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jenkinsj
Awesome idea. The Firebase guys keep making really interesting ways to use realtime data.
markmac
Some very smart things going on with those guys...
Vivtek
My magnets keep drifting away while I try to position them.
mimiflynn
That was probably me messing with you.
Peroni
That was surprisingly more entertaining than I had anticipated.
maligree
Well, great, there's my day. Five minutes ago was an hour ago.
matznerd
It was pretty cool watching the hivemind create live. I'm surprised by how ordered it was. Any way to show how many users are in there?
codybrown
I thought that this was going to be a link to buy physical HN magnets. This turned out to be much cooler but, if they were available, I would also buy this for my fridge.
kcthota
ya..even I thought the same, just like the T-shirts the other day ;)
agaton
Yes! Who fix this? I want to buy them! Like... ehh. Now!
sharkweek
one idea I think would be fun is refrigerator magnets with language specific terms and symbols -- both for learning as well as interviews -- seems like it could be pretty fun to have a big block of C on your office fridge
ThomPete
I guess the bigger business would be to create sets (hipster, hacker, music, social media, custom)

If anyone wan't to try explore this further I would be willing to offer my design help. PM me.

[dead] HNLogInShit
No thanks. They would just arrogantly tell you, "You're eating too quickly" and let you waste shitloads of time preparing stuff after that.
pdufour
Same. Pleasantly surprised.
crntaylor
"Ron Conway will invest in mobile cat neckbeards."
mijustin
"Show HN: enterprise techno startup"
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joshrotenberg
Must be broken. I can't find the "Haskell" magnet.
fhars
Isn't your account old enough to remember erlang day?
jblock
"San Francisco please acqui-hire 9000 dogs"
jcurbo
Show HN: My MVP bought 9000 dogs a t-shirt!

This makes a nice second monitor screensaver if you have the screen space.

cheeseprocedure
I would LOVE to export the game history to a screensaver.
mayop100
The code's on Github, and the data is all publicly-exposed through Firebase. Go nuts!
yuletide666
Neat idea, but reshuffles too quickly
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publicfig
It's collaborative. Those are all people using it at the same time
Tyrant505
Spent too much time on this. Run.
bcoates
It looks like there's some sort of registration issue going on; some people stack their magnets so they overlap from my point of view but others are arranged neatly or spaced out.
JoshTriplett
It depends on your font size, rather than having a font-size-based grid.
RyanZAG
Someone is going to work out how to monetize this and make millions. Surprisingly entertaining.
pcrumm
I wouldn't mind being able to purchase the magnet set I played around with.
ImprovedSilence
This is probably going to hit critical mass real soon, and there will just be too many peeps moving shit around.. But dang is it fun.
Scryptonite
I really need to get back to work. I'm sorry for messing with the game... (Did you notice how the magnets were just zipping out from where you put them and into the center, randomly offset, or into a formed circle? That was me. Sorry!)
at-fates-hands
quite possibly the coolest blind collaboration ever.
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sukuriant
Please let go of the back button :/

using Firefox

Paul_Morgan
When it breaks the back button I'm not going anywhere near this web page again.
650REDHAIR
Could someone explain this to me? I don't use Firefox so I'm not sure what the issue is here.
sukuriant
Backspace goes back one page in the browser. What I was basically saying is that he's stolen the back button on the browser so that it does things on his website and not the normal operating procedure. I can't leave his site through just the keyboard.
FreeFull
Could try using alt+left instead of backspace, although websites could steal that as well.
sukuriant
I suppose my point here is: "Why should I have to?" it's just a website and it's hijacking the command. Websites should comply with the regular rules of the keyboard unless I permit otherwise.