There’s also the point that depth information will have sharp boundaries, and it will probably be much worse for RGB information to blur over such a boundary as compared with the equivalent parts of a flat JPEG.

Here you go: https://www.web3d.org/x3d/what-x3d/

Yeah I remember trying a demo that was literally trying to do this, just on our Mac Performa 5200 over a 14.4 modem (you had to pre-download the "map"). Even the design is eerily similar.

If this is what internet content is going to be like in the future I'm not looking forward to the future.

The dream of the [late] 90's is alive?

Yeah, looks like project looking glass for the desktop ca. forever ago. The future is here?

Why would you force anyone?

They are incentivized to buy a miner-heater because as long as it earns something, they are essentially just paying less for heating.

They can, the idea is that they can mine more efficiently by storing the scrambled version rather than storing it unscrambled and re-scrambling when they need to generate a mining proof.

Very cool, I really like this idea of Nomic-style open-source code governance. I previously built a similar project: https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanythi...