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RogerBW
Personal blog · blog.firedrake.orgsystemsprogramming
RogerBW's personal blog at blog.firedrake.org covers systems and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as a source for a post comparing OsmAnd and Organic Maps and for its coverage of the 1966 Ithacus troop-transport rocket concept. They cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-01
What Hacker News says?
It's an old military dream; Ithacus [0] was a 1966 concept for a vertical take-off, vertical landing troop transport rocket that could put 1200 soldiers plus materiel anywhere in the world in an hour. Issues that others have brought up here (like the vehicle being mistaken for a nuclear missile) were brought up then, and the obvious flaws killed the project. As [0] points out, and as I vividly recall from the antiqu…
Comment linking /archive/2015/12/Ithacus_and_SUSTAIN.html
on “Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting”Submitted OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps as a story · 121 points
HN discussionHow does this compare with the F-Droid version of OsmAnd? [Edit: To answer my own question a little bit, I found a post from September 2025 that compares OsmAnd and Organic Maps (which this project forked from): https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/09/OSMAnd_vs_Organic... . I can't find anything more recent or for CoMaps specifically, other than auto-created "alternatives" pages. I would absolutely love to hear f…
Comment linking /archive/2025/09/OSMAnd_vs_Organic_Maps.html
on “CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps”Submitted Farewell to systemd as a story · 8 points
HN discussion