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Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps

https://arjo129.github.io/blog/5-7-2025-From-Photos-To-Positions-Prototyping.html
28•accurrent•1d ago
Just a fun hack I did while bored over the weekend. My wife was busy shopping, it got me thinking that can VLMs solve the indoor location problem in a mall? Can I just show a VLM a map and an image and have it doa good enough job locating me? I hacked this P.O.C and it seems to work.

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/
177•pseudolus•4h ago•61 comments

LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2025/06/09/lookingglass-generative-anamorphoses-via-laplacian-pyramid-warping/
10•jw1224•52m ago•2 comments

My first verified imperative program

https://markushimmel.de/blog/my-first-verified-imperative-program/
104•TwoFx•5h ago•39 comments

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298
354•PaulHoule•10h ago•146 comments

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250701-the-chemical-secrets-that-help-keep-honey-fresh-for-so-long
42•bookofjoe•3d ago•16 comments

Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

131•bhaktatejas922•8h ago•85 comments

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/
279•noperator•10h ago•119 comments

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry

https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-6-5-the-method
80•zeristor•2d ago•20 comments

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
603•adrianh•8h ago•224 comments

When Figma starts designing us

https://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/
200•bravomartin•1d ago•96 comments

You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log

https://words.filippo.io/run-sunlight/
56•Metalnem•2h ago•12 comments

François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
159•sandslash•4d ago•132 comments

Show HN: Ossia score – a sequencer for audio-visual artists

https://github.com/ossia/score
62•jcelerier•5h ago•7 comments

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer

https://buildmytransit.nyc
106•HeavenFox•8h ago•8 comments

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
651•ananddtyagi•22h ago•301 comments

The Era of Exploration

https://yidingjiang.github.io/blog/post/exploration/
59•jxmorris12•7h ago•4 comments

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

https://sarahrenaeclark.com/lightfast-testing-pencils/
97•picture•2d ago•24 comments

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/solving-wordle-with-uv-dependency-resolver/
122•mildbyte•1d ago•12 comments

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hymn-babylon-millennium.html
150•wglb•3d ago•58 comments

Artist in Residence on a Satellite

http://global.cafa.edu.cn/infoDetail/1/324
4•thenthenthen•2d ago•1 comments

SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language

https://sus-lang.org/
36•nateb2022•6h ago•17 comments

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html
404•zdw•1d ago•352 comments

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics

https://alpha.lisagui.com/
467•ayaros•1d ago•132 comments

Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps

https://arjo129.github.io/blog/5-7-2025-From-Photos-To-Positions-Prototyping.html
28•accurrent•1d ago•0 comments

Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-tyr-a-new-rust-drm-driver.html
38•mfilion•3h ago•5 comments

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-operated-fat-factory-125000-years-ago/
217•hilux•3d ago•164 comments

CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/
113•nateb2022•9h ago•24 comments

Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6
368•pyman•13h ago•497 comments

Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Babbage_deciphering/
5•pncnmnp•3d ago•0 comments

Why English doesn't use accents

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use-accents
294•sandbach•1d ago•489 comments