Hacker News Reader

starsepon Parking lots as economic drains

What is your city? What anti-car policies were implemented? Did city offer viable altenatives to driving?

Oh My Zsh adds bloat but sets sensible default settings compared to vanilla zsh. I tried using zsh without OMZ and I realized how many things are in OMZ which I took for granted, especially keybindings.

~150ms with minimal setup is good enough for me, although I would prefer <50ms.

starsepon OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

https://opencut.app/why-not-capcut

starsepon The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

https://xkcd.com/1070/

starsepon Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap

Another option is GeoDesk https://www.geodesk.com/

starsepon I Lost Faith in Kagi

I am Kagi subscriber because I think their search is great. I would like them to focus on it.

I don't care about closed-sourced browser nor their AI offering

starsepon Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix

Very cool. I will try it out as replacement of nix profile.

flox install/show/search in $HOME looks like way better UX

https://flox.dev/docs/tutorials/layering-multiple-environmen...

starsepon Cosine Implementation in C

This pattern holds in many bases:

1.0 1 1 1.4 12 21 2.111111111111111 123 321 3.020618556701031 1234 4321 4.002680965147453 12345 54321 5.000262295081967 123456 654321 6.000020444462617 1234567 7654321 7.000001321561743 12345678 87654321 8.0000000729 123456789 987654321 9.000000003504939 123456789a a987654321 10.00000000014928 123456789ab ba987654321 11.000000000005706 123456789abc cba987654321 12.000000000000197 123456789abcd dcba987654321 13.000000000000007 123456789abcde edcba987654321 14.0 123456789abcdef fedcba987654321

https://ideone.com/DvljON

starsepon OpenStreetMap but as terminal user interface (TUI) program

At the moment it's unreadable. Maybe using kitty protocol would allow for image better quality?

starsepon Signal Introduces Stories

I don't like stories but at least there is a way to opt-out. Many people do like them and expected them so it's understandable move

starsepon 3D OpenStreetMap

Only if there is no additional information. Most buildings have polygon on ground level and height/number of levels. It's possible to make more complex shapes

starsepon Mapping every QMS ad billboard in Sydney with OpenStreetMap

Billboards in the middle of a sidewalk? That's crazy

starsepon Where else in London are there pylons?

There are many solar plants not mapped due to lack of high quality, up-to-date aerial/satellite imagery, or volunteers. Germany is country mapped best, not necessarily having significant share of solar.

starsepon Show HN: Offline voice messages transcription in Signal Desktop

Great feature. Good luck with making it production ready and merging it upstream if you intend to do that :)

starsepon Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

Ads themselves might be fine to you (I disagree). Breaking privacy laws, spying on users, and dark patterns to trick user into "consent" is not.

starsepon Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

It was re-enabled for me as well. browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2 and datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled

starsepon In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°

In Warsaw, Poland Lubomirski Palace has been rotated using tracks in 1970.

Photo: https://bi.im-g.pl/im/7d/dc/10/z17680509IH,Przesuniecie-Pala...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubomirski_Palace,_Warsaw

starsepon Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

Startpage is a Google proxy. The Pirate Bay is filtered out there as well.

starsepon Wikidata

It's also used in OpenStreetMap - "Wikipedia for maps", referenced a lot lately on HN.

Main website: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ Wikidata tagging documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata

starsepon OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel without trackers or ads

I stopped using GMaps and I still don't think they are worthless. Some companies buy fake reviews, some use shady techniques such as free drink/appetizer for a review. In my experience so far those are exceptions, not standard. I think corelation between quality and GMaps average review score is quite high - at least for restaurants.

starsepon StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data

Great app :). I recommend it to my friends to introduce them to OpenStreetMap. Ease of use, good UX/UI is a game changer.

Those things matter a lot but most OSM Editors/Maps suck in this area. Usually it's caused by a design made by developers for other superusers.

starsepon Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers

I'm using it since their beta release in Google Play (in March?). It works very well for me, I like it much more than OSMAnd (which is slow and too complicated). I used MAPS.ME for a while but sponsored POIs, banking ads, tracking etc. was too much for me. Fortunately it's all gone in Organic Maps fork :)

starsepon Getting High-Speed Rail Wrong

OpenRailwayMap[0] is useful to see where High-Speed Rail has been built - choose Max speeds map style. It uses data from OpenStreetMap[1] - free (as in freedom) map edited by community in a Wikipedia fashion.

[0] https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/

starsepon Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

I also have never seen nor heard of a broken McD ice cream machine. I am also from Europe, Poland specifically.