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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
224•nar001•2h ago•120 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
9•bookofjoe•10m ago•2 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
379•theblazehen•2d ago•135 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
65•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•12 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
42•onurkanbkrc•3h ago•2 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
749•klaussilveira•18h ago•234 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
9•vinhnx•1h ago•1 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1004•xnx•23h ago•570 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
112•alainrk•2h ago•125 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
9•fainir•1h ago•4 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
13•samasblack•40m ago•6 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
136•jesperordrup•8h ago•55 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
92•videotopia•4d ago•21 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
30•matt_d•4d ago•6 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
148•matheusalmeida•2d ago•40 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
254•isitcontent•18h ago•27 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
267•dmpetrov•18h ago•142 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
7•rbanffy•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
10•sandGorgon•2d ago•2 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
532•todsacerdoti•1d ago•258 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
409•ostacke•1d ago•105 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
354•vecti•20h ago•160 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
323•eljojo•21h ago•198 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
55•helloplanets•4d ago•56 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
450•lstoll•1d ago•296 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
365•aktau•1d ago•190 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
6•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
294•i5heu•21h ago•246 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
103•quibono•5d ago•30 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
53•gmays•13h ago•22 comments
Open in hackernews

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

https://wigle.net/index
62•dp-hackernews•4mo ago

Comments

jjkaczor•4mo ago
Man - I loved this "back-in-the-day", uh... 23-years ago...
edm0nd•4mo ago
I still go around and war drive and upload em to WiGLE!

They make it really easy now. They even have an app you can download on your phone and just open up while driving and start logging and then it just uploads it to WiGLE when you hit stop.

supportengineer•4mo ago
I believe that is Android-only
edm0nd•4mo ago
Yup. I bought a refurb'd Pixel 7 Pro off eBay for $250 and installed it on there and just throw it in the car when I'm driving around.
adastra22•4mo ago
Why would you do this?
jjkaczor•4mo ago
Well - back then, it was "new and shiny" - now, I haven't done it myself the intervening decades.

If you are interested in radio/security, I could see it being an on-going thing. Myself, I rarely uploaded to WiGLE (just used it to peruse regions that were "unmapped") - but, these were also back in the "before-times" when ubiquitous cell network data connectivity was expensive - so, I did my mapping using an offline version of Microsoft MapPoint with NetStumbler on my laptop in combination with a VBScript interface I wrote that would drive MapPoint and visually display findings.

After posting this yesterday - I checked WiGLE for my home and office wifi networks - which have been around with the same SSID for 5+ years and they are not listed, so not many people are actively wardriving these days.

But - like any hobby, there are always a few people in the "long-tail".

adastra22•4mo ago
What I mean is, you are actively choosing to collect and make available data that can be used to track people, to hack people, to deanonymize users, and even to harm others. This is literally crowdsourced spying on your neighbors. Why participate?
edm0nd•4mo ago
because it's nerdy fun
acka•4mo ago
I feel you... Running NetStumbler as well as some other tools such as Kismet on a laptop using an Orinoco Wi-Fi PCMCIA card with special firmware / drivers which offered 'Monitor Mode', those were the days...
nunobrito•4mo ago
Thank you for sharing. Didn't knew it.
xd1936•4mo ago
See also: https://beacondb.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895672

move-on-by•4mo ago
If you want to be excluded from this - as well as from: Google, Microsoft, Apple lists- you have to add ‘_nomap’ to the end of your wifi name.
eigencoder•4mo ago
I thought it was _optout_nomap (the _optout for Microsoft, _nomap for Google/Apple)
move-on-by•4mo ago
Hmm... I was under the impression that MS had added support for `_nomap` as well somewhere... but now I'm not finding any references to that. I suppose at the end of the day, you have to trust that they even follow their opt out policy at all.
baby_souffle•4mo ago
And you'd probably have to rotate out the MAC address and broadcast name. At this point, cat is out of the bag. I'm brand new network name and Mac address with the opt-out flags is only going to keep you out of the honest databases :(
skowalak•4mo ago
A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net . Since Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good alternative for geolocation and they are public domain. Unfortunately, data dumps are currently not available, though.
eliaspro•4mo ago
The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their endpoint to continue working.
Havoc•4mo ago
Looking at areas I'm familiar with this is picking up a ton of non-fixed APs - in fact more mobile than fixed. Guessing that's cellphones with tethering on?
typpilol•4mo ago
I've done wigle for a while

A ton of it is cars with built in hotspots. The other is mobile hotspots left on while on the highway.