A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon(www.sbnation.com)
108 pointsby _Yguy_7 months ago17 comments
  • snowwrestler7 months ago
    In case people are wondering why this is being posted to HN again, the author just signed a book deal:

    https://bsky.app/profile/jonbois.bsky.social/post/3lp7tpfpeq...

    • alargemoose7 months ago
      I’ve adored Jon’s writing for years, so a book is exciting! But it does bum me out a little bit that it will be “just” a book. Compared to the dynamic and multimedia formats of “Tim Tebow in the CFL” and “Football 17776”. The writing is excellent, but the dynamic and multimedia nature of his previous work will be missed. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!
    • _Yguy_7 months ago
      I had no idea about this haha (I can confirm I am not associated with the author in any way)
  • moron4hire7 months ago
    This is an earlier work from the same author that I found absolutely delightful. https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl...

    You cannot predict where this story will go. It will take a turn and you will think, "oh, that's weird, but ok, I get it". And then it will do it again, and again, and again. But somehow, by the end of it all, it all makes sense.

    • IAmBroom7 months ago
      Reminding me a lot of Unsong.com, by Scott Alexander.
  • i_am_proteus7 months ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
    • wrsh077 months ago
      This spoilery link provides context about the op link if that's what you want
  • ablation7 months ago
    Jon Bois has done some fantastic work. I love his Pretty Good series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSCYW1o-4wh... Entertaining even if you're not into sports (but you better be into data!)
  • Phenix88be7 months ago
    This page sucked 100% of my CPU in mear seconds… I'm lucky I could close the tab fast enough.
    • alephnerd7 months ago
      Same here. It's complete garbage with on Firefox despite using an overpowered Macbook Pro.
  • Strang7 months ago
    This completely locked up my laptop. I had to hard power down.
    • GTP7 months ago
      How? This luckily didn't happen to me.
    • bArray7 months ago
      Needs to be removed from front page.
  • haiku20777 months ago
    For those who don't have time to... "read"... this great story, Jacob Geller provides a fun and effective summary within this video at 9 minutes in

    https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k

    In his words: "It is in my opinion one of the best sci-fi stories ever written."

  • addandsubtract7 months ago
    Wait, this is actually amazing.
  • jbeninger7 months ago
    One of my favourite web-things of all time. Incredible creativity in an unexpected place.
  • Thoreandan7 months ago
    Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.
    • Agentlien7 months ago
      Try again, with some patience. You might find this bug more interesting than expected.
    • jbeninger7 months ago
      Is it, though?
  • 7 months ago
    undefined
  • khaki547 months ago
    Works great in edge on mac
  • Jotalea7 months ago
    I got jumpscared by the text :sob:
  • sshah_247 months ago
    I had to print preview it... :)
  • whatamidoingyo7 months ago
    Not going to lie, that jump scared me. lol.
  • vitarnixofntrnt7 months ago
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