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Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by hahahaa » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:22 AM UTC

soupspaces wrote: post #11

hahahaa wrote: post #4

6.95 or point my LLM at the site and copy the simple idea.

Decades spent building tools to freely copy and fork each other’s code, only to arrive at a future where people pay tokens to do the same thing with added noise. Progress.

Well you can still freely copy free software.

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by olek1983 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC

hahahaa wrote: post #4

6.95 or point my LLM at the site and copy the simple idea.

Almost every idea is copyable. Digital ideas are even easier to copy.

Here's the antidote: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by ShinyLeftPad » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:45 AM UTC

> No pins yet — your globe works fine without them, but a “you are here” makes it a gift.

(in exasperation) How does that make it a gift?

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by jokoon » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC

win10, firefox

freezing for no reason

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by column » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 12:32 PM UTC

hahahaa wrote: post #4

6.95 or point my LLM at the site and copy the simple idea.

Obtaining a big enough preview and removing the watermark is 2 minutes in the inspector. We are not the target audience.

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by worldsayshi » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

zkmon wrote: post #17

Do people still buy .. globes?

Why not?

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by jareklupinski » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

looking at Cahill-Keyes M, i wonder if there's a projection that tries to get most accurate land area, but takes liberties with the distance between land masses / ocean / sea sizes

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by ncr100 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

monegator wrote: post #6

neat idea. hate the vibecoded website. Not even changing the default colors.

May be worth it to the public, to vibe code a clone, and sell that PDF output for $0.00.

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by ncr100 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

askvictor wrote: post #14

This was up a week ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238793

Re: Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

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Post by gus_massa » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:30 AM UTC

zkmon wrote: post #17

Do people still buy .. globes?

A cheap plastic/rubber globe is a nice present for kids. Not as the main present for birthday or christmas, but as a random present for a random day.