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Show HN: Red Grid MGRS – Open-Source DAGR-Class GPS Navigator for iPhone

https://github.com/RedGridTactical/RedGridMGRS
1•redgridtactical•1h ago
The military's DAGR GPS receiver costs $2,500 and weighs a pound. I built an open-source alternative that runs on your iPhone — live 10-digit MGRS coordinates, magnetic declination, waypoint navigation, 8 tactical tools, and 6 radio-ready report templates (SALUTE, 9-Line MEDEVAC, SPOT).

React Native / Expo, ~15k lines of JS, fully offline, zero tracking. Location data never leaves memory.

Free on the App Store with an optional $9.99 Pro upgrade. Would love feedback on the UX, the MGRS math, or anything else — still actively developing.

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redgridtactical•1h ago
I wrote the MGRS conversion from scratch using the DMA Technical Manual 8358.1 rather than pulling in a library. The trickiest part was handling the Norway/Svalbard UTM zone exceptions and getting the 100km square letter cycling right. Happy to walk through any of the math if anyone's curious.

Most of the AI software YC companies are coming out with doesn't work

1•somethingtoday•23s ago•0 comments

Minimally invasive optical clearing media: live cell imaging ex vivo and in vivo

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-026-03023-y
1•bookofjoe•24s ago•0 comments

Overthinking

https://kerkour.com/overthinking
1•randomint64•1m ago•0 comments

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai
1•evah•1m ago•0 comments

$3 AliExpress Heart Rate and Oxygen Sensor Module

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OV5aCOnXBA
1•iamflimflam1•3m ago•0 comments

Trump call for Japan to send warships to Strait of Hormuz puts Takaichi in bind

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/15/japan/politics/trump-hormuz-strait-japan-takaichi/
2•mikhael•5m ago•1 comments

Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

https://hanseungwook.github.io/blog/nca-pre-pre-training/
2•shmublu•9m ago•0 comments

UK to Allow "Plug in" Solar

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure
2•edent•10m ago•0 comments

Don't Call It a Moat

https://twitter.com/yrechtman/status/2031770436309029227
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Block Number Formats are (Still!) Direction Preservers

https://constantinides.net/2026/03/15/block-number-formats-are-still-direction-preservers/
1•matt_d•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nom – A public feed of your GitHub activity, auto-summarized

https://nomit.dev/
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Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data

https://zzk273.github.io/LATENT/
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Couplit: Daily coupled word-shuffle puzzle

https://couplit.io/
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Ask HN: How do you handle personal finance without giving data to third parties?

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MLX: CUDA

https://ml-explore.github.io/mlx/build/html/install.html#cuda
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How come we play war and not peace?

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2026/03/15
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Migrating from Server Actions to oRPC in Next.js

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Apple Account Phishing Attempt with Audio

https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
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PromptPacksHQ; Structured prompt templates for business, job search, and fitness

https://promptpackshq.com/
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Purity Spiral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_spiral
1•futurecat•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BurnShot v2- Zero-Knowledge image sharing (Challenge to decrypt this)

1•axaysharma•20m ago•0 comments

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

https://blog.zuthof.nl/2023/06/02/what-makes-intel-optane-stand-out/
2•walterbell•23m ago•0 comments

Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager

https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
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Show HN: Run Claude Code in a Local Sandbox

https://github.com/instavm/coderunner
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Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/14/meta-and-google-trial-are-infinite-scroll-and-...
4•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

StatGPT: The Dangers of Asking AI about Statistics

https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/13/statgpt-the-dangers-of-asking-ai-about-statistics/
1•gotmedium•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SysUpdate – Universal Linux package manager updater

https://github.com/RossContino1/SysUpdate
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Branch Prediction

https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
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https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20260301-A-Month-With-OpenAIs-Codex
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Standing Rock, Local News Is Teetering

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/standing-rock-local-news-teetering-teton-lakota-times-sioux-native-i...
1•Tomte•35m ago•0 comments