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24 alternatives to Hacking airplane headphones
I was stuck on a 14 hour flight last week, and to my disappointment, only one of the two headphone speakers were working. The plane's media centre has an audio connector that looks like this: The hole to the left is smaller than a 3.5mm headphone jack, and designed for a proprietary headphone c
This blog post documents a technical problem encountered on a long flight: one of the two airplane headphone speakers stopped working. The author investigates the proprietary audio connector used by the plane's… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacking airplane headphones launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →
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Liberate your Headphones
2021 · boze.app · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News, This is definitely out of my comfort zone. I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, patents, and ROMs that were found online. So please watch the video and tell me what you think https://youtu.be/auOlZXI1VxA The reason why I think this is relevant is because I've been a programmer for 25 years and AI scares the shit out of me. I'm not a programmer anymore. I'm something else now. I don't know what it is but it's multi-disciplinary, and it doesn't involve writing code myself--for…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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Headphones! What kinds are there? Which are the best? We di…
2015 · sunriserobot.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I vibe coded this in a day last time https://johnathannader.com/my-microphone-didnt-work/ and launched it; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37503569, now that the coding para-dime has gotten better, decided to spend another day updating it, this is the result
2023 · microphonetest.com · its alternatives →
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Right, here's the thing: If you are using AirPods(or any Bluetooth headphones with a mic in fact) on Mac and something activates the mic(i.e. you Shazam a song), the sound will be interrupted momentarily and will return in very low quality. This is happening because Bluetooth can't handle both way high quality streaming and the bandwidth is decreased to make it work. It's a known issue and here's what Apple recommends to fix it: https://support.apple.com/en-hk/102217 Most of the time(unless you are on a Mac Mini/Studio/Pro), you have much higher quality…
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sound Stripp▲138A simple tool to hang your headphones off of your monitor
2014 · workerman.storenvy.com · its alternatives →
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Wireless when you want it, wired when you need it
2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Ossic X▲83The first 3D audio headphones calibrated to you
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Relax▲98Mutes your internal speakers when disconnecting headphones 🎧
2018 · dangercove.com · its alternatives →
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All-in-one speakerphone and computer hub
2022 · support.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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The world's most advanced headphones (pre-launch)
2014 · parrot.com · its alternatives →
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Dolby 5.1-channel realistic surround sound with 8 speakers 🎧
2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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