robseed's comments

On: A very Chicago gamble

[robseed]

It is getting some skeptical coverage

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/ballys-chicago-wants...

but not enough, seems downright exploitative to me.

On: Show HN: ServerlessMaps – Host your own maps in the cloud

[robseed]

https://protomaps.com/ is even simpler. Http range requests on a single static file.

[AbraKdabra → robseed]

I'm a little annoyed for the fact that the map shows South America and avoids showing the Argentina label because it overflows but doesn't give a fuck about Chile and its 2mm of width.

[reassess_blind → AbraKdabra]

And shows Buenos Aires before it shows Argentina.

[toomuchtodo → robseed]

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982621

[philips → robseed]

It says it uses PMTiles right on the front page, right?

[boramalper → philips]

Yep, it's a format they designed (ProtoMaps Tiles):

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

[tobilg → robseed]

It uses PMTiles… Range requests are only supported on S3 directly. If you want to use a custom domain, edge level caching etc. you‘ll need to use a CDN like CloudFront

[joshstrange → robseed]

Yeah Protonmaps is awesome, I’ve been very happy with them. Dirt cheap and simple. After getting hit with a couple hundred dollars (yes, not much, but it was a side project) with Google Maps I went looking for alternatives and found protonmaps, I haven’t looked back.

On: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders

[robseed]

45, certain "trap music" is a typo

[seanmcdirmid → robseed]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_music

But...it was popular in the late 90s, which corresponds to us mid-40 age people anyways.

On: Is this the most value-dense information on Earth?

[robseed]

Chaitin's constant gets my vote for most valuable number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant

On: Show HN: A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors

[robseed]

Don't most search engines use an inverted index to find the similarity between the query vector and the document vectors? (instead of doing the dot product with every document)

Maybe something like this could help: http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/similarities/docsim.html

Cool stuff, thanks.

On: A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

[robseed]

Such a relief to see xml described as "An alternative to json".