Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock
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franze
vintagedave
This is really cool, even better than the post, IMO (sorry OP!)
One question: when the second hand resets from 60->0, it visually jerks as the triangle moves. After the smooth movement, gradients, the cool multicolour fill, it feels very odd. Any way of smoothing that one out? Animating the flip back to zero? I do understand it's a one-way line not a circle...
Thundernerd
Love the look of that! Really cool
seanhunter
I love your clock btw.
secretdark
I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.
setnone
It's fine. Made me think of alphabetical organization, if you could sort an alphabet by any meaningful order rather then, well, alphabetical
seanhunter
This is spectacular. Nice work.
testudovictoria
As you should be. I look forward to more of this nonsense.
jesse23
Wonder which language's number words produce the most scrambled day. Welsh might win — "un ar bymtheg" (16) is going to cause chaos.
verstandhandel
Reminds me of Lord Vetinari's Clock:
The clock in Lord Vetinari’s anteroom didn’t tick right. Sometimes the tick was just a fraction late, sometimes the tock was early. Occasionally, one or the other didn’t happen at all. This wasn’t really noticeable until you’d been in there for five minutes, by which time small but significant parts of the brain were going crazy.
– Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, page 321
Flockster
Great idea! I'd like to make a german version, since the two digit numbers are sorted differently. E.g. 34 is sorted vier(4)_und_dreißig(30).
addandsubtract
Thanks, Satan. Please don't give French people any ideas.
comchangs
This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.
zephyrwhimsy
I have seen teams spend months fine-tuning retrieval algorithms when the real issue was that their ingestion pipeline was feeding HTML boilerplate into the vector store. Fix the input first.
perilunar
> "In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically"
Why limit yourself? — make a 24-hour version and you have 86,400 possible times!
2020science
Got me thinking about novel clock designs in digital space - seems like something vibe coding could open the floodgates to :)
imrozim
the combined mode sorting all 43,200 possible times alphabetically is the real commitment.eight comes before eleven so 8am hits before 11am alphabetically the day is completely scrambled genuinely useless and genuinely delightful.
addandsubtract
By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).
asystemoffields
Useless and delightful
JaredCampbell
HATE :-)
aditmag
Need this irl
iconicBark
Cool stuff!
as1as
The clock is moving very dizzy, lol
Super Cool, Love it.
I love new clock designs, here is my try https://triclock.franzai.com/