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New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:25:26 +0000

sorry! i debated this quite a bit, but the sv opening credits was too good to not include :(

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:02:35 +0000

more zoom enabled!

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:02:22 +0000

more zoom enabled!

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:51:04 +0000

yeah, there are a ton of issues wrt water. I've documented a few of them here: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html

Planning to fix in the next version!

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:41:40 +0000

Spurious lakes are an interesting issue I looked into a bit. 2 types of cases ended up becoming lakes: 1. "shadows" 2. flat green areas

I think a better data distribution should eliminate this. Also, my "water detector" was not too good and could be improved.

I wrote about a few of these things here: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:38:38 +0000

ty!

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:38:19 +0000

very inspired by you!

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nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:37:54 +0000

glad you liked it!

I had to leave out a ton of details in the training process. But at every step, codex/cc built me a dev tool to navigate the complexity. That was such a unique side project experience.

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:34:48 +0000

yeah, there are a ton of issues especially around water. I've documented a bunch of them here: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html

I tried out a few ideas, but i think better training data around water will help a LOT.

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:26:40 +0000

oooof, I can actually allow more zoom (was just embarrassed at bad pixels)

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:24:38 +0000

haha ty!

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:22:26 +0000

hey thanks! i wrote it all up here: https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html

New comment by nuwandavek in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:21:39 +0000

woahhh, these are so beautiful!

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nuwandavek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:46:38 +0000

Article URL: https://sf.isopolis.city/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966

Points: 342

# Comments: 76

Data Story: The strait went dark

nuwandavek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:33:47 +0000

Article URL: https://demos.minusx.app/l/strait-of-hormuz-the-day-the-oil-lanes-went-dark-6kjt5lcg1gp5d3l49mx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592540

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Convert any PDF into a fillable form

nuwandavek — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:27:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550400

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nuwandavek in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

nuwandavek — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:58:11 +0000

(blogpost author here) I've noticed this too. My top guess for any such thing would be that this type of sub-agent routing is outside the training distribution. Its possible that this gets better overnight with a model update. The second reason is that sub-agents make it very hard to debug - was the issue with the router prompt or the agent prompt? Flat tools and loop make this a non-issue without loss of any real capability.

New comment by nuwandavek in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

nuwandavek — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:57:06 +0000

There may be other reasons to use ai sdk, but I'd highly recommend starting with a simple loop + port most relevant tools from Claude Code before using any framework.

Nice, do share a link, would love to check out your agent!

New comment by nuwandavek in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

nuwandavek — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:52:31 +0000

Oops, fixed it, thanks!

New comment by nuwandavek in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

nuwandavek — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:47:54 +0000

(blogpost author here) Haha, that's totally fair. I've read a whole bunch of posts comparing CC to other tools, or with a dump of the the architecture. This post was mainly for people who've used CC extensively, know for a fact that it is better and wonder how to ship such an experience in their own apps.