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Why is this #1 on HN? Just because of the high-profile URL? The project itself seems really basic, or am I missing something? Also there's a bug when search query contains a space...

I don't mean to come off as super negative. I hate how the Internet is so overly critical. And Twitter is just the worst. I'm seriously asking if I'm missing something. THanks!

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Yeah, guessing that it's the URL. Beyond that, it looks like a basic spreadsheet of weather-data.

Kinda neat to see how much attention such a URL can draw to an otherwise-unremarkable page.

For me the only interesting bit is: "Made from weather data collected over the past 10 years"

Just in case it's of interest to you, it's very easy to get historical weather data from weather stations all over the US [0] (and I assume most EU countries also publish this data).

[0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-stations

I thought it was useful. Put some places on my map that I hadn’t thought about visiting before.

The URL is a really obscure reference unless you play the piano too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier

It’s obscure unless you’re a classical musician (or a pitch/tuning nerd): a lot more people than just piano players know of Bach’s work.

I was about to say - I took this for a Gödel, Escher, Bach reference given it's someone at Google, as well as the fact the pun is very much Hofstadter's style. In fact I would go so far as to say that the whole project was made to justify the title.

I cringed when I read the url name google chose to go with.

To add to the conspiracy, what if Google really does have a bin of pet products laying around and whips them out on social media at just the right time? Right now, as of me posting this comment, this[0] is one of the top posts on HN. Google's PR team probably knows how to game high traffic sites at the right times with artificially inflated scores.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841963

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