Railpass(train.samismith.com)
109 points by CharlesW | 29 comments
Railpass is an interactive web experience by Sami Smith that shows train-window ride videos, here the Kitakyūshū Monorail in Japan, with weather and sound options.
#trains on Hacker News
13 stories tagged trains, newest first.
Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny(jonworth.eu)
16 points by marvinborner | 8 comments
A short blog post by Jon Worth arguing that jokes about Deutsche Bahn's unreliability are no longer funny.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner(philo.gay)
419 points by otherayden | 69 comments
Personal blog post describing using an industrial linear scanning camera to capture very wide photos from trains and ferries, with example images.
Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network(map.signalbox.io)
385 points by scrlk | 144 comments
Signalbox web app showing a live map of trains moving across Great Britain's rail network; the capture shows only a loading screen.
Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line(soranews24.com)
487 points by edward | 303 comments
SoraNews24 article about what to do when stranded at the last station of Tokyo's Chuo Rapid Line after falling asleep or missing the last train.
![Screenshot of media.ccc.de: We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/29/7726c93e-094a-4af5-9e8a-ad5b707f0234.jpg)
We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video](media.ccc.de)
348 points by doener | 58 comments
Video of a 38C3 talk by Dragon Sector researchers about the aftermath of disclosing DRM in Newag trains, including the lawsuit filed against them.
Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?(chronotrains.com)
618 points by vortex_ape | 392 comments
Chronotrains is an interactive map showing how far you can travel by train from any European station within 1 to 8 hours.
![Screenshot of streaming.media.ccc.de: Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/12/28/75c30fef-4423-4b54-a6be-7cbf3e860c5c.jpg)
Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video](streaming.media.ccc.de)
319 points by p_l | 37 comments
37C3 Relive video recording page for the talk "Breaking DRM in Polish trains", an unprocessed stream dump hosted by the Chaos Computer Club.
Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find(arstechnica.com)
608 points by Stratoscope | 211 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that hackers found a train manufacturer's firmware made trains break down after third-party repairs; the manufacturer called it slander.
Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company(404media.co)
344 points by NKosmatos | 95 comments
404 Media article about Polish hackers who repaired trains artificially bricked by manufacturer Newag's DRM, and the train company now threatening them.
Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking(badcyber.com)
601 points by GruHe | 241 comments
BadCyber article on hackers reverse-engineering train control software that allegedly disabled trains serviced by third-party workshops, a Dieselgate-like scheme.
Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops(social.hackerspace.pl)
905 points by miki123211 | 283 comments
Mastodon thread by q3k revealing reverse engineering of NEWAG Impuls train PLC code that locks up trains serviced at third-party workshops.
Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada(trains.fyi)
450 points by ryry | 276 comments
Trains.fyi is a live map showing real-time GPS locations of passenger trains across the United States and Canada, updated every minute.