Hacker News: admaiora

New comment by admaiora in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

admaiora — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:36:50 +0000

Isn't this article just plain wrong? These are nowhere near the after tax salaries, an average working Dutch person (even when excluding unemployed) is not grossing 9-10k a month with 6k euros net as this suggests. I think the article is confusing employer-side hourly labour costs with net earnings.

New comment by admaiora in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

admaiora — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:55:02 +0000

And it's a question of do we accept breaking law for the possibility to have the greatest technological advancement of the 21st century. In my opinion, legal system has become a blocker for a lot of innovation, not only in AI but elsewhere as well.

New comment by admaiora in "Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results"

admaiora — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:10:36 +0000

I believe Kagi uses the Yandex index as their base as well.

New comment by admaiora in "Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser"

admaiora — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:08:40 +0000

Has a very strong AI code smell. Still it seems to be a decent turf.js wrapper for GIS professionals who don't have too much JS experience. Most should be able to use CLI tools at least for all of this.

New comment by admaiora in "AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake"

admaiora — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:23:08 +0000

Not even an issue anymore. I have no issue playing FPS games like call of duty multiplayer via GeForce Now and can be decently competitive. I do live close to the servers though.

New comment by admaiora in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

admaiora — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:41:06 +0000

QGIS is janky? It's quite possibly the smoothest and best running GIS software available today. Most built-in tools run way faster than AG Pro, and once the move to QT6 with 4.0 is complete this october, we'll finally get native builds on M-series Mac as well.

I couldn't even know where to start listing the upsides compared to ESRI offering, fron PostGIS integration all the way to the simplicity of plugins.

New comment by admaiora in "FOSS4G Europe 2025 live streaming [video]"

admaiora — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:50:31 +0000

Been to foss4g (NL/Europe/Global) a few times. If you work in a field that even touches a bit on geospatial, you'll find interesting talks. Even if you are a web dev and you think "no", getting to know a few things about leaflet or other geo tools for web never hurts.

New comment by admaiora in "Visualizing World War II"

admaiora — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:18:52 +0000

There's also tools that wrap a part of toporijdreis and add other georeferenced historical maps! I recently saw one of those at https://geodienst.xyz/pastforward. Wish more people georeferenced historical maps, but it is tough.

New comment by admaiora in "Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy"

admaiora — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 05:50:54 +0000

This paper is more than anything a showcase for the method they created. I think the point of their visualisations is to make them as appealing as possible, and people want to see how Manhattan looks, but they might now want to see how a certain neighbourhood in Singapore looks. And that choice definitely did help create virality for their research a few years back.

New comment by admaiora in "jQuery v4.0 Beta"

admaiora — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:46:13 +0000

Yesterday I was checking HN from 10years±2weeks ago and guess what the top posts were... "Why you need jQuery" and "You might not need jQuery". I'm too young to know about those days but I guess not much has changed in relation to people's attitude towards jQuery.

New comment by admaiora in "10 Second Teleportation"

admaiora — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:35:39 +0000

A lot of larger orgs (Universities etc) use Palo Alto Networks Global Protect VPN as their VPN for accessing the orgs intranets.

Maybe related somehow to that?

New comment by admaiora in "Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically"

admaiora — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:00:26 +0000

This was absolutely impossible to read. I was interested in the topic though as I have a Dutch spatial planning university degree and it's nice to see these systems working. The years of hard engineering projects for flood management did not go to waste especially for the mitigation of these events.

That said, NL is not focusing on these hard engineering solutions as much anymore as the focus has turned towards soft engineering, such as controlled floodplains. We'll probably see less and less of these kinds of solutions in the future and flood management becomes more boring in a sense.

New comment by admaiora in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

admaiora — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:47:03 +0000

I think this article from last year on storing files as Youtube videos might be interesting for you . The creator stores pictures in youtube videos that represent compressed data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495049

New comment by admaiora in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

admaiora — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:42:40 +0000

This is also a problem with Safari. Leaving websites with a ton of dynamic content leads to the whole browser becoming unresponsive.

New comment by admaiora in "Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data"

admaiora — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:02:16 +0000

A product using free and open-source data generated by the OSM community plus crowd sourcing traffic and keeping the code proprietary does not sit well with me. You can have a paid product but open source the project.

New comment by admaiora in "AGI Simulator"

admaiora — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:52:38 +0000

I had no idea what it is but kinda ruined the mood for me when the game reset

New comment by admaiora in "Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won"

admaiora — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:31:56 +0000

It's great. You can do it in the app now and get money back fast. My colleagues also book exclusively late night trains (which are often delayed) so they get a free overnight stay in a hotel.