Safe-now.live
Infrastructure
emergency information website
SHOW HN2026
195points
94comments
#301of 4,366 in 2026
Top 7%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 21 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Execution: 0 for, 10 againstDesign: 3 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Lightweight, fast, information-dense design
From 3 comments
One of the most unique ideas I've seen. Good to see this is just a 4.4 KB HTML page and does exactly what it says.
lasgawe on HNI disagree. When I saw the page, I thought, "Finally an information dense page again! It's been so long since they've been common and I miss them."
torgoguys on HNThis is really useful! I'm planning on making a list of websites that work well with Lynx and other text based browser, specifically because people should be able to access…
mghackerlady on HN
Useful idea and good concept
From 3 comments
This is an excellent idea, ill pass it along to friends in emergency management
imwillofficial on HNgreat stuff!! wish there was sth lk this this side of the pond
lencastre on HNI love this kind of thing - I'm always building lists and reference things, but IME people generally don't gravitate towards things like this. That said, I really want a…
browningstreet on HN
Objections
Font size too small, especially on mobile
From 3 comments
The font size is too small for emergencies on mobile devices. You need to consider that users might be in a panic, may not have both hands free to zoom in, and their vision could…
randomtoast on HNI would suggest increasing font-size, looks too small
doterobcn on HNYup. Even on mobile the text is too small for me. In particular, the line-height could be larger so links can be tapped more easily. Nice though, I like it.
austinjp on HN
Stale or old fire and emergency data shown as active
From 3 comments
Others have mentioned this but looks like fires from close to ~20 years ago are still showing up as "active emergencies"[0]. Shows the Nash Ranch fire as an active emergency but…
_fat_santa on HNI'm seeing fires from 1999. https://safe-now.live/c/us/al/
1970-01-01 on HNWhen you drill down to active emergencies for a local area there's a ton of stuff there but it's all old. Why display it if the purpose of the site is current emergency info?
idiotsecant on HN
Site slow or down under Hacker News traffic
From 2 comments
It appears the site couldn't handle HN traffic or maybe the site owner took it down. Regardless, a project like this needs a lot of thought put into it to be something that…
hypeatei on HNSeeing how it hasn't survived the HN hug of death... Not sure how you've built it but consider putting it behind a CDN or something and caching the responses, esp since you're…
hobo_in_library on HN
Incorrect weather and earthquake location data
From 2 comments
This is an interesting idea, but the very first page I looked at was wrong (current weather in Alameda county shows as 72* - it's almost 30* below that here, and the daily high…
happyopossum on HNI like this! I noticed that the weather for some Bay Area counties seem to be getting zeroed out for temperature. https://safe-now.live/c/us/ca/county/san-mateo/…
dprice1 on HN
Factual error on UK emergency number
From 1 comment
The UK emergency phone number is 999, not 112. Ugh. Don't make a website like this without verifying the information is correct please!
davedx on HN
Requests
Bigger font size
From 2 comments
I would suggest increasing font-size, looks too small
doterobcn on HNThe font size is too small for emergencies on mobile devices. You need to consider that users might be in a panic, may not have both hands free to zoom in, and their vision could…
randomtoast on HN
Offline support via PWA or caching
From 2 comments
Looks nice & useful. However, I'd make two versions: The one you have, and additionally a version with Javascript that is a Progressive Web App (PWA). I'm pretty sure some AI…
jonathanstrange on HNIt must be able to cache it's all content in browser. I guess to do it it properly you need to make it PWA.
rumatoest on HN
Images or simple SVG icons
From 2 comments
I see that you mentioned no images, but I feel that images would make it easier for quickly locating information. You can probably use some basic svg files to keep the file size…
LandenLove on HNI think what he is saying is adding simple svg icons, not images. For instance this one https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/308550/earthquake-damage-earthquake-property-damage is 700…
ashenke on HN
Shorter domain name
From 1 comment
Normally I would say this doesn't matter much, but I wonder if a shorter domain name (or just one without a dash in it) might be in order here. I don't think I would want to be…
nicoburns on HN
Backcountry or travel version
From 2 comments
I love this kind of thing - I'm always building lists and reference things, but IME people generally don't gravitate towards things like this. That said, I really want a…
browningstreet on HNI've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/ It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information…
ohashi on HN
Questions
Where does the weather data come from?
From 1 comment
Where does the weather data come from?
Lord_Zero on HN
Why show old emergencies?
From 1 comment
When you drill down to active emergencies for a local area there's a ton of stuff there but it's all old. Why display it if the purpose of the site is current emergency info?
idiotsecant on HN
Alternatives named
Travel safety data site for advisories
From 1 comment
I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/ It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information…
ohashi on HN
Plain text website from Sparkbox article
From 1 comment