kirchhoff

Thanks for the comments. I suppose I could represent the state in the URL, though it might be an ugly URL if many countries are selected.

I did already try to minimize the UI as much as possible - I'll see what else I can do.

Heh, well that will teach me for boasting about my site. I just did a big UI update and am ironing out the bugs.

When you say 'previous image' do you mean the same image that you would see by clicking the back arrow next to the address?

I don't mean to gatecrash, but as I have been running a near identical site for a few years I feel compelled to comment.

The street views generated on this site are not really random; they are picked from a predefined list in a db. This is why duplicates appear after a number of clicks.

I run http://www.mapcrunch.com which also generates random street views, but with more options - you can define a region on a map (like a city) and generate street views from within it. You can also restrict the generated views to those taken within buildings, or within urban areas. The views generated are also totally random.

I don't have any objection to someone copying the concept of an existing site / service, but I feel that if you do so, you should at least try to differentiate it in some way - most easily done by making improvements or including superior functionality.

You can do this on www.mapcrunch.com

If you are storing individual views in a DB, it will not be random, as there are far too many to store.

Except that US crude oil production is now rising.

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MC...

I run a couple of Street View based sites. Here are a few interesting and lesser known places which they've covered:

Wieliczka Salt Mine: http://www.instantstreetview.com/2n9vv9z3sayesz1uyzp0z2u

Battleship Island: http://www.instantstreetview.com/2bp3k8z5ve6kiz4bvzs4z2u

Lava cave in Japan: http://www.instantstreetview.com/2dcp2cz5x7dgmz15jzohz2u

Firefox on Windows with Adblock plus. Works on in Chrome. A below commenter mentioned ABP so it might be that.

Your blog breaks the back button with a redirect.

It's possible to avoiding creating history entries by using

location.replace()

How about the next 10?

Well this is just my opinion; I don't think pictures are too important for tech news, which is why I like HN.

How are you sorting / arranging the articles? Are you pruning them at all?

Personally I don't think the Pinterest / waterfall layout works well in this case, as it's a little overwhelming.

I quite like NewsMap and made a HTML5 version of it a while ago.

http://www.newsola.com

As someone with several side projects, I feel your pain.

You probably need to make the site appear more active, until there's enough interesting content to keep visitors there a while and encourage them to post.

There's a good reason for that. If someone's found a profitable niche, there's no incentive for them to reveal information which might attract competitors.

$('*').filter(function(){if($(this).css('background-image').indexOf('black.png') != -1) return true}).remove();

Reminded me of the Seiko Thermic, a wristwatch powered on the same principle.

Nice job, like the minimalist UI.

Instantica loads the first Google search result for each search term, as you type it.

This also works as a sort of 'instant search' for most websites. e.g.

"Man of Steel trailer" "IMDB gattata"

This is a simple project I created - it loads the first Google result (in an iframe) for the search term you enter, as you enter it.

As Google have extensively indexed almost every content heavy site, this works as a kind of instant search for any site.

Some examples;

'wiki searchterm' 'imdb searchterm' 'youtube searchterm'

Some sites won't work as they don't allow themselves to be framed.

Seems similar to AeroFS.

Echoing out all the DB info for me, then this;

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/ahmetalpbalkan/ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/wp-blog-header.php on line 14

While your second point (colder climate) is correct, suggesting that UK residents are too 'poor' to afford air conditioning is way off the mark.

Best to check for the existence of _gaq before pushing elements into it, or the user might get a reference error.

I have no iOS device to test unfortunately - difficult to debug!

Yes. You can tell by the about box - I lazily use the same style for every project!

Actually, I'm also the creator of MapCrunch.