Walzr

As an aside, the creator of this site (Riley Walz) has some other awesome projects I’d recommend checking out https://walzr.com

https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=592 My new favorite fishing story.

https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=1451 > Shout out to [...], I love you guys. Platonically.

Yeah, slowly going through https://walzr.com/. Definitely not his first rodeo.

Oh wow this is from the same author as https://walzr.com/bop-spotter -- love these projects

from their site https://walzr.com/ they made a fake steakhouse real for one night, got Twitter to verify a fake candidate for congress, etc. etc. all signs point to art project.

I see this as an art project. (And technical exploration, because I wonder how did they manage to scrape Google.) It's made by the dude that has a lot of similarly strange and technologically impressive projects: https://walzr.com/

Worth it for this jpeg: https://walzr.com/HDR2.jpg

Condensing it for HN was harder than I thought because most of it makes only sense when you also see the images, so here is more like a summary of parts of the dialogue. Prompted by this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366753 I tried to geolocate the camera. I uploaded a screenshot from https://walzr.com/weather-watching to ChatGPT and it said a lot of things but concluded with “New York City street corner in the East Village”.[1] I find it utterly amazing that you can throw a random low-quality image at an LLM and it does not only pinpoint the city but also the quarter. Good, but how to proceed from there? ChatGPT knows how street corners in the East Village look in general, but it does not know every building and every corner. Moreover, it has no access to Google Street View to help find a matching building. So this is kind of a dead end when we want a precise location. How would a human approach this? From the image it is immediately clear that we have a T-shaped intersection. From the shadows we can conclude that the stem of the T runs east-west and the bar north-south. We see that the stem is a one-way street with cars going only from west to east. This immediately excludes all odd-numbered streets. There are buildings all around and no parks or water. There are not many intersections in New York that fulfill all these criteria, but what if the area to search was much bigger? Could an LLM do that for us? I asked ChatGPT for a bird’s eye view of…

It was this one: https://walzr.com/sf-parking/ >This site only worked for 4 hours until the SFMTA cut the data source I was using. This data is a snapshot of how it looked on Sept. 25, 2025 at noon. What a shame! Still such a cool idea!

Honorable mention: https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=1599 I don't know why but I find this person very cute with how excited they sound about the local library. Will try to find some payphones myself.

I'm absolutely going hunting for some nearby payphones this weekend! In the recording on this one [1] the caller states that the payphone is on the caltrain station platform, but on the map it's about 1000 feet from there. Searching the address on google maps correctly shows it at the station, though. [1] https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=398

The recording left on this one is super weird and creepy like its from some ARG game which I guess is appropriate. The next night we ate whale, the next night we ate whale. https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=592 Runner Up this one playing "Im at a payphone" song https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=576

I believe it. There are a few more interesting projects at the site. This is fun, https://walzr.com/weather-watching

Completely agree, I don't want this to disrupt the Bop Spotter https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

You’ll get a kick out of this if you haven’t already seen it - a collection of random slice of life videos uploaded during the time when iPhones had a built in “send to YouTube” button. So many fascinating moments that would otherwise be lost to time. https://walzr.com/IMG_0001

A realtime Hurricane Milton Waffle Index map https://walzr.com/waffle-house-index (submittted by HNer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41793716)

Looks like the results are exported to a CSV file: https://walzr.com/bop-spotter/export

See also: https://walzr.com/IMG_0001/

Explained here: https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/

Explained here https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/