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A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

sbnation.com

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In case people are wondering why this is being posted to HN again, the author just signed a book deal:

https://bsky.app/profile/jonbois.bsky.social/post/3lp7tpfpeq...

I had no idea about this haha (I can confirm I am not associated with the author in any way)

I’ve adored Jon’s writing for years, so a book is exciting! But it does bum me out a little bit that it will be “just” a book. Compared to the dynamic and multimedia formats of “Tim Tebow in the CFL” and “Football 17776”. The writing is excellent, but the dynamic and multimedia nature of his previous work will be missed. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

This is an earlier work from the same author that I found absolutely delightful. https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl...

You cannot predict where this story will go. It will take a turn and you will think, "oh, that's weird, but ok, I get it". And then it will do it again, and again, and again. But somehow, by the end of it all, it all makes sense.

Reminding me a lot of Unsong.com, by Scott Alexander.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

This spoilery link provides context about the op link if that's what you want

Jon Bois has done some fantastic work. I love his Pretty Good series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSCYW1o-4wh... Entertaining even if you're not into sports (but you better be into data!)

This page sucked 100% of my CPU in mear seconds… I'm lucky I could close the tab fast enough.

Same here. It's complete garbage with on Firefox despite using an overpowered Macbook Pro.

This completely locked up my laptop. I had to hard power down.

Needs to be removed from front page.

How? This luckily didn't happen to me.

For those who don't have time to... "read"... this great story, Jacob Geller provides a fun and effective summary within this video at 9 minutes in

https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k

In his words: "It is in my opinion one of the best sci-fi stories ever written."

Wait, this is actually amazing.

One of my favourite web-things of all time. Incredible creativity in an unexpected place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.

Is it, though?

Try again, with some patience. You might find this bug more interesting than expected.