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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name

12/15/2025, 1:05:06 PM

Public

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop

Link: https://exclav.es/2025/08/03/dinacon-2025-passive-acoustic-listening/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229030

Dinacon 2025: Passive Acoustic Listening

Whale songs were first noticed by accident, when analysts tracking Russian submarines at the height of the cold war heard cetacean interference instead. An engineer sent some recordings to Roger Payne, a biologist friend of his, who did something that proved pivotal: he played the hours-long recordings on his hi-fi at home, while he went about his day. By listening for hours at a time, Payne noticed that these vocalizations weren’t simple chirps, but complex structured social patterns — songs, even.

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