Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines(jefftk.com)
150 points by luu | 142 comments
Blog post by Jeff Kaufman arguing that small air purifiers make good white noise machines while also filtering smoke and infectious particles.
#air-quality on Hacker News
8 stories tagged air-quality, newest first.
Texas data center boom could erase decades of progress on air quality(texastribune.org)
28 points by hn_acker | 10 comments
Texas Tribune article on a HARC report warning that Texas's data center boom could reverse decades of air quality gains, especially if powered by natural gas.
A Tokyo school counts the mornings it can see Mt. Fuji: 22 in 1965, 170 in 2023(jivx.com)
7 points by momentmaker | 1 comments
An interactive data visualization of a Kichijoji school's daily record since 1963 of whether Mt. Fuji was visible from Tokyo, alongside Kofu's first-snow records.
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air(nytimes.com)
391 points by bookofjoe | 448 comments
New York Times article on Iowa City making its buses fare-free and the resulting drop in traffic and improved air quality; the capture shows a bot-block page.
Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device(networkedartifacts.com)
448 points by 256dpi | 178 comments
A web-based simulator running the Air Lab firmware, emulating a portable open air quality monitor that measures CO2, VOC, NOx, humidity, and pressure.
The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide(apnews.com)
569 points by geox | 336 comments
AP News article reporting that the US has stopped sharing air quality monitoring data from its embassies worldwide, prompting concern from scientists.
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)(dynomight.net)
431 points by drdeca | 194 comments
A 2022 Dynomight blog post rebutting Wirecutter's negative assessment of IKEA's air purifiers.
The hidden cost of air quality monitoring(airgradient.com)
539 points by ahaucnx | 258 comments
AirGradient blog post by Achim Haug on the hidden costs of owning air quality monitors, such as manufacturers crippling free data APIs to push paid plans.