Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderWe operate news helicopters at TV stations around the US and they all use a similar system. Basically the right channel of audio is typically the microphone from the pilot or reporter and the left channel is the audio feed transmitting what is basically modem data back with the GPS coordinates of the helicopter and some other data. This data is used at the antenna site to track the helicopter and point the antenna in the correct direction to keep…
Sox is amazing. I used it about 10 years ago to take raw audio of paintball guns shooting and help pre-process said audio for analysis of shots per second. It was great for a bunch of reasons: - it could so a frequency analysis to show me which frequencies were present in the audio - I figured out there was the frequency of the sound when the ball left the barrel but also a frequency for the gun's firing mechanism…
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The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1290
- Total comments
- 106
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-01 | Mystery signal from a helicopterFirst breakout · Best thread | schappim | 1101 | 78 |
| 2015-03-10 | Mystery signal from a helicopter | filleokus | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-04-03 | Mystery signal from a helicopter | kNawade | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-20 | Decoding Helicopter GPS Coordinates from a YouTube Video (2014) | frakt0x90 | 3 | 1 |
| 2021-05-06 | Mystery Signal from a Helicopter (2014) | _Microft | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-01-24 | Mystery Signal from a Helicopter (2014)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | tomduncalf | 177 | 27 |