[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":538},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-46868479":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":47,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":77,"maker_in_thread":233,"shape":244,"grid":248,"attempts":499,"same_week":500,"maker_shows":41,"maker_hidden":530,"reader_version":531,"card":532},"46868479","Safe-now.live","Ultra-light emergency info site (\u003C10KB)","title","Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (\u003C10KB)","https:\u002F\u002Fsafe-now.live","safe-now.live","tinuviel",1770109564,2026,195,94,301,4366,7,"notable","infrastructure","emergency information website","web_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"emergency information","fema disasters","nws alerts","lightweight website","disaster alerts","mixed",-0.216,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},9,18,4,21,52,{"design":38,"performance":40,"execution":42,"docs":45,"idea":46},{"positive":39,"critical":34},3,{"positive":41,"critical":39},1,{"positive":43,"critical":44},0,10,{"positive":43,"critical":34},{"positive":34,"critical":43},[41,43,43,43,41,48,41,41,41,39,39,41,41,41,39,41,49,41,39,49,43,43,39,41,49,41,39,39,49,41,41,39,41,39,39,49,49,41,49,39],2,5,"After reading \"During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website\" on Sparkbox (https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=46494734) , I built safe-now.live – a text-first emergency info site for USA and Canada. No JavaScript, no images, under 10KB. Pulls live FEMA disasters, NWS alerts, weather, and local resources. This is my first live website ever so looking for critical feedback on the website. Please feel free to look around.\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fsafe-now.live",{"problem":52,"audience":58,"pricing":62,"motivation":63,"time_to_build":62,"stack":67,"openness":74,"stage":75,"team_size":76},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Gives people current emergency info (FEMA disasters, NWS alerts, weather, local resources) in a lightweight text-first page","maker",[56],{"id":57},"post",{"value":59,"source":54,"evidence":60},"People in the USA and Canada during emergencies",[61],{"id":57},null,{"value":64,"source":54,"evidence":65},"Inspired by a Sparkbox article about plain text websites during Hurricane Helene",[66],{"id":57},[68],{"value":69,"source":54,"evidence":70},"Plain C server code with NGINX",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"46882974","Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":78,"objections":110,"requests":170,"questions":213,"alternatives":224},[79,95],{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Lightweight, fast, information-dense design","commenter",[83,87,91],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"46889287","lasgawe","One of the most unique ideas I've seen. Good to see this is just a 4.4 KB HTML page and does exactly what it says.",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"46870518","torgoguys","I disagree. When I saw the page, I thought, \"Finally an information dense page again! It's been so long since they've been common and I miss them.\"",{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"46873977","mghackerlady","This is really useful! I'm planning on making a list of websites that work well with Lynx and other text based browser, specifically because people should be able to access…",{"value":96,"source":81,"evidence":97},"Useful idea and good concept",[98,102,106],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"46877277","imwillofficial","This is an excellent idea, ill pass it along to friends in emergency management",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"46869805","lencastre","great stuff!! wish there was sth lk this this side of the pond",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"46873851","browningstreet","I love this kind of thing - I'm always building lists and reference things, but IME people generally don't gravitate towards things like this. That said, I really want a…",[111,126,141,152,163],{"value":112,"source":81,"evidence":113},"Font size too small, especially on mobile",[114,118,122],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"46871047","randomtoast","The font size is too small for emergencies on mobile devices. You need to consider that users might be in a panic, may not have both hands free to zoom in, and their vision could…",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"46868961","doterobcn","I would suggest increasing font-size, looks too small",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"46869375","austinjp","Yup. Even on mobile the text is too small for me. In particular, the line-height could be larger so links can be tapped more easily. Nice though, I like it.",{"value":127,"source":81,"evidence":128},"Stale or old fire and emergency data shown as active",[129,133,137],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"46871807","_fat_santa","Others have mentioned this but looks like fires from close to ~20 years ago are still showing up as \"active emergencies\"[0]. Shows the Nash Ranch fire as an active emergency but…",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"46871611","1970-01-01","I'm seeing fires from 1999. https:\u002F\u002Fsafe-now.live\u002Fc\u002Fus\u002Fal\u002F",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"46870551","idiotsecant","When you drill down to active emergencies for a local area there's a ton of stuff there but it's all old. Why display it if the purpose of the site is current emergency info?",{"value":142,"source":81,"evidence":143},"Site slow or down under Hacker News traffic",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"46872904","hypeatei","It appears the site couldn't handle HN traffic or maybe the site owner took it down. Regardless, a project like this needs a lot of thought put into it to be something that…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"46872995","hobo_in_library","Seeing how it hasn't survived the HN hug of death... Not sure how you've built it but consider putting it behind a CDN or something and caching the responses, esp since you're…",{"value":153,"source":81,"evidence":154},"Incorrect weather and earthquake location data",[155,159],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"46873372","happyopossum","This is an interesting idea, but the very first page I looked at was wrong (current weather in Alameda county shows as 72* - it's almost 30* below that here, and the daily high…",{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"46876715","dprice1","I like this! I noticed that the weather for some Bay Area counties seem to be getting zeroed out for temperature. https:\u002F\u002Fsafe-now.live\u002Fc\u002Fus\u002Fca\u002Fcounty\u002Fsan-mateo\u002F…",{"value":164,"source":81,"evidence":165},"Factual error on UK emergency number",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"46872778","davedx","The UK emergency phone number is 999, not 112. Ugh. Don't make a website like this without verifying the information is correct please!",[171,176,187,198,205],{"value":172,"source":81,"evidence":173},"Bigger font size",[174,175],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},{"value":177,"source":81,"evidence":178},"Offline support via PWA or caching",[179,183],{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},"46868736","jonathanstrange","Looks nice & useful. However, I'd make two versions: The one you have, and additionally a version with Javascript that is a Progressive Web App (PWA). I'm pretty sure some AI…",{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"46870038","rumatoest","It must be able to cache it's all content in browser. I guess to do it it properly you need to make it PWA.",{"value":188,"source":81,"evidence":189},"Images or simple SVG icons",[190,194],{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"46882468","LandenLove","I see that you mentioned no images, but I feel that images would make it easier for quickly locating information. You can probably use some basic svg files to keep the file size…",{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"46885337","ashenke","I think what he is saying is adding simple svg icons, not images. For instance this one https:\u002F\u002Fwww.svgrepo.com\u002Fsvg\u002F308550\u002Fearthquake-damage-earthquake-property-damage is 700…",{"value":199,"source":81,"evidence":200},"Shorter domain name",[201],{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"46871607","nicoburns","Normally I would say this doesn't matter much, but I wonder if a shorter domain name (or just one without a dash in it) might be in order here. I don't think I would want to be…",{"value":206,"source":81,"evidence":207},"Backcountry or travel version",[208,209],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"46873913","ohashi","I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https:\u002F\u002Ftravelsafetydata.com\u002F It's pulling the travel advisories from US\u002FCA\u002FUK\u002FIE\u002FAU\u002FNZ and aggregating the results\u002Finformation…",[214,220],{"value":215,"source":81,"evidence":216},"Where does the weather data come from?",[217],{"id":218,"by":219,"text":215},"46881214","Lord_Zero",{"value":221,"source":81,"evidence":222},"Why show old emergencies?",[223],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},[225,229],{"value":226,"source":81,"evidence":227},"Travel safety data site for advisories",[228],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},{"value":230,"source":81,"evidence":231},"Plain text website from Sparkbox article",[232],{"id":57},{"comments":33,"answered":39,"key":234},[235,238,241],{"id":236,"text":237},"46873081","Thank you. This has been patched.",{"id":239,"text":240},"46873300","The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN. The site was being patched based on feedback here. You should see it up and running.",{"id":242,"text":243},"46873086","Thank you. 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