frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-trucker-built-a-scale-model-of-nyc-over-21-years-its-drawing-museums-attention
53•speckx•2h ago

Comments

jrmg•1h ago
For those skimming the surface of this article as I almost did:

The pictures in the article, impressive enough, are just the Manhattan portions of his model. He has in fact modelled all of New York!

> Macken said it took him about 10 years to build Manhattan alone and 11 years for the rest of the boroughs.

The full, absolutely huge, model can be seen on his TikTok (linked at the end of the article): https://www.tiktok.com/@balsastyrofoam300/video/754180447598...

senkora•50m ago
All of NYC except for the southern part of Staten Island.
bombcar•1h ago
Reminds me of the "Atomic Trucker" https://www.vice.com/en/article/atomic-trucker-reverse-engin...
aklemm•1h ago
Wow so it's down to the building level? I wonder how he did those and how accurate they are. Dimensions seems right on.
cortesoft•1h ago
Makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York

Is there a miniature version of this guy in the model, with a miniature version of the miniature city?

johnny-g-tyler•45m ago
The article says there are 1 million buildings in NYC?

That seems high ... only 10 people per building?

codyb•18m ago
Tons of buildings aren't residential. And there's still lots of single family homes as you get out into Queens, Staten Island, up further in the Bronx and further out in Brooklyn sometimes too.

I wonder how many people are living in buildings with 100+ people as I am (estimate a couple thousand in my building from back of napkin math I think).

New York City's fairly vast when you take into account Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx. Manhattan's less than a tenth of the land area.

Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/
133•mihau•1h ago•20 comments

Mother of All Demos

https://wordspike.com/s/5ip0xneiTsc
41•thekuanysh•1h ago•12 comments

CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom
72•bookofjoe•2h ago•9 comments

Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-packages-compromised
371•jamesberthoty•4h ago•295 comments

FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor node so he was jailed for 3 years

https://old.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1ni5drm/the_fbi_couldnt_get_my_husband_to_decrypt_his_tor/
813•heavyset_go•3h ago•244 comments

Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than Explicit Ode Solvers

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/implicit-ode-solvers-are-not-universally-more-robust-than-exp...
32•cbolton•1h ago•2 comments

Generative AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs, study finds

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5425555
91•zeuch•2h ago•81 comments

We're launching a new Google app for Windows experiment in Labs

https://blog.google/products/search/google-app-windows-labs/
6•meetpateltech•32m ago•4 comments

Robert Redford Has Died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html
260•uptown•3h ago•73 comments

Hosting a website on a disposable vape

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
1276•BogdanTheGeek•21h ago•433 comments

60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/60-years-after-gemini-newly-processed-images-reveal-incredi...
163•sohkamyung•3d ago•41 comments

Teen Safety, Freedom, and Privacy

https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy
22•meetpateltech•2h ago•12 comments

Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/09/extreme-life-arctic-ice-diatoms-ecological-discovery
39•hhs•3d ago•14 comments

Migrating to React Native's New Architecture

https://shopify.engineering/react-native-new-architecture
69•vidyesh•3d ago•42 comments

"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces

https://adamsilver.io/blog/your-vs-my-in-user-interfaces/
356•Twixes•12h ago•175 comments

Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html
194•ibobev•4d ago•21 comments

Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

https://www.theverge.com/report/778641/microsoft-visual-studio-code-anthropic-claude-4
19•corvad•50m ago•3 comments

React is winning by default and slowing innovation

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default/
621•dbushell•21h ago•710 comments

Java 25 Officially Released

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/announce/2025-September/000360.html
41•mkurz•2h ago•11 comments

Adding FRM parser utility to MariaDB

https://hp77-creator.github.io/blogs/gsoc25
4•hp77•3d ago•0 comments

WordNumbers: Counting letters of number names, alphabetized and concatenated

http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumbers1/
11•lupire•2d ago•1 comments

macOS Tahoe

https://www.apple.com/os/macos/
554•Wingy•22h ago•815 comments

William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)

http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html
279•exvi•18h ago•81 comments

Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-trucker-built-a-scale-model-of-nyc-over-21-years-it...
53•speckx•2h ago•7 comments

Klotski

https://2swap.github.io/Klotski-Webpage/
15•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/tapo/
506•kennedn•23h ago•160 comments

The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-tech-scene-dorky-now-terrifying-21042943.php
7•jakemontero24•38m ago•1 comments

The Mythical Creatures of London

https://londonist.com/london/history/the-mythical-creatures-of-london
32•zeristor•3d ago•11 comments

Teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lelqg0jy3o
26•xyzzy3000•2h ago•12 comments

I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

https://morrick.me/archives/10137
484•mgrayson•15h ago•456 comments