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  • I’ll be that guy: at the top of the page, the full moon does not show the upcoming lunar eclipse.

    Are we supposed to believe this is some sort of magical moon?

    by xattt
  • One of my guilty pleasures in life is coming up with convincing conspiracy theories. A personal favorite of mine is flat moon theory - the idea that the moon is a thin disc, not a sphere. A surprising number of people struggle to provide convincing counter arguments. Next time I’ll link them this site!
    by proteal
  • how do you explain moon phases with a disk? also how would a thin disk have enough mass to pull water from the earth?
    by tsukurimashou
  • Lunar libration is easily apparent and actively exploited by amateur astronomers to glimpse more than 50% of the surface.
    by nfg
  • That’s no…oh wait, yes it is.
    by block_dagger
  • Also I was surprised to learn that the mass of the Moon is only 1% of Earth mass. I knew surface gravity is one sixth so I guess I sort of assumed that mass would be one sixth.
    by actionfromafar
  • Wow, there is SO much to see and know about the Moon!

    Cool, thanks!

    by svobodamartin
  • Those different perspectives especially from the virtual planet really enlightened me!
    by jamiek88
  • > we can freely pan the camera around to see the Moon

    It looks like we can orbit or move around the Moon, instead. Panning usually refers rotating the camera from a fixed position.

    by nnevatie
  • I thought panning was moving the camera along the 2D plane at a fixed distance from the subject. Pan left, pan right, etc
    by mock-possum
  • Related:

    Moon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443229 - Dec 2024 (250 comments)

    by dang
  • (2024)

    They're always so detailed I've wondered why he doesn't put a Table of Contents, among other editorial decisions..

    by big_toast
  • Bartosz Ciechanowski really gave us a look at what the future of the web would look like. It seems like these kinda pages are the norm now with AI assisted dev, which I absolutely love. Fully interactive pages are so much more intuitive than static ones of the past. He has my thanks for ushering this in as a standard.
    by jjcm
  • AI definitely lowers the cost of building these, but I think Ciechanowski's real contribution is upstream of the code. Knowing what to visualize and how to make interaction teach something rather than just look impressive is the rare part
    by veunes
  • Moon (2009)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

    by qmr
  • Great movie ... directed by David Bowie's son!
    by CaptWillard
  • Links you can hear. https://youtu.be/WUraLNrTVeg
    by rzzzt
  • Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (1997)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon:_Remix_RPG_Adventure

    by mock-possum
  • I was just about to say that :)
    by 1970-01-01
  • I sometimes say "in the style of Ciechanowski" to LLM presentations I make to myself to learn things, and it creates great JS visualizations. Is this plagiarism (... whatever it is) of the style of "in the style of ..." for art neural net models, do you all think? I don't share the things, I just use them for myself, but I sort of imagine sharing them and it may or may not be a great idea
    by curuinor
  • Honestly, I wouldn't call it plagiarism. You're using the prompt for personal purposes, to better understand the material. If you were copying his text and passing it off as your own, then yeah, that would be not cool. But using his approach with interactive visualizations as a source of inspiration for your own learning materials is fine. If you ever decide to put it out in the open, just mention that you took inspiration from his style and include a link to his work.
    by Transformanshen
  • Styles cannot be plagiarized.
    by satvikpendem
  • No, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. If they're useful, share them.
    by 0ckpuppet
  • It's not plagiarism at all to openly do something new in the style of someone else, though it would be polite to provide a little credit if you feel like someone could mistake yours for theirs.
    by micromacrofoot
  • That's pretty clever. They're quite good on their own, but people do use this technique. Patrick McKenzie (patio11 here) says that people do use his voice to invoke assistance with corporations. Personally, I often ask for a UI to learn or (with ChatGPT) a "zine" or "infographic", both of which deliver tremendous utility. They'll have the classic errors of some things being dislocated from where they should be but it's really still quite good.
    by arjie
  • It's not plagarism, Ciechanowski didn't invent this presentation form. His presentations are examples of "active essays", a term coined by Alan Kay no later than 2006.

    (I don't know whether Alan invented the concept itself, I'm not aware of him claiming that)

    See: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5350160

    by shwaj
  • If it bothers you, which is a good sign, consider identifying for yourself the key things that make his style and use those in your work.

    As a bonus you can evolve some things and make it less derivative, this is how people create own style.

    by ShinyLeftPad