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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026765 stories
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption↗ bbc.com · HN · 497 comments · 529 points · Sep 15, 2026
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner↗ philo.gay · HN · 73 comments · 453 points · Aug 18, 2026
Show HN: Elevators↗ john.fun · HN · 415 comments · 1680 points · Jul 31, 2026
Why Japan has such good railways↗ worksinprogress.co · HN · 580 comments · 568 points · Apr 18, 2026
Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info↗ sheldonbrown.com · HN · 115 comments · 465 points · Feb 06, 2026
2025957 stories
Models of European metro stations↗ stations.albertguillaumes.cat · HN · 159 comments · 742 points · Sep 14, 2025
Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"↗ greeneuropeanjournal.eu · HN · 947 comments · 873 points · Sep 10, 2025
Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year↗ helsinkitimes.fi · HN · 652 comments · 1163 points · Jul 30, 2025
Dumb Pipe↗ dumbpipe.dev · HN · 247 comments · 1016 points · Jul 27, 2025
Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line↗ soranews24.com · HN · 334 comments · 523 points · Feb 05, 2025
20241,025 stories
Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?↗ chronotrains.com · HN · 412 comments · 648 points · Dec 28, 2024
Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke↗ bsky.app · HN · 731 comments · 588 points · Nov 20, 2024
Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail↗ mcc-berlin.net · HN · 885 comments · 823 points · Oct 12, 2024
Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 301 comments · 917 points · May 07, 2024
Bollards: Why and What↗ josh.works · HN · 464 comments · 504 points · May 05, 2024
20231,126 stories
Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video]↗ streaming.media.ccc.de · HN · 51 comments · 378 points · Dec 27, 2023
A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic↗ allegralaboratory.net · HN · 24 comments · 97 points · Dec 27, 2023
The Hyperloop was always a scam↗ disconnect.blog · HN · 192 comments · 161 points · Dec 22, 2023
Polish DRMed trains stop as predicted due to date-based logic-bomb↗ social.hackerspace.pl · HN · 103 comments · 229 points · Dec 22, 2023
Hyperloop One to shut down↗ bloomberg.com · HN · 467 comments · 199 points · Dec 21, 2023
20221,050 stories
Nightdrive↗ incoherency.co.uk · HN · 242 comments · 1440 points · Sep 23, 2022
How far can you go by train in 5h?↗ chronotrains-eu.vercel.app · HN · 439 comments · 871 points · Jul 29, 2022
Absurd Trolley Problems↗ neal.fun · HN · 920 comments · 1296 points · Jul 06, 2022
What rr does↗ rr-project.org · HN · 81 comments · 880 points · Jun 04, 2022
9-Euro-Ticket↗ bahn.com · HN · 585 comments · 875 points · May 20, 2022
2021927 stories
The Stroad↗ strongtowns.org · HN · 339 comments · 552 points · Nov 21, 2021
Vertiwalk Vertical Walking↗ vertiwalk.com · HN · 180 comments · 886 points · Nov 20, 2021
There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada↗ kelownanow.com · HN · 449 comments · 641 points · Nov 16, 2021
Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land↗ powersaurus.itch.io · HN · 95 comments · 549 points · Jan 31, 2021
Traffic Simulator↗ traffic-simulation.de · HN · 140 comments · 542 points · Jan 07, 2021
2020838 stories
Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence↗ edition.cnn.com · HN · 349 comments · 390 points · Dec 14, 2020
A ride that takes 10^20k years to complete in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 131 comments · 785 points · Aug 03, 2020
Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature↗ trailrouter.com · HN · 128 comments · 402 points · Jul 11, 2020
A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic↗ abstreet.org · HN · 87 comments · 366 points · Jun 22, 2020
Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019↗ twitter.com · HN · 505 comments · 864 points · Jan 02, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption↗ bbc.com · HN · 497 comments · 529 points · Sep 15, 2026
Transit rewards↗ waymo.com · HN · 345 comments · 258 points · Sep 23, 2026
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators↗ basin.la · HN · 94 comments · 119 points · Sep 24, 2026
Claude's Load-Bearing Seams↗ madradavid.com · HN · 50 comments · 120 points · Sep 23, 2026
How do traffic signals work? (2019)↗ practical.engineering · HN · 86 comments · 115 points · Sep 21, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption↗ bbc.com · HN · 497 comments · 529 points · Sep 15, 2026
Transit rewards↗ waymo.com · HN · 345 comments · 258 points · Sep 23, 2026
Claude's Load-Bearing Seams↗ madradavid.com · HN · 50 comments · 120 points · Sep 23, 2026
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators↗ basin.la · HN · 94 comments · 119 points · Sep 24, 2026
How do traffic signals work? (2019)↗ practical.engineering · HN · 86 comments · 115 points · Sep 21, 2026
Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%↗ reddit.com · HN · 52 comments · 105 points · Sep 19, 2026
The Beauty of Roundabouts↗ gruhn.me · HN · 222 comments · 100 points · Sep 14, 2026
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets↗ theguardian.com · HN · 97 comments · 87 points · Sep 03, 2026
Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x↗ frontierharness.org · HN · 56 comments · 82 points · Sep 02, 2026
Singapore subway (mrt) information display types↗ sgtrains.com · HN · 20 comments · 59 points · Sep 02, 2026

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