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Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending transactions

cspend.uk
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Show HN: I made islechat, like Slack but in the terminal over SSH

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Rendering Conways Game of Life with Braille

asherfalcon.com
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I built my own CityMapper

asherfalcon.com
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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

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Hiding Images in DNS Records

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ashfn
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
> go to website, have to login

> login, have to pay $7 to even view the product

is this satire
ashfn
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Something must be wrong, it's showing github as up!
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Thanks, it's just raw js canvas and msgpack on the api to use less bandwidth
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Thank you so much
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Hi everyone, I built cspend.uk which is a free site that combines over 24 million published payments from all London boroughs and councils into one fast, searchable database. You can search by supplier, description, amount, date, borough, etc, filter/sort results, and skip the hassle of separate CSV files or PDFs per council. It's a side project to make public spending data easier to explore so that people can check where council tax goes. Feedback welcome: Is this helpful? What would you search for? Any improvements or issues? Found anything funny or interesting?
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Updated the title it was a bit misleading!
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Potentially using the live arrivals APIs and seeing when its right now, not 100% it would work but might be worth a shot
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Im thinking it might be better to revisit the project and analyse long term patterns in bus arrivals
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I used this exact API extensively for both buses and tubes :)
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I tried a route from a London tube station to Newcastle train station and it found one on the frontend for the tool so I think it may support national rail
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It looks like TFL's journey planner API has the ability to do some of these national rail trips, only tested a few though
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·12 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That sounds very interesting, I'll look into it thanks :)
ashfn
·12 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah that would make an interesting addition. I was thinking about error correction so if you swapped two cards it would be okay but was struggling with how it would work, but I think it would be quite fun to add :)
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·12 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Hey all, I found a cool way to convert text into a specific order of a deck of playing cards. I detailed the instructions of how it works in the blog post but a brief overview would be that it uses Lehmer codes which allow you to uniquely identify each permutation of a set i.e. each of the many many ways a deck of cards can be shuffled/arranged