A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon(sbnation.com)

108 points by _Yguy_ 328 days ago | 24 comments

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...

alargemoose 328 days 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_ 328 days ago | |

I had no idea about this haha (I can confirm I am not associated with the author in any way)

moron4hire 328 days 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.

IAmBroom 328 days ago | |

Reminding me a lot of Unsong.com, by Scott Alexander.

i_am_proteus 328 days ago |

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

wrsh07 328 days ago | |

This spoilery link provides context about the op link if that's what you want

ablation 328 days 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!)

Phenix88be 328 days ago |

This page sucked 100% of my CPU in mear seconds… I'm lucky I could close the tab fast enough.

alephnerd 328 days ago | |

Same here. It's complete garbage with on Firefox despite using an overpowered Macbook Pro.

Strang 328 days ago |

This completely locked up my laptop. I had to hard power down.

GTP 328 days ago | |

How? This luckily didn't happen to me.

bArray 328 days ago | |

Needs to be removed from front page.

haiku2077 328 days 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."

addandsubtract 328 days ago |

Wait, this is actually amazing.

jbeninger 328 days ago |

One of my favourite web-things of all time. Incredible creativity in an unexpected place.

throawayonthe 328 days ago |

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

Thoreandan 328 days ago |

Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.

Agentlien 328 days ago | |

Try again, with some patience. You might find this bug more interesting than expected.

jbeninger 328 days ago | |

Is it, though?

khaki54 328 days ago |

Works great in edge on mac

Jotalea 328 days ago |

I got jumpscared by the text :sob:

sshah_24 328 days ago |

I had to print preview it... :)

whatamidoingyo 328 days ago |

Not going to lie, that jump scared me. lol.