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executiveon Show HN: The Official National Train Map Sucked, So I Made My Own

- trains all look to be arriving/departing in hundreds of minutes when you click a random station, even near active trains. Assuming a bug. Regardless, consider changing this to hour/minute display if over 60|90m

- train icon looks like standard metro icon but is easily mistaken for a bus

- train detail panel fixed to bottom is awkward on desktop breakpoints. consider floating or integrating to a single sidebar

- consider having main sidebar fixed to bottom for mobile breakpoints

executiveon The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

optionality

executiveon The Submerged Nabataean Temple in Puteoli at Pozzuoli, Italy

Easy dive/snorkel on some of these ruins. Most features are at ~15ft. Highly recommend if in Naples area. See: https://www.subaia.com/underwater-archaeological-park-of-bai...

executiveon It's Now Cheaper to Lease a Tesla Model 3 Than a Toyota Camry

truck yeah brother

executiveon Drugmaker to testify on why weight-loss drugs cost 15x more in the US

The drug would not have come to market if it could only 'still be profitable'

executiveon Third Time: a better way to work (2022)

tldr: work 18 hours, sleep 6 hours

executiveon An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it

So people can know about it

Example: https://www.facebook.com/RoyalAviationMuseumofWesternCanada/...

executiveon Why do people feel the need to litter?

This is nothing compared to Guyana. Trash is stacked up on the outer edge of the ocean. Beautiful sea view. https://www.google.com/search?q=guyana+seawall+litter&source...

executiveon Meta Quest 3

usb c

executiveon Why We're Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

Wyze offers RTSP firmware: https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze...

executiveon Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI

bananas is 4011 almost everywhere. an experienced cashier has the code for ginger root memorized.

executiveon Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases

Wait till you discover teddit.

executiveon Restoring an ancient lake from the rubble of an airport in Mexico City

They opened another airport instead, but it's in suburbia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_%C3%81ngeles_Internatio...

executiveon Turkey earthquake: please keep 28.540 clear for communications

in political context, "the West" is referring to the concept of "Western democracies"

executiveon Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

Museum just opened last year in the beach town/cruise port nearby.

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2022/10/dinosaurs-take-over-...

executiveon Peter Thiel’s fund wound down 8-year Bitcoin bet before market crash

>Florida land boom of the 1920's

any books you can suggest

executiveon Ask HN: How do you install not the latest iOS version?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

executiveon “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/maxar-selling-to-private-equ...

executiveon Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

You can also pay the kiosk $30 for the rare privilege of early check in. Completely soulless.

executiveon Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

credit card data

executiveon The case against the Twitter apology and our culture of performed remorse

https://thedirty.com/

executiveon Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly

there is risk to the band. die hard poor fans cannot attend.

executiveon Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending

ever been to Spain?

executiveon Faced with scooter seizures, Bird pays property tax bill months late

Did not see a single upright scooter in Austin this weekend. Littered all over the sidewalk. Must suck for the blind.

executiveon The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling

More like bill one client $1000/hr for travel and work on another client's $1000/hr case during the trip. /nojoke

executiveon Minikube quickly sets up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows

For Win10 Pro users, Minikube can run directly on Hyper-V.

executiveon The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)

Looking better already!

On clickthru Shopify page, there are some decent photos. But would replace/remove the Amazon text in one of them.

Also would show the back / cord & connector.

Yes, would have apps page with direct links to store.

Re: contact page. Is this actually true? This page for example still says contact when viewing Germany version of page. https://teenage.engineering/contact

Re: privacy: you could have one link, with some way to show both once you get to that page. Few will read this anyway, may as well not clutter home page with 2 links.

Good luck my friend.

executiveon The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)

[1] looks like a hastily prepared landing page for a dropshipped AliExpress product. 1 photo, no video. Why only Google Calendar? How to 'use your phone to connect'? Is there a companion app? Why is contact page under Policies and labelled Imprint? Why 2 Privacy Policy links? About us section reads like boilerplate scam and links off-site to some random blog. Line height config looks ugly in bottom nav area.

At least it works without Javascript.

executiveon NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

Good app. Never found if it can/how to play video with screen off though.

executiveon Ask HN: Should I accept the free Windows 11 upgrade?

- Causes unrecoverable system hang issue on AMD laptop

- wsl.exe process crashing several times a day (2 AMD desktops & AMD laptop)

- many other AMD/Win 11 related issues reported on WSL GitHub