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Osmand for android also embeds results on the map, as an optional layer.
There is: the link format is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/52.52000...

Change the lat long to any you want, and change "en." to other language codes to search a different (language) encyclopedia.

Algorithms, not AI.
Deepseek v4 Flash and OpenAi GPT 5.6 Luna are on their free plan, which is fab. I'm not sure more is needed, for web searching.
People don't fire their chimneys or have garden bonfires much any more, either.
Re:Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport on Sunday July 26, 2026 @12:00PM (#49059451)
I wonder what the failure mode for something like this is (e.g. in bad weather, after a power cut, a car catches fire, etc). Nobody in the country with keys, cars parked so close together you probably couldn't get in anyway... could be interesting!
Re:Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:30AM (#48870334)
How long until this is handled like human hiring (business case, budget, performance reviews, layoffs)?
The point perhaps is that these things enable discrimination based on extremely gross grained and defective criteria - in some ways the least relevant parts of your identity.
Should have used a GDPR takedown instead of copyright: in the EU, Google doesn't tell you the identity of the requester, what qas allegedly infringing, or even the affected URl, and there's no ability to challenge. Great stuff. (/s)
Re:Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:44AM (#48716516)
https://avpassociation.com/ and a few key individual crusaders.
Donate to his ballroom project, perhaps? Pay for tokens with his crypto coin?
Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:14PM (#48691418)
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism"
Re:Never Give Them Your Face on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:07PM (#48632108)
Re:Waymo 13x safer than human drivers on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:30PM (#47446487)
Isn't the correct answer to this, lobbying for higher speed limits? Rather than chastizing obedience to current rules.
N00b question from me, perhaps, but how easy is it to mount and run Lidar on aerial drones?
Re:ChatGPT Health on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:43PM (#46533392)
"we built foundational protections (...) including (...) training our models not to retain personal information from user chats"

Can someone please ELI5 - why is this a training issue, rather than basic design? How does one "train" for this?

Re:My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @02:16PM (#46378327)
Something so grim should be accompanied by its citation, just so we can check it's not a windup
This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.
Hacker News is social media, isn't it?
Check out how Wikipedia and the rest of the wikimedia universe is run.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:44AM (#45287623)
EU Data Act will be more relevant here, but will take a while to roll out.
Re:Introducing Stargate UK on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:27AM (#45272880)
Given https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-agreement-o... , what does sovereignty even mean here?

I also wish we were attracting industries that weren't going to significantly push up electricity consumption on windless days, which will have an outsized effect on electricity prices everyone else pays. At least this says the datacentres will be up north, hopefully not exacerbating transmission issues.

This is about the Category 1 duties arriving by 2027, not this year's tranche of rules (such as age gating).
A lot of what you are posting is not true. Take for instance your claim that "Ofcom is an industry self-regulation body"
Law enforcement / national security. E.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-serv...

Although I can anticipate what you'll say...

Re:Human on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:20AM (#43994760)
Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)

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