I would suggest adding the /r/ProgrammerHumor version too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac...

The AI crank always cracks me up.

Register the mousemove event handler on window, then you will still get the events when the mouse moves out of the window/frame while dragging and it won't be that buggy.

Here's a little more context about the author's motivation: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132

I knew exactly what this would be before even clicking it. Someone had to make it!

I love that the initial state itself isn't stable.

The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.

Just to mention the original was cited in the most recent Veritasium video:

"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

(at about the 9:50 mark)

I hope Randall reads HN and sees this, he’d love it.

oh look at that. removing IBM enterprise apps really doesn’t break anything and the whole stack got lighter. science.

This is oddly fun to play with. Has that angry birds vibe

I was expecting it to open the FFmpeg website at the end.

Too delightful. Like a reverse jenga tower you like to topple over.

Of course, glad to see it was another @isohedral project.

this is the best thing internet since the last best thing in the internet

Is this website intended to break HN on Android? I've never had a website lock up the HN app like this. I couldn't back out, and I was stuck in a loop when the app restarted on the same page.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVAR!

Really cool! To be honest, when I clicked on this I had a hope that it would be possible to add things to the stack like the ongoing memes of just putting different things in there (maybe live with other people as a collaborative editor).

It looks like the stroke/border is not taken into account in the physics simulation.

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Feature request - be able to change the text and re-share it.

Half the fun of this xkcd is referring to it in context of whatever just went haywire.

It's like open source Angry Birds.

The blocks feel a little bit too slippery

It'd be really cool (and probably useful) if someone could figure out a way to generate diagrams like this for any software project.

You'd first need to figure out a way to generate a complete dependency tree. For each box, I interpret its height as a measure of its complexity and its width as a measure of the support it receives. The hardest part would probably be figuring out a way to quantitatively measure those values.

Who are the big blocks that survive the collapse though?

We absolutely need a "whatever Microsoft is doing" object in that.

Now we just need a generated version of this based on a package.json!

I'd like a medal for clearing the screen of all debris. What's that you say, some of it is still useful? oh

This is very real.

What’s the Nebraska project?

If only it wouldn't collapse by itself after clicking anywhere (clicking seems to activate physics) this would be 10/10

the weird physics are mildly infuriating. still funny though