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anotherpaulon StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

StreetComplete is great. For me it made Openstreetmap much more approachable and now thanks to me there are a few more public toilets and one small road in osm. Especially with the road it was really interesting to see how quickly Google maps also took in this path. But they still also have the old road in the app. So it's linked but not 100%

anotherpaulon Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

I gave up pandas in favor of polars after someone at work did the same and I am very happy with it. Pandas API is just so much worse and much slower.

anotherpaulon Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

totally agree, businesses that only have Facebook or Instagram are basically hidden from me. I can not see their opening hours, nor the menue, if it is a restaurant. I understand why the businesses use facebook, its easy, but its also a bit sad.

anotherpaulon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

This content is geo/IP fenced

anotherpaulon 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

I agree that the species concept is a bit of a mess but how do you conclude that these two populations can still interbreed?

From the article I do not get the same suspicion. Even though they mention the "sister species" is 1200km removed this might be true while being a "finished" allopatric speciation.

From the paper:

"Our fossil calibrated mitochondrial clock analysis estimates the most recent common ancestor of C. congoensis and C. satanas existed ~4.27–5.78 Ma. In an additional analysis that used the same secondary calibration point as Roos and Zinner [36], we obtained younger divergence estimates by approximately 1 million years (3.44–4.73 Ma)."

anotherpaulon 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The link to the paper

anotherpaulon "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

This is such a nice fix but then you install it's set it up to launch on start and forget about it. 5 years later the bug has been fixed for 4 and I still have tho script record a random pixel every 10 seconds. Never know how to know that the hacky fix is no longer needed

anotherpaulon DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation

Maybe someone can explain: in image generation some models are already using rectified flow. Which was hailed as the next big thing. Are we going to see discrete rectified flow models next or is that unlikely?

anotherpaulon TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

I've also started using typst for some projects. I am slowly getting used to the syntax. But it's a process for me. I also still have latex projects/docs

So happy to see new texlive as well

anotherpaulon Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife

Isn't Merlin the birdsound app that is commonly used?

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

anotherpaulon Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife

Someone asked for the model you use but I am also curious how you handle ambiguous IDs. Not everything is clear cut especially when it comes to fungi and bugs.

Inaturalist uses second opinions what's your solution?

Edit: cool idea for the app btw, I always call inaturalist my Pokémon deck already so I think it's a nice new angle :)

anotherpaulon Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

What's the advantage over using Polars for the same task? It seems to me the natural competitor here and I vastly prefer the Polars syntax over SQL any day. So I was curious if I should try duckdb or stick with polars

anotherpaulon pf: Make af-to less magical

I appreciate your reply. Thank you.

I am using socat right now to achieve this translation but it is rather slow. So o hope a proper solution using tool might be more powerful. But it seems it requires at least a bit more networking insight than what I have at this moment. It's an opportunity to learn something new for me

Right now I simply rent a hetzner machine including a v4 ip to route the traffic to my V6 services.

anotherpaulon pf: Make af-to less magical

I did that with forwarding to another host but it's super slow (10 Mbit) on a cheap hetzner box. So I am looking for this functionality but faster

anotherpaulon pf: Make af-to less magical

Wait this looks interesting. I am a biologist so I might get the terminology wrong. Would this allow me to run a ipv4 to ipv6 and back service?

I got some services with only ipv6 addresses and want clients with only ipv4 (sadly still exists) to at least be able to reach them. So could I dedicate a machine to translating for them using this tool?

anotherpaulon Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables

I am speculating here but as it genomics data I assume it's information such as: gene count, epigenetic information (methylation, histones etc) Once you do 20k times a few post translational modifications you can come to a few columns quickly.

Usually this would be stored in a sparse long form though. So I might be wrong.

anotherpaulon Oh My Zsh adds bloat

I agree, I used omz a while now but I have since also realised that the features I uses are so basic, it really does not warrant a whole software project as a dependency.

So I went and had Gemini make me a zsh config with the features I actually use. Took 15 minutes to get all the autocompelte, aliases and search functionality and done.

anotherpaulon Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

Oh I hate it it's so brain rotty. Well done. Well done indeed.

anotherpaulon Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development

I don't quite understand: Instead of using the phones GPS to let me simply chat with people around me, which would be great during traveling or commute, I need to choose the place I chat at?

This seems super counter productive in my opinion. It creates way more friction that I want.

Maybe I want to save a location I have been to as a chatroom, sure but my primary interest would be to have my location determine the chat. So if I enter a university building: boom university chat. I enter Cern: boom Cern chat.

The hard part would be to not just use rectangles but actually make the shapes meaningful. I don't want to walk past a high school or live next to one and then be included in that chat. So yeah. Tricky

anotherpaulon Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development

One obvious feature would be to provide geo fenced Wikipedia or news feed.

Like what is the highest rated/longest Wikipedia article in the area.

Or maybe what's the 3 top radio stations and a link to them.

There is plenty of local content that Google does not surface

anotherpaulon Why I left iNaturalist

100% agree, I am still shocked that the models are not open sourced. It's the data from the community and I feel it goes very much against the spirit of the community to keep the machine learning part, which is very central to the app, so secret.

anotherpaulon CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally

As far as I understand they do try to keep the heat around for the next decompression. As of course they need it. But I could not find what type of heat storage they use. Ultimately they "only" seem to need to store it for 12h, right?

anotherpaulon Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice

Yes in figure 2 it's 3 mice, next figure 3 they also have 5 (panel e)

anotherpaulon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

That reminds me of this project: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7912-spiegelmining_reverse_engin...

Why screenshots and not copy the source?

anotherpaulon CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

While the paper is behind a pay wall, the abstract highlights that they used knock out gene editing, meaning this is not a GMO of the old days, with trans genes, but a mkdifcation one could have achieved with classical breeding if given enough time and resources.

If I understand this right, this would even in the EU now be allowed to be sold without the GMO label.

anotherpaulon CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

The paper linked in the article: https://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/abstract/S0167-779...

anotherpaulon Self-hosting my photos with Immich

Thank you, well put. thats why I am using next cloud and manual curation. Folders is the ultimate future proof structure. But I do see the value of a nice UI. But immich hides the files from me too much for my taste.

Although I am sure I can back them up to my PC somehow. But having them just on the server is not my favourite solution.

anotherpaulon Self-hosting my photos with Immich

So am I seeing this right:

Immich, ente and photoprism all compete in a similar space?

Seems immich is the most polished webpage, but which solution will become the next cloud for photos is to be seen. Surely it's not next cloud anymore, considering the comments here.

anotherpaulon A compact camera built using an optical mouse

The original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1olyu7r/i_made...

The video on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1olyzn6/i_made_...

anotherpaulon CUDA Ontology

Yes, this is the actual lived reality. Thank you for outlining it so well.