Hacker News on Saturday, 19 August 2023

Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars(nltimes.nl)

384 points by cactusplant7374 3 years ago | 316 comments

NL Times news article reporting that Amsterdam will deploy noise cameras to catch and fine excessively loud cars.

Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer(carloslagoa.com)

344 points by carloslagoa 3 years ago | 113 comments

A blog post by a student pilot describing how he prints aircraft navigation logs on a cheap $20 thermal receipt printer for use during flight training.

Windy.com: global weather website with live filters(windy.com)

313 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 123 comments

Clone-a-Lisa(vole.wtf)

312 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 90 comments

How do we pay for parking?(cohost.org)

308 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 219 comments

Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music(ad8e.pages.dev)

302 points by ad8e 3 years ago | 57 comments

Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret(techcrunch.com)

294 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 188 comments

Show HN: Rivet – Open-source game server management with Nomad and Rust(github.com)

289 points by NathanFlurry 3 years ago | 36 comments

Why do old books smell so good?(scienceswitch.com)

284 points by conse_lad 3 years ago | 201 comments

Stable Diffusion in C/C++(github.com)

273 points by kikalo00 3 years ago | 106 comments

OpenZFS – add disks to existing RAIDZ(github.com)

228 points by shrubble 3 years ago | 124 comments

CRISPR gene-editing treatment eliminates HIV-like virus from non-human primates(nature.com)

211 points by kibwen 3 years ago | 34 comments

Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently(science.org)

206 points by wmlive 3 years ago | 86 comments

70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression(theconversation.com)

202 points by zeristor 3 years ago | 120 comments

Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes(kentik.com)

197 points by oavioklein 3 years ago | 29 comments

WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs(theverge.com)

193 points by kjhughes 3 years ago | 101 comments

Cheems, the Shiba Inu meme dog, has died(the-sun.com)

192 points by jiwidi 3 years ago | 25 comments

IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare(torrentfreak.com)

165 points by weinzierl 3 years ago | 58 comments

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?

163 points by nanidin 3 years ago | 128 comments

AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says(news.bloomberglaw.com)

152 points by kordlessagain 3 years ago | 101 comments

How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium(acoup.blog)

147 points by Khaine 3 years ago | 37 comments

Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs(thedataquarry.com)

144 points by chop 3 years ago | 44 comments

Mousetrap.jl: a GUI library for Julia and C++ that wraps GTK4(github.com)

144 points by xgdgsc 3 years ago | 47 comments

When to invest in marketing(briefmix.com)

140 points by Vagantem 3 years ago | 140 comments

What saved the ‘miracle house’ in Lahaina?(civilbeat.org)

140 points by Stratoscope 3 years ago | 123 comments

Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says(washingtonpost.com)

130 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 150 comments

Show HN: A simple, open-source Notion-like avatar generator(avatartion.com)

128 points by wilmerterrero 3 years ago | 61 comments

GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses (2020)(trust-in-soft.com)

110 points by luu 3 years ago | 112 comments

Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (2016)(arcadeblogger.com)

104 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 28 comments

Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level(medicalxpress.com)

102 points by jdmark 3 years ago | 15 comments

Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash(techcrunch.com)

101 points by ra7 3 years ago | 133 comments

Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end(old.reddit.com)

100 points by leephillips 3 years ago | 46 comments

Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea(news.flinders.edu.au)

98 points by belter 3 years ago | 74 comments

First hurricane to hit California in 84 years(washingtonpost.com)

96 points by laurex 3 years ago | 84 comments

W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring(lithub.com)

96 points by gumby 3 years ago | 124 comments

UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (2013)(newsroom.ucla.edu)

92 points by dempedempe 3 years ago | 23 comments

Twitter/X has removed all media posted before 2014(twitter.com)

91 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 86 comments

British Columbia declares a state of emergency amid devastating wildfires(washingtonpost.com)

87 points by abhayhegde 3 years ago | 83 comments

Fart Proudly (c. 1781)(en.wikipedia.org)

75 points by lopespm 3 years ago | 29 comments

AirGradient Air Quality Monitor Pro Kit Review(bubelov.com)

73 points by ahaucnx 3 years ago | 14 comments

Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank(engadget.com)

69 points by amichail 3 years ago | 24 comments

Programming Language choices: Pascal, LOGO, Forth, Prolog, C (1986) [video](clp.bbcrewind.co.uk)

67 points by hazelnut-tree 3 years ago | 29 comments

Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4th Gen of Programming Languages? [pdf](drops.dagstuhl.de)

65 points by luu 3 years ago | 19 comments

Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries(bleepingcomputer.com)

64 points by Icathian 3 years ago | 48 comments

Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight(popsci.com)

56 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 54 comments

'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries(rechargenews.com)

52 points by geox 3 years ago | 61 comments

Xiaomi CyberDog 2(xiaomiui.net)

52 points by croes 3 years ago | 39 comments

The lost script of Rapa Nui(historytoday.com)

51 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 6 comments

Cloud outage causes Bambu 3D printers to start printing on their own(themessenger.com)

51 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 68 comments

Life Has Several Exits(lopespm.com)

50 points by lopespm 3 years ago | 38 comments

When the Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”(lithub.com)

47 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 18 comments

July 4th is not the US's Birthday. A tale about how Ben Franklin invented the US(jmsdnns.com)

46 points by jmsdnns 3 years ago | 44 comments

The Noisy Middle Ages(medievalists.net)

43 points by tzs 3 years ago | 33 comments

How Indian artists transformed the Buddha’s absence into presence(washingtonpost.com)

43 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 60 comments

Important CIA Contributions to Modern Technology(cia.gov)

40 points by rex_lupi 3 years ago | 43 comments

America’s Obsession with Weight-Loss Drugs Is Affecting the Economy of Denmark(wsj.com)

35 points by jasondavies 3 years ago | 44 comments

Ask HN: How to contract for US companies as EU national

35 points by iExploder 3 years ago | 36 comments

A new way to identify chiral molecules with light could vastly improve detection(phys.org)

33 points by wglb 3 years ago | 3 comments

Indie Game Dev: Assessing Risk(derekyu.com)

32 points by generichuman 3 years ago | 28 comments

China’s defeated youth: Young Chinese have little hope for the future(economist.com)

32 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 21 comments