Hacker News Hug of Deaf
a year ago
- #Hacker News
- #Experiments
- #Networking
- A playful experiment was set up to accept arbitrary connections from the Hacker News community.
- The server responded with an 'ok' message and triggered four terminal beeps per connection.
- Over 24 hours, the server received 4761 connections, resulting in 19044 terminal beeps.
- The experiment was inspired by a discussion on quirky, DIY alerting systems.
- The author emphasized the joy of exploring quirky computing ideas and community participation.