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Neal Agarwal
Personal blog · neal.fungamesdesign
Neal Agarwal's personal blog at neal.fun covers games and design. Since 2019, 274 different Hacker News readers have linked it 337 times, most often “Perfect Circle”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 15 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link neal.fun for its small interactive experiments and games, such as Infinite Craft, Size of Space and the Stimulation Clicker, and treat the homepage as a collection to explore.
- Recommended for · 15 comments
- Called 'unique', 'fun' and 'brilliant', 'the last good place', with favourites like Infinite Craft and Size of Space.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Perfect Circle36 people · 43 mentions · first linked 2023-01-06
- The Deep Sea32 people · 33 mentions · first linked 2019-12-04
- Show HN: Size of Space – An interactive universe scale comparison19 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28
- Infinite Craft17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2024-01-31
- Absurd Trolley Problems16 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2022-07-06
- The Password Game14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2023-06-27
- Neal.fun13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
- My circle is 94.0% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/perfect-circle/8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-05-23
- Dark Patterns8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-10-03
- Stimulation Clicker7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-01-06
What Hacker News says?
The same person behind the Absurd Trolley Problems: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/
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on “Stimulation Clicker”Submitted Stimulation Clicker as a story · 3082 points
HN discussionWhat a unique little site, I love all those little experiments. I feel weirdly proud of my 95.5% perfect circle: https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
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on “Stimulation Clicker”Submitted Size of Life as a story · 2619 points
HN discussionNeal.fun keeping weird internet alive, one micro game at a time. Other favorites: * Absurd Trolley Problem: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/ * Password game: https://neal.fun/password-game/
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on “Stimulation Clicker”Submitted Space Elevator as a story · 1802 points
HN discussionThere is another visualization from the same author, that starts at an astronaut and ends with the observable universe https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
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on “Size of Life”Submitted Design the next iPhone as a story · 1463 points
HN discussionHe was also responsible for one of the worst web pages ever created: https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/ (It's utterly brilliant but monstrous.)
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on “Size of Life”Submitted Absurd Trolley Problems as a story · 1296 points
HN discussionThis 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/
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on “Size of Life”Submitted Infinite Craft as a story · 1177 points
HN discussionLink? 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/
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on “Size of Life”Submitted The Deep Sea as a story · 703 points
HN discussionFrom the same site, there's the Size of Space page: < https://neal.fun/size-of-space/ > There are a few sites which let you scroll through the solar system, from the Sun or Earth IIRC. Here's one: < https://onotherplanets.com/solarwalk > Ah, and "If the Moon Were Only One Pixel", which is what I'd had in mind, shared by @stared < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641839 >: < https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace…
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on “Space Elevator”Submitted Internet Artifacts as a story · 693 points
HN discussionThe thing is, the same author has already done that. https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
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on “Space Elevator”Submitted I’m Not a Robot as a story · 516 points
HN discussionLovely, as all neal.fun experiments. <3 My favorite is probably https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ This type of interactive learning experience reminds me of how fun it was to browse Encarta back in the day. It was full of interesting facts, presented in fun interactive ways. As much as I love that we have Wikipedia today, a static web page with text and limited multimedia is far less engaging and conducive to learnin…
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on “Space Elevator”Submitted Let's Settle This as a story · 397 points
HN discussionNeal also made one: https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
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on “Space Elevator”Submitted Life Stats as a story · 270 points
HN discussionThe other direction: https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
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on “Space Elevator”Submitted Eyechat as a story · 268 points
HN discussionI love this guy. Re playing this gem https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/
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on “Space Elevator”Submitted Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer as a story · 224 points
HN discussionIf you want a slightly better look: https://neal.fun/design-the-next-iphone/cubemap/px.png
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on “Design the next iPhone”Submitted The Deep Sea as a story · 222 points
HN discussionI have spent so much time on https://neal.fun/rocks/ that I should be a little embarrassed, yet I'm so calm and I've had so much fun, I'm not.
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on “Design the next iPhone”Submitted Unusual Suspects as a story · 213 points
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