Yet another Hacker News

Whoisinspace.com/

80 points Egg-Man 2 hours ago 32 comments

feraloink 2 hours ago | parent

This is better than the Magic 8-ball. I DO like the visuals after clicking the Magic 8-ball though!

darknavi 1 hour ago | parent

> WHO IS IN SPACE is a project created by Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day and Geoff Barrett.

Neat. Destin has a great talk that he gave to/at NASA about Artemis a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU

bobson_dugnutt5 1 hour ago | parent

Lai Ka-Ying. Nominative determinism!

dima55 1 hour ago | parent

"Laika" is the generic dog name in Russian. Means "barker".

hamdingers 1 hour ago | parent

Reminds me of the original: https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

bbbrad 32 minutes ago | parent

I appreciate you recognizing us as the OG. We've tracked every launch since 2009!

Who is in space, they seem like nice people, I love the Smarter Every Day crew. (They actually tried to buy my domain years ago.) Pretty lame that they're running those insane Starlink ads but it is what it is.

asdfman123 21 minutes ago | parent

I feel like this post is just an AI slop copy of that site designed to grab free ad revenue.

I've flagged it and recommend others do the same.

zatkin 1 hour ago | parent

This website is unusable without closing out advertisements upon advertisements...

eek2121 1 hour ago | parent

Maybe you should create whoisinspacewithnoads.com? :D

ASalazarMX 46 minutes ago | parent

How about a new TLD, .noads?

baublet 1 hour ago | parent

Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

I miss the ad free web.

wowthatsucks 1 hour ago | parent

Interesting. I don't see any ads, even with my ad blocker turned off.

wildzzz 1 hour ago | parent

Those SpaceX suit photos look dumb. I very much prefer the traditional look of the Russian and Chinese crew photos.

xattt 1 hour ago | parent

They remind me of a “face-in-the-hole” board (1) photo.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in

ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | parent

Anyone else read this as WHOIS in space? Was ready to find out which TLDs had Galactic Coordinates for contact details

reynard_le_faux 1 hour ago | parent

We’re all in space bro

probablyStimmed 33 minutes ago | parent

Whoisdangerouslyfarfromthesurfaceofearth.com doesn’t have the same ring.

bcorigliano 1 hour ago | parent

A good concept, I like it! But pleas make ads less invasive. I understand we all need to pay our bills, but that shouldn't interfere with the user experience. Besides that, I didn't know there were so many guys in space as we speak!

dosshell 25 minutes ago | parent

Someone on HN that does not use ad block? This is still so confusing for me. Why not spend 40 seconds and never see any ads more?

hectdev 11 minutes ago | parent

Or AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi paired with Tailscale and never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular.

r0m4n0 5 minutes ago | parent

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walrus01 24 minutes ago | parent

Looks great with ublock origin running with default settings, fyi.

tlofreso 54 minutes ago | parent

The adsense on this site annoys me. It's run by Dustin from Smarter Every Day (at least it was in 2023 https://x.com/smartereveryday/status/1631364605426511872). In the past, the site did not serve ads.

actionfromafar 50 minutes ago | parent

The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.

zekejohn 45 minutes ago | parent

not enough ads, i could almost see the content

bjourne 42 minutes ago | parent

Call me crazy... but there's something about their faces. Almost like all of them are brothers and sisters. Creepy in a way.

sqquima 41 minutes ago | parent

Who is in space? Well, Tim Curry of course!

ldkge 39 minutes ago | parent

I guess we’re doxxing people now

mariusseufzer 32 minutes ago | parent

Didn’t know humans are spending that much time in space, over a year wow! I guess they need to workout daily to keep the muscles intact?

walrus01 24 minutes ago | parent

whois in space? what about RDAP in space?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9082/

ligarota 24 minutes ago | parent

Whole website for an ad btw

jakeinspace 21 minutes ago | parent

stephenhuey 20 minutes ago | parent

Safari on MacBook Pro sees the time text wrapping in such a way that when the time is pushed to the next line, it literally overlaps partly with the "Total Time in space" label. The time is halfway up the letters of the label.

And these are the biggest ads I've seen obscuring a webpage in a very long time!