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Re:Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:32AM (#48410515)
Interesting to see that they are able to identify the specific satellite. I wonder if we can do something now that we know the source.
Working on construction projects on the Romanian coastline (just South of Ukraine) and on the Polish continental waters (just West of Kaliningrad) we experienced jamming on a daily basis.
Re:Fees for seas: a history of taxing waterways
on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:44AM (#47748495)
Boomerang – New file-sharing service by WeTransfer founder
Re:Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965
on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:29PM (#45417114)
For the ones interested, there’s a fascination book on the history of oil. The Prize, by Daniel Yergin [1].
Airbus – A Statistical Analysis of Commercial Aviation Accidents 1958-2024 [pdf]
Japanese Love Hotels
Cyclorotor
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on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:08PM (#34687109)
Nice project!
For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan.
Powers of Ten – Charles and Ray Eames
Catalan Atlas
One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades of English Football (2016)
The (CIA) World Factbook
Howard Marks: Risk Revisited Again (2015)
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic. (The Atlantic)
Re:Writing Python inside Rust
on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:27AM (#22907554)
At FOSDEM there was a talk about boosting Python with Rust [1]. Might be interesting for the people checking this.
Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO
Re:Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:03PM (#22066413)
A Dutch professor created the "Herengracht index" to track the price of these canal houses back to when construction started in 1620.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herengracht_index [2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=598
El Al says goodbye to its 747 fleet with a sky art tribute
Introduction to Matrix Methods – Julia Introdution
Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught program...
on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:03AM (#19907133)
I really like this tutorial to get into Make files: https://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/.
Russia’s Madagascar Election Gamble
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:24AM (#18958397)
In the Netherlands we, as hydraulic engineers, are working on something called 'Building with Nature'. This is a perfect example of that. If you guys like this, check out https://www.ecoshape.org/en/.