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Comment by lucb1e | Hacker News Reader

I've seen this on Twitter, then on the Reddit homepage, now it's in HN's #1 spot. What's going on, how is this new? I've seen an article on how to do this years ago on HN. It's a funny thing to do, just like the Google homepage doodles or telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl (if I remember correctly, that streams ASCII Star Wars to you)... what's special about bad.horse (besides the relatively new GTLD)?

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It's a fun trick, let people enjoy it. Not everything needs to be groundbreaking.

Agreed, I like to see simple fun stuff on here as well. It's just that this is not interesting anymore (to me at least) because others already did it. I'd rather like to see a repost of the old, informative article instead of a new implementation of the same thing. Worse, the new thing doesn't even explain how it was done or contain any information I might be interested in.

> What's going on, how is this new?

What does "having to be new" have to do with anything? It's a cool trick.

If I may play devil's advocate, one can argue that this is called "hacker news" and therefore, you would expect things to be new :)

That's one reason, but it doesn't need to be new. Articles from 1998 are fine by me if they're interesting. It's more that someone did something, someone else copies it years later (I guess after everyone has forgotten it) and then it's a hype as big as if Windows 11 was announced to become web-based. The old implementer at least explained how to technically do it, this bad.horse thing doesn't give me anything interesting.

What if the headline read: "we rewrote bad.horse to be webscale using Go"

Not a Go fan, but yeah in that case there is actually something interesting about the whole thing. Now it just does something that we already saw before.

That post would get to spot -1 on HN for sure :)

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