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Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps

https://oldinsurancemaps.net/
1•lapetitejort•1h ago

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lapetitejort•1h ago
Sanborn Fire Insurance maps document cities in extreme detail. Not only are the positions and shapes of buildings accurately mapped, but also rough outlines of the rooms, their construction materials, and even small details like if the building hired a night watchman. See downtown San Fracisco for example: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/viewer/san-francisco-ca/?sanbor...

Database Recovery Demystified: Understanding Aries from First Principles

https://yashagw.github.io/blog/db-recovery/
1•SouravInsights•1m ago•0 comments

Private Prisons Sued the State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/how-private-prisons-sued-the-state
4•williesmellson•4m ago•1 comments

Why A.I. Can't Make Thoughtful Decisions

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/ai-human-judgment.html
1•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

'Garden of Eden': the Spanish farm growing citrus you've never heard of

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/16/garden-of-eden-the-spanish-farm-growing-citru...
1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What happens when AI coding crosses the human dev threshold

1•my10thhnaccount•6m ago•0 comments

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
1•kyledrake•7m ago•0 comments

Go motion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_motion
1•exvi•7m ago•0 comments

US carrier strike group is now in the Middle East region, sources say

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/middleeast/iran-carrier-strike-group-indian-ocean-intl
1•Bender•8m ago•0 comments

Let the Chinese Cars In

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/let-the-chinese-cars-in
2•paulpauper•8m ago•0 comments

Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/americas/venezuela-phone-search-crackdown-free-speech-latam-intl
2•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Amazon Salon (2021)

https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/retail/introducing-amazon-salon
1•divbzero•11m ago•0 comments

Notetaking Is Life Changing

https://punkto.org/blog/write_it_down
1•Curiositry•11m ago•0 comments

Theoretical study of laser-enhanced nuclear fusion reactions – EurekAlert

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1113364
1•bilsbie•13m ago•0 comments

The AI privacy settings you need to change

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/22/ai-privacy-settings-chatgpt-gemini-claude-co...
1•reaperducer•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gallagher Security Python SDK and Tools

https://github.com/anomaly/gallagher
1•devmukherjee•20m ago•0 comments

The discrepancy between developers satisfied and dissatisfied with AI

https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-reasons-for-the-big-discrepancy-between-satisfied-vs-dissatis...
1•Curiositry•20m ago•0 comments

Slim Chance for Permanent Weight Loss (2018)

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-40989-001.html
1•paulpauper•20m ago•0 comments

Taming Claude Code

https://thisalex.com/posts/claude-taming/
1•indeyets•20m ago•0 comments

Physical Tesla Buttons Retrofit for Model 3 and Y – Installation Tutorial [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVZsnxXAQE
1•fenced_load•21m ago•0 comments

I Track Space Debris as It Crashes to Earth

https://nautil.us/i-track-space-debris-as-it-crashes-to-earth-1263197/
1•Bender•22m ago•0 comments

Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

https://www.upworthy.com/gen-z-technology-schools
3•myth_drannon•22m ago•1 comments

All-in-one console with PS5, Xbox Series X, & Switch 2 in a single system

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/modder-builds-all-in-one-console-with-ps5...
1•gnabgib•23m ago•0 comments

Nearly 20 years ago, the makers of Age of Empires tried to make a Halo MMO

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/nearly-20-years-ago-the-makers-of-age-of-empires-tried-to-make-...
1•HardwareLust•24m ago•1 comments

Meta blocks posts sharing database of ICE agents

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/meta-blocks-sharing-database-ice-00750449
3•rurp•25m ago•0 comments

WhyFi

https://twitter.com/jamespotter/status/2014977962890936523
1•drpancake•26m ago•0 comments

Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet (2014)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/
2•sonicrocketman•26m ago•1 comments

Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby's Poisoning?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/did-a-celebrated-researcher-obscure-a-fatal-poisoning
1•littlexsparkee•27m ago•0 comments

There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/theres-a-rash-of-scam-spam-coming-from-a-r...
2•jnord•28m ago•0 comments

Tech companies and those who work for them have a decision to make

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-lines-have-been-drawn
2•megamike•28m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Using machine learning to detect steganography

https://www.khao2.com
1•oding•29m ago•0 comments