Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock

27 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by secretdark
(boat.horse)

16 Comments

zephyrwhimsy

7 minutes ago

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.

franze

3 hours ago

Super Cool, Love it.

I love new clock designs, here is my try https://triclock.franzai.com/

vintagedave

38 minutes ago

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...

Flockster

3 hours ago

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

2 hours ago

Thanks, Satan. Please don't give French people any ideas.

secretdark

8 hours ago

I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.

seanhunter

an hour ago

This is spectacular. Nice work.

setnone

5 hours ago

It's fine. Made me think of alphabetical organization, if you could sort an alphabet by any meaningful order rather then, well, alphabetical

testudovictoria

an hour ago

As you should be. I look forward to more of this nonsense.

perilunar

3 hours ago

> "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!

addandsubtract

2 hours ago

By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).

comchangs

8 hours ago

This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.

imrozim

5 hours ago

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.