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Yep. And more importantly, give an indication you're going to make noise, and give people an option to turn it off before it starts.

To each their own I guess. I listened to it with headphones, and it was very soothing.

This just gave me an idea for a browser extension.

How common is photosensitive epilepsy?

This is when seizures are triggered by certain rates of flashing lights or contrasting light and dark patterns.

Around 1 in 100 people has epilepsy and of these people, around 3% have photosensitive epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy is more common in children and young people (up to 5%) and is less commonly diagnosed after the age of 20.

Source: https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seiz...

I immediately thought about that, my first go at it started with a big glitchy rapidly-flashing ball right in the middle of the screen. (Not sure if it should be like that? iOS safari, iOS16.0) Kind of the worst case scenario.

And a mute button.

For me the audio stutters when I look at it, but it plays smoothly when I am in a different tab.

There's music? I didn't get any at all!

I guess that explains why I couldn't understand the point of this... For a while I thought it was just a kinda cool but nothing special particle effect, and wondered what it was even doing on the HN front-page.

OP:I dunno what the issue is but I didn't get any sound on Android. Might be a bug in your page. Sorry for the detail-free bug report.

I was just gonna write the same thing. First I opened it in Firefox, which works fine for a couple of seconds, then the audio glitches out. Then I decided to try Chrome, as many of these "toys" are ever only tried in Chrome, but then this happened instead.

Helped me to have my headphones on.