alt.hn

3/30/2026 at 7:19:20 AM

Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock

 https://boat.horse/clock/

by secretdark

3/30/2026 at 11:52:28 AM

Super Cool, Love it.

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

by franze

3/30/2026 at 2:30:40 PM

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...

by vintagedave

3/30/2026 at 3:10:33 PM

Love the look of that! Really cool

by Thundernerd

3/30/2026 at 1:42:51 PM

I love your clock btw.

by seanhunter

3/31/2026 at 4:00:16 PM

Wonder which language's number words produce the most scrambled day. Welsh might win — "un ar bymtheg" (16) is going to cause chaos.

by jesse23

3/30/2026 at 7:19:20 AM

I made an alphabetically-organised clock. I am sorry.

by secretdark

3/30/2026 at 9:51:54 AM

It's fine. Made me think of alphabetical organization, if you could sort an alphabet by any meaningful order rather then, well, alphabetical

by setnone

3/30/2026 at 1:43:26 PM

This is spectacular. Nice work.

by seanhunter

3/30/2026 at 2:14:04 PM

As you should be. I look forward to more of this nonsense.

by testudovictoria

3/30/2026 at 3:34:39 PM

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

by verstandhandel

3/30/2026 at 11:39:42 AM

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).

by Flockster

3/30/2026 at 1:22:57 PM

Thanks, Satan. Please don't give French people any ideas.

by addandsubtract

3/30/2026 at 3:01:34 PM

I have seen teams spend months fine-tuning retrieval algorithms when the real issue was that their ingestion pipeline was feeding HTML boilerplate into the vector store. Fix the input first.

by zephyrwhimsy

3/30/2026 at 7:21:52 AM

This is the kind of thing that's completely useless and I absolutely love it. Bookmarked.

by comchangs

3/30/2026 at 12:00:12 PM

> "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!

by perilunar

3/30/2026 at 4:38:41 PM

Got me thinking about novel clock designs in digital space - seems like something vibe coding could open the floodgates to :)

by 2020science

3/30/2026 at 10:01:12 AM

the combined mode sorting all 43,200 possible times alphabetically is the real commitment.eight comes before eleven so 8am hits before 11am alphabetically the day is completely scrambled genuinely useless and genuinely delightful.

by imrozim

3/30/2026 at 1:21:34 PM

By Ryan Bateman. Name checks out (on multiple levels).

by addandsubtract

3/30/2026 at 1:05:31 PM

Useless and delightful

by asystemoffields

3/30/2026 at 9:14:59 PM

HATE :-)

by JaredCampbell

3/30/2026 at 12:47:49 PM

Need this irl

by aditmag

3/30/2026 at 3:43:26 PM

Cool stuff!

by iconicBark

3/31/2026 at 10:06:32 AM

The clock is moving very dizzy, lol

by as1as

3/30/2026 at 2:14:56 PM

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by zephyrwhimsy

3/30/2026 at 4:31:51 PM

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by zephyrwhimsy

3/30/2026 at 5:51:22 PM

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