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Re:Hacker News Hug of Deaf by b3lvedere on Thursday April 10, 2025 @07:29AM (#43642799)
"At the end of the day, this was a fun experiment. Pointless, but fun!"

The best kind of experiments. And sometimes huge innovations/inventions/medicine/progress/more fun will arise from it.

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Re:Hacker News Hug of Deaf by boleary-gl on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:11AM (#43643428)
A phrase I heard someone say once is "useless is not worthless" and I love that phrase.
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Re:Hacker News Hug of Deaf by bebopfunk on Thursday April 10, 2025 @06:24PM (#43648596)
One day you’re just trying to figure out if there’s any fresh coffee in the break room down the hall, the next day you’ve invented the webcam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

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Re:Hacker News Hug of Deaf by b3lvedere on Friday April 11, 2025 @02:01AM (#43650906)
Cool! Reminded me of this gem:

https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

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