Hacker News on Friday, 1 September 2023

Organic Maps(organicmaps.app)

1253 points by LeoPanthera 3 years ago | 454 comments

Homepage of Organic Maps, a free, open-source, privacy-focused offline maps app for Android and iOS based on OpenStreetMap and forked from Maps.me.

Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web(wavacity.com)

708 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 110 comments

Wavacity is a free, open-source port of the Audacity audio editor that runs in the web browser, shown here with a stereo waveform loaded.

Animated Knots(animatedknots.com)

588 points by zingerlio 3 years ago | 90 comments

Animated Knots by Grog is a website with animated step-by-step guides for tying knots for boating, fishing, climbing, scouting, ties, and surgery.

Doug Lenat has died(garymarcus.substack.com)

517 points by snewman 3 years ago | 144 comments

Gary Marcus's Substack obituary for AI researcher Doug Lenat (1950-2023), creator of the Cyc project, describing him as a giant of AI.

Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?(foundation.mozilla.org)

407 points by alabhyajindal 3 years ago | 128 comments

Mozilla Foundation campaign page asking Microsoft to clarify whether its new Service Agreement allows using personal data from its products to train AI.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)

337 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 309 comments

Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for September 2023 where companies post job openings, with rules on location, remote, and visa details.

Doing laundry on campus without a phone(naveenarun.wordpress.com)

277 points by barbarr 3 years ago | 392 comments

Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?

277 points by eimrine 3 years ago | 313 comments

Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline(leebutterman.com)

273 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 49 comments

X updates Terms to allow it to use data for AI training(stackdiary.com)

260 points by skilled 3 years ago | 211 comments

Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell(allthingsdistributed.com)

257 points by alexbilbie 3 years ago | 171 comments

Lidl Product Recall [pdf](lidl.co.uk)

242 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 105 comments

Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components(mux.com)

212 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 364 comments

A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet(electricui.com)

208 points by killcoder 3 years ago | 66 comments

ChangeDetection, monitor any website change(github.com)

207 points by serhack_ 3 years ago | 45 comments

Shining a light on the digital dark age(longnow.org)

205 points by weird_science 3 years ago | 118 comments

Why I’m betting on Nostr(hivemind.vc)

185 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 125 comments

Linear algebra for programmers(coffeemug.github.io)

164 points by coffeemug 3 years ago | 57 comments

Mashing Enter to bypass full disk encryption with TPM, Clevis dracut and systemd(pulsesecurity.co.nz)

160 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 112 comments

Becoming a contractor(ochagavia.nl)

160 points by wofo 3 years ago | 85 comments

Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?(reason.com)

157 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 105 comments

ARM wrestles assembly language guru's domains away, citing trademark issues(theregister.com)

154 points by torstenvl 3 years ago | 68 comments

Philosophy of Coroutines(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

152 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 49 comments

Thousands of octopuses gather off California to brood eggs at a warm spot(npr.org)

152 points by gmays 3 years ago | 78 comments

Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos(wired.com)

150 points by Anonboxis 3 years ago | 207 comments

Some flying robot behavior improvements(factorio.com)

136 points by vblanco 3 years ago | 37 comments

From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in Popular Art Movements(archdaily.com)

136 points by prismatic 3 years ago | 80 comments

Writing a bare-metal RISC-V application in D(zyedidia.github.io)

129 points by teleforce 3 years ago | 16 comments

Learning For Mastery (1968) [pdf](files.eric.ed.gov)

128 points by throwaway71271 3 years ago | 28 comments

A Duodecade of Numberphile(tandfonline.com)

121 points by mathgenius 3 years ago | 24 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Liquid Types(goto.ucsd.edu)

115 points by marvinborner 3 years ago | 65 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

114 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 239 comments

Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't(vitonsky.net)

113 points by vitonsky 3 years ago | 78 comments

The problem of creeping commercial surveillance (2022)(elnion.com)

113 points by dezb 3 years ago | 87 comments

Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style(justinobeirne.com)

112 points by cheeaun 3 years ago | 81 comments

Singapore in Colour(straitstimes.com)

105 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 61 comments

Internals of async / await in JavaScript(akashhamirwasia.com)

100 points by spacebuffer 3 years ago | 37 comments

AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are(marble.onl)

99 points by andy99 3 years ago | 112 comments

Space travel via tether between asteroids(blog.cerowrt.org)

97 points by osivertsson 3 years ago | 73 comments

Amateur astronomers spot new impact on Jupiter(space.com)

95 points by belter 3 years ago | 42 comments

BoTorch – Bayesian Optimization in PyTorch(botorch.org)

94 points by capableweb 3 years ago | 19 comments

California Forever(californiaforever.com)

91 points by grinich 3 years ago | 60 comments

The Glitch Gallery(glitchgallery.org)

91 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 10 comments

Explaining the Postgres iceberg(avestura.dev)

90 points by avestura 3 years ago | 17 comments

Killed by Google(killedbygoogle.com)

85 points by kickofline 3 years ago | 63 comments

Taking dietary supplements full of antioxidants could help cancerous tumors grow(studyfinds.org)

82 points by SirLJ 3 years ago | 47 comments

Can programming languages boost each other via instruction tuning?(arxiv.org)

82 points by og_kalu 3 years ago | 41 comments

The Janus System: Multi-Paradigm Programming in Prolog and Python(arxiv.org)

81 points by woolion 3 years ago | 9 comments

The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant(utcc.utoronto.ca)

81 points by ingve 3 years ago | 121 comments

Optimizing Postgres's autovacuum for high-churn tables(tembo.io)

80 points by chuckhend 3 years ago | 25 comments

Indian Influences on Rastafarianism(kb.osu.edu)

78 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 24 comments

Total Commander(ghisler.com)

78 points by ossusermivami 3 years ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Merge – Connect Google Wear OS to Apple iOS(merge.watch)

76 points by urip 3 years ago | 15 comments

Patterns with Rust Types(shuttle.rs)

76 points by mre 3 years ago | 30 comments

A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History(smithsonianmag.com)

74 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 51 comments

Why Is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?(krebsonsecurity.com)

73 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 60 comments

Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics(theregister.com)

72 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 24 comments

Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations(github.com)

70 points by mimseyedi 3 years ago | 14 comments

U.S. Department of Defense Launches All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Website(defense.gov)

70 points by me_smith 3 years ago | 48 comments

The Practical Effects Wizardry of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves(stanwinstonschool.com)

69 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 10 comments