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Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025

https://plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=27
1•YeGoblynQueenne•1m ago•0 comments

Error-Handling and Locality

https://www.natemeyvis.com/error-handling-and-locality/
1•Theaetetus•2m ago•0 comments

Petition for David Sacks to Self-Deport

https://form.jotform.com/253464131055147
1•resters•2m ago•0 comments

Get found where people search today

https://kleonotus.com/
1•makenotesfast•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An early-warning system for SaaS churn (not another dashboard)

https://firstdistro.com
1•Jide_Lambo•5m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Musk has never *tweeted* a guess for real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

1•tokenmemory•6m ago•1 comments

A Practical Approach to Verifying Code at Scale

https://alignment.openai.com/scaling-code-verification/
1•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: macOS tool to restore window layouts

https://github.com/zembutsu/tsubame
1•zembutsu•10m ago•0 comments

30 Years of <Br> Tags

https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags
1•FragrantRiver•17m ago•0 comments

Kyoto

https://github.com/stevepeak/kyoto
2•handfuloflight•18m ago•0 comments

Decision Support System for Wind Farm Maintenance Using Robotic Agents

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/8/6/190
1•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X-AnyLabeling – An open-source multimodal annotation ecosystem for CV

https://github.com/CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
1•CVHub520•21m ago•0 comments

Penpot Docker Extension

https://www.ajeetraina.com/introducing-the-penpot-docker-extension-one-click-deployment-for-self-...
1•rainasajeet•21m ago•0 comments

Company Thinks It Can Power AI Data Centers with Supersonic Jet Engines

https://www.extremetech.com/science/this-company-thinks-it-can-power-ai-data-centers-with-superso...
1•vanburen•25m ago•0 comments

If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-ais-can-feel-pain-what-is-our-responsibility-towards-them
3•rwmj•29m ago•5 comments

Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store Drama

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-xai-lawsuit-apple-openai
1•paulatreides•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Build it yourself SWE blogs?

1•bawis•32m ago•1 comments

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
3•Fiveplus•38m ago•0 comments

How Did the CIA Lose Nuclear Device?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi...
1•Wonnk13•38m ago•0 comments

Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4098925/is-vibe-coding-the-new-gateway-to-technical-debt.html
1•birdculture•42m ago•1 comments

Why Rust for Embedded Systems? (and Why I'm Teaching Robotics with It)

https://blog.ravven.dev/blog/why-rust-for-embedded-systems/
2•aeyonblack•43m ago•0 comments

EU: Protecting children without the privacy nightmare of Digital IDs

https://democrats.eu/en/protecting-minors-online-without-violating-privacy-is-possible/
3•valkrieco•44m ago•0 comments

Using E2E Tests as Documentation

https://www.vaslabs.io/post/using-e2e-tests-as-documentation
1•lihaoyi•44m ago•0 comments

Apple Welcome Screen: iWeb

https://www.apple.com/welcomescreen/ilife/iweb-3/
1•hackerbeat•45m ago•1 comments

Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA) in a Nutshell

https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/APCA_in_a_Nutshell.html
1•Kerrick•47m ago•0 comments

AI agent finds more security flaws than human hackers at Stanford

https://scienceclock.com/ai-agent-beats-human-hackers-in-stanford-cybersecurity-experiment/
3•ashishgupta2209•48m ago•2 comments

Nano banana prompts, updates everyday

https://github.com/fionalee1412/bestnanobananaprompt-github
4•AI_kid1412•52m ago•0 comments

Skills vs. Dynamic MCP Loadouts

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/13/skills-vs-mcp/
3•cube2222•56m ago•0 comments

Top validated AI-SaaS Ideas are available here

1•peterbricks•59m ago•0 comments

UnmaskIP: A Clean, Ad-Free IP and Deep Packet Leak Checker

https://unmaskip.net
1•kfwkwefwef•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery

https://medium.com/planet-stories/a-beginners-guide-to-calculating-oil-storage-tank-occupancy-with-help-of-satellite-imagery-e8f387200178
36•marklit•6mo ago

Comments

hkchad•5mo ago
Saw this headline and thought, HA been doing this for YEARS, yea, need to add a (2017) to the headline...
exabrial•5mo ago
ok so like the lid moves up and down on those? How does it seal? How does it keep from tipping sideways or jamming on the walls? fascinating
officeplant•5mo ago
Floating roof tank> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_floating_roof_tank

TL:DR yes there is a seal along the roof edge and alignment poles/rods so things stay flat.

I do fire suppression builds for these tanks, so all of my equipment on the tank lid has to move up and down with it as it gets filled/emptied. So we end up with self coiling cables/hoses that have to collect themselves on the lid as it fills up. Linear heat detection wire goes all the way around the rim of the tank and also along the lid, which melts and signals the alarm/suppression system in the event of a fire. Companies with more money also have us install UV/IR based flame detection.

Same with these usually having a ladder that becomes more or less stairs depending on how full the tank is.

addaon•5mo ago
Seeing people use a spreadsheet as an image measuring tool does sort of explain why there’s a group of people who seem to find so much more value in current AI than I do… if you’re using the wrong tool for the job already, a bad replacement for doing it right might still be an improvement from where you are, I suppose.
actionfromafar•5mo ago
It’s very true on a deep level, too. LLMs etc will smear out technology into places it never occupied before
pests•5mo ago
Definitely did a double take on first read
jduckles•5mo ago
Did this with grain bins in the 2010s to estimate total on-farm storage capacity available in a few states.
whatshisface•5mo ago
What did you do with that information?
fnands•5mo ago
I've heard this story so many times, and I really want to know if anyone is actually using this technique to actually make decisions, or is it just basically the "hello world" of satellite data analysis (along with identifying aeroplanes)?

The company that famously touted they were doing it, Orbital Insights [1], almost went bankrupt, and were sold for cents on the dollar [2]

I'm in the EO industry, and it's a use case you hear a lot, but I am not sure anyone is actually doing this profitably.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gv-backed-orbital-insights-i... [2] https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-google-backed-i...

fnands•5mo ago
Ursa Space Systems seems to still be providing this as a service (via API). Wonder how they're doing.
blueg3•5mo ago
This was their lead product for a while. I think it had one customer.

Not sure how they're doing post-layoffs.

fnands•5mo ago
Thanks for the info!

Yeah, it seems a bit niche to me. Could be that there might be one or two large clients.

Simulacra•5mo ago
I read that during the Cold War, the CIA employed people they euphemistically referred to as "cratologists", who could look at satellite images of crates and shipping containers, and tell you what's in them.