Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock (boat.horse)

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[−] franze 47d ago
Super Cool, Love it.

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

[−] seanhunter 46d ago
I love your clock btw.
[−] vintagedave 46d 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...

[−] Thundernerd 46d ago
Love the look of that! Really cool
[−] secretdark 47d ago
I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.
[−] setnone 47d ago
It's fine. Made me think of alphabetical organization, if you could sort an alphabet by any meaningful order rather then, well, alphabetical
[−] seanhunter 46d ago
This is spectacular. Nice work.
[−] testudovictoria 46d ago
As you should be. I look forward to more of this nonsense.
[−] Flockster 47d 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).
[−] addandsubtract 46d ago
Thanks, Satan. Please don't give French people any ideas.
[−] verstandhandel 46d 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

[−] comchangs 47d ago
This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.
[−] perilunar 47d 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!

[−] jesse23 45d ago
Wonder which language's number words produce the most scrambled day. Welsh might win — "un ar bymtheg" (16) is going to cause chaos.
[−] 2020science 46d ago
Got me thinking about novel clock designs in digital space - seems like something vibe coding could open the floodgates to :)
[−] maxeda 46d ago
That reminded me of the existance of this page! https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
[−] addandsubtract 46d ago
By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).
[−] asystemoffields 46d ago
Useless and delightful
[−] aditmag 46d ago
Need this irl
[−] iconicBark 46d ago
Cool stuff!
[−] JaredCampbell 46d ago
HATE :-)
[−] as1as 46d ago
The clock is moving very dizzy, lol
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