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Re:Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken...
on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:38PM (#49886975)
Isn't this website just a frontend for OpenStreetMap data? This returns 120,914 results.
[out:json];
node["man_made"="surveillance"]
[~"^(manufacturer|brand|operator)$"~"flock",i];
out count;
Re:SampleBrainz: Browse music samples, curated by the MusicBrainz comm...
on Saturday January 24, 2026 @09:18PM (#46750015)
I built a site to browse which songs include samples of others. It's common in hip hop, electronic, pop, etc to reuse drum breaks, melodies, or vocal snippets of other tracks. SampleBrainz includes 220,000+ of these connections.
All metadata is in the public domain (CC0), and anyone can contribute by adding sample relationships on MusicBrainz.
Source code at https://github.com/AndrewBelt/SampleBrainz
Re:My Dream Thermostat
on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @06:23PM (#43910237)
I want to specify heat, cool, or auto. I don't want to cool in the winter under any circumstances. I can simply open a window. Vise versa for the summer.
Re:How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:21AM (#43780065)
>Scientists claim to have discovered a ‘new color’ no one has seen before.
LOL!
Re:Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator
on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @07:54PM (#43699830)
Cool! Some random requests to consider: Could the range x~y be uniform instead of 2 std dev normal (95.4%ile)? Sometimes the range of quantities is known. 95%ile is probably fine as a default though.
Also, could a symbolic JS package be used instead of Monte-Carlo? This would improve speed and precision, especially for many variables (high dimensions).
Could the result be shown in a line plot instead of ASCII bar chart?
Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL
on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:53PM (#41931741)
As a workaround you can type a trailing slash: example.internal/
Re:Donating Forks to the Dining Hall
on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @10:56PM (#40519660)
The cafeteria manager likely had no idea they were running out of forks. A simple email or phone call to the cafeteria department would have probably solved the problem, since managers are likely looking for ideas of things to buy, especially if they've been recommended by customers (students).
Re:Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:41PM (#40432185)
Why so many posts about Firefox bugs getting fixed after N years?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=firefox+bug+years
Re:VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared
on Sunday July 23, 2023 @09:13PM (#36841860)
Have you tried contacting support? https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/contact-form.html
Re:Why [“1”,“2”,“3”].map(parseInt) yields [1, NaN, NaN] in JavaScript
on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:52PM (#36450806)
The reason is surprising but perfectly valid once you remember the spec of map() and parseInt(). Love JS WTFs.
Re:http://pn./
on Monday September 12, 2022 @02:16AM (#32806667)
Also http://ai./
Re:Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition
on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:38AM (#32025806)
Notepad++ refund request form
Product price: 0 USD
Name: _______________________
Email: _______________________
Purchase Date: _______________________
Re:Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:00AM (#31591170)
Mindustry https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
Re:The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:24AM (#31502964)
Reminded me of my favorite article. http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
I'm willing to pay extra to avoid touch screens in my cars, washing machines, door locks, and personal computers. I can't be the only one!
Re:Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock
on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:48AM (#31247615)
Very cool, although index funds like S&P 500 and DJI don't seem to work.
Re:Would You Click?
on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:58AM (#31071544)
Why did they have to add the super slow scroll lag? That ruined the whole site.
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:54AM (#31040925)
How so? I can buy a modified Thinkpad (https://minifree.org/product/libre-t440p/ or http://www.cnmod.cn/x210/) because enough people demand it. If enough people demand dumb TVs but their niche prices far exceed smart TVs, then people will begin selling modified smart TVs without cell chips for mutually fair prices.
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:24AM (#31038102)
Wouldn't the free market simply provide modifications with the cell networking removed for an extra $50 or so? The "discount" you get from buying a smart TV verses a dumb TV (which is a niche product so it would cost hundreds more) would still be positive after subtracting the cost of modification.
Re:Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:59PM (#29960648)
Was going to say PDF but this is close enough :)
Re:hiccupFX.js
on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:19PM (#29949849)
Bonus: Can this be a pure CSS library?
Re:Show HN: Tact – A simple chat app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS
on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:10PM (#29669211)
Agreed, it looks like a really nice product and I wish people would pay for quality software like this, but the market is super saturated, and even free, cross-platform chat platforms struggle to gain users since they require their friends to use it too.
Re:Show HN: "crzy64", base64 mod aimed for fastest decoding
on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:51AM (#29638521)
Isn't base64 encoding/decoding bound to memory bandwidth? If so, won't all 4/3 memory formats encode/decode at the same speed?
Here's a list of hundreds of funny examples.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/09/29/gboard-emoji-kitche...
Someone could probably make a huge table of all of them on one page.
Re:LLVM relicensing update and call for help
on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:15AM (#29294548)
Ownership goes to the author's heirs.
Re:LLVM relicensing update and call for help
on Saturday November 20, 2021 @09:02PM (#29293534)
This might be the largest contributor relicensing project of any IP category: 2800 people and companies. 94% progress is impressive.
Re:I just want to run this one Python script
on Monday November 08, 2021 @10:08AM (#29150013)
I usually put this at the top, so it raises a syntax error if using an old version.
f"Python 3.6+ is required"
Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:24PM (#29133072)
If I didn't include that note, someone would say "Is is slow because you're on 56kbps dial-up?"
Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:05PM (#29132920)
I don't think so. You'd need to run it in a terminal with something like
from sympy.plotting import plot3d
x,y=symbols('x y')
plot3d(x*y, (x, -10,10), (y, -10,10))
Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:02PM (#29132894)
I doubt the bad performance is due to evaluating expressions itself. If I type N[Log[2]] into Mathematica, it evaluates in less than a millisecond.
It's probably because Wolfram Alpha is using natural language process to try to process my query and then finally deciding that by N[Log[2]], I mean N[Log[2]]. And it's probably not because of that, but because their grid scheduler isn't optimized for sub-second latency.