Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Show HN: Access to real-time trending stocks from Reddit, Twitter, news, and SEC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27690352
Show HN: Time, habit and goal tracker that displays as a flexible dashboard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27690230
Show HN: Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685498
Show HN: An Interactive Visual History of Git Development https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27689664
Show HN: Glassmorphism CSS Generator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687813
Show HN: Magic – one-click signup from inside any newsletter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686995
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Show HN: MagicSquared – Magic Magic Link Authentication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674344
Show HN: New front-end framework powered by TS, OOP and MVC/MVP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27673895
Show HN: RESTful API for images, documents, & video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674635
Show HN: Apache Kafka and Ziggurat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27673576
Show HN: We asked email experts their secret for subject line copywriting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27673203
Show HN: pbfish – A minimal error-tolerant schema validation library https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27672899
Monday, June 28, 2021
Show HN: Anki alternative with integrated notes and import/export https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662266
Show HN: Ceramic – Create, host, and share decentralized data streams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662069
Show HN: Visualize the US Census ACS in less than 150 lines of code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27658779
Show HN: I made a site to share creative writing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656199
Show HN: Insert a page view counter in your README https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656497
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Show HN: This Song Plants Trees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650890
Show HN: Pandoc Markdown CSS Theme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27649378
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27642977
Show HN: A simple MSN Weather API wrapper https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639202
Show HN: I made my first Color System, aavailable for Figma, JSON and copy-paste https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27641363
Show HN: Production level annotation tools for images and videos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27641215
Show HN: A machine that detects when you text and drive then shocks you [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27641333
Friday, June 25, 2021
Show HN: Asynchronous Video Messaging for Teams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27630784
Show HN: A cringe-worthy ROS1-like interface for ROS2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27626320
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Show HN: Browserless v9 – browser driver on top of puppeteer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27615530
Show HN: 3dasd – open-source DIY room-scale 3D scanner https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27614874
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Show HN: Machine learning automation from creating to using models in production https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27603212
Show HN: Build a no-code paid newsletter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27603625
Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27599470
Show HN: WNetWrap – Tiny Windows HTTPS C++ lib – no dependencies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27601497
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Show HN: Sunshine.Blue – Mobile Animation Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27589138
Show HN: PlanetTypeScript, Aggregator of all things TypeScript https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27589080
Show HN: Bubble – a social platform for video comments and reactions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27589043
Show HN: Advanced Stripe Payment Links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588812
Show HN: Find new music on Spotify by aggregating the choices of tastemakers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588770
Monday, June 21, 2021
Show HN: I created a simple open-source Kinetic Sand Art Coffee Table https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579652
Show HN: A C++ RPC that supports both thrift and protobuf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579125
Show HN: I implemented Tilde – Operator for Go Compiler after months of research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27578822
Show HN: Drop-in audio & video chat for remote teams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27577586
Show HN: Why share your email address when you can hide it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27578412
Show HN: Data engineering as self-hosted service https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27577407
Show HN: UnPlan – Spontaneous activities for remote groups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27577483
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Show HN: AES67 Stream Monitor – An app to monitor audio over IP streams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27570320
Show HN: Made Moon-dedicated sites over 3 years advocating renewed exploration https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569132
Show HN: Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709
Show HN: Devtron, Heroku for Kubernetes, open source Delivery workflow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568343
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Show HN: Single-board SID file player https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560971
Show HN: An annotation tool for ML and NLP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560360
Show HN: Impaktek: the best way to find a meaningful job https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560297
Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in your menubar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559941
Show HN: Create Your Portfolio Effortlessly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559668
SHOW HN: Production ready assets for developer and designers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559216
Friday, June 18, 2021
Show HN: A simple time conversion site for developers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27551609
Behind the Scenes: Making Muni Service Changes
By Sean Kennedy
Have you ever wondered what it takes to modify or add Muni service? Customers often ask if we can bring back or make changes to their routes. Making Muni service changes usually takes many steps over several months. In a typical year, the SFMTA conducts three major service changes: in spring, late summer and winter. Each of these requires months of work and many different SFMTA teams to get implemented.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been anything but typical, and we adapted our service change process to quickly prioritize public health guidance, support essential travel and steadily bringing back routes for communities who depend on transit the most. By August 2021, SFMTA staff will have implemented 12 service changes in 18 months --up to five times faster than usual! With each change, we worked to bring back Muni better. The speed and operational dynamics required to deliver a service change process that typically takes months in a matter of weeks has meant temporarily adjusting how we make service changes. This pace has meant a significantly reduced ability to do pre-implementation public outreach.
We’ve launched a web page that explains the process in detail, before and during COVID. There you can learn about the steps involved in each phase of a typical Muni service change, and how COVID-19 Muni Core Service changes have been different.
Non-COVID Service Change Process
Historically, the process for making service changes consists of the following phases and takes about six months or more:
- Developing a service change plan
- Vetting the service change plan
- Legislating the service change plan
- Scheduling operator shifts
- Union approval of the operator shifts
- Operator sign-ups for shifts
- Implementation, when the changes go into effect
COVID-19 Muni Core Service Plan Changes
Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, demands for Muni service and resource constraints changed quickly. The service change process was compressed to speed up the restoration of service, with significant cuts to steps in almost every phase.
Learn more about what changed and how the dedicated SFMTA Transit Planning team have worked to prioritize service restoration.
Looking Ahead
As of January 2021, 100% of neighborhoods identified by SFMTA’s Muni Service Equity Strategy are within two to three blocks of a Muni stop. By August 2021, in time for school to restart, 98% of all San Franciscans will have Muni access within two to three blocks of their home or work.
Published June 18, 2021 at 08:28AM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/behind-scenes-making-muni-service-changes
Show HN: I make full stack Hacker News clone with Next.js and Node.js https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27544394
Show HN: Higher Order Sketch-Based Graph Anomaly Detection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549162
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Show HN: Voice notes like WhatsApp but for web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27536887
Show HN: GraphCDN, the GraphQL CDN with edge caching and analytics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27536878
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Show HN: Markov Model Headlines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534222
Geary Transit Lanes Proving Their Worth
By Amy Fowler
The verdict is in: transit lanes on Geary Boulevard are keeping riders moving apace, despite citywide trends of increasing traffic.
Muni has remained critical for San Franciscans making essential trips throughout the pandemic. The Temporary Emergency Transit Lanes program quickly installed temporary transit lanes on key routes across San Francisco to help preserve the travel time gains we saw during the early days of the pandemic. Since emergency transit lanes were installed in the Richmond neighborhood last winter, we have been able to lock in 50-75% of those travel time savings for 38 Geary customers where transit lanes were added.
Emergency transit lanes and other transit improvements were installed along segments of Geary Boulevard between 33rd Avenue and Stanyan Street.
Geary is one of the busiest bus corridors in North America. The new transit lanes are building on the success of the Geary Rapid Project, which is making much-needed transit and safety improvements between Market and Stanyan streets and is now close to wrapping up construction --on time and on budget. Combined with the emergency transit lanes in the Richmond, 75% of the Geary corridor now has transit lanes.
The Geary corridor also features new wooden sidewalk extensions at some of the 38R Geary Rapid’s busiest bus stops. These temporary extensions allow buses to stay in the transit lane when picking up and dropping off passengers, making them more accessible and reliable.
Passengers board a 38R Geary Rapid in the Richmond District with the help of a temporary wooden "bus bulb."
After the temporary emergency transit lanes were installed, they were evaluated using several criteria, including recommendations we heard from the community to ensure that the improvements aren’t creating unintended problems. Metrics we looked at included bus travel times, bus crowding and effects on vehicle traffic.
Some of the key takeaways are:
- Transit lanes have improved 38 Geary bus performance despite increasing traffic. In spring 2021, after transit lanes were installed, 38/38R Geary travel times were up to 4% quicker than in fall 2020 just before the lanes were installed, and up to 13% quicker compared with pre-COVID levels.
- Minimal traffic impacts to Geary Boulevard or parallel streets. While we did see reduced traffic speeds on Geary Boulevard between fall 2020 (before the lanes were installed) and spring 2021 (after lanes were installed), those reductions were similar to speed changes we observed on control streets 25th Avenue and Arguello Boulevard. Notably, streets parallel to Geary Boulevard experienced even smaller speed reductions, indicating that diversions to other streets have likely been minimal.
- A majority of people who took our evaluation survey support making the transit lanes permanent. 52% of the over 700 people surveyed supported maintaining the lanes; 15% were neutral or unsure; while 33% were opposed.
Considering the positive evaluation findings and support for maintaining the transit lanes, we are proposing to make them permanent. The legislation for doing so will be presented to the SFMTA Board of Directors, likely in July 2021.
Learn more about the evaluation results and next steps on the project webpage.
Project staff will also host a “Virtual Office Hours” session on Wednesday, June 30 between 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. to answer questions about the evaluation results and next steps.
Revised Geary Boulevard Improvement Project design
The Geary Boulevard Improvement Project (Phase 2 of Geary BRT) had previously envisioned transit lanes in the center of the street between Arguello Boulevard and 28th Avenue. In light of the emergency transit lane evaluation results and other factors, the SFMTA is now pursuing a revised side-running design, which could include additional transit lanes, bus stop modifications and safety improvements. Outreach to seek input on these changes is planned for later this year.
Published June 16, 2021 at 01:01PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/geary-transit-lanes-proving-their-worth