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A lot of cities already have a communication channel in place to notify authorities about noise (like sending them an email about the culprit).

But its difficult to gather evidence of noisy vehicles, and could be a nuisance to notify authorities.

I wonder if a "NoisyVehicleRecorder" app/device would be able to capture the evidence from the comfort of our apartments or yard?

The device and app should be able to - Take accurate(ish?) noise levels, and start recording above a certain decibel - Store the recording somewhere -- AI_Vision can then spot if there is a car in the video, if not then delete the video -- AI_Vision can then extract the number plate from the video, if no number plate then delete the video - At the end of the week the app should send yourself a report of the culprits in descending order of most infringements per license plate - The user then decides to forward these to the authorities (this email address could be pre-stored in the app somewhere as well per city) - Would be great if this app could be open source so it can be tweaked per country according to their laws

Possible issues: * Recording cars without permission might be an issue * The device might be too expensive, as it might need to be waterproof / burglarproof

Re:Show HN: Get the guitar chords from your Spotify playlists on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:55PM (#29463152)
In the good old days of Winamp (15 years ago...) I created a plugin that scraped the web and showed the chord in Winamp as you played a song. The code was dead easy to implement as it was just an embedded site within Winamp (HTML & Javascript & Winamp JS SDK). And surprisingly the site is still running! Not sure if the scraping still works though http://pikkipowpow.davidsmit.za.net/Home.aspx

So yes there are definitely a use case for all the new media players to show chords

Re:TIO: Try it online on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:14AM (#14781229)
This looks like the minimal:

  class HelloWorld
  {
    static void Main()
    {
       System.Console.Write("Hello world!");
    }
  }
Try it online: https://tio.run/##Sy7WTc4vSv3/PzknsbhYwSM1Jyc/PL8oJ4WrmktBob...