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Show HN: Twrctrl – Browser-Based Tower and Ground ATC Simulator

https://twrctrl.com/
1•franklin0s•58m ago
I've been building this top-down browser-based air traffic control simulator where you handle the ground movement of aircraft after noticing that a vast majority of browser ATC simulators are focused on the radar/TRACON aspects of ATC that reduce our beautiful aircraft to dots on a screen with some text.

You handle everything between the runway and gates, issuing pushback, taxi, takeoff, and landing clearances to aircraft in this simulator, with aircraft logic and command mechanics working as close as I could to memory of how real ATC works. I've both flown planes as a student pilot and also hold aircraft maintenance certification so there is a lot of my judgement in this too.

These are all real airports, aircraft, weather, and operator patterns, referenced to publicly available airport data and satellite imagery, alongside input from fellow professionals in the industry.

There are synthetic aircraft engine sounds that use powerplant-specific sound parameters such as turbofans using N1%/N2% with turboprops having a TRQ% parameter in addition, tuned to match different general engine types. (like the howl of a CFM LEAP-1A/B being different to the buzzing of a RR RB211)

It works best on desktop, the phone mode is there but is a little bit clunky. No download or signup, all in the browser ready to go, with a quick tutorial under "how to play" to get you up to speed in aviation phraseology.

This is a quasi-simulator, based on real-world operations but with some game-like aspects to keep the player engaged and the overall simulator visually appealing. Keflavík (BIKF) and Stockholm-Arlanda (ESSA) are the two airports currently modelled in the simulator by yours truly.

I would love to hear anyone's thoughts, especially curious to get feedback on the mechanics and experience from ANSP-adjacent or aviation professionals.

Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world

https://pumpkins.sh/
1•linesofcode•30s ago•0 comments

Windows 11 Adds Tilde Shortcut to File Explorer

https://thewincentral.com/windows-11-file-explorer-tilde-unicode-17/
3•layer8•49s ago•0 comments

Hacker News: An Apology

https://lee-phillips.org/byeHN/
1•leephillips•51s ago•0 comments

Turn tool usage and thinking context

https://github.com/zackemannen81/A008
1•mrwhite81•1m ago•1 comments

How Fuzzy Search Works in a Search Engine

https://serenedb.com/blog/fuzzy-search-deep-dive
1•mkornaukhov•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibivibi – End-to-end encrypted sharing of Coding Agent sessions

https://vibivibi.com/
1•hyluo•2m ago•0 comments

Windows Developers Get a Built-In Linux Container Runtime: WSL Containers

https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/windows-developers-get-a-built-in-linux-container-runtime-w...
1•CrankyBear•3m ago•0 comments

Are any of your neighbouring countries a current enemy?

https://brilliantmaps.com/polls/are-any-of-your-neighbouring-countries-a-current-enemy/
1•cgh•3m ago•0 comments

Agentic Machine Learning Modeling at Instacart

https://tech.instacart.com/agentic-machine-learning-modeling-at-instacart-fb3ecd295ee7
1•skadamat•5m ago•0 comments

Evergreen Common Lisp (EGCL)

https://github.com/atgreen/evergreen
1•Thom2503•6m ago•0 comments

The designer lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
1•farslan•6m ago•0 comments

Another step towards Elm 1.0

https://elm-lang.org/news/another-step-towards-elm-v1
1•wheatBread•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: EtherPK – an Obsidian and Logseq alternative with prose and blocks

https://github.com/appsoftwareltd/etherpk-client
2•gb2d_hn•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RGP Interface for a JavaScript Debugger

https://rpg-debugger.netlify.app/
1•pel_daniel•7m ago•0 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: The Goblins Strike Back

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part9/
1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

Researchers Demonstrate First-Ever Plasma Beam Antenna

https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/10/plasma-beam-antenna/
2•ilreb•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Carve – An open-source Mac agent with a choice of models

https://github.com/getcarve/carve
1•davidajackson•9m ago•0 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
2•mkornaukhov•9m ago•0 comments

Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

https://blog.pkh.me/p/49-float-and-integer-arithmetic-follow-two-different-paradigms.html
1•ibobev•9m ago•0 comments

Sexy Apocalypse

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/10/sexy-apocalypse.html
1•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

One Must Fall: 2097, revisiting a DOS classic

https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2026/10/04/one-must-fall-2097
1•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

Importing Data Using Java Table Functions

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/05/import-data-with-java
1•mkornaukhov•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Approvegate – Deploy approvals enforced in your pipeline, not in Jira

https://www.approvegate.io/
2•chidog99•10m ago•0 comments

A BGP-Inspired Identity Network for Autonomous AI Agents

https://medium.com/ai-advances/a-bgp-inspired-identity-network-for-autonomous-ai-agents-e92ad4f95971
1•rodmontiel•11m ago•0 comments

Picard 3.0 Released

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/10/04/picard-3-0-released/
3•Tomte•15m ago•0 comments

Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFTfANuLBF4
2•ptrhvns•16m ago•0 comments

Is AI the End of Math as We Know It?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-end-of-math-as-we-know-it-20261005/
2•0in•16m ago•0 comments

How we built a browser agent with Jev instead of an LLM

https://ironbee.ai/blog/how-we-built-the-fastest-cheapest-browser-agent-with-jev
2•sozal•17m ago•0 comments

Hyper Bf

https://eli.li/hyper-bf
2•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solarite – fast and simple web components with no signals and no build

https://eric-frost.github.io/solarite/
2•EricFrost•20m ago•0 comments