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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

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590 points consumer451 | 3 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.509s | source
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Nihilartikel ◴[17 Nov 24 12:58 UTC] No.42163975[source]▶
This is cool! A long time ago I wanted to make something a little like this for my 20% project at Google/YouTube - a page that rained thumbnails of uploaded videos as soon as they became available.

Unfortunately, the idea was nixed since it had a pretty high chance of exposing ugly stuff that would otherwise have been lost in obscurity and never seen.

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1. do_not_redeem ◴[17 Nov 24 14:14 UTC] No.42164268[source]▶
Do you think your idea has any more risk than sites like these:

- http://astronaut.io/

- https://obscuretube.com/

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3. ipython ◴[17 Nov 24 16:23 UTC] No.42164998[source]▶
Absolutely 100% yes. Difference is these projects themselves are obscure. Opposed to an official Google branded service that will see significant publicity.