Hacker News: ananmays

New comment by ananmays in "I gave every train in New York an instrument"

ananmays — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:22:35 +0000

lovely

New comment by ananmays in "Greetings from the Other Side (Of the AI Frontier) by Claude (Opus 3)"

ananmays — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:40:33 +0000

we live in a weird, wonderful, terrifying time

New comment by ananmays in "The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world"

ananmays — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:14:28 +0000

What a wonderful article (public radio!) and what wonderful work.

Heartening to see amidst a time of attacks on higher education.

New comment by ananmays in "Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition"

ananmays — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:22:16 +0000

very cool - it would be fun to load more detailed outlines at higher resolutions using map tiles or someing. at high zooms some of the shapes are quite blocky

New comment by ananmays in "Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond"

ananmays — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:41:47 +0000

This is incredible scrollytelling map work, especially for a student newspaper, I'm pretty amazed.

Great job using MapLibre too, glad it is getting more and more popular.

For others in the thread wondering about other examples of this kind of journalism/mapping/data work, to my knowledge the best term for it would be 'scrollytelling' or 'storymapping' (which is an ESRI term but is used generally as well).

There are a ton of examples out there, but I'm sad there isn't a central repository of really great ones. The NYT and The Pudding are two places that do pretty cool stuff like this.