WebODM has officially decoupled from OpenDroneMap! Read the full announcement. webodm.org/blog/announc... #gischat #gis

You can now add panoramas, videos, georeferenced images to the map display inh WebODM

The future is here

I do expect them to get better over time though.

Agentic code frameworks: fun to play with, but feels like having a team of drunken interns.

I find that sometimes stepping away from the computer for a few days is the best way for me to recharge. Doing other activities or hobbies gives the brain a rest.

Curious to see if this AGENTS.md will stop garbage PRs: github.com/OpenDroneMap...

Seedance 2.0 First Test | Access Link Shared YouTube video by Heydin

AI now going after VFX studios also. www.youtube.com/watch?v=138Z...

You can now limit pull requests to collaborators only on GitHub. Nice.

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

AI agents are now talking back: github.com/matplotlib/m...

LibreTranslate docker images are now half the size they used to be thanks to a move from pytorch to onnx.

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion PALO ALTO, CA—Hailing the new product as a “game changer” in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds “huh” had been va...

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion

Interview with ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) YouTube video by Kai Lentit

An actual tutorial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sn...

Interesting; it's a bit unclear to me how the scenario testing is setup, any links/resources to learn more?

The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation We are excited to introduce the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation.

Amazing work by Waymo: waymo.com/blog/2026/02...

Release v1.8.4 · LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate What's Changed Update Docker Python base images to 3.11.14 bookworm by @PeterDaveHello in #904 Add Healthcheck check in Docker in CI tests by @dingedi in #906 Add --translation-cache by @pierotofy...

MiniSBD is now embedded in LibreTranslate v1.8.4, bringing faster sentence boundary detection capabilities. github.com/LibreTransla...

I think that's great!

Looks functional, which is good. We need more of that around the web.

Cool! Nice to see it dependency free.

IssueWhiz now has Gemini support: github.com/pierotofy/is...

I would say that most people on HN use open source projects for their works, a few contribute to them, a small number maintains, but the upvoting system makes it so the voices of the first group are the only ones that are heard (and are usually the most oblivious).

In general the HN crowd is pretty oblivious to the struggles of open source sustainability.

Org Transparency Thread Hoping to start a healthy discussion on transparency. I think it’s important for an organization like OpenDroneMap to be transparent. I noticed that there was a meeting a few days ago: https://opendr...

If you use OpenDroneMap, your opinion matters #gischat community.opendronemap.org/t/org-transp...

Introducing MiniSBD: Fast sentence boundary detection Continuing the discussion from Sentence Boundary Detection for Machine Translation - #55 by pierotofy, I’m happy to share MiniSBD, a subset port of Stanza’s tokenizer models that uses 8-bit quantized ...

Sentence boundary detection just became fast: community.libretranslate.com/t/introducin...

My new favorite way to deal with LLM generated PRs: asking the authors to explain how they came up with the solution and/or prove that the fix works. Most can't.

#GDAL just a friendly bump

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Linked to from this issue, and there's also a link to last year's results: github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...

Come and make professional annotation reports with WebODM Lightning webodm.net/blog/annotat... without the big price tag.

LibreTranslate turns 5! It's been that long already? 🎂 community.libretranslate.com/t/libretrans...

Time to update! LibreTranslate v1.8.3 is out with some performance and compatibility improvements.
- Gunicorn support in docker
- Python 3.14 support
- Tons of bug fixes