willmeyers
Sea Ice and Territory in the Arctic
Re:Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:01PM (#50238540)
I disagree to an extent. A person did will this into existence and found the results interesting. People should be curious and share what they find! But, they need to present the things they find in a way that makes sense to them and others. Otherwise it's just sloppy.
Re:Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:00PM (#50238184)
When you present data to real life human beings you need to make your visualizations clearer. The map is OK, but literally everything else is nonsensical to me. Please take this as constructive feedback, because you can make something very cool with this data.
Show HN: Carve a Pumpkin
Average People in Paintings
Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:29AM (#50151582)
As slow as it may be to adopt, it's a welcome change to how people should do research. Why induce suffering on an animal when the potential for failure and or miscalculation is so high? It seems from the article a model/chip can be more insightful on how something will affect humans.
What's Going on with the NextGen Acela
Re:MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighbor...
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:02AM (#50131750)
This data all stored in OpenStreetMap via DeFlock and other apps. One thing that should be said is that anyone can plot a camera via these apps whether or not one is actually there or not. I know that OSM community has been dealing with a lot Flock related vandalism because of these apps.
Re:The Atomic Bowl
on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:13PM (#50127560)
My great uncle played in this game (William "Buck" Myers), as nonsensical as it was. If anyone has anymore information about this it would very beneficial. Thank you!
The Atomic Bowl
Re:LittleJS is 2D and 3D now
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:24PM (#50091378)
I'll speak not as a professional gamedev, but a hobbiest. I enjoy offloading a lot of the work to LLMs because that's what a game engine did anyway in the before times. A lot of core logic in computer graphics, user input, dialog systems, etc... are incredibly tedious to build and have been built a thousand times over.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:14PM (#50075219)
Seems similar to how version control works for large game and 3D assets. Neat.
Re:Show HN: What to Wear in NYC Today
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:19PM (#50074180)
Very cool! You should drop the "THE PARK’S CURRENT LOOK" section and expand "Spotted on the sidewalk" to take up the full page with more people if you can. Maybe take a look at Traffic Camera Photobooth (https://trafficcamphotobooth.com/) for clear feeds that can spot outfits.
Re:Cartographers of North Korea
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:11PM (#50048411)
Interesting, thanks for the reply and your contributions. This makes me happy to hear!
Re:Cartographers of North Korea
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:02PM (#50047779)
Really good analysis and storytelling. I wonder what the distribution looks like for joke/troll contributions on OSM and what nations or places get vandalized the most?
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:49AM (#50043890)
I think his argument is more "Could the AI solution to the prompt be somehow misaligned by exploiting a weakness in the trial process?" So an AI agent could game (lack of a better word) the process and produce something that may cure cancer, but misses something else.
Also, a large percentage of Americans were against a vaccine for COVID (which is dumb obvisouly)... so, it's not crazy to imagine people rejecting any cure made by an AI.
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper
on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:46PM (#50029026)
Focus M.
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper
on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:43PM (#50029012)
The web is like this right now! You gotta go through noise and mess of it all! There's so many crazy people making weird stuff and sharing it all the time! You gotta find it!!!
Re:Our $445M Series D
on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:40AM (#50020413)
They have one of the best hiring processes in the game. Just all around great people who care.
Red buses, orange subways, blue ferries and trains
Re:Show HN: Plan trips across the U.S. using only local public transit
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:07PM (#50009558)
Thanks! Yeah I did get access to TransitApp's API which as the most robust collection of public transit feed data, but it's severely rate limited. But, like you said, even with live feeds a lot of public transit is just not reliable and wouldn't really add much to the project I felt. Anyone who wants to tackle that can send me an email and I can send them the data.
Show HN: Plan trips across the U.S. using only local public transit
Re:HN has lost the joy for me
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:34PM (#50001321)
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool is a better frontpage in my opinion.
Re:Southern Olive Oil
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:06AM (#49993871)
I think this is really cool! I don't think Texas will make a significant dent in the global supply of olive oil any time soon, kind of the same way wine from Texas doesn't make a dent in global wine production. I imagine it'll be a small but high-quality regional thing. The weather is just too volatile. I can't see a farmer investing huge amounts of money and land in olive trees when a polar vortex can wipe them out (and then having to cut them back and wait for them to regrow which takes much longer than traditional crops). But nonetheless I think it's really cool to see how farmers are adapting and growing new things at scale like olive trees in Texas.
Yeah they're just resume padding for AI engineers or something
All these agent conductors are like new frontend frameworks of the before times. Everyone is making and trying to market them.
Re:A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:44PM (#49955486)
It's cool data and I wish the person who prompted Claude to build this would have at least made an attempt to make it optimized and readable. Like, what does "Fl • every 5 s" mean? It's frustrating because this could have been amazing!
Re:New York City should carefully measure a new tree
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:35PM (#49950059)
I didn't get to mention this in my post, but what I love most about being alive today is being able to walk outside and ask a question like "where's the tallest tree?" Then come up with some answer after a couple days of analysis. Questions that you thought were impossible to answer are now in a way answerable.