How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?(subwaysheds.com)

300 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 182 comments

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer(buildmytransit.nyc)

179 points by HeavenFox 1 year ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Map with an LLM(godview.ai)

66 points by ata_aman 1 year ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada(trains.fyi)

450 points by ryry 2 years ago | 276 comments

Trains.fyi is a live map showing real-time GPS locations of passenger trains across the United States and Canada, updated every minute.

Open Infrastructure Map(openinframap.org)

414 points by efskap 9 months ago | 92 comments

Open Infrastructure Map is an interactive globe map showing power lines, telecoms, oil, gas and other infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data.

Amtrak Explorer(amtrakexplorer.com)

262 points by admp 3 years ago | 197 comments

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find(arstechnica.com)

608 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 211 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that hackers found a train manufacturer's firmware made trains break down after third-party repairs; the manufacturer called it slander.

Map of GitHub(github.com)

651 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.

Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada(trains.fyi)

450 points by ryry 2 years ago | 276 comments

Trains.fyi is a live map showing real-time GPS locations of passenger trains across the United States and Canada, updated every minute.

Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line(yamanot.es)

324 points by zdw 1 year ago | 97 comments

Yamanot.es is an interactive web music box that plays the departure melodies of stations on Tokyo's JR Yamanote Line.

Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made(kotaku.com)

796 points by oumua_don17 3 months ago | 332 comments

Kotaku impressions article on Running Train, a Japanese train driving simulator made by a single developer that is drawing glowing Steam reviews.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.