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Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
1•jbegley•2m ago•0 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•9m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
1•PaulHoule•11m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
1•y1n0•12m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
1•tolerance•13m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•13m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•19m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•20m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•24m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•25m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•26m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...
3•bundie•31m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763
3•gnabgib•32m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•36m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
2•y1n0•37m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
4•calebhwin•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•57m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•57m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
2•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•1h ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•1h ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
4•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

https://wigle.net/index
62•dp-hackernews•4mo ago

Comments

jjkaczor•4mo ago
Man - I loved this "back-in-the-day", uh... 23-years ago...
edm0nd•4mo ago
I still go around and war drive and upload em to WiGLE!

They make it really easy now. They even have an app you can download on your phone and just open up while driving and start logging and then it just uploads it to WiGLE when you hit stop.

supportengineer•4mo ago
I believe that is Android-only
edm0nd•4mo ago
Yup. I bought a refurb'd Pixel 7 Pro off eBay for $250 and installed it on there and just throw it in the car when I'm driving around.
adastra22•4mo ago
Why would you do this?
jjkaczor•4mo ago
Well - back then, it was "new and shiny" - now, I haven't done it myself the intervening decades.

If you are interested in radio/security, I could see it being an on-going thing. Myself, I rarely uploaded to WiGLE (just used it to peruse regions that were "unmapped") - but, these were also back in the "before-times" when ubiquitous cell network data connectivity was expensive - so, I did my mapping using an offline version of Microsoft MapPoint with NetStumbler on my laptop in combination with a VBScript interface I wrote that would drive MapPoint and visually display findings.

After posting this yesterday - I checked WiGLE for my home and office wifi networks - which have been around with the same SSID for 5+ years and they are not listed, so not many people are actively wardriving these days.

But - like any hobby, there are always a few people in the "long-tail".

adastra22•4mo ago
What I mean is, you are actively choosing to collect and make available data that can be used to track people, to hack people, to deanonymize users, and even to harm others. This is literally crowdsourced spying on your neighbors. Why participate?
edm0nd•4mo ago
because it's nerdy fun
acka•4mo ago
I feel you... Running NetStumbler as well as some other tools such as Kismet on a laptop using an Orinoco Wi-Fi PCMCIA card with special firmware / drivers which offered 'Monitor Mode', those were the days...
nunobrito•4mo ago
Thank you for sharing. Didn't knew it.
xd1936•4mo ago
See also: https://beacondb.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895672

move-on-by•4mo ago
If you want to be excluded from this - as well as from: Google, Microsoft, Apple lists- you have to add ‘_nomap’ to the end of your wifi name.
eigencoder•4mo ago
I thought it was _optout_nomap (the _optout for Microsoft, _nomap for Google/Apple)
move-on-by•4mo ago
Hmm... I was under the impression that MS had added support for `_nomap` as well somewhere... but now I'm not finding any references to that. I suppose at the end of the day, you have to trust that they even follow their opt out policy at all.
baby_souffle•4mo ago
And you'd probably have to rotate out the MAC address and broadcast name. At this point, cat is out of the bag. I'm brand new network name and Mac address with the opt-out flags is only going to keep you out of the honest databases :(
skowalak•4mo ago
A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net . Since Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good alternative for geolocation and they are public domain. Unfortunately, data dumps are currently not available, though.
eliaspro•4mo ago
The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their endpoint to continue working.
Havoc•4mo ago
Looking at areas I'm familiar with this is picking up a ton of non-fixed APs - in fact more mobile than fixed. Guessing that's cellphones with tethering on?
typpilol•4mo ago
I've done wigle for a while

A ton of it is cars with built in hotspots. The other is mobile hotspots left on while on the highway.