Hacker News Hug of Deaf
a year ago
- #Hacker News
- #Fun Experiment
- #Networking
- A playful experiment was set up to accept arbitrary connections from Hacker News (HN) community.
- The server responded with 'ok' and triggered four terminal beeps per connection.
- Over 24 hours, the server received 4761 connections, resulting in 19044 beeps.
- The experiment was inspired by a discussion on quirky, DIY alerting systems.
- Participants could use various clients like web browsers, nc, curl, ssh, or irssi to connect.
- The experiment highlighted the joy of exploring quirky computing ideas with community participation.