Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by funvill on Monday May 26, 2025 @12:36AM (#44094012)

Art project. Counter Productive

A random button in a park with a countdown timer.

Instructions:

- Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer.

- If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and the project will be removed.

- To keep the project alive — press the button

Its been running for 56 days with 820 button presses.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by ifellover on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:59AM (#44094398)

Is it dead? According to the stats there’s a 25 hour gap :( great idea btw!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by deredede on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:52AM (#44095392)

Maybe the project is a commentary on a post-truth world masquerading as a button.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by Fr3dd1 on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:12AM (#44094167)

You should make them input the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by alex5207 on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:50AM (#44094356)

Those are cursed!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by Fr3dd1 on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:53AM (#44094370)

Are you ready to find out?! :D

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by BSTRhino on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:18AM (#44094198)

This is cool!

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by thimkerbell on Monday May 26, 2025 @10:41AM (#44097897)

Can you have it do something good for the park when it's been running for x days? Or would that make it mundane (productive) and de-art it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) by Juliate on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:52AM (#44188674)

How is that « counter productive »? That’s amazing!

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