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145 points yathern | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.

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cdaringe ◴[03 Apr 25 19:59 UTC] No.43574628[source]▶

>>43573299 (OP) #

Looks interesting, but after two (<30s) attempts I gave up trying to figure out what it even is . There’s no about page, there’s some stats that I don’t know the significance of, there’s a blog that talks about improvements… But there’s just no straightforward description of what the heck I’m even looking at besides some fun monkey animations.

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1. yathern ◴[03 Apr 25 20:17 UTC] No.43574833[source]▶

>>43574628 #

Thanks for the feedback! I kinda take it for granted that people are aware of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, but maybe it's not as popular as I imagined! This is basically an art/community experiment project built around it:

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

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2. netsharc ◴[03 Apr 25 20:54 UTC] No.43575276[source]▶

>>43574833 (TP) #

Grandparent commenter is one of today's lucky 10000 https://xkcd.com/1053/

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