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Ships Buried Under San Francisco
- msielski 10y agowiggle is the new blink
- pragone 10y agoCame here to comment similarly. Interesting article, completely unreadable to me due to the wiggle of all the garbage all over the page.
- sharkmerry 10y agoCare to explain... I am lost on what the two of you mean. I didnt notice a page wiggle?
- alistairSH 10y agoThe ads on the page wiggle in place. "You have free tickets waiting for you! [Click Here]" The [Click Here] button sort of vibrates. "Win Tix to Unique SF events!" This popup wiggles dead-center on the page like it's hung from a single piece of thread and somebody pushed it.
- sharkmerry 10y agoThanks... running ghostery and ublock so i didnt notice. On second viewing, the popup for winning tix showed and i saw it.
- this-dang-guy 10y agoYes, this added the page to the 'never visit again' list for me.
- recycleme 10y agoOne example is the 'click here' button at the very top of the page.
- cabalamat 10y agoKill Sticky https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ fixes that problem for me.
- ndaugherty18 10y agoSoon we will have marquees again littering the page.
- mdturnerphys 10y agoOne such ship appears in the recent book "Ajax Penumbra 1969" by Robin Sloan, the prequel to Sloan's "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". It's a short fun read.
- ihaveajob 10y agoIf you are into this kind of stuff, I recommend the Drag Me Along tour by Lola Montez: http://www.dragmealongtours.com http://www.dragmealongtours.com
- neaden 10y agoThere was a recent 99% Invisible about this: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground
- bananabill 10y agoIt's a really good one
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- Sniffnoy 10y agoActual clickable link: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground
- packetized 10y agoRelevance: The recent discussions[0,1] on the sinking Millennium Tower (and possibly Salesforce East/350 Mission, based on the ESA isometric plots in [1]). The map[2] clearly shows that the corner of Mission & Fremont was once just offshore. Additionally, as someone who's been lucky enough to live nearby, it's just absolutely cool to be able to 'walk' through history like this in an area that is largely derided as being sterile and faceless. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206158 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036377 [2]: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hpshpb_2014.jpg http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hpshpb_2014.jpg
- daurnimator 10y agoYour third link doesn't work unless you come from http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgshp5.htm http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgshp5.htm
- packetized 10y agoOdd, works on my end in an incog window. Unrelated: huge fan of your lpeg_patterns & mmdblua work, among others. Many, many thanks - made my life much easier.
- bdcravens 10y agoSince this is the no-politics week, I'm curious what this has to do with technology?
- melling 10y agoIt's always no-politics week: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN isn't limited to technology. As stated in the FAQ: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"
- bdcravens 10y agoI'm pretty sure it's "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity, or anything related to San Francisco"
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoIf you mean to imply this doesn't gratify any intellectual curiosity, well, you're welcome to your opinion. Others appear to have their own. Personally, I've generally been at least mildly interested in the juxtapositions of modern cities and 'ancient' history, and recall similar articles about ships buried in other cities - such as New York. As such, I'm skeptical about how relevant San Francisco is in terms of generating interest. SF natives will be more aware of SF things to share, so we probably see more SF-related stories here, given the concentration of SF residents in a startups related community such as this, but that won't make e.g. SF politics, sports, etc. any more on topic.
- bdcravens 10y agoI do mean it as a critique of the relevance of SF articles. (This particular article is actually more interesting than the usual faire that makes it here, like real estate prices and social politics of SF) I'd guess that HN's traffic is 95%+ outside of SF.
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- joeyo 10y agoMy favorite of these is the ship that the muni metro goes through at the embarcadero portal: http://sfist.com/2016/07/22/fun_fact_the_muni_metro_runs_throug.php http://sfist.com/2016/07/22/fun_fact_the_muni_metro_runs_thr...
- trhway 10y agoso, even back then the SF real estate was so hot that sinking the still serviceable ships was profitable. I think i'll see in my life an artificial island 5-10 miles into the ocean connected to SF by a new super-Golden Gate (after all there is only 20-30m depth :)
- milesokeefe 10y agoReality just gets closer and closer to Snow Crash.
- Lio 10y agoIsn't there an artificial island in Diamond Age too?
- Sniffnoy 10y agoThe map shown here is originally from this page: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgshp1.htm http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgshp1.htm (It's in the lower right, click on it to see the full thing)
- synaesthesisx 10y agoWell, what are we waiting for? This is perfectly good real estate...