Top 29 stories from Hacker News. Top 10 include comment highlights. Compiled at 20:11 UTC.
548 points by kls0e · 126 comments
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wafflemaker: I was once on a trip in Åndalsness, one of the most scenic places in Norway. Fjords, mountains, you know it. On the walk to our cabin, a little outside of town, I was checking something on OSM, might have been just learning to use it and read it (it has some learning curve when s...
lapetitejort: I got into OSM and StreetComplete to flesh out intersections, stop signs, and sidewalks in my area. I always felt like I was doing something wrong though. I created crosswalks, then OSM would prompt me to connect the crosswalk to the road via a crossing.
aweb: I discovered that recently, it's a very fun way to contribute to OpenStreetMap, and the UI is really well-done, it's totally beginner friendly! I wish there was a way to do more than labeling though, like add simple roads and footpaths
ryandrake: Is https://keepright.at still a thing? That used to be my go-to site when I was bored and wanted to find things to fix in OSM. No matter how much you fix, it seems that when you go back to that site, there seem to always be tons of stuff flagged for fixing.
420 points by miroljub · 189 comments
With a procedural trick, proponents in the EU Parliament are pushing for reactivation of indiscriminate scans of chat messages shortly before the summer break.
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belowavgiq: "The procedure now chosen gives the proponents of Chat Control a significant tactical advantage. Since the law is in its second reading, an absolute majority of 361 votes of all parliament members is required for amendments or a renewed rejection on Thursday.
iamnothere: From a post on Mastodon: > democracy is when you repeatedly push for unpopular laws until they pass, and the more times you do it the more democratic it is It is unlikely that 60 additional “no” votes can be found by Thursday to stop this.
golem14: Heinrich Heine, 1848 (Vormai) penned this: "Memories from Krähwinkels days of terror" (my translation - the original is of course leages better) We, Burgomaster and Senate, Are hereby proclaiming this mandate, With great paternal care addressed To all classes, east an...
rollulus: “We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
408 points by speckx · 266 comments
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wccrawford: Alternatively, 98% is plenty. If your business plan requires you to capitalize on more than 98% of the market, it's already a failure. It'll never happen. As always, it's an "it depends" situation.
nemo1618: After Christmas this year, I removed the tree from our living room, and in the process of being moved, it shed of needles everywhere. I swept them up, but I missed a few areas on my first pass.
MatekCopatek: While I agree with the general sentiment, the problem here isn't developers not being familiar with statistics, it's the simple fact all of this is profit driven most of the time. I tried to purchase tickets for an event last week.
phailhaus: The broader point is that percentages can be misleading, and are often because of that. It makes things sound better. But usually, the more accurate thing to do is use odds-notation ("1 in 50" instead of 98%).
386 points by bauc · 386 comments
Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs
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ndiddy: I think we'll see stuff like this continue to happen over time. As a game company, having your own engine means that you have to be able to cultivate internal expertise in your tooling.
LarsDu88: Microsoft, one the world's greatest monopolists, bequeaths a game engine monopoly unto Epic Games, in one the biggest corporate blunders of all time. If they were smarter about this, they would commoditize their compliment and open source the Doom The Dark Ages engine just like J...
Grombobulous: It’s painful to watch this because the recipe for success at Microsoft is so obvious. They’ve just been fumbling the ball for so many years that it’s catching up to them. And the thing is they’re not unprofitable.
eightysixfour: There's no real evidence in here that the IDTech team or the "coders" were specifically let go. I'm not saying it didn't happen but the article is just raging at the idea of it happening without presenting any evidence of it.
377 points by surprisetalk · 141 comments
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wccrawford: I did this for a while after seeing that video, but after some of my shorts ended up tightening into a knot that I couldn't get loose easily, I gave up on it. I instead just use the "Ian Knot" that I use to tie my shoes.
johschmitz: Reminds me of the granny knot "advice" which I also saw on hackernews for the first time many years ago and which changed my live: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.
SoftTalker: Life is too short to make simple things more complicated.
wffurr: Per the video description, this is a Lapp Knot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapp_knot, sadly not animated by Grog.
263 points by plurby · 183 comments
A free, fair-source Chrome extension that filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon search results.
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advisedwang: This says it's using AmazonBrandFilter's list of brands. Why would we use/support this chrome extension instead of the upstream one [1] which is actually doing the important maintanance task? "Knockoff" seems to be literally describing itself. [1] https://chromewebstore.google.
BeetleB: I should check my purchase history, but I probably use Amazon more for buying stuff that they would classify as a "Knockoff", but isn't (i.e. there is no established brand they are knocking off). Because for legitimate brands, I try to simply buy elsewhere.
kjellsbells: Cuts two ways. Why should I pay $200 for a BigBrand dog bed if this knockoff site shows SHRDLU has the same thing for $40? We all know that BigBrand gets it from the same supplier.
gortok: I worked for a hardware startup ten years ago now, and a big problem that was rampant at the time (and seemingly has only gotten worse) is that basically the Contract Manufacturers (CMs) in China take the BOMs and plans they’re given, and since they already have the molds, the sa...
219 points by gasull · 61 comments
What is the difference between Chat Control 1.0 and Chat Control 2.0? A clear overview of both EU laws, their timelines, and where things stand today.
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mikaeluman: Most everyone would love to see more work on stopping child sexual abuse. But this is the ultimate "grant me dictatorial powers so I can do good" play. Rather than narrow and specific - it's a broad based law that suddenly touches everyone even though offenders are a small percen...
Zufriedenheit: They claim to protect consumers and privacy and then push this creepy surveillance state.
arjie: I don't understand. How does it affect encrypted messages? It seems like either you need: 1. allow MITM decryption by a privileged authority 2. require all devices doing E2EE have a non-user-modifiable piece of functionality to scan on-device The second is the Apple style on-devi...
delichon: To be fair, this is even worse. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/07/european-parli... The party that they want to ban is a consistent and loud opponent of chat control.
199 points by notmcrowley · 36 comments
A curated reading list of foundational AI and deep learning papers, hosted in full with plain-language explanations of difficult terms.
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HAL3000: Someone posts on X, "These are Ilya’s 30 papers", gives no source, doesn't say where he got it from, and isn't connected to either Ilya or Carmack (Ilya gave him the list).
jackp96: So the styling and animation work looks really cool (when isolated), but they distract from the content itself, IMO. I think it'd work better if you featured the animated background effect toward the top of the page and shifted toward static graphics (or much subtler animations)...
clintonc: I wish this were organized according to suggested/logical reading order. For example, the paper introducing the attention mechanism probably ought to precede "attention is all you need".
eachro: Anyone got a list for the agentic LLM age?
175 points by randycupertino · 198 comments
The 69-year-old helped companies secure valuable contracts in exchange for money, a court heard.
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Danox: The antifreeze toothpaste people didn’t get away with it, nor did the 3000 pigs in the river people, and nor did that one group of executives who were in charge of a fertilizer/chemical plant that was one of the largest industrial catastrophes in the world let alone China.
TrackerFF: I sometimes see people "celebrate" this, with the rationale that China is cracking down on white-collar crimes and handing out sentences unheard of in the west. But, are these sort of things just examples of selective prosecution? Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership...
amai: China doesn't sentence official to death for genocide against Uyghurs
kdamica: Doesn't hold a candle to the scale of Heshen's crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heshen
103 points by saikatsg · 23 comments
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
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Princesseuh: I made the Rust compiler and the Rust Markdown pipeline (https://satteri.bruits.org) in this, let me know if you have any questions, glad to answer anything!
matsemann: I probably only use 1 % of Astro's features, but I like how it's enabled me to build static sides as back in the days, but with a build pipeline. So I can use components, reuse stuff, include stuff etc, basically what I would do with PHP back in the days, but now it spits out a c...
pier25: It's very cool to see the JS ecosystem reducing dependencies and I hope this trend continues. Astro has gone from 247 deps in v6 to 190 in v7. https://node-modules.dev/#[email protected] https://node-modules.dev/#[email protected]
microflash: The switch to strict HTML compilation is just not cool, and actively prevents upgrading sites which need to deal with remote content that is not written in strict HTML. I also wish there could be a general purpose content processing API so I can plug a different format than markd...
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