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Conor McLaughlin
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Conor McLaughlin writes Conor Mclaughlin, a personal blog at conormclaughlin.net about data and politics. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Visualizing Water Consumption from the Colorado River Basin”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Conor McLaughlin's data-visualisation posts on sunrise and sunset times by county, US water consumption, and a plane-tracking ADS-B project. The comments mostly cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A data-driven personal blog featuring takes on sports, technology, real estate, and politics
Most-linked posts?
- Visualizing Water Consumption from the Colorado River Basin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-14
What Hacker News says?
And this exemplifies the political problem that would be better off tossing a coin and being done with it. Because what would be better depends on your position in the time zone and with where in the day one values daylight hours. There's a set of maps (e.g. [1]) that shows sunrise/sunset times by county and explains the variations quite nicely. [1] https://conormclaughlin.net/2022/04/visualizing-the-impact-o...
Comment linking /2022/04/visualizing-the-impact-of-permanent-daylight-savings-time-on-winter-sunrise-and-sunset-times/
on “Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. end it, too?”Submitted Fixing Bad Charts: EV Acceleration as a Function of Battery Charge Level as a story · 2 points
HN discussionComparatively very little, when stacked against the massive usage of water by agricultural irrigation. Source: https://conormclaughlin.net/2023/03/visualizing-water-consum... Using an unsustainable amount of water to grow cattle feed and romaine lettuce in one of the most arid places on Earth is a questionable choice. It seems like the choice will be made for us, soon.
Comment linking /2023/03/visualizing-water-consumption-from-the-colorado-river-basin/
on “Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest”Submitted Visualizing Water Consumption from the Colorado River Basin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://conormclaughlin.net/2024/04/published-how-i-finished... I have used this on my tidbyt (now a Tronbyt) for years for this purpose... simple solution tied into my adsb system
Comment linking /2024/04/published-how-i-finished-off-my-planes-overhead-app-and-got-it-published-to-the-tidbyt-app-store/
on “I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house”