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alpr.watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916 - Dec 2025 (444 comments) That post was literally the
by dang 11mo ago
alpr.watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916 - Dec 2025 (444 comments)
That post was literally the #1 story on HN for the entire day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-16 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-16.
It was on the frontpage for 25 hours. That's about as much attention as any thread gets - well above the 99th percentile.
- culi 11mo agoyou're right I misremembered. I still feel the enigmatic title of the post made it hard to realize its importance. Maybe I'm just biased because it took me way too long to find it even with the algolia front-end
- dang 11mo agoYeah, finding it after-the-fact with search is not a trivial undertaking. I do feel somewhat proud that an article with that title did so well on HN.