Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock
33 points by secretdark 11 hours ago | 22 comments

franze 6 hours ago
Super Cool, Love it.

I love new clock designs, here is my try https://triclock.franzai.com/

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vintagedave 4 hours ago
This is really cool, even better than the post, IMO (sorry OP!)

One question: when the second hand resets from 60->0, it visually jerks as the triangle moves. After the smooth movement, gradients, the cool multicolour fill, it feels very odd. Any way of smoothing that one out? Animating the flip back to zero? I do understand it's a one-way line not a circle...

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Thundernerd 3 hours ago
Love the look of that! Really cool
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seanhunter 5 hours ago
I love your clock btw.
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zephyrwhimsy 2 hours ago
Evaluation in LLM applications is still an unsolved problem. Most teams rely on vibes-based assessment. Rigorous evaluation frameworks that correlate with real-world performance remain elusive.
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verstandhandel 3 hours ago
Reminds me of Lord Vetinari's Clock:

The clock in Lord Vetinari’s anteroom didn’t tick right. Sometimes the tick was just a fraction late, sometimes the tock was early. Occasionally, one or the other didn’t happen at all. This wasn’t really noticeable until you’d been in there for five minutes, by which time small but significant parts of the brain were going crazy.

– Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, page 321

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secretdark 11 hours ago
I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.
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setnone 8 hours ago
It's fine. Made me think of alphabetical organization, if you could sort an alphabet by any meaningful order rather then, well, alphabetical
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seanhunter 5 hours ago
This is spectacular. Nice work.
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testudovictoria 4 hours ago
As you should be. I look forward to more of this nonsense.
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zephyrwhimsy 3 hours ago
I have seen teams spend months fine-tuning retrieval algorithms when the real issue was that their ingestion pipeline was feeding HTML boilerplate into the vector store. Fix the input first.
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2020science 2 hours ago
Got me thinking about novel clock designs in digital space - seems like something vibe coding could open the floodgates to :)
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maxeda 2 hours ago
That reminded me of the existance of this page! https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
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Flockster 7 hours ago
Great idea! I'd like to make a german version, since the two digit numbers are sorted differently. E.g. 34 is sorted vier(4)_und_dreißig(30).
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addandsubtract 5 hours ago
Thanks, Satan. Please don't give French people any ideas.
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perilunar 6 hours ago
> "In Combined mode, every possible time (43,200 of them) is spelled out, sorted alphabetically"

Why limit yourself? — make a 24-hour version and you have 86,400 possible times!

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comchangs 11 hours ago
This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.
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addandsubtract 5 hours ago
By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).
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imrozim 8 hours ago
the combined mode sorting all 43,200 possible times alphabetically is the real commitment.eight comes before eleven so 8am hits before 11am alphabetically the day is completely scrambled genuinely useless and genuinely delightful.
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iconicBark 3 hours ago
Cool stuff!
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aditmag 6 hours ago
Need this irl
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asystemoffields 5 hours ago
Useless and delightful
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zephyrwhimsy 4 hours ago
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