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Norway makes shithouses great again

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/travel-tips-a-z/norwegian-scenic-routes/worlds-best-to...
82β€’giuliomagnificoβ€’49m agoβ€’30 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
1431β€’karpathyβ€’15h agoβ€’386 comments

A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income

https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/10/29/a-tiny-pacific-country-rolls-out-universal-basic-income
21β€’motionlessvelocβ€’1h agoβ€’5 comments

No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRmSlcTq9c
45β€’surprisetalkβ€’2d agoβ€’32 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
483β€’ecaresβ€’12h agoβ€’148 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
97β€’luuβ€’5h agoβ€’54 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
147β€’doodlesdevβ€’9h agoβ€’59 comments

Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/
108β€’whyleycβ€’1d agoβ€’28 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
527β€’ogerβ€’16h agoβ€’244 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
259β€’guregodevoβ€’12h agoβ€’119 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/πŸ††πŸ†ƒπŸ…΅/
3β€’n_plus_1_accβ€’53m agoβ€’1 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
93β€’hapax_legomenaβ€’9h agoβ€’47 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
15β€’headsupernovaβ€’2d agoβ€’3 comments

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)

http://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/
51β€’peter_d_shermanβ€’1d agoβ€’9 comments

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
23β€’nmjenkinsβ€’1d agoβ€’5 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
116β€’uvdn7β€’12h agoβ€’6 comments

Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020

https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/
123β€’ohjeezβ€’1d agoβ€’32 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
205β€’ntur1337β€’16h agoβ€’63 comments

The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/world/americas/mexico-seaweed-navy.html
4β€’bookofjoeβ€’21h agoβ€’5 comments

A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-1580-map-shows-why-data-visualization-is-never-neutral/
49β€’the-mitrβ€’1d agoβ€’4 comments

A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077
32β€’gjvcβ€’2d agoβ€’0 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
275β€’aphyrβ€’21h agoβ€’156 comments

ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits
156β€’Zarielβ€’13h agoβ€’97 comments

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in...
124β€’toomuchtodoβ€’16h agoβ€’57 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
121β€’samizdisβ€’15h agoβ€’39 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
337β€’armcatβ€’1d agoβ€’165 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
262β€’aatishβ€’4d agoβ€’79 comments

Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer

https://slate.com/culture/2026/10/edgar-allan-poe-poems-stories-most-influential-american-writer-...
39β€’samclemensβ€’3d agoβ€’4 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
122β€’gslinβ€’16h agoβ€’33 comments

Pac-Man's Siren Call

https://unsung.aresluna.org/pac-mans-siren-call/
25β€’tobrβ€’5h agoβ€’6 comments
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Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
15β€’headsupernovaβ€’2d ago
I've been working on a fun little app that paints geologic maps over landscapes using augmented reality. You can use it to identify what the mapped rocks are, read descriptions about them, and view the earth as it looked when they formed by turning back the continent positions. It spun out of some augmented reality work I was doing on my other side project app - Flyover Country, which tells you about the view from the airplane window.

I'm in Minnesota, so i haven't had a chance to test it on a huge amount of terrain (the best I've found is the Mississippi River gorge in the twin cities... I need a trip up north), so anyone that's somewhere with some more bumps: please help!).

It's stuck in the Apple review queue, but it's up on testflight for anyone interested. Google approved it quickly and it's fully out on android (links to both on the marketing site).

edit: got a report that testflight was asking for an install code. Seems like a testflight app issue, but dismissing it and installing as normal seems to work!

Comments

tomshaferβ€’2d ago
Neat idea. Does it work offline? Up north there's often no signal, and I'd guess phone compass drift near steel bridges or cliffs would throw the overlay off too.
_Microftβ€’1d ago
β€žThe map and Live then work with no signal. Fossil finds and Live’s active faults still need a connection.β€œ
gus_massaβ€’1d ago
Is there a web version? I don't like to install apps if avoidable.

When the page loads, it shows a blinking animation [1]. I didn't realize it was a loading an interactive background example. Perhaps load a default photo of the grand canyons and add a clock or something until the full version loads.

[1] In my phone in the subway, not a very good WiFi nearby.