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24 alternatives to Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
My great-grandfather Reuben P. Box was a US Forest Ranger in Northern California, and I've got his daily work diary from 1927-1945, through the depression, WWII, Conservation Corps, and lots of forest fires. I've scanned the entire thing, had Claude help with transcription, indexing, and web site building, and put the whole thing here: https://forestrydiary.com/ This is one of those projects I've sat on for years, but with Claude and Mistral helping with the handwriting recognition, and even helping me write a custom scanning app that would auto scan each page and put it into…
This is a digitized collection of a US Forest Ranger's daily work diary spanning 1927-1945 in Northern California, covering the Great Depression, World War II, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and forest fire response.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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:memo: Today I Learned. Contribute to jbranchaud/til development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this project for about 4 years. It began as terrain only because world wide elevation data was publicly available. I then added buildings from OpenStreetMap (crowd sourced) and more recently from Overture Maps data. Some computer vision/machine learning advancements [1] in the past few years have made it possible to estimate tree canopy heights using satellite imagery alone making it possible to finally add trees to the map. The data isn't perfect, but it's within +/- 3 meters of so. Good enough to give a general idea for any location on Earth. Happy to answer…
2024 · shademap.app · its alternatives →
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A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer. I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras. This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place. [1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184
2025 · byte.tsundoku.io · its alternatives →
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Updated: Annadel/Kenwood to Napa 10/18, SR 10/12. Satellite fire map w/address search & compare mode. By Overview News © Digital Globe. Hosting by Mapbox
2017 · robinkraft.github.io · its alternatives →
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Fireside▲338Capture stories of a lifetime, preserve for generations
2024 · recordfireside.com · its alternatives →
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How a military experiment founded the modern ski industry
2016 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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Day by day overview of the Great Depression
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A fight against the Big Chill
2021 · lostmsu.github.io · its alternatives →
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SNEWPapers▲126Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search capabilities. Problem: I wanted to search through newspaper archives, but when I tried every service only lets you search for keywords and dates, and gives you back raw images of the papers, and too many of them with no context. A sea of noise. Solution: I taught machines how to read the newspapers and so far I've extracted the content from >…
Apr 2026 · snewpapers.com · its alternatives →
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Forests may feel still, but they're bustling with activity
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Keep track of forests in your area by viewing changes in tree cover over time. I’ve build this as a demo of what you can do with the ArcGIS library and the geo data that is offered by Global Forest Watch and Esri. Don’t forget to click the history button. Works best on desktop! The demo is build with React and open source: https://github.com/vnglst/koenvangilst.nl/tree/main/app/(bla...
2024 · koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! In a recent "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread, I mentioned I was working on OCRing a large book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971614 The post generated some interest so I thought I would keep HN posted. The book is Saint-Simon’s Memoirs -- an invaluable historical account of the French court under Louis XIV, full of wit, sharp observations, and of incredible literary value. I'm OCRing the edition of reference made between 1879-1930, that contains a lot of comments and footnotes: 45 volumes, ~27,000 pages. Here's a link to a blog post that describes…
2024 · blog.medusis.com · its alternatives →
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From a German U-boat log to Aziz Ansari
2016 · thisamericanlife.org · its alternatives →
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Serverless USGS Historical Topographic Map tiles
2021 · kylebarron.dev · its alternatives →
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Plan hikes, share trip reports, map routes, and browse photos from the trail.
2012 · wenthiking.com · its alternatives →
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Tracking deforestation one country at a time. Data from @globalforests. A bot by @facutxt.
2020 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Busy Thursday, but very productive on all fronts!
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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A son's photo journal of his aging father's last years
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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