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Posted by eatonphil 2 days ago

Size of Life(neal.fun)
2542 points | 277 commentspage 8
js2 1 day ago|
Nit: the tool-tips on the action icons in the top-right aren't consistent.

When music is playing the tool tip is "unmute" which is a verb. It should either be "mute" (to indicate what clicking will do) or "unmuted" (adjective) indicating the current state. Similarly, when the music is muted the tool-tip should either be "muted" or "unmute".

I'm not sure _which_ is wanted (verb or adjective) because the ruler tool-tip uses "Hide Ruler" and "Show Ruler" (verb), while the units tool-tip uses "Units: imperial" and "Units: Metric" (adjective). The info tool-tip ("Info") is also an adjective.

For consistency, I'd use a verb-phrase in all the tool tips:

- "Show info"

- "Switch units to metric/imperial"

- "Hide/show ruler"

- "Mute/unmute music"

I mean, I know this is pedantic nit-picking, but the site is so perfect, what else am I going to do?

njarboe 1 day ago||
Fun to see the Jerboa. I recently read a family history written by my uncle and he believes this is the source of our family name.
darepublic 1 day ago||
this has more of an indie gem feel compared to the blockbuster that was stimulation clicker. as others have mentioned it reminds me of scale of the universe flash animation. I think borrowing some ideas from that, including zooming in and out rather than side to side, could have benefits here.
phkahler 1 day ago||
EDIT: Nevermind. Perhaps it was an ad that I clicked on. Lots of comments here indicating they don't see it, and some that did.

My Original comment here (too late to delete):

Beware. When you reach the end there is a "more projects" button. In there is a cute IQ test (possibly appealing to the HN crowd). When you reach the end of the test it asks for email, and then ultimately wants $1 to get your results. If you pay by credit card due note that there is an auto-checked box for some $29.99 per month subscription for... something.

waxpancake 1 day ago||
This is definitely not something Neal would ever do. Can you share the URL you're talking about? There's no IQ test in his projects list at all. https://neal.fun/
pxndx 1 day ago|||
Are you sure about that? for me it just leads to neal.fun, which is a well loved by HN list of projects, but no IQ test nor begging for money.
varenc 1 day ago|||
Link? couldn't find the IQ test in more projects. And super skeptical neal.fun is trying to trick people into $30/month subscriptions

edit: I turned off my ad blocker and discovered the site is showing some ads. Guessing you clicked on an ad?

also it's pretty ironic because one of his projects is showcasing dark patterns: https://neal.fun/dark-patterns/

beejiu 1 day ago|||
For what it's worth, there are AdSense interstitial ads on the site, so you probably got duped by one of those ads.
krosaen 1 day ago|||
Saw this too on mobile - I think it's an ad - I requested a paid ad-free version elsewhere in the comments
abustamam 1 day ago|||
I can't seem to find the IQ test. I see captcha and other "games"
WD-42 1 day ago||
Ironically this sounds like a piece of satire Neal would make.
kreelman 1 day ago||
So wonderful. Thanks for making this so open. I'll show it to my kids. The artwork is very good and the soundtrack too.
arunc 1 day ago||
It was great until Sea snail appeared in inches. Transitioning from micrometer/milliliter to inches is pretty rough
Mogzol 1 day ago|
For me it appears in millimetres, but I'm in Canada not the US. I'm guessing the default is chosen based on your browser's language. You can change the units in the top right.

Edit: I checked the page's code and it does indeed set the units based on language. If your language is "en-US" you get imperial by default, everyone else gets metric.

xwowsersx 23 hours ago||
This is absolutely incredible. Thank you.
alyxya 2 days ago||
Minor thing that bothers me is that I can't scroll through the things like in the deep sea or space elevator.
hashstring 1 day ago||
So many loving comments, I have nothing more to add to them, and nothing to subtract from them.
inciampati 2 days ago|
Very beautiful. Love this.

If it helps, AFAIK (I do atomic force microscopy of DNA), DNA's height is closer to 2nm than 4.

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