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Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se

by fjallstrom on 2/13/17, 8:29 PM with 47 comments

  • by throwaway2016a on 2/13/17, 9:23 PM

    The Panic Room one is kind of a neat novelty VR app... you are put in a room with the room's rotation controlled by a person holding a physical box the size of the room.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NYDN7sd0k

  • by trishume on 2/14/17, 12:33 AM

    Students at UWaterloo have been running a hackathon like this every term for a couple years now. It's always super fun.

    Links: http://terriblehack.website http://www.davepagurek.com/blog/terriblehack/ https://terriblehack.devpost.com

  • by cocktailpeanuts on 2/13/17, 10:09 PM

    Dear the creator of "Everything is Calm":

    Please consider rebranding to "Gaslight"

  • by mmjaa on 2/14/17, 10:31 AM

    Usually, whenever I see something I like on the Internet these days, I "print to PDF" so I can have an offline copy. This is a great habit and I just do it out of routine these days.

    So when I did it for this site, I was quite surprised that cmd-P didn't give me the standard Print dialog, but rather downloaded a pre-formatted PDF straight from the site, directly, instead.

    Whoa! How do they do that? Cool feature, saves me a few clicks .. ;)

  • by dzolvd on 2/13/17, 8:49 PM

    Image Size Slayer is pretty awesome.

  • by fest on 2/14/17, 7:02 AM

    Few years ago in garage48 our team built a robot that pees user-submitted image in snow: https://youtu.be/QaDHyTXmnsU

  • by owenversteeg on 2/13/17, 10:54 PM

    Oh man, there need to be more stupid hackathons. Does anyone know the process to organize one? I'd be happy to help get one going here in the Netherlands.

  • by hcarvalhoalves on 2/13/17, 11:45 PM

    > Activity tracker and diagnostics platform based on data collected from your butt.

    We have reached peak IoT.

  • by confounded on 2/13/17, 10:40 PM

  • by JetSpiegel on 2/14/17, 11:42 AM

    https://github.com/alimony/everything-is-calm This is the best of the bunch.

    > Chrome Extension that invisibly lowers the volume of YouTube videos over time, until the last twenty seconds when it blasts back at max, hopefully after the user has continuously increased the volume on their external unit to compensate for it being 'too low'.

  • by sstradling on 2/13/17, 9:28 PM

    Så morsomt! Thanks for posting - this was a wonderful bit of distraction.

    I love Everything is Calm - probably because I'm a bad person. :-D

  • by eriknstr on 2/13/17, 10:23 PM

    Fun and silly projects. I think telnet.texttv.nu aside from also being neat might actually be useful.

  • by xs on 2/14/17, 12:36 AM

    I admit, the smart keyboard or IntelKey or whatever sparked my interest. I don't know what it does, but I think keyboards could use a major improvement. I'm thinking something like a stenograph machine with just 20 some keys instead of my 114 key keyboard. The keyboard would need to recognize context of my "to" and "there" in order to put the right word in. So I could see an inline rasp pi or arduino doing this task. I could then type 3 times as fast. Maybe voice controls will just take over instead. Nevermind.

  • by kriro on 2/14/17, 10:04 AM

    That woodpecker is genius. And also sad. Would be a pretty great modern art piece imo.

    [hardware woodpecker (nearly extinct) that always swipes right on Tinder to increase its popularity]

  • by anigbrowl on 2/13/17, 11:02 PM

    Stupid Shell has a bright future

  • by saaaam on 2/14/17, 6:00 AM

    We're having one in NYC on February 25th for those who are interested... http://stupidhackathon.com

  • by darfs on 2/13/17, 10:10 PM

    Im pretty impressed about the stupid Shell X)