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9/11 in Realtime

by clessg on 9/11/24, 6:34 AM with 12 comments

• by dang on 9/11/24, 7:19 AM

  Related:

  9/11 in Realtime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37467077 - Sept 2023 (148 comments)

  September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28492719 - Sept 2021 (445 comments)

• by retrofuturism on 9/11/24, 7:19 AM

  Quoting user nyx from the last time this was posted. >To fix the broken timestamp in the upper right, open your JS console and set timeZone.diff equal to your negative UTC offset. I'm in US Pacific Time, so I ran timeZone.diff = 8

• by sigmoid10 on 9/11/24, 7:18 AM

  The OS desktop-y simulation is a nice idea, but it makes the site unusable on mobile. Even the video player seems unnecessarily complicated. So unless you have a full screen available to you all day, you're gonna miss out on a lot.

• by Krutonium on 9/11/24, 10:12 AM

  I wish it wasn't MacOS 9 - A far more relevant UI for this would have been 9x or 2000. And a lot easier to use, too.