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Re:Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk fr...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:58AM (#50205347)
Osmand for android also embeds results on the map, as an optional layer.
Re:Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk fr...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:57AM (#50205343)
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.
Re:Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for letting AI deactivate driver a...
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:44AM (#49398754)
Algorithms, not AI.
Re:Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
on Friday August 21, 2026 @02:40PM (#49392249)
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.
Re:Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emissio...
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:07AM (#49357484)
People don't fire their chimneys or have garden bonfires much any more, either.
Re:Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @09:24AM (#49310336)
For context: https://x.com/XBR/status/2088341967864320507?s=20
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)?
Re:Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in ...
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:35AM (#48757372)
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.
Re:Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and ...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:34AM (#48718447)
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.
Re:US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:56PM (#48694987)
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)
This is what the EU has: https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act...
Re:Why the US Navy Won't Blast the Iranians and 'Open' Strait of Hormuz
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:21AM (#47597118)
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.
Re:LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC ...
on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:07AM (#47320754)
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
Re:JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:06AM (#46286773)
This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.
Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in world first
on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:41PM (#46222595)
Hacker News is social media, isn't it?
Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:01AM (#46055571)
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.
Re:Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:53PM (#44867991)
This is about the Category 1 duties arriving by 2027, not this year's tranche of rules (such as age gating).
Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:49AM (#44864045)
A lot of what you are posting is not true. Take for instance your claim that "Ofcom is an industry self-regulation body"
Re:Data breach exposes 184M passwords for Google,Microsoft,Facebook
on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:02PM (#44101137)
Law enforcement / national security. E.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-serv...
Although I can anticipate what you'll say...
Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
Re:Increasing Timber Production, an Emergency Situation on National Fo...
on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:24AM (#43591329)
Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)