Naming rights to street auctioned in San Francisco (paintastreet.com) 21 points by 18nleung 5mo ago ↗ HN
[–] NooneAtAll3 5mo ago ↗ website tries to load some text - but then crashes into empty white screen when webgl is disabled
[–] schainks 5mo ago ↗ Please someone bid to name it the most confusing thing possible, like “that” or “this”.
[–] jauntywundrkind 5mo ago ↗ Not what I think they had in mind when they said "the streets are paved with gold".
[–] RandomGerm4n 5mo ago ↗ I wonder what would happen if someone tried to name a street something obscene or illegal
[–] gloxkiqcza 5mo ago ↗ Unique opportunity to unsolicitedly pentest geographical software for injection attacks. `NULL` Street anyone? [–] hulitu 5mo ago ↗ They don't use backticks in street names. Regards, Bobby Tables
[–] rationalist 5mo ago ↗ I think it's misleading: It's a private alley, not a city street.What stops someone else from paving an alley through their property and naming that? How is this different from something like that?They're going to install a "San Francisco-style street sign" (emphasis mine) - not the city is going to install an official street sign.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 32.2 ms ] threadWhat stops someone else from paving an alley through their property and naming that? How is this different from something like that?
They're going to install a "San Francisco-style street sign" (emphasis mine) - not the city is going to install an official street sign.