When you drill down to active emergencies for a local area there's a ton of stuff there but it's all old. Why display it if the purpose of the site is current emergency info?
This has been patched. Thank you.
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#52It appears the site couldn't handle HN traffic or maybe the site owner took it down. Regardless, a project like this needs a lot of thought put into it to be something that people can rely on during times of crisis. If it can't handle a surge in traffic from HN, it won't be able to handle a surge during natural disasters.
It's working for me after 16 minutes of your comment & someone else mentions how it works after 10 minutes of your comment.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is astonishing how one's motor skills degrade when the adrenaline is flowing. I once tried to dial 911 on an iPhone in such circumstances. My hands were shaking so badly I kept dialing 922, 811, 914, and so on. Terrible in the moment but a very good lesson for preparedness. I really appreciate the "dial Emergency" methods on modern phone software that just need a button held down.
Imagine trying to navigate Hacker News in an emergency. LOL!
I can actually imagine this when AWS goes down and you have to go check if AWS is down again. (Although it's not a type of medical emergency but still) xD
Though to be fair, If your prod depends on AWS and it goes down, you might be going through tons of adrenaline too as well.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#54It appears the site couldn't handle HN traffic or maybe the site owner took it down. Regardless, a project like this needs a lot of thought put into it to be something that people can rely on during times of crisis. If it can't handle a surge in traffic from HN, it won't be able to handle a surge during natural disasters.
The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN. The site was being patched based on feedback here. You should see it up and running.
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#55This is an interesting idea, but the very first page I looked at was wrong (current weather in Alameda county shows as 72* - it's almost 30* below that here, and the daily high in the warmest areas is projected to be 65).
Next I looked at San Francisco, and oddly it listed a bunch of minor earthquakes in San Ramon - none of which are listed in Alameda county, which is actually next to (and parts of which actually felt) those tremors.
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#56The UK emergency phone number is 999, not 112. Ugh. Don't make a website like this without verifying the information is correct please!
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme...
112 is also a national emergency number.
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#57You need an AI angle if you want investment and up-boats.
Suggest a LLM-based chat that consumes feeds and provides a terrification-score rating letting you know how to calibrate your panic-levels, based on real data. Allow for real-time questions on how to purify water, if it's better to carry gold or ammo etc
Good luck. I'll give you 80 mil based on a 40% stake with voting rights.
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#58I love this kind of thing - I'm always building lists and reference things, but IME people generally don't gravitate towards things like this.
That said, I really want a backcountry version of this. I live in Tahoe and our relationship to incoming storms (lightning) is pretty different than those in the Rockies. Plus bears and other predators (how to behave). Etc.
I once wanted to do something similar w/r/t tap water and drinkability.
Fun/neat.
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#59I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/
It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information to help you understand the risks of different countries. It also pulls from other sources for basic country info/risks (eg. women, lgbtq).
Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!
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#60This is really useful! I'm planning on making a list of websites that work well with Lynx and other text based browser, specifically because people should be able to access important information regardless of how powerful their computer is