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The SDLC Was Designed for Humans

https://yusufaytas.com/the-sdlc-was-designed-for-humans
3•ticsay•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paycoinly WordPress Plugin

https://github.com/Paycoinly-Tech/wordpress
1•paycoinly•5m ago•0 comments

MCP-warden local credential broker so AI agents never see your secrets

1•ermoluk•6m ago•2 comments

Chinese PCB Maker Dongshan Raises $1.3B in HK Listing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-25/chinese-manufacturer-dongshan-raises-1-3-billi...
1•snikolaev•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude optimizes mel-band roformer to run 4x faster on Mac

https://github.com/aipdv/fast-melroformer
1•pradachan•8m ago•0 comments

Viktor Orbán, U.N. Secretary-General?

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban-u-n-secretary-general-china-russia-us-d968fcaf
1•bushwart•10m ago•1 comments

BIMCraft

https://github.com/IPedrax/BIMCraft
1•Oarch•12m ago•1 comments

Demystifying SynthID-Text

https://computejunkie.substack.com/p/watermarking-text-from-first-principles
1•ell-hol•14m ago•0 comments

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291
2•fodmap•15m ago•0 comments

Categorization and Language Interfere with Normativity and Perception of Reality

https://tidsskrift.dk/lev/article/view/167528/208568
1•bryanrasmussen•16m ago•1 comments

How integers should work (in systems programming languages)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/642
1•fanf2•22m ago•0 comments

Should engineering leaders still code?

https://rizwaniqbal.com/posts/engineering-leadership-and-coding/
2•riz1•23m ago•0 comments

Who Is AI Native Foundation (AINF)?

https://ainativefoundation.org/who-we-are/
1•Bluestein•25m ago•0 comments

Warming Stripes Screensaver

https://karaman.is/blog/2026/10/stripes-screensaver
1•giuliomagnifico•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deepswapp Browser: browser the browser with another browser

https://deepswapp.com
1•pancsta•29m ago•0 comments

Ollama adds local text-to-speech, 100x faster than real time on Apple Silicon

https://ollama.com/blog/speech-models
1•abdullahalharir•30m ago•0 comments

Series of Tubes – Build the Internet, One Tube at a Time

https://seriesoftub.es/
1•phineyes•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rewrite, a free editor that rewrites text and edits Word, LaTeX and PDF

https://samratduttaofficial.github.io/Rewrite/
1•TheDutta•31m ago•0 comments

Aivs – The AI Video Studio

https://yapern.com/blog/aivs-the-ai-video-studio/
1•andrewfromx•32m ago•0 comments

Rada – A safe harbor for your files (terminal file manager in Rust)

https://github.com/FormikaDesk/rada-fm
1•Alessandro4694•36m ago•0 comments

A Brave New World (Of AI)

https://shahruk.com/blog/2026-10-22-brave-new-world/
1•Shahruk•38m ago•0 comments

Requests, Please

https://morronel.github.io/requests_please/
1•sysoleg•40m ago•0 comments

Researchers Pinpoint the Exact Location of First Ever Photo of a Human

https://petapixel.com/2026/10/22/researchers-pinpoint-the-exact-location-of-first-ever-photo-of-a...
1•asphodele•43m ago•0 comments

Building DuckDB's Community Extensions, Faster and More Consistently

https://query.farm/blog/duckdb-community-extensions-distribution/
1•vpmadd52huq•43m ago•0 comments

Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh7930
1•pingou•44m ago•0 comments

What If My Mum Can Build It Too?

https://justincampbellplatt.com/blog/personal-software
1•moodmanipulator•45m ago•1 comments

Increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace

https://allenai.org/blog/olmotrace
1•Bluestein•46m ago•1 comments

I don't know if this page explains why the product exists

https://durabl.dev
1•andrecasal•46m ago•1 comments

What an agentic SDLC needs beyond coding assistants

1•joshua_dyson•46m ago•0 comments

Two AI Chipmakers Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-earnings-boom-is-heavily-reliant-on-just-a-handful-of-stoc...
1•thm•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

https://blocks.manifold3d.ch/
78•theanonymousone•1h ago

Comments

mehwoot•47m ago
I guess the map is the territory
4ggr0•40m ago
almost want to download this just so that i can put furniture into the apartment i live in :D nice project.
koziserek•15m ago
I assure you will be better served with SweetHome3d

BTW, claude can output sh3d for you if you feed it with pdf containing floor plan, half of struggle removed, fun part (re)designing the house layout easily kicked-off!

4ggr0•2m ago
sh3d seems like an actual CAD-like tool to actually plan your furniture. what i find fun about this minecraft map is to make my actual home my base in the game, try to make it looo like my home and then just play minecraft while exploring the surroundings i know already.

then again, every building is white and basic, so not that nice for sightseeing.

then again, i could blow up my annoying neighbors house with a couple of TNT blocks (in minecraft!)

ShadowOfThePit•38m ago
Funky stuff, nice use of government data.

It would be fascinating to see how my house and town is rendered in-game. Unfortunately, the full map costs 15 CHF o_O

> For legal reasons I sell all of Switzerland only to people who live in Switzerland.

Why tho? Something about the data itself, or because you don't want to bother with international purchases?

wmanley•16m ago
> Unfortunately, the full map costs 15 CHF o_O

Yeah, that’s a travesty. To be authentically Swiss it should cost at least 150 CHF.

amiga386•12m ago
Perhaps the description of its file format is 150 CHF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for...

evrimoztamur•31m ago
It's not the most pleasant that you get the constructed buildings embedded into the map as crappy voxel approximations. Would be sweeter to have the terrain only. Also, total LLM goop.
herbst•28m ago
That's the actual data it contains houses and structures
shoobiedoo•16m ago
I wonder how much electricity just gets flushed down the toilet making this stuff.
qbane•18m ago
Missing context: in Minecraft.
stabbles•17m ago
See https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/height-model-swissalti3d, which is an excellent resource.
comrade1234•11m ago
They also have an execellent iOS app that I use whenever I'm hiking.
abricq•16m ago
Nice ! I have a fun survival challenge: the swiss Via Alpina hike in Minecraft !

Quickly did the math. The real trail is ~390 km long, with 23,500 m of elevation gain and 14 Alpine passes. I found that Minecraft walking speed is 4.317 m/s (1 block = 1 m), so that's ~25 hours of continuous walking, or ~33 hours assuming 75% movement efficiency for terrain. That's one Alpine pass every ~2.4 hours, and a new hiking-stage destination every ~1h40!

amiga386•15m ago
Denmark did this in 2014 and didn't need a pile of LLM puffery to do it:

https://minecraftdanmark.dk/

https://geoboxers.com/denmark-in-minecraft/

> ‘Denmark in Minecraft’ was released in April 2014 by the Danish Geodata Agency. The project was conceived, developed and operated by Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff, Thorbjørn Kjærshøj Nielsen and Nynne Sole Dalå, the founders of GeoBoxers.

> The work was funded and carried out by the Danish Geodata Agency as an initiative following the 2013 “basic data programme”, where a significant amount of public Danish data were made available for free. The purpose was to make geographical and topographical data available through Minecraft, and help disseminate the free data to a broader audience and specifically reach children.

> Denmark in Minecraft was released with an invitation to teachers and schools to use the data in geography, math, science and history lessons, and within the first few months Minecraft-data were downloaded 300.000 times from the Geodata Agency, and around 37.000 unique users logged in to the agency’s Minecraft-servers.

> January 1st, 2016 the Danish Geodata Agency changed into the Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency, and links in English regarding “Denmark in Minecraft” were removed. Since 2020 Denmark in Minecraft can no longer be downloaded.

netsharc•10m ago
This AI-written page seems to be typical of LLM: Sentences are 4 to 5 words long, and the reader have to fill in the details.

Did someone make 1x1x1 wooden cubes and remade Switzerland? Oh no, the tiny tiny text above the gigantic title says "Minecraft".

"Exactly as tall and as steep". How is a mountain that exists in a video game exactly as tall and steep as the real one?

Then there's an embedded map that is an attempt to convey information that I still can't figure out what.

How to run it? Aha, download Prism Launcher (not a clickable link), import the zip... and oh, you need to have purchased Minecraft too!

What an exercise in convolution...

rfgplk•4m ago
> "Exactly as tall and as steep". How is a mountain that exists in a video game exactly as tall and steep as the real one?

A mountain irl is, for instance 783 meters tall (sea level). A block in minecraft is always 1x1x1meters (according to the game engine def). Thus you make a mountain 783 blocks tall. You can also easily raise the sky limit if it becomes a problem.

Pirut•9m ago
I’ve actually been building the same thing except with the whole world.

https://github.com/pirut/earth-platform