All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by kccqzy » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

jorisw wrote: post #29

chamomeal wrote: post #14

Super cool but I did get this error while scrolling the timeline on safari/iOS Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading jivx.com (see the browser console for more information).

Yep, seems to refer to "SecurityError: Attempt to use history.replaceState() more than 100 times per 10 seconds"

I hate the History API especially pushState. Even with this limit of 100 times per 10 seconds it still pollutes my browsing history too much. I need to vibe code an extension that makes pushState/replaceState noops on all webpages.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by IncreasePosts » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #31

jorisw wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, seems to refer to "SecurityError: Attempt to use history.replaceState() more than 100 times per 10 seconds"

I hate the History API especially pushState. Even with this limit of 100 times per 10 seconds it still pollutes my browsing history too much. I need to vibe code an extension that makes pushState/replaceState noops on all webpages.

Then you'll discover many pages are SPAs in disguise.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by esikich » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

zzleeper wrote: post #8

_alternator_ wrote: post #5

Cool idea! Not sure if this was created with LLM help, but I suspect so? Not because the page is buggy (it is, though, crashed on my iPhone), but because they make data visualization so accessible. This type of presentation used to take days of work; now, if you find a unique piece of data, it's only a few hours of work to create a beautiful animated visualization. I do think this would be more compelling with some a…

I created pages with Claude before and it's very very obvious when you see one. From the font choice to the color palette, and the style of the boxes. In fact if anyone has an effective prompt that says "please don't make this look like the average Claude page" please post it!

Just give it actual ideas of what you want instead of "make me a web page". Garbage in garbage out.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by panick21_ » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 2:59 PM UTC

Would be cool to somehow see how the volumes of passengers grows as well.

I also want to see if we have this information for Switzerland.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by animanoir » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

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Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by cpa » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

Super cool! I did something similar (in terms of visualisation) a few years back, a map of cities by their birthdate on wikipedia: https://cpa.github.io/wiki-cities-birthdates/

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by jorisw » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #31

jorisw wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, seems to refer to "SecurityError: Attempt to use history.replaceState() more than 100 times per 10 seconds"

I hate the History API especially pushState. Even with this limit of 100 times per 10 seconds it still pollutes my browsing history too much. I need to vibe code an extension that makes pushState/replaceState noops on all webpages.

Seems like you hate the abuse of the API more than the API itself. For Single Page Apps it makes sense to support the Back button by, based on merit, populating the history synthetically

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by branon » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 3:34 PM UTC

hyperific wrote: post #27

On mobile pressing play makes the timeline go from 1872 to 2026 in a single step.

This occurs for me on desktop as well (Firefox, Linux)

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by psanchez » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 3:36 PM UTC

I love the fractal nature of it.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Post by panny » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 3:49 PM UTC

wolvoleo wrote: post #13

decimalenough wrote: post #12

Now we need a part two that shows how the rural parts of the same network are slowly being closed due to depopulation. As of 2025, Japan has lost 1366 km of track (about 5% of the total) since the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_railway_lines_i...

To be fair, most countries have due to privatisation and people getting wealthier and buying cars. In my country a ton of lines have closed down too and ourv population only grows.

>people getting wealthier and buying cars

Haha, my experience is people buying cars feel poorer, not wealthier. Car payments, maintenance, insurance, taxes, fuel... and as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL. Time to start paying for the next one.