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Re:Show HN: Lastwordonearth.com on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:44PM (#48601066)
A few people have brought up the idea of protecting a word and this will likely be implemented in some form after the first round is complete. Still thinking through options. Adding session based up/down votes per word (perhaps with a max), and any count that is negative removes the word, feels like a good route. This would help protect words from random clickers. My only worry is that it could create a scenario that makes it difficult to get to a final word.

Thank you for helping to get to that last word!

Re:Show HN: Lastwordonearth.com on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:58PM (#48579638)
Good ideas. I like randomly loading to a new position since that is the most critical moment for new viewers. The a-words are definitely not going to make it out alive in this current edition.

Edit: Added! Thank you for the suggestion. And also added an input box to scroll to a specific word faster.

Re:Show HN: Lastwordonearth.com on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:34PM (#48579450)
That is a great perspective. Once the board gets down to 150 words, they will stay on screen and only fade out as people strike them. Thinking about it from your point of view, that may not be fun to watch your favorite remaining words get banished on the way to one. Here's hoping that one of your favs makes it to the end!

I really appreciate you taking the time to check it out and comment.

Show HN: Lastwordonearth.com

https://lastwordonearth.com

This is a silly idea I had a couple years ago that I just recently launched. It's a slow, globally shared word "game" (or experiment?) to find the Last Word on Earth. It starts with about 174k words on a board and anyone in the world can click a word to remove it from the board. Poof, gone. Eventually, the whole world will have decided on one word that remains (other milestone numbers are...

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Re:Show HN: Watch and Play Poker with LLMs on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:01PM (#46612195)
Saw Grok (4 Fast) "bluff open with a suited gapper." It was Nine/Deuce of Clubs. I guess I need to expand my definition of gapper!
Then they will stop getting paid. They do not want to stop getting paid.
This is really cool. I don't use Spotify so I'm curious if there are any plans for branching it out to other services like Apple Music?

At any rate, I've shared it with some friends that do use Spotify and they all love it.

Re:Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:42PM (#32358569)
> Nothing stopping them from working on that in their downtime.

Maybe. Some of them have burned bridges with the communities they once loved, all in the name of being more viral and making more money. Justin Flom, Julius Dein, Rick Lax, and Jibrizy are all now despised in the magic community because of their actions. That's touched on in the article, with Julius even stating that he'd give all the money back to go back in time and undo the damage to his reputation. While it is still possible to change their ways and be successful in their original passions without the surrounding community behind them, it does make things more difficult and ultimately less fulfilling.

Re:Apple previews innovative accessibility features on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:50PM (#31413346)
Yes, the watch can be controlled without touching the face using their AssistiveTouch feature. It's pretty cool.

More info from Apple here: https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/assistivetouch-apdec70...

There are also some nice demos of the feature here: https://www.theverge.com/22778189/apple-watch-assistive-touc...

Re:Waffle House Poet Laureate (2019) on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @09:40AM (#29649917)
Very likely. Anthony Bourdain at Waffle House [1] is worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPLxppm6DI

It sounds like you may be on a Windows machine so this might not help you but I have been using JumpCut for years. It does what you describe and it's an essential tool for me.

https://snark.github.io/jumpcut/

The MySpace effect.
I'm curious about this as well because the two listings I clicked on had requirements like "must be able to pass a criminal background check" and "must have stable work history" as their first hiring criteria.