Hawaii Highways(www.hawaiihighways.com)
75 pointsby yakattak7 months ago8 comments
  • nrclark7 months 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.
    • chrismaeda7 months 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.

      • nrclark7 months ago
        TIL. Thanks for this context!
    • madcaptenor7 months ago
      Alaska also has interstates, although they are not built to mainland standards. (Hawaii's are. Hawaii is much more densely populated than Alaska.)
      • mikestew7 months 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.
      • m4637 months 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.

  • bob_theslob6467 months 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.

    • marai27 months 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.
  • CobaltFire7 months 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.

  • dineol7 months ago
    I love this design!
  • anArbitraryOne7 months ago
    Apple should learn some UX lessons from this
  • protocolture7 months ago
    peak web design.
    • sunrunner7 months ago
      Peak page load performance too
    • jekwoooooe7 months ago
      Nonresponsive, low contrast, and unusable on mobile so not really. This is very 1999 design
      • 0x4454427 months ago
        Works just fine on my Samsung S23 with Brave.
        • jekwoooooe7 months ago
          “Works” as in the page loads, sure. That’s not a good metric
      • protocolture7 months ago
        >Nonresponsive, low contrast, and unusable on mobile

        Like I said.

    • Analemma_7 months 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.

      • potato37328427 months ago
        It's the textured background that screws it. The green is mild enough to be a non-issue otherwise.
  • ghushn37 months 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.

    • octo8887 months ago
      Researching and publishing/hobbies is now autism?
      • ghushn37 months ago
        That's a charming way to describe that website.
      • midtake7 months ago
        If your hobby is anything that requires focus or attention to detail, it's autism.

        /s

    • xx__yy7 months 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!

    • ViscountPenguin7 months 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.

  • deepsun7 months ago
    [flagged]
    • jwr7 months ago
      A problem with your browser?
      • deepsun7 months ago
        A browser plugin, yes, that I installed to not go to insecure websites.
        • Tabular-Iceberg7 months 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_4sho7 months 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 ..."

    • zolland7 months ago
      Why not?
      • deepsun7 months ago
        I limit myself to https-only websites using website plugins. For privacy reasons.
        • pabs37 months 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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