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I put a fly brain in an endless simulation of listening to type beats on @BeatStars. It either likes the beat or hates it. 🟢🔴

🔥💻 SOMEONE BUILT A GAME WHERE EVERY WEBSITE IS DESTRUCTIBLE This is completely unnecessary. I need it. > Install the game. > Visit literally any website. > Activate it. > And the WEBSITE becomes the level. > Text starts collapsing. > Images become objects. > The page gets smashed into pieces. > You can basically destroy the internet one website at a time. Wikipedia? Level. Reddit? Level. Your bank's website? Boss fight. Someone on Reddit immediately used the game to destroy the Reddit post announcing the game. Perfect. The internet finally has a rage quit button. chromewebstore.google.com/de…

👨‍💻🔍 SOMEONE BUILT A CHROME EXTENSION THAT ONLY DETECTS HIS FRIEND GREG The internet is still undefeated. > This developer has a friend named Greg. > Greg apparently builds weird internet projects all the time. > He kept finding cool things on Hacker News... > Clicking them... > And realizing: > "WAIT. GREG MADE THIS AGAIN." So he built a Chrome extension. Its entire purpose: FIND GREG. > If Greg posts something... > Greg badge. > If a website links to Greg... > Greg badge. > If Greg comments... > Greg badge. > It even puts Greg's FACE next to the result. And if enough Greg is detected... Greg starts dancing in the corner of the page. No AI. No SaaS. No $47/month Pro plan. Just industrial-grade Greg detection. Finally, software solving real problems. github.com/antoineleclair/is…

🤖📈 SOMEONE BUILT AN AI GAME WHERE YOUR GOAL IS TO AUTOMATE YOURSELF OUT OF A JOB This is disturbingly good. > You clock into a fake AI company called L.O.S.S. > Your first job is simple. > Press a button. > Predict the next token. > Press it again. > Make number go up. > Then you start upgrading the system. > Machines automate your work. > AI agents appear. > Output explodes. > Jobs disappear. > Institutions start handing decisions to machines. > Eventually humans are basically just approving what the system already decided. And the entire time... THE GAME REWARDS YOU FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN FASTER. Eventually you reach milestones like: > "The Last Human Veto" > "Humans: A Protected Species" > "Singularity Achieved" It's Cookie Clicker except the cookie is your economic relevance. The future is one token away. workatloss.com/

📟✂️ SOMEONE TURNED A $20 WI-FI HOTSPOT INTO A TINY 4G PHONE This is garage engineering at its finest. > This guy had 3 random things sitting on his desk. > A cheap 4G hotspot. > An iPhone keyboard. > And a tiny black-and-white display. > So naturally... > He decided to build a phone. There was one problem: > The hotspot's circuit board was too big. So he literally CUT PART OF THE PCB OFF. > Installed Linux. > Designed another circuit board. > Added the keyboard. > Added a SIM card. > Built an enclosure. And somehow the thing works. It can even run a Linux terminal and play video on the tiny screen. The case is partly hot-glued. The battery is held down with tape. This is not a flaw. This is exactly how I want weird gadgets to be born. bkovac.github.io/modem-thing…

🐦🖼️ SOMEONE BUILT A PICTURE FRAME THAT LISTENS TO THE BIRDS OUTSIDE This might be my favorite smart-home device ever. > Hang what looks like an old bird illustration on your wall. > Except it's actually a color e-ink screen. > A microphone listens to your backyard. > Bird starts singing outside. > The system figures out which species it is. > Then an antique illustration of THAT BIRD appears on the frame. > Another species shows up? > The artwork changes again. The creator hand-curated 800+ illustrations covering 400+ birds. And the actual artwork isn't AI-generated. It's taken from real historical natural-history plates. He currently has one running from his kitchen window in Norway. Basically: Your backyard chooses the artwork hanging in your house. This is the kind of technology I want more of. fugleramme.arnegiacomo.dev/

🐆🌀 SOMEONE BUILT A WEBSITE THAT TURNS ANY PHOTO INTO ANIMAL-SKIN PATTERNS This feels like visual witchcraft. > Upload literally any image. > Blur it a tiny bit. > Sharpen it. > Repeat. > Again. > Again. > Again. And something extremely weird starts happening. > The original photo slowly reorganizes itself into spots, stripes and maze-like patterns. > The same kind of math has been used to explain patterns found in nature. You can upload your OWN photo and watch it happen live. The wild part isn't some giant AI model. It's basically: Blur. Sharpen. Repeat 50 times. Apparently Photoshop filters left unattended long enough begin inventing zebras. maximevidal.com/turing-patte…

🎵👁️ SOMEONE BUILT A MUSIC VISUALIZER THAT CAN SEE THE FUTURE This is insanely satisfying. > Normal music visualizers hear the beat... > Then react AFTER it happens. > This one analyzes the entire song first. > So it knows a beat drop is coming before YOU hear it. In one demo: > The song has no drums until 0:59. > The visualizer already knows. > 20 seconds before the drums hit, the animation starts slowly organizing itself. > It gets tighter. > Builds tension. > Then the drums finally land... > And the entire visual snaps into place exactly on the drop. It's basically a music visualizer that read the script before the movie started. Winamp would've lost its mind over this. prismatic.fm/music/conductor

🧠🤏 SOMEONE BUILT MINORITY REPORT CONTROLS FOR A MAC This is real. > He's wearing Meta's neural wristband. > Then he moves his fingers... > And his Mac responds. > Swipe your fingers to switch desktops. > Swipe upward and Mission Control opens. > Pinch your fingers together... > Twist your hand like an invisible knob... > The VOLUME CHANGES. > Same thing for screen brightness. No mouse. No trackpad. No camera watching your hands. The wristband reads the tiny muscle signals in your arm. Best part? The creator basically built this because he thought the neural band was cooler than the glasses it came with. We are approximately 3 software updates away from controlling computers like wizards. github.com/callbacked/kinesi…

🐷🔨 SOMEONE BUILT A GAME WHERE YOU SMASH PIGGY BANKS TO PAY RENT Finally. A realistic economy simulator. > You're broke. > Rent is due. > You have a hammer. > Start smashing piggy banks. > Vacuum up their coins. > Pay your bills before someone takes the money. There are: > Sleepy piggies. > Speedy piggies. > Brick piggies. > Ice piggies. > And apparently one pig that is literally ON FIRE. Even your job changes which bills you get. > Designers get Figma expenses. > Teachers buy supplies. > Chefs buy knives. Eventually you can unlock the rarest fantasy item in modern gaming: Debt freedom. This may be the first mobile game where the final boss is cost of living. apps.apple.com/us/app/piggy-…

🌎🎮 SOMEONE IS TURNING REAL CITIES INTO GIANT PIXEL-ART WORLDS This is ridiculous. > Give it a real location on Earth. > It takes the actual aerial imagery... > And redraws the city like an old-school isometric video game. > Buildings. > Streets. > Neighborhoods. > Whole sections of the city become pixel art. > Their first finished map is their hometown in Brazil. > And you can actually zoom around and explore it. Best part: > The system isn't built for one specific city. > They say you could point it anywhere. Meaning, with enough compute... Someone could eventually pixel-art the ENTIRE PLANET. Google Maps but civilization got developed for the Super Nintendo. earthtopixels.com/

🌙🗣️ SOMEONE BUILT BEDTIME GAMES YOU PLAY WITH YOUR VOICE This is kind of magical. > Put your phone beside you. > Stop looking at the screen. > The game starts telling you a cinematic story. > Then characters ask you questions. > You answer OUT LOUD. > Your voice becomes the controller. > One game makes you identify mysterious creatures. > Another asks you to build entire places inside your imagination. > Your answers change what happens next. It's basically an audiobook that refuses to continue until you participate. We spent decades making screens more addictive. Someone finally made a game that's better when you stop looking at one. spellfort.gg/

🎮⌨️ SOMEONE BUILT A KEYBOARD FOR PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO PUT DOWN THE CONTROLLER This makes way too much sense. > Typing with an Xbox controller normally means slowly moving around a giant keyboard one letter at a time. > This developer got sick of it. > So he built a completely different typing system. > Move the joystick and a radial keyboard appears. > Flick toward the group of letters you want. > Select the letter. > Keep going. > The controller also replaces your mouse. > Both analog sticks help you jump around the screen, scroll and switch into precision mode. Basically: What if Windows actually understood that you're holding a controller? Someone finally declared war on typing "youtube.com" with a D-pad. asinii.itch.io/joyboard

🕳️📍 SOMEONE BUILT POKÉMON GO FOR POTHOLES This is real. > A developer took Mumbai's actual government pothole database... > And turned it into a location game. > Open the map. > Find an unfixed pothole. > Physically get within 100 meters of it. > Claim it. > First person there gets 2 points. > Everyone after gets 1. > There's even a leaderboard for the city's best pothole hunters. And these aren't fake game locations. > The map checks Mumbai's real pothole complaints every 5 minutes. > It even tracks potholes that get "fixed" and later reopened. Imagine walking outside because someone just stole YOUR pothole. We have officially gamified infrastructure failure. findmypothole.com/

💻🌀 SOMEONE MADE A MACBOOK SCREEN PHYSICALLY FOLD WITH THE LID This adds absolutely no useful features. I love it. > Start closing your MacBook. > Instead of the screen just going black... > Your entire desktop starts bending backward with the physical lid. > The perspective changes. > The edges blur. > The screen gets darker. > Keep closing it and your desktop literally folds into black. > Open the MacBook again and the whole thing unfolds. Best part: > It uses the MacBook's actual lid-angle sensor. So the animation follows your hand in real time. The creator's description: "Adds no features. Settles one debt." Correct. Every MacBook should have stupidly satisfying physics. lufzle.dev/foldelight/

🖨️📖 SOMEONE TURNED AN E-INK READER INTO A PRINTER This is completely unnecessary. I love it. > A developer bought a tiny programmable e-paper reader. > Then had one thought: > "If it looks like paper, it should act like paper." > So he made his Mac recognize the e-reader as an actual wireless printer. > Open any document. > Hit Print. > Select "penguin." > And instead of paper coming out... > The page literally appears on the e-ink screen. > He tested it by printing a manga page. > It showed up in about a second. No ink. No paper. No printer jams. The paper IS the printer. We finally defeated printers by removing the printer. neshdevtech.com/news/how-to-…