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Police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of package theft

https://denverite.com/2025/10/27/bow-mar-flock-cameras-accusation/
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/27/dc-traffic-stop-shooting-dispute/
2•pavel_lishin•1m ago•0 comments

I'm a developer who thought a great product was enough. I was brutally wrong

https://xor01.substack.com/p/building-isnt-enough-a-developers
1•xor01•3m ago•1 comments

InvisiCaps: Pointers in Fil-C by Example

https://fil-c.org/invisicaps_by_example
1•fanf2•6m ago•0 comments

Bill Gates makes a claim about climate change

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/577152/bill-gates-makes-a-stunning-claim-about-climate-change
1•colinprince•6m ago•1 comments

Display Resolution Calculator

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/display_calc/
1•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

Glibc malloc performance degradation with CPU affinity masks

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/2089789
1•asaiacai•9m ago•0 comments

What Is FedCM?

https://fusionauth.io/blog/what-is-fedcm
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Visual website feedback and QA tool for agencies, freelancers and product teams

https://huddlekit.com
1•kevinlarsson•10m ago•1 comments

Bay Area School Finder – filter nearby schools by grade and price

https://tools.encona.com/schoolfinder
1•rahimnathwani•11m ago•0 comments

Miami's Robocop

https://puck.news/an-autonomous-police-vehicle-rolls-out-in-miami/
1•msHidden•13m ago•0 comments

Tor Browser 15.0

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-150/
1•pentagrama•15m ago•0 comments

If you don't tinker, you don't have taste

https://seated.ro/blog/tinkering-a-lost-art
2•jxmorris12•16m ago•0 comments

Why 29 October Matters: The Turkish Republic Was Born Today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_(Turkey)
2•bakigul•16m ago•1 comments

What Problem Is Traditional RAG Solving?

https://www.gojiberries.io/what-problem-is-traditional-rag-solving/
1•neehao•21m ago•0 comments

Rehab. Of 75-Year-Old Woman with Parkinson's Using Logic Workout Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23093
2•bikenaga•22m ago•1 comments

A blimp from LTA Research was spotted flying over San Francisco Bay

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/white-blimp-san-francisco/
1•caust1c•23m ago•0 comments

In Rio cartels use DIY combat drones against police

https://www.riotimesonline.com/drones-over-the-favelas-rios-cartel-crackdown-turns-deadly/
1•phront•23m ago•0 comments

WorkVerify – The Verified Reputation Network for Today's Workforce

https://work-verify.com/
1•jeremyalfred•24m ago•1 comments

KeenWrite 3.6.4

https://keenwrite.com/
4•Bogdanp•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Permit Watch, Turning Ireland's work permits into a job-demand proxy

https://www.permitwatch.ie/
2•fredthedeve•26m ago•0 comments

Morocco shortens the day during Ramadan

https://www.worlddata.info/africa/morocco/timezones.php
2•valzevul•27m ago•0 comments

Tracking 1M Async Jobs in 125KB of Memory with Redis Bitmaps

https://relativelinks.io/blog/scaling-batch-progress-tracking
1•cwestman•30m ago•0 comments

To Boost Longevity, Walk This Way

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/boost-longevity-walk-this-way-2025a1000t8i
1•wjb3•31m ago•2 comments

Hunter Biden Added to the White House Timeline

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/
3•stevenhubertron•31m ago•5 comments

AI is an accelerant for capitalist extraction

https://www.delta-fund.org/ai-as-accelerant-amplifying-extraction-not-escaping-it/
2•kellystonelake•32m ago•0 comments

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone's Privacy at Risk

https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/
4•rbanffy•32m ago•0 comments

The Capital Providers That Help Founder-Led Companies Grow

https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors/2025
1•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

A Defense of Philosophical Intuitions

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-philosophical-intuitions
2•Caiero•34m ago•0 comments

Rupert Murdoch is launching a newspaper in California

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/rupert-murdoch-california-post-la-times-...
1•zanon234•36m ago•1 comments
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Why do some radio towers blink?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/why-do-some-radio-towers-blink
57•warrenm•2h ago

Comments

scblock•1h ago
FAA details the marking and lighting requirements here: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/...
Johnny555•15m ago
One interesting fact I learned in a different discussion is that when LED lights are used for obstruction lighting, the FAA has standards that require infrared emitters to make them visible to night vision goggles, since unlike incandescent bulbs, some LED's can be invisible to NVG's.

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/airports/engineering...

pizzalife•1h ago
This blog post has a really verbose format.

TLDR; White lights are used during the daytime, red lights at night (less annoying), towers under 200 feet don't need blinking lights.

jamesbelchamber•1h ago
It's a transcript of the video at the top.
skrebbel•1h ago
Wow that wasn't clear to me either, thanks for pointing it out
pizzalife•7m ago
Yes, reading transcripts is a terrible way of ingesting information in my opinion.
rollulus•1h ago
Slightly off topic: typically, lights of neighboring towers blink asynchronously. But sometimes they are synchronized. Very satisfying. Anyone knows how this works? My best guess is e.g. DCF77. Thoughts?
asdefghyk•1h ago
One option - Maybe the blinking time is set to a INDEPENDENT? accurate time piece - ie Blink on the change of a second
anyfoo•1h ago
That's what DCF77 is. Or GPS.
winrid•1h ago
It's probably just a side effect of them being powered on at the same time or not?
anyfoo•1h ago
If they don't sync to a common clock source, they won't stay in sync for long. Probably not even for a few minutes or so.

You'd get the same phenomenon that you see when operating turn signals in traffic. They seem to weave "in and out" of sync. The frequency at which that happens is the beat frequency, i.e. the difference between the two blinking frequencies.

jrockway•59m ago
There's got to be some rubidium frequency standard that's a drop-in replacement for a 555 timer ;)
scblock•55m ago
GNSS (GPS) is the typical standard used.
scblock•1h ago
When it's on purpose it's typically done through GPS driven clocks. This is how wind farms manage it, where all towers are required to blink together.
floatrock•55m ago
Yeah, I've seen it with windfarms. Always wondered why do they need to blink at the same time. The scale of the blink is pretty jarring at night (but also awe-some, in the same way any big enough infrastructure project inspires a kind of awe).

Wind farms have a certain amount of nimbyism because they "spoil the natural landscape." (So do regular farms -- nothing natural about grain silos or row crops, but that's a side topic...) Anyways, having that many towers blink in unison across that big a landscape is a weird effect when you first see it. I think there's an argument that if they blinked independently it would feel more natural in a way.

But since the blinking is all FAA requirements, I assume it's to help identify all the individual towers from the air. I suppose if they were all blinking independently, it would be a predator-trying-to-focus-on-a-single-zebra-in-the-herd problem, except in this case the predator is a pilot trying not to crash into a turbine.

Sure would emit more subtle 'part of the landscape' vibes though.

(Which I guess is exactly what you don't want when you're flying above them. Sigh.)

evertedsphere•54m ago
> Always wondered why do they need to blink at the same time.

presumably this makes it more striking, and thus easier to notice and avoid

scblock•51m ago
It's so pilots see the entire wind farm as a single entity and can interpret what they see and understand the extent of the wind farm easily. There is a pretty good study you can read on this:

https://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/DesktopModules/EasyDNNNew...

As to community impact, radar-activated lighting is an approach that is being used in places this is a concern. It allows the lights to remain off unless there is a plane within the envelope that requires the lights to activate. It's expensive though.

daemonologist•1h ago
I believe it's usually GPS/GNS (they all receive the time via GPS independently, and flash at predetermined times). The FAA requires synchronization for many classes of obstruction because it makes it clear that you're looking at obstruction lights rather than e.g. brake lights or traffic lights on the ground.
askvictor•54m ago
My observation is not that they are sometimes synchronised, but some subset of the towers are synchronised (this was my observation in Melbourne AU). Upon asking reddit, it appears that it is the FAA-preferred option that all lights are synchronised: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...
ck2•1h ago
muuuuch better article, lol

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/what-happens-when-you...

barbazoo•1h ago
These beacons are also great for navigation. Aeronautical charts usually show the color/pattern of the light. You can use those as points to triangulate your position.
skinwill•42m ago
I worked at a television station years back that was designed in such a way that the lights going up the tower were powered by the separate phases of three phase AC with the one at the top powered from all three combined. This was pretty normal but what the engineer had done was rotate them at every level so that if a phase was dropped you could count the lights and quickly see from a distance that the power wasn't right. 4 lights was good, 3 meant you dropped a phase, and so on. I thought it was a pretty clever way of keeping light on all sides of the tower while being able to tell from a distance that a phase was out.
butlike•36m ago
Fascinating
ortusdux•41m ago
Blinking the lights also helps prevent bird deaths - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towerkill
Terr_•7m ago
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