Hacker News: uijl

New comment by uijl in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

uijl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:32:28 +0000

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.

New comment by uijl in "Fees for seas: a history of taxing waterways"

uijl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:44:30 +0000

Free access: https://www.ft.com/content/9a5294cf-0b64-4201-b88c-12ba586bb...

Fees for seas: a history of taxing waterways

uijl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:42:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9a5294cf-0b64-4201-b88c-12ba586bb4fd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748484

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Boomerang – New file-sharing service by WeTransfer founder

uijl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://bmrng.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207268

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by uijl in "Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965"

uijl — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:29:00 +0000

For the ones interested, there’s a fascination book on the history of oil. The Prize, by Daniel Yergin [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354

Airbus – A Statistical Analysis of Commercial Aviation Accidents 1958-2024 [pdf]

uijl — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://accidentstats.airbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20241325_A-Statistical-analysis-of-commercial-aviation-accidents-2025-links.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437170

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Japanese Love Hotels

uijl — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:24:07 +0000

Article URL: http://francoisprost.com/portfolio-item/love-hotel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713945

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Cyclorotor

uijl — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:01:54 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorotor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562056

Points: 26

# Comments: 1

New comment by uijl in "Explore the Silk Roads"

uijl — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:08:21 +0000

Nice project! For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads

Powers of Ten – Charles and Ray Eames

uijl — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:11:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32306187

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Catalan Atlas

uijl — Mon, 23 May 2022 13:00:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Atlas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478428

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades of English Football (2016)

uijl — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-one-mans-bad-math-helped-ruin-decades-of-english-soccer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The (CIA) World Factbook

uijl — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881225

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Howard Marks: Risk Revisited Again (2015)

uijl — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:58:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfXX_GloYw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081070

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic. (The Atlantic)

uijl — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 11:43:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-atlantic/this-overlooked-variable-is-the-key-to-the-pandemic-e71fe9bcb315

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678236

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by uijl in "Writing Python inside Rust"

uijl — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:27:31 +0000

At FOSDEM there was a talk about boosting Python with Rust [1]. Might be interesting for the people checking this.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/python2020_rust/

Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO

uijl — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ifre.com/story/2220833/banks-race-to-sell-first-post-crisis-managed-synthetic-cdo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22181758

Points: 104

# Comments: 90

New comment by uijl in "Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years"

uijl — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:03:05 +0000

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

uijl — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/el-al-says-goodbye-to-its-747-fleet-with-a-sky-art-tribute/

Hacker News: uijl

New comment by uijl in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

New comment by uijl in "Fees for seas: a history of taxing waterways"

Fees for seas: a history of taxing waterways

Boomerang – New file-sharing service by WeTransfer founder

New comment by uijl in "Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965"

Airbus – A Statistical Analysis of Commercial Aviation Accidents 1958-2024 [pdf]

Japanese Love Hotels

Cyclorotor

New comment by uijl in "Explore the Silk Roads"

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)

New comment by uijl in "Writing Python inside Rust"

Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO

New comment by uijl in "Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years"

El Al says goodbye to its 747 fleet with a sky art tribute

Introduction to Matrix Methods – Julia Introdution