Floor796

Does it really matter? Even if they were, it’s still amazing.

Not a single comment in this thread says the author is Russian.

Belorussian vs Russian has little to no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background. The references we see in this demo clearly are what the whole Soviet Russian (Russia+Ukraine+Belarus+Kazakhstan etc) cultural space has been exposed to during the recent decades: American + Some European + domestic Soviet Russian retro + some Japanese (anime). This already looks extremely cool (a masterpiece of art!) yet it can be made even cooler (more interesting, also potentially a work of cultural science) by expanding to include more ethnically niche memes from other cultures.

How do you do wandering mode?

If you subscribe you receive a mail with the new added cell automatically ;)

I’m sure I’ve bookmarked it too, but few weeks tried to search for it and just no way my keywords worked

Someone should make a Best of HN Karma Farming list with all the most frequent front page links.

This link is much better → https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=floor796.com

Not that much Here is an article about implementation from the author (translate it from russian): google "habr floor796"

Found an interview with him from November 2023 (https://runet.news/interview/50112). His name is Pavel Sannikov, is in his 30s, from Belarus. He's been working on it since 2018, entirely solo. Apparently spends 3-4 hours a day on it after work, and 8-10 hours a day on weekends! Not a commercial venture, just doing it for fun.

Never saw it, that's a shame if it's there

This one? https://floor796.com/#t0r0,697,577

Given that this meme, while distasteful, was quite popular, the reason it was included may just that: its popularity. There is more edgy content on the station (like the 'bear' wanted poster in the police station); some of that might be explained by the author's cultural sphere (Belarus), but I doubt it was intended as explicit anti-trans messaging (at least, I wouldn't draw that conclusion without any other context beyond its inclusion).

Did you try math? You can shallowly cover miles and miles of math. And extend it every day or month or whatever works for you, forever.

Porting/translating/rewriting something from one language to another could be like that.

There's a Dalek in a room on the lower left, looks like a kind of police booking room. Scooby and the gang are just above them.

Not from 90s but there is ourworldofpixels.com

How about the million dollar homepage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

Edit: Hmm not really what you were looking for, on reflection. But I'll leave this anyway, the MDH had its own charms.

FYI they have an english description. Just select english in the top right (which it defaulted to, for me), then click About. There are some mistranslations above.

A recent one is XKCD's "Machine", which is a collaborative crowdsourced physics sculpture/art project: https://xkcd.com/2916 (click "View Machine" in the corner to browse the machine).

Would love to see this packaged as an actually self hosted app. Very very cool!

https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/ is probably the only big collection of very detailed art like floor796. No animations here though. This sub is restrictive in what and how you post and has therefore kept its quality over the years.

I have put it up in a VR browser full size and close up so its amose all field of view and its amazing would love to see this get nerfed/gaussian splatted or otherwise add depth parallelex or one day get the full immersive walk through treatment.

Same. I didn't know this was something web pages could collect. Apparently these days only Chrome on Android still supports it.

Found this helpful comment about the background and timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38417192

The battery API was rolled out by all the major browsers between 2012 and 2014 as a way to let web pages avoid doing compute-intensive stuff on low battery, but it was pretty much immediately used for fingerprinting as the battery level number was so precise that if you hit two web pages at the same time, the battery level was as good as a cookie. Firefox and Safari/Webkit disabled it in 2016 but Chrome just capped the precision at two digits.

Now that's a reference I didn't suspect to read on HN