[HN Gopher] Happy Map
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Happy Map
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 201 points
Date : 2026-04-07 13:55 UTC (5 days ago)
(HTM) web link (pudding.cool)
(TXT) w3m dump (pudding.cool)
| DM70 wrote:
| I played with the map a little bit. I think its cool at the first
| glance. What is missing is how it necessarily applies to me,
| user? I can understand that probably what makes people truly
| happy universally is applicable to me. But probably could use
| some quick guidance. You say it in your description - story,
| although this moment is buried in longer description of
| methodology. I also had to figure out on my own that each
| individual response is example of what can make me happy. Still,
| I think this map has potential for more cool features base don
| this data.
| unkeen wrote:
| This isn't a product.
| drfloyd51 wrote:
| Filter to your demographic.
| jojobas wrote:
| Children/family = least agency, while buying something = most
| agency? I must be misunderstanding something big time.
| iamjfu wrote:
| You can't always control what your children or family do. You
| are in control of what you buy.
| npodbielski wrote:
| I have 3 kids and they are still young and I barely control
| how they behave :) It will be even more terrible later
| jojobas wrote:
| You can (and indeed must) control a lot about whether family,
| especially children, make you happy.
|
| Also many people don't seem to control what they buy.
| FinnKuhn wrote:
| The makes sense when you look at the responses themselves.
|
| Children/family are mostly containing answers such as "My son
| visited me on Mother's Day.", which you can't really cause
| yourself.
| jojobas wrote:
| Of course you can, you just have to cause it years in
| advance.
| sghiassy wrote:
| Anyone know what's the underling map/tile technology used? I'm on
| my phone and can't check
| lavela wrote:
| I'm fairly certain it uses deck.gl
| padolsey wrote:
| For a 'happy map' there is a bizarrely puritanical deficit of
| orgasms. EDIT: oh wait I found one about backrubbing. That's nice
| I guess.
| Pooge wrote:
| Too bad it uses OpenGL so I can't open it. I usually love this
| website.
| crimsoneer wrote:
| Pudding continue to be awesome. I'm so glad they exist.
| nicbou wrote:
| It's one of those websites that's an instant click from me.
| Whatever they make, I know it will be interesting.
| ryandrake wrote:
| It doesn't look very graphics-intensive, yet runs at about 2FPS
| on Safari, on my 3.8GHz quad core i5. The site's performance
| could use an investigation by a software developer.
| filoleg wrote:
| Sounds like something is off somewhere indeed, because on
| mobile safari it is running very smoothly for me. Cannot tell
| the exact FPS, except that it is at least 60 or more.
| alterom wrote:
| Runs OK on mobile Edge on an inexpensive 3 year old phone
| (Android, Galaxy S23 5G).
|
| So yeah, interesting indeed.
| ryandrake wrote:
| Tried it with Firefox running on the same machine and it's
| fine. Looks like the dev forgot to test with desktop Safari,
| or my version doesn't support a critical graphics API.
| yladiz wrote:
| I used it in Safari and it had good FPS, so it may be due
| to your specific version, or maybe an extension.
| manmal wrote:
| Or an autoresearch minimizing render times.
| maininformer wrote:
| I for one am looking forward to retirement. I am planning on
| being high all the time, gardening and yelling at children
| passing by my property. Growing my hair and beard, wearing a
| bandana and a tie-dyed shirt and paying for my coffee in quarters
| in a wooden treasure box I carry as a purse. The goal is to
| liberate the crazy.
| arein3 wrote:
| All the things you think you would enjoy might not hit the spot
| at all when you will retire.
|
| Learned that when took 2 years off work.
| spicyusername wrote:
| Yea. Having a purpose and bonding with other people on the
| way to achieving it are underrated elements of being working
| age.
|
| If you're not conscious about it in retirement, it's easy to
| just do nothing, waste away, and find out many years too
| late. You actually need different ingredients to feel
| satisfied.
| cratermoon wrote:
| There might be a bug with the age filters. I'm seeing some 20s
| and 60s mixed up.
| eaf7e281 wrote:
| A happy map that makes me sad.
| rrr_oh_man wrote:
| Why?
| aardvarkdriver wrote:
| Awesome project!
|
| It looks like the Physical & Active Hobbies sector is populated
| exclusively by books in the northeast portion and video games in
| the southwest. It might be a direct swap with the Gaming &
| Virtual Worlds sector, which contains some physical activity
| events.
| hokkos wrote:
| zomming enough should make all comments visible
| mchl-mumo wrote:
| I agree. It would make it easier to get a quick idea.
| rrr_oh_man wrote:
| I would really, really love it to have some sort of conclusion /
| interpretation / aggregated data.
| ____tom____ wrote:
| The story needs a progress indicator. I didn't know if I was
| almost done, or had another hour to go. So I quit.
|
| Also, there should be an option to just get the story as text.
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