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OpenAPI Isn't Enough

https://www.alexstephen.me/writing/openapi-isnt-enough/
1•rambleraptor•19s ago•0 comments

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_A0g1a_qMPKlnITH_2MrETt56Egtpn06pe9CyarPb7l_DhltBP9TmtFS...
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

The work of sleep doesn't depend on time

https://blog.affectablesleep.com/p/the-hidden-work-of-sleep-doesnt-depend
1•pedalpete•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semi-private chat with Gemini from your computer

https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/semi_private_chat
1•dwa3592•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ralph2Ralph

https://github.com/eqtylab/real-a2a
1•ramoz•3m ago•0 comments

Richard D. James interviews ex Korg engineer Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180719052026/http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-ta...
1•lelandfe•5m ago•3 comments

Our take on the best Firefox-based browsers for top privacy and customization

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/our-honest-take-on-the-best-firefox-based-web-browsers-for-...
1•elliot_a•6m ago•0 comments

Some super-smart dogs can pick up new words just by eavesdropping

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/science/gifted-dogs-learn-words-overhearing-intl-scli
1•breve•7m ago•0 comments

It's the little things that change your life, really: combining ChatGPT+DocuSign

https://app.yanna.pro/welcome/1
1•abemazak•7m ago•0 comments

Docker Releases Hardened Images for Free – What Does It Do Differently?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/240-devops/18579-docker-releases-hardened-images-for-free-what...
1•aquastorm•7m ago•0 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18/mcs.pdf
1•nateb2022•8m ago•0 comments

How Terminals Work

https://how-terminals-work.vercel.app/
1•gnodar•8m ago•0 comments

App for Prayer Reminders

https://prayminder.com/
1•marysminefnuf•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NPM CLI tool for SEO analysis with AI-powered competitor insights

https://github.com/BrunoQuaresma/seoq
1•bquaresma•11m ago•0 comments

On Cloudflare

https://indiscretemusings.substack.com/p/on-cloudflare
1•madars•11m ago•0 comments

Being a Scrapy Engineer

https://patys.dev/being-a-sc/
1•patys•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite AI Generated Logos

https://durable.co/ai-logo-generator
1•rookhack•13m ago•1 comments

Richard D. James interviews ex. Korg engineer Tatsuya Takahashi (2020)

https://warp.net/editorial/richard-d-james-speaks-to-tatsuya-takahashi
1•lelandfe•15m ago•0 comments

Researchers seek better, safer alternatives to current opioid drugs

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-safer-alternatives-current-opioid-drugs.html
1•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Minimalist LLM Grammar Checker for macOS

https://github.com/harentius/GrammifyAI
1•harentius1•17m ago•0 comments

Templates still matter in an AI-first workflow

https://dsmurrell.com/articles/templates-ai
1•dsmurrell•18m ago•1 comments

What Happened to WebAssembly

https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/
1•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

SQL Studio

https://sql.studio/
1•handfuloflight•20m ago•0 comments

Tsubame Industries- Archax (a giant robot that can be boarded)

https://tsubame-hi.com/en/products/archax/
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LLMs as Judges: Measuring Bias, Hinting Effects, and Tier Preferences

https://substack.com/inbox/post/182822344
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Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs

https://lwn.net/Articles/970907/
2•weinzierl•28m ago•0 comments

Topology-Aware Machine Learning Enables Better Graph Classification

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/machine-learning-classification-topology-aware-enables-better-graph/
2•bryanrasmussen•29m ago•1 comments

The Rise of the Self-Serve Blood Test

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/well/function-health-blood-tests.html
1•brandonb•29m ago•2 comments

Designing viral video hooks before recording anything

https://vect.pro/#/signup?continue=%2Fapp%2Ftools%3Ftool%3DViral+Video+Blueprint
2•yevdduwi•31m ago•4 comments

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-court-blocks-samsung-from-tracking-tv-viewin...
9•speckx•31m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser

https://bikemap.nyc/
106•freemanjiang•1d ago
Each moving arrow represents one real bike ride out of 291 million, and if you've ever taken a Citi Bike before, you are included in this massive visualization!

You can search for your ride using Cmd + K and your Citi Bike receipt, which should give you the time of your ride and start/end station.

Everything is open source: https://github.com/freemanjiang/bikemap

Some technical details: - No backend! Processed data is stored in parquet files on a Cloudflare CDN, and queried directly by DuckDB WASM

- deck.gl w/ Mapbox for GPU-accelerated rendering of thousands of concurrent animated bikes

- Web Workers decode polyline routes and do as much precomputation as possible off the main thread

- Since only (start, end) station pairs are provided, routes are generated by querying OSRM for the shortest path between all 2,400+ station pairs

Comments

ge96•23h ago
How was the data gathered? They just publicly show the bike's locations?
RIMR•23h ago
https://bikemap.nyc/about
ge96•23h ago
That's cool it actually came from citibike
netsharc•18h ago
They show a bike at a location, if it's rented it will disappear off the map, if it's "returned" (available to hire again) it will show back up on the map, but at a different location.

So "represents one real bike ride" is... I guess a lawyer would say technically true.

I was recording similar location data of a Car2Go-like service for a year or two some years ago, I realize considering they charge rentals by the minute, I could estimate how much they earn by analyzing how long the cars disappear for.

IvoCrnkovic•23h ago
I've seen many visualizations of the citibike data over the years, this is one of the most charismatic for sure!
nadis•22h ago
+1 to this comment! I used to work in this space and have similarly seen many projects and professional attempts at visualizing this kind of trip data.

This is beautifully done!

freemanjiang•22h ago
Thank you so much! That means a lot.
wiredfool•23h ago
Interesting that citibike publishes trip level data. The bike share schemes in Dublin only publish station counts or free bike locations. So you can see the overall pattern of bike motion, but there’s no way to see how many north side trips go to the docks vs Heuston station vs the city center.
jeffbee•21h ago
All of the Lyft-operated systems in America publish this kind of data at least monthly.
7777777phil•23h ago
This is just so cool! Not much more to add. Thanks a lot for sharing!! Great work :)
leros•22h ago
How is MapBox going for this free tool? Is it costing you money?
freemanjiang•22h ago
It definitely will if it blows up more. I'm willing to eat it for now because I think it's art that more people should see!
leros•18h ago
It is very cool art!
timeisapear•17h ago
Is MapLibre GL a cheaper (free?) open source alternative?

Cool stuff btw. I’m trying to visualize weather model data myself (millions of points) at https://futureradar.net and have been researching client-side techniques like yours.

gnfargbl•22h ago
It's often interesting to observe the different ways that privacy is approached in the US and Europe.

In Europe we often accept pretty grave restrictions of our liberty like the UK's Online Safety Act, which would never fly in the US, and we do so without much public comment.

On the other side of things, organisations in the US happily expose datasets like this one, which would give a most EU Data Protection Officers a heart attack, and nobody bats an eyelid.

freemanjiang•22h ago
In Lyft's defense, they are providing it anonymized under the NYCBS Data Use Policy. They also aren't providing the exact GPS routes, which is why OSRM is used to calculate the shortest path instead.
jeffbee•21h ago
I don't see anything problematic about start-end pairs from one public facility to another.
tennysont•17h ago
This data is mandated by NYC law: https://intro.nyc/local-laws/2015-99

I've heard that releasing these sorts of data sets help competitors do market research, and thus mitigates "winner takes all" forces. NYC also tends to be fairly pro-public-datasets: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?%3BsortBy=most_accessed...

chem83•22h ago
Relevant callout from https://bikemap.nyc/about:

* Limitations *

The data only contains the start and end station for each trip, but does not contain the full path. Route geometries are computed for each (start station, end station) pair using the shortest path from OSRM.

This means that the computed routes are directionally correct but inexact. Trips that start and end at the same station are filtered out since the route geometry is ambiguous.

kyleee•17h ago
Hmm, definitely too bad. Essentially fictional
jotaen•11h ago
This limitation comes with more interesting implications: e.g., I noticed that some bike trips are noticeably slower than average. For those I’d assume that the rider either took a detour or made a stop in between. The animation, however, makes it appear as if it was a very slow ride. Maybe worth considering to filter out all rides that are essentially walking speed or slower.

It also would be interesting to learn how many rides had been excluded altogether, just to put things into perspective.

freemanjiang•3h ago
Yeah there is a filter between 1.2 and 20 mph
big_toast•22h ago
non corrupted github link: https://github.com/freeman-jiang/bikemap.nyc

Cool visualization.

Do you find the OSRM shortest path routes probable for bikes? Not living in NYC, I expected pretty different paths. Say the "Hudson River Greenway" or whatever that's called.

jdlyga•21h ago
I really wish Lyft invested in maintenance. I used Citibike this week for the first time in about a year, and the Hudson River Greenway dock by NY Waterway had 1/3 of its empty docks broken with flashing red lights, then about 5 ebikes that needed service.
crazygringo•19h ago
Are you sure that wasn't the "staggered" bike dock? It forces you to dock in the rear row if the neighboring two front row spaces are free. This is to fit more bikes. The blinking red docks aren't broken. They're intentionally unavailable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/comments/v457x0/9_...

Also, the 5 e-bikes probably didn't need "service", they were just waiting for battery swaps. This is by design. The docks don't charge them.

CitiBike maintenance is generally fine. They're not leaving any significant number of broken bikes or docks. I think you may have just misunderstood how it works.

rorylawless•20h ago
This is awesome. I had no idea Lyft publishes ride data, time to explore the DC version!
wxw•19h ago
Awesome work!
frakkingcylons•18h ago
this is really nice. One request: when searching for a station name, let me type "and" instead of "&" e.g. typing "E 47th St and 2 Ave" would still return "E 47th & 2 Ave".
lazarus01•18h ago
Cool project. Thanks for sharing!

The link above points to a 404 error page on GitHub. Looks like you forgot the hyphen in the name part of the url.

I’m working with subway data, particularly the A subway line, 32 mi long with about 2million trips over 6 months across 66 stations. Trying to train a convlstm to learn the spatiotemporal propagation of train headways.

pimlottc•16h ago
It says “entire history” but seems to start at Jan 1, 2025?
mattmm11•2h ago
This is now top of my list as one of my favorite data visualizations I've ever seen. I remember spending some time with data for Capital Bikeshare data in DC, which was also public at one point, though looks like it only goes through 2016: https://capitalbikeshare.com/system-data. Would love to see the Lime/Bird version of this. Thanks for sharing.