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Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

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Re: Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

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post #15

This has always been a peeve of mine, but the lack of scale diagrams in coverage of this is maddening. We know what the Earth and the Moon look like, there is no need to make them 20 times bigger. Surely the point of these diagrams is to show the unbelievable scale of the journey. I'm yet to see one this news cycle, from NASA or anyone else

In defense of the given approach:

False scale gives a direct way to see which body is which and where the craft is between them without having to work it out backwards from the rest of the context (while real scale makes both sides just looks like dots on typical sized screens and you need to know/read the rest before you can figure out which is which otherwise).

Combine that with "the scale of the Earth is already too large to comprehend accurately anyways" and defaulting to real scale doesn't really add as much as one might think to the experience anyways.

Re: Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

#23
post #9

This is cool! I do want to ask, did you have AI design the page for you? It looks like a design pattern I've seen spit out by LLMs pretty frequently. I'm not hear to talk down to you about the site, I love this little thing that gives me just enough info to satisfy my curiosity.

I'll be the guy that talks down about Show HN becoming a place to post the thing you just vibe coded then because they didn't even bother to check the accuracy of the result - the numbers it provides about the mission are waaay off from reality right now, it just looks fancy.

I'm not necessarily against people sharing AI generated projects but there almost needs to be an [AI] tag if they do because it's really crashing the excitement of seeing a Show HN post where the assumption is this is something someone has been working hard on and is proud to show it off rather than something they just got out of Claude or whatever after a few prompts.

My take: If you didn't spend at least 24 hours of your own time (i.e. not munging with what the LLM is outputting but dedicated time for your own edits/testing) then it shouldn't qualify as a normal Show HN.

Re: Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

#27
post #13

It says the distance from Earth right now is 154,000km, but the other trackers, including NASA, say 30,000km (numbers rounded). The velocity is different as well, 7km/s vs NASA's 4km/s.

You're absolutely right! Let me go ahead and fix that now...(the sound of credits disappearing...) /s

Re: Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

#30
post #5

To me, what's super interesting about this is the fact that my brain instantly recognized it's AI coded (not sure why, it might be the spacing, the font, the text glow, etc.).

Claude always makes sites look this way.

What way? Genuine curiosity
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