Hawaii Highways(www.hawaiihighways.com)
75 pointsby yakattak5 days ago8 comments
  • nrclark4 days ago
    There's a certain irony in the idea that Hawaii has interstates, given that it's an archipelago. It's great that H1, H2, and H3 exist, and Hawaii deserves the same road funding as any other state. But there's some lesson about naming conventions, or emergent properties, or maybe something else to be had here for sure.
    • chrismaeda3 days ago
      The interstate highway system is actually made up of Interstate and Defense Highways. So all the "interstates" in Hawaii are actually Defense Highways that connect Pearl Harbor with other military bases on Oahu.

      - The H-1 goes from Barbers Point to Pearl Harbor to Diamond Head.

      - The H-2 connects Pearl Harbor with Schofield Barracks.

      - The H-3 connects Pearl Harbor with MCBH (Marine Corps Base Hawaii) at Kaneohe.

      • nrclarka day ago
        TIL. Thanks for this context!
    • madcaptenor4 days ago
      Alaska also has interstates, although they are not built to mainland standards. (Hawaii's are. Hawaii is much more densely populated than Alaska.)
      • m4632 days ago
        I would imagine the (anti-road) weather in alaska might be more extreme (maintenance-heavy) than the continental united states.

        Not sure how the hawaiian interstate fares against the environment - could be low-maintenance, could be daily ocean+lava attacks.

      • mikestew4 days ago
        I presume in Alaska's case, at least, it's a funding technicality. As you said, the roads are not built to interstate standards (with a few exceptions around Fairbanks and Anchorage, maybe). For example, without prior knowledge, no one is going to guess that the AlCan is an interstate, as there aren't even any signs indicating such.
  • bob_theslob6464 days ago
    That website is a crazy labor of love. Pretty dope! Nice work

    Sidenote, driving from Kona Airport south ( big Island) at night is one of the scariest things I have done with all the winding turns and hairpin like turns as well. Reminds me of the video games of need for speed, racing on a cliff. Basically, you need to be extremely careful at night on a single lane road with limited visibility and or bring glasses so that you are prepared to be blinded by other drivers's headlights.

    • marai24 days ago
      Exact same sentiment - scariest drive I’ve done, but this was in Maui, diving back from Hana at night. I’ve never driven in such pitch black darkness before with hairpin turns.
  • CobaltFire4 days ago
    This is awesome, and a nice trip down memory lane for when I lived in Hawai'i.

    Looks like the last update was in January 2014 though.

  • dineol4 days ago
    I love this design!
  • protocolture4 days ago
    peak web design.
    • sunrunner4 days ago
      Peak page load performance too
    • jekwoooooe4 days ago
      Nonresponsive, low contrast, and unusable on mobile so not really. This is very 1999 design
      • 0x4454424 days ago
        Works just fine on my Samsung S23 with Brave.
        • jekwoooooe4 days ago
          “Works” as in the page loads, sure. That’s not a good metric
      • protocolture4 days ago
        >Nonresponsive, low contrast, and unusable on mobile

        Like I said.

    • Analemma_4 days ago
      As much as I enjoy dunking on the various annoying fads in contemporary web design, it’s easy to make an identical mistake in the opposite direction and romanticize the past too much. This page is close to unusable: the low-contrast black-on-green text is hard to read, the click targets are tiny, and it doesn’t work at all at mobile.

      I don’t really blame the site creator because it seems like this hasn’t been updated in a long time, but I want to push back on your attitude. We can embrace usability without giving in to web slop.

      • potato37328424 days ago
        It's the textured background that screws it. The green is mild enough to be a non-issue otherwise.
  • anArbitraryOne4 days ago
    Apple should learn some UX lessons from this
  • ghushn34 days ago
    People say, "Autism is on the rise" but as an autistic person I see a site like this and go, "No, autism was always with us, we just labelled it differently in the past".

    I mean that lovingly.

    • octo8884 days ago
      Researching and publishing/hobbies is now autism?
      • ghushn32 days ago
        That's a charming way to describe that website.
      • midtake4 days ago
        If your hobby is anything that requires focus or attention to detail, it's autism.

        /s

    • xx__yy4 days ago
      I was having roughly the same thought. I thought to myself, this is something my son would produce, and I'd be super proud, and see through the 90's/Yahoo-ish style.

      Then I saw the date of the last update: http://www.hawaiihighways.com/what's-new.htm So comprehensive!

    • ViscountPenguin4 days ago
      "Autism is on the rise" isn't necessarily incompatible with autism being prevelant in the past (or mutually exclusive with the usually implied and objectionable claim that "Environmental factor X", usually vaccines, "is the cause").

      If anything, based on my experience, and the experience of my autistic friends; I would expect autism to be on the rise just because of assortitive mating. With the invention of widespread access to university, and growing cities, it's much easier to meet autistic people than it would've been in the past.

  • deepsun4 days ago
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    • jwr4 days ago
      A problem with your browser?
      • deepsun4 days ago
        A browser plugin, yes, that I installed to not go to insecure websites.
        • Tabular-Iceberg4 days ago
          Does that really make the site insecure, though?

          What’s the scenario, someone has launched an elaborate ARP cache attack in order to MITM a website about roads on Hawaii in order to get you mildly lost so that you have to pull over and look at Google Maps for directions, costing you an extra minute of travel time?

    • not_a_bot_4sho4 days ago
      I understand your problem, I use similar filters. But I use a VPN too, so I'm able to quickly get around it.

      Still, phrasing reads a bit like a BBQ review that starts out "as a vegan ..."

    • zolland4 days ago
      Why not?
      • deepsun4 days ago
        I limit myself to https-only websites using website plugins. For privacy reasons.
        • pabs34 days ago
          You might want to consider using Tor Browser, since that mitigates more privacy issues than just using only https on websites.
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