Hacker News: habi

New comment by habi in "Hop.Earth – Google Maps and Need for Speed – Drive Anywhere on Earth in Browser"

habi — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:08:10 +0000

Looking good and fun. As an avid OpenStreetMap contributor I'm a bit bummed that you're calling this "Google Maps and Need for Speed".

New comment by habi in "The Interactive Lost Place Map"

habi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:36:58 +0000

Also they don't show the necessary OpenStreetMap attribution anywhere...

New comment by habi in "Migrating to the EU"

habi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:35:21 +0000

> And certainly the situation for FOSS public-transit navigation is still quite poor.

https://transitous.org/ (https://github.com/public-transport/transitous) works quite well.

New comment by habi in "MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format"

habi — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:22:08 +0000

The data can be downloaded here: https://planet.osm.org/ Here's a list of OSM data users: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...

New comment by habi in "High Schoolers Built a Swipeable Local Business Directory"

habi — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:17:11 +0000

In addition I don’t see the necessary attribution to OSM (on my iPhone 12 mini)

New comment by habi in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

habi — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:52:57 +0000

> However, even ALPR doesn't show any devices for me

I've panned the map over several parts of the US, and see many ALPRs mapped in OpenStreetMap. You can also use the 'Wizard' of Overpass turbo, and enter ""surveillance:type"=ALPR around Miami" (or any other city (e.g. your home town), with quotation marks around surveillance:type) and increase the `radius` in the query until you'll find some. As an example, here are the ALPRs 25km around Miami: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2dVP

New comment by habi in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

habi — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:05:10 +0000

The search directly on osm.org is optimzied for address things.

For a "complete" search in the OpenStreetMap-data I suggest [Overpass Turbo](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo).

In this specific case I'd take a little detour over taginfo (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Taginfo), e.g. search for `surveillance` (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=surveillance) there. A little bit of clicking (Type > Values > ALPR) leads to https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surveillance%3Atype=A... If you click on 'Overpass turbo' on the top right, you get to a pre-filled search on Overpass turbo. Scroll the map to the region you want to search (start small), and click 'Run' on the top left.

Voila.

New comment by habi in "CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells"

habi — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:59:52 +0000

Metal objects don’t change that much due to the radiation.

New comment by habi in "CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells"

habi — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:58:36 +0000

That is possible, especially for very high resolution scans and dense materials.

I work with (other) desktop microCT scanners and the longest scan we did took longer than 40 hours.

New comment by habi in "Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS"

habi — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:03:53 +0000

Sure, I just (honestly) wondered about trademarks.

New comment by habi in "Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS"

habi — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:33:05 +0000

https://apertus.org/ exists since 15 years, interesting choice of name.

New comment by habi in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

habi — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:37:07 +0000

It seems to me that these are two MagicEarth “owners”

- Magic Lane for the navigation app which traces back to 1992: https://www.magiclane.com/web/about

- Halliburton for something related to 3D visualization “that was formed slightly more than a year ago”: https://www.chron.com/business/article/halliburton-to-pay-10...

New comment by habi in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

habi — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:25:19 +0000

> OpenStreetMap is still really hard to use and gives bad directions.

https://www.magicearth.com/ works well for car navigation with OSM data, and https://cycle.travel/ is the best way to navigate on a bike, also with OSM data.

In which country do you live, if I might ask?

New comment by habi in "CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app"

habi — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:13:45 +0000

> OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday"

OpenStreetMap data consumers can have much longer update cycles than "next week", so it makes sense to have such information outside of the map data if you are implementing a router.

New comment by habi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

habi — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:59:52 +0000

As an avid mapper (and liking to go on dinner-dates with my wife) I absolutely love this. Very slick and quick search, congratulations! Do you also parse the `opening_hours` tag to filter for currently open restaurants?

New comment by habi in "Mozilla is killing its Pocket and Fakespot services to focus on Firefox"

habi — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:18:06 +0000

https://instapaper.com/, I happily pay them 60$ a year for good search and automatic sending of articles to read to my Kindle, which makes it possible to have no other electronics in my bedroom.

New comment by habi in "Green Fabrication of Sulfonium-Containing Bismuth Materials for X-Ray Detection"

habi — Mon, 19 May 2025 04:55:40 +0000

> low energy, high resolution portable X-ray systems in all sorts of trades for NDT weld inspections

> low energy home medical X-ray systems

The low energy you desire might not be high enough to penetrate the object you want to image, either a weld to inspect, the blacksmiths bespoke object or the human. For imaging human tissue you want high energy for less radiation dose in the patient. That’s why x-rays are filtered by some mm of aluminum before imaging a patient. These filtered lower energy photons would be absorbed in the patient anyways.

New comment by habi in "The British Airways position on various border disputes"

habi — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:59:30 +0000

> And I don't know about OSM's techniques,

Here's the OSM Wiki page on 'disputed territories': https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputed_territories

The official document from the OpenStreetMap Foundation is here: https://osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesI...

New comment by habi in "Ask HN: Should I open source or not?"

habi — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:51:40 +0000

> I aim to launch my own GPS satellite to bypass Google’s predatory API calls.

That might be a bit more costly than calling any API :) And launching own GPS satellites has no connection with Google's API as far as I know.

Are you interested in location data only? Then you can actually query https://nominatim.org/, which does the (reverese) geocoding.

> the map will be text-only to ensure accessibility.

I wonder how that's done, something like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapscii ?

New comment by habi in "Internet in a Box"

habi — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:11:54 +0000

Theoretically yes. But no person ever is going to look at all the tiles (on the highest zoom levels) in the sea, so they are not rendered by default, and only on demand.