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I did get quite a laugh when the comments made me realize what an asshat I was

Damn it - well, I'll never live this one down, I'll learn to shut up next time

Confusing skeptic and sceptic will never not be funny to me (edit: I now live in shame)

Is it common in these Launch HNs to have a "Live on Hacker News" on the website banner. What does that mean? The link doesn't even point to this thread, but only the main page. Per…

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, …

2nd link doesn't work. That would be a neat tool, to find the original article and see how many levels of AI summary it has gone through, a game of AI telephone!

A news aggregator like HN but specifically for freight: https://news.freight.nyc The idea is mostly to build a community for the sector I work in, since there isn't any (aside from…

> It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active.

So, if this does help reduce the cost of tokens, why not go even further and shorten the syntax with specific keywords, symbols and patterns, to reduce the noise and only keep info…

I built this very simple tool, inspired by Hacker News' simple yet convenient UI, to create a community around the latest freight developments (I run a last-mile delivery fleet in …

I'm currently working on building a local delivery service using electric cargo bikes in NYC: https://hudsonshipping.co . We are planning to launch our first pilot in early 2026 wi…

If a ping to a specific IP times out, I wouldn't say the IP is blocked. It could be that ICMP specifically is blocked, following some network rules on the firewall. This is pretty …

Still working on building a local delivery service in NYC using electric Cargo Bikes, at https://hudsonshipping.co . We're aiming to launch our first pilot in early 2026 in Brookly…

Any idea why Spain and Portugal have such small isometric zones? An obvious factor is the mountains in the North, but I'm surprised there isn't easier access between the Iberian pe…

So running a SQL query and returning GeoJSON? Sorry that didn't work - hopefully you can work on another system like this soon, with someone who actually understands the benefits o…

Thank you! I'll take a look, this looks great

Good to know - thank you!

Awesome, good job! Did you implement likes and polygons too?

This is amazing, I hadn't come across these tools, these are extremely useful!

I have not looked at PMTiles, so far everything holds nicely generated in memory, so I haven't had the need to store this information. I'll keep it in mind. Any idea why Mapbox GL …

I've found some waterways traffic data, but it seems to be previous day usage data, and not real-time usage or position. I'll dig to see if there is some info, as that would add so…

Honestly, simple curiosity + wanted to keep it in Go