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Posted by yathern 4/3/2025

Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters(monkeys.zip)
Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.

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lugvruzzle 4/4/2025|
Anyone else have trouble logging in/staying logged in. Logging in with email.
avadhesh18 4/4/2025|
verify the email and then refresh.
krzat 4/3/2025||
Awesome idea, I wonder how long it will take to write a coherent sentence.
yeah879846 4/3/2025||
Not nearly enough to write the works of shakespeare
Spacemolte 4/4/2025||
Cool, but it's not great seeing a swastika when zooming out..
yathern 4/4/2025|
Where? I don't see anything near the main clump
hodorwang 4/7/2025||
Funny
ChrisArchitect 4/4/2025||
How can I search for which monkey has written the word blurst? /s
cdaringe 4/3/2025|
Looks interesting, but after two (<30s) attempts I gave up trying to figure out what it even is . There’s no about page, there’s some stats that I don’t know the significance of, there’s a blog that talks about improvements… But there’s just no straightforward description of what the heck I’m even looking at besides some fun monkey animations.
MitziMoto 4/4/2025||
For goodness sake, this is what makes it great!

This reminds me so much of the "old" internet where people would just make fun things for the hell of it.

yathern 4/3/2025||
Thanks for the feedback! I kinda take it for granted that people are aware of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, but maybe it's not as popular as I imagined! This is basically an art/community experiment project built around it:

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

netsharc 4/3/2025||
Grandparent commenter is one of today's lucky 10000 https://xkcd.com/1053/