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Re: on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:04AM (#47260221)
A very serious academic endeavor and the peer-reviewed research into consumer imagination patterns
Re:I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall on Sunday February 22, 2026 @09:09PM (#47117173)
I rendered this map from the OSM source with some filters so some locations could be excluded. Anyway, I can manually add any locations. Please write to me via the contact form with a list of locations to add
Re:I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall on Sunday February 22, 2026 @10:48AM (#47111946)
This is my favourite comment on this topic:

"In the 90s I was on the Disappearing Team for the McGillicuddy Serious Party. When we were in power my task was to go around the world erasing New Zealand from all the maps, since if no-one knew we were here, we wouldn't have to spend anything on defense or build annoying tourist traps" (c) RalphNZ

Re:I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall on Sunday February 22, 2026 @10:30AM (#47111781)
I'm running a cutting-edge reverse scam. I aggressively threaten to charge you NZ$1, and then I just give you the product for free
Re:I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall on Sunday February 22, 2026 @10:13AM (#47111644)
Thanks, this is actually a community idea that I liked and added
Re:I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:57AM (#47111043)
The cartography industry and New Zealand have a long, complicated history.

I'm building a little map experiment where people rename places. Added a "$1 to show New Zealand" feature (if you click "No", it shows NZ for free anyway). NZ is a DLC now

Re:Show HN: I built a map where anyone can rename anything on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:54AM (#47089618)
Yeah, same, I was surprised how well people behaved, most were more creative than toxic.

I checked that badwords list too, but it feels outdated and it’s not great for maps: it blocks words like "dick", and there are plenty of official place names and features that contain that substring and more others surprising examples.

These days it's easy to plug in AI-based profanity filter quickly. I'm also not too worried about people making "penis" jokes on the map, the dataset already has plenty of that stuff anyway, word-play is a base for geography naming.

Show HN: I built a map where anyone can rename anything

https://rename.world/

The idea is simple: click any place on the map, propose a name, others vote, or it will be auto-accepted in ~5min. No account needed for fresh locations or name duel - only to challenge already-renamed places or vote to prevent abuse. 40k renames so far, and surprisingly people mostly behave. Some names are genuinely creative and I keep learning random geography facts just by watching the map...

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Show HN: A site where anyone can rename any location on Earth

https://rename.world

Click any city, mountain, country, sea or whatever on a globe, propose a new name, community votes (or your proposal gets auto-accepted in a few minutes if nobody cares).It's live now and I'm genuinely curious what happens when strangers on the internet get collective control over world geography. Either it becomes something interesting or it turns into a mess of edgy jokes, stereotypes, and...

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Bravo!
I mean, when the site first came out, Google started to show product pages and impressions started to grow, but after a couple of weeks they dropped completely to zero and the pages were excluded from search index, and I don't see anything changing, only some pages got into the index, mainly because of links referring to the site. Well, there are almost 100k products here now and I hope this collective unconscious never gets into search results
Thanks! It's Next.js hosted on Cloudflare
"Create concise descriptions that sound professional but contain absurd elements" with some additional instructions
Cloudflare Workers AI
You'll be surprised how quickly Google determined the usefulness of the site and practically removed it from the search results, and it was absolutely right to do so
It's just hardcoded and randomly chosen, no any suggestion logic in here
I'm glad you liked it! Most reviews actually AI-generated but people can leave reviews too
It's not free, unfortunately, next month I have some amazing bills waiting for me :) Thanks Cloudflare for the amazing speed
The model used to generate product descriptions is llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct. There are a lot of built-in limitations, and I can't do much with it. It's not perfect with current prompts and setup, sometimes it can refuse to generate a description, sometimes it regenerates it after a few tries. Check it out, I regenerated Covid-19 text
That's why this place called Hacker News. Nice try!
Thanks! That's interesting. I feel like some kind of synchronicity here - this project also was built and deployed in May
I always have a lot of ideas, but this project seemed to me the least creative of all, it seems like it's too obvious, I don't know really, it's just generate stuff with available models, like a million of similar or more useful ideas
The website was created for learning and fun a few months ago and forgotten as a completely useless product, I absolutely did not expect such a feedback that I received here today
Less then a cent for a product. ~50k products already generated though...
Thanks! Next.js + tailwind, Cloudflare hosted, it was made for week in sum mostly to learn this stack
Thanks! It's flux-1-schnell, the prompt is pretty complex and randomly generated for each product, so kinda unique too
Thanks! Though I built this a few months ago and was sure that no one would be interested
I like it! Well, I guess I'll pay for this lesson, next time I'll create something more boring
I wish I could scale it, but I'm not sure I can manufacture enough Shit Mayonnaise to meet demand

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